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When most of us have technical difficulties, we contact tech support or customer service.
But if you're President of the United States, just ranting on social media—then having your White House Press Secretary post a screenshot of your post on a social media platform people actually use—is apparently the answer.
MAGA Republican President Donald Trump took to Truth Social on Monday to rant about his technical difficulties during a teleconference with his Christian nationalist backers.
He wrote:
"I’m doing a major Conference Call with Faith Leaders from all over the Country, and AT&T is totally unable to make their equipment work properly. This is the second time it’s happened. If the Boss of AT&T, whoever that may be, could get involved — It would be good. There are tens of thousands of people on the line!"
@realDonaldTrump/Truth Social
Trump added:
"I apologize for the long wait on the Faith Leaders Conference Call. AT&T ought to get its act together. Please pass along the word to the tens of thousands of people who are there. We may have to reschedule the call, but we’ll use another carrier the next time. AT&T obviously doesn’t know what they’re doing!"
@realDonaldTrump/Truth Social
The Trump administration's current White House Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, shared an uncaptioned screenshot of Trump's first rant on X, where someone outside Trump's MAGA minions might see it.
AT&T did see it on X and responded accordingly.
"We've reached out to the White House and are working to quickly understand and assess the situation."
But it turns out it was what tech support calls a PICNIC error: Problem In Chair, Not In Carrier.
Usually that last C is for Computer, but the acronym still works. It wasn't an AT&T problem, it was a Trump problem.
AT&T shared:
"Following up—Our initial analysis indicates the disruption was caused by an issue with the conference call platform, not our network. Unfortunately, this caused the delay, and we are working diligently to better understand the issue so we can prevent disruptions in the future."
People were less than sympathetic to Trump's struggles.
@TimmyFiveTimes/X
And some wondered if this wasn't a way to launch Trump Mobile for all future White House conference calls.
AT&T shares temporarily went down on high volume after Trump's post got noticed—after Leavitt amplified it.
Trump's teleconference tantrum about AT&T fell two weeks after Eric and Donald Trump Jr.—on behalf of the Trump Organization—unveiled Trump Mobile, a licensed deal for a mobile phone service that also sells a $499 Gold Trump branded T1 smartphone.
Coincidence?
Considering the source and his business fraud history, manipulating the market from the White House isn't an unrealistic scenario.
Colorado Republican Representative Lauren Boebert was criticized after she seemingly agreed with the conspiracy theory that the moon landing was faked in a wide-ranging interview with conservative conspiracy theorist Alex Stein.
The segment began with the duo casting doubt on nuclear weapons—Boebert even joked about needing "tin foil"—and moved into weirder territory when Stein praised Boebert for "vibing" with him on the topic of the moon landing. Conspiracy theorists have long alleged the moon landing was fabricated by NASA in what they claim was an elaborate hoax.
You can hear what they said in the video below.
The two brought up the Van Allen radiation belt, which conspiracy theorists believe would have killed astronauts who had to pass through this region of particles trapped by our planet's magnetic field.
Spacecraft designed to reach the Moon had to pass through the belt, but their flight paths were carefully planned to minimize time spent in the most intense regions, and the spacecraft were equipped with shielding to protect astronauts from harmful radiation.
Boebert interjected to point out that the International Space Station (ISS) is still "within it," prompting Stein to clarify that the ISS orbits only about "200 miles from the surface of Earth," whereas the Moon is about "257,000 miles away" — "a thousand times the distance," he added, albeit with some uncertainty about the math.
He continued:
“This isn’t a financial seminar. My point is, we were able to go to the moon 1,000 times farther in 1969, but the current technology that we have, we cannot go past low-Earth orbit. Even Barack Obama said that, and that is the International Space Station."
"And half the time, we can’t even go to the damn International Space Station because Joe Biden doesn’t want to do auto-pay and give him, you know, an evacuation right out of there. So I think the moon landing’s provably false. Am I smoking too much Delta-9, Congresswoman?"
Boebert responded to Stein by suggesting, “maybe we can have a classified briefing at some point,” which Stein welcomed. Boebert went on to say she enjoys exploring “all the different things,” and referenced Tucker Carlson, noting he once took the 9/11 terror attacks at face value but now admits he was “a part of the propaganda” that led to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
She added:
"So, you know, I mean, things change, facts change."
