Today is Flag Day and Donald Trump’s birthday

• Editor’s note: Flag Day has been covered annually on this blog for 14 years, yet with President Trump’s 74th birthday today and his taking a back seat to being a leader in the All Lives Matter (people of color) movement