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Border Collies Are Not This Quick
April 27, 2026
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Props for the “aganda” MAGA Republicans did not pause even for a news cycle to milk Saturday’s assassination attempt for maximum political advantage. The Boss had other ideas. Rather than use Saturday’s aborted attack to raise his polling from the toilet, Donald Trump pivoted immediately to promoting the gilded ballroom he wants built where the East Wing once stood.
MAGA took the cue to unleash propaganda. It’s a matter of national security! “Come-bye“ Border collies are not this quick to respond. The Guardian reports that the Department of Trump heard the whistle too: The US Department of J (DoJ) has used the weekend shooting in Washington DC to pressure a preservation group to drop a lawsuit seeking to halt the construction of Donald Trump’s White House ballroom. Several Trump administration officials, including the president, seized on the incident at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner to advance their case for the completion of the controversial 400m project, for which the White House’s East Wing was suddenly demolished, arguing the new ballroom was needed as a “safe space”. On Sunday night, Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, posted on social media a letter to lawyers representing the National Trust for Historic Preservation (NTHP) calling the trust’s lawsuit “frivolous”. It demanded that the organization voluntarily withdraw it or face a new dismissal motion from the Department of Justice (DoJ). Brian Beutler comments at Off Message. Republicans’ “sudden enthusiasm for joining this particular political fight has less to do with any supposed threat to Trump than with resetting the game board after a
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