"That’s why I love Jesus, I love the Bible, because that is truth and that is everlasting, and that’s something that will never change. God is not a liar, but you know, there is a father of lies, and the Bible talks all about him. And unfortunately, we’ve seen time and time again where politicians are in office and deceive the American public."
"And so I don’t know, have we been beyond the Van Allen radiation belt? Maybe?"
"If so, I would like to know why it’s taken so long to get back through it again. But, you know, here we are, and we’ll see what Artemis and the Orion spacecraft have to do when they try to take a crewed spaceship back out there in just a year or two."
Many have mocked Boebert in response.
Boebert and Stein’s exchange came as NASA’s Artemis II mission marked a major milestone, with RS-25 engine tests at Kennedy Space Center completed successfully.
The tests are part of the engineering prep for the Space Launch System ahead of the first crewed lunar mission in over 50 years. The roughly 10-day journey will send four astronauts—Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen—around the moon aboard the Orion spacecraft.
Final assembly, including Orion’s integration with the rocket stack, is set for later this year, with launch targeted for no later than April 2026.
Among the various celebrity hangers-on who attended Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez's Venice wedding, the one that seemed to generate the most controversy was Oprah Winfrey.
After all, a woman known for her progressive politics whose entire ethos is about teaching people how to be their best selves, attending the wedding of man who directly funded a fascist regime dismantling our country before our eyes doesn't exactly add up.
Unless, of course, it really is true that becoming a billionaire is the quickest, easiest way to divorce a person from their moral clarity. Then it makes complete sense.
And Rosie O'Donnell is among those who can't help but see the nauseating disconnect.
In a recent Substack post, the actor and comedian shared a scathing takedown of Winfrey and others in a poem called, "Jeff's Wedding" in which she named Winfrey as one of the "devil's conquests."
In the poem, O'Donnell described how it "turned my stomach" to see which celebrities decided to attend the wedding of the man who helped fund, for example, the unconstitutional and extrajudicial kidnapping of immigrants and their internment in concentration camps.
That's the kind of thing that would put the leader of any other nation on trial at The Hague for atrocities.
Bezos is also the man who forbade the Washington Post, which he owns, from endorsing a presidential candidate in 2024 to protect Trump from criticism, then proudly sat front row and center at the president's inauguration.
That Winfrey chose to not only attend but to be gleefully photographed arriving as if it was the Oscars is pretty shocking.
And, like much of the internet, she more than anyone seems to be the attendee that made O'Donnell's head spin.
In her poem, she wrote:
"Is Oprah friends with Jeff Bezos
Really - how is that possible
He treats his employees with disdain
By any metric he is not a nice man"
"Sold his soul
Is what it looks like from here
The devil is smiling
At all his conquests"
On social media, O'Donnell's poem definitely resonated with those who shared her dismay.
One day we'll finally be ready to have a conversation about how Winfrey is one of the worst judges of character America has ever known, and how, when push came to shove, her truest solidarity was with the ultra-wealthy. We're probably not there yet, but Bezos' wedding sure seems to have shoved us closer.
Alaska Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski was slammed after she claimed that President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill is "not there yet" despite casting the deciding vote to narrowly pass it before sending it back to the House.
In a marathon voting session, the Senate narrowly passed the legislation in a 51-50 vote, with Vice President JD Vance casting the tie-breaking vote after three Republicans joined all Democrats in opposition.
Murkowski, who had voiced consistent concerns about the bill’s cuts to social safety net programs, ultimately voted yes, saying she "struggled mightily." She outlined the concessions she secured for Alaska, including tribal exemptions from new work requirements for SNAP recipients, as well as a temporary exemption from SNAP cuts for Alaska and several other states with high error rates in benefit distribution.
But in a statement afterward, she criticized the "awful process" and urged the House to revise the Senate's version:
“We do not have a perfect bill by any stretch of the imagination. My hope is that House is going to look at this and recognize that we’re not there yet.”
In a separate interview with NBC News correspondent Ryan Noble, she said:
“Do I like this bill? No. But I tried to take care of Alaska’s interests.”
You can hear what she said in the video below.
Asked why she supported the bill despite its flaws, Murkowski said that voting against it would have effectively killed the legislation:
"Kill it and it's gone. There is a tax impact coming forward. That's gonna hurt the people in my state."
But that reasoning doesn't make sense, according to MSNBC producer and political commentator Steve Benen, who said her position is "quite odd, even by congressional standards":
"Murkowski is apparently under the impression that the Senate’s version of the inaptly named One Big Beautiful Bill Act is simply the latest iteration in an ongoing series, and that the package will continue to evolve in the coming days. By this reasoning, the Alaskan’s vote was less of an endorsement of this specific proposal and more of a way to keep the process going."
"But that’s a difficult position to take seriously. For one thing, if she’d joined the bipartisan minority that opposed this bill, it wouldn’t have “killed” the legislation; it would’ve opened the door to a new round of negotiations in the Senate — where Murkowski could’ve exercised enormous influence."
"While giving up her leverage, she’s apparently hoping to see House members do the work she could’ve been involved in directly. ... but as far as the White House and GOP leaders are concerned, the negotiations are over."
"There’s nothing left to talk about. The bill is done. The House’s job is to approve it, as is, quickly and with as little fuss as possible."
Many have called out her hypocrisy, saying she "sold out" the country.
The House has already taken steps to move the legislation to a floor vote and, in a statement, Speaker Mike Johnson and his leadership team said the plan is to have the bill approved by Independence Day, stressing "we intend to deliver without delay."
Even so, Republicans can afford to lose only three votes in the House. An earlier version passed by a razor-thin margin, and the Senate’s revisions have sparked backlash among some GOP lawmakers.
According to Florida Democratic Representative Maxwell Frost, “about 20 Republicans” currently oppose the measure. While negotiations are ongoing with both moderates and far-right members who’ve voiced objections to various provisions, Frost added that Republicans on both ends of the spectrum “always fold.”
Being in a relationship can be wonderful, but it's not without its ups and downs.
In order for it to work, we have to allow it to grow and change over time rather than being locked forever into what it was when we first started dating our person.
But sometimes something that we once loved about our partner might become something that we just might want to break up with them over.
Curious, Redditor danger_close555 asked:
"What was once attractive in your spouse but now is soul-grating?"
"I really respect that he always tries to go above and beyond to help his family and friends. Now it sometimes feels like there’s no place for me."
- underthestarr
"I feel that with my entire being. The ability to even attend one event or go to one place that I would enjoy is too much of an ask. Mom, Dad, friends…he’ll do it all for them. Did not realize that my interests wouldn’t be included as a spouse."
- Specific_Presence951
"My ex-wife used to love how I 'always knew random stuff about everything.' During our first years together, she would point at a book or a place, and I'd try to give some information about the author or some historical context to the type of building, etc."
"She slowly stopped asking me for it and even made fun of me for googling things when I wasn't too sure about them. And, then, by the end, when we were doing one last push to try and stay together, she told me she found me boring, and she only listened to my random facts to humor me while wanting to scream inside her head."
- Tattoo-ootta7
"He was super outgoing, loved socializing, and was the life of the party."
"He just could not sit at home or hang out with me. He had this compulsion to leave. On our wedding night, he was out with friends till 5:00 AM. When I was hospitalized with a serious illness, he called his friends over to hang out in the hospital waiting area and left me to hang out with them. At the birth of our child, he was out celebrating with friends."
"It was this weird pathological compulsion to party that got old very fast."
- 100thusername
"Him being a family man. I came from a small family of addicts and alcoholics, so the idea of having a family who wanted to spend time together was a green flag to me at the time."
"Six years later… my in-laws realized they didn’t want me in their family because that meant my (now ex) husband had to be MY husband first and their 'precious son' second."
"Wanting personal time with him meant I was 'stealing him' away from the family. He couldn’t put his foot down with his family, and his family couldn’t admit that my ex-husband had flaws like everyone else. Everything was 'my fault,' and it severely damaged our marriage."
- Cute-Aardvark-9428
"He was super chill, just a go with the flow kinda dude. Now it infuriates me because he struggles to make decisions."
- CrabbiestAsp
"My ex gf was like that. At first, it was endearing. After a while, I hated how little she cared about anything. It was so annoying."
- abart90
"My husband cares about stuff, but he just wants me to be happy, so he wants me to pick everything I want. But sometimes I just want him to make choices so I don't have to."
- MissAuroraRed
"I found it funny when he didn’t let the conversation turn really serious by having a sense of humor and saying something randomly funny, everything felt light and nice."
"Now I can’t have serious conversations with him for longer than three minutes without mentioning that what I want is a serious conversation and to stop making jokes that are not needed."
- Proper_Jellyfish
"His sense of humor. Now he will roast me every chance he gets."
- TheSecretSecretary
"My husband was this way. Thought it was funny to joke and say mean things."
"Once he did it to me in front of other people and like tried to make me the joke. I drew a line in the sand and told him, 'Hey, when you do that to me, I really don’t like it. I know you think it’s funny, but over time, it becomes really hard to think you don’t really think those things about me, since you say them so often.'"
"I just had to remind him a few times, but it did stop, and we’re better because of it. A first normal reaction is to be defensive, 'You can’t take a joke, blah blah blah,' but I just responded something like, 'Well, maybe not, but I don’t like the way it makes me feel, and I thought you as my husband could understand and respect that.' He thought about it and came around."
- YoouAlreadyKnow
"I used to love how chill and laid-back she was. Nothing ruffled her, and I thought it was so grounding. But now, it’s not chill, it’s passive. I’ll be stressing over plans or house stuff, and she's just there, acting like everything's alright. No reaction at all."
- lazerbeem123456
"Yes... 'chill' becomes uninvolved."
- EnvironmentalEase285
"He could speak about his emotions so easily and openly, and that was very impressive to me, and I'm the opposite."
"Ten years down the road, I learned to express my emotions a bit better, but there was never space for me to do so because he would talk about his all the bloody time."
"Everything was about him and how it made him feel, and I was like... well... I know you're not used to me expressing that, but I'm feeling things too!"
- ThrowRA_RuaMadureira
"His ambition and work ethic. Now all I see is that he’s a workaholic."
- jesscmarks
"My husband will go go go, at work and at home. Never stops. My girlfriends with husbands who need to be told what to do are so envious of me. And I’m like, 'Yes, and there’s a dark side. He can’t relax, he can’t enjoy.' It really wears you down."
- itsadialectic
"His willingness to help people. It was great, and I thought, oh, he’s so kind!! But then I noticed that when I needed help with something… he was too busy because he was helping so-and-so. I have to beg for it. It’s maddening."
- hylieanjijinx
"I always wonder when this happens if you have become so close he sees you as an extension of himself, and he doesn’t take as good care of himself as he would others, so you become neglected. Does that resonate at all?"
- snossberr
"He always said 'funny,' things but now they just sound offensive."
- Short-Quit-7659
"I can agree. My kids' mom, she would talk trash, and I mean like with the best of them, and I always thought it was funny, but she would do it in private, and after a few years, it was just the worst. Always getting put down."
- danger_close555
"He initially came across as quiet/mysterious, and then it morphed into or revealed itself to be emotionally unavailable, but I’m not perfect either, and we have gone to therapy and are getting better."
- catpunsfreakmeowt
"How driven he is. It’s great to see him working hard for his goals, but it’s hard being with a workaholic who thinks you’re lazy because you don’t want to work 70 hours a week like they do."
- oldhagbag
"My spouse absolutely doesn't get why I'm not into the career climb. It's all he cares about (yes, more than me), and me being completely satisfied working only 8 hours and not wanting to be disturbed by work at home blows his mind."
"He says I'm not driven enough. And over time, I realized he's incapable of being happy and content."
- cloistered_around
"This is a now ex of many years, but I found him to be really smart, engaged, and achievement-oriented. He is certainly the last two, but over time, I realized he mostly came off as intelligent because he just talked SO MUCH."
"Truly, in retrospect, it was like dating Joe Rogan. He would talk endlessly about everything, things he knew nothing about, and with such confidence. Insufferable once you notice it."
- Spicei
"This post is going to trigger a lot of breakups."
- Adi_San
"I hope so. Some of these comments are sad."
- StarPhish
Some of these left our minds reeling, because they seem like such great qualities at first, but it's easy to see how they could grate over time.
Sometimes, there's such a thing as too much of a good thing, and it can certainly become terrible if it evolves into something negative.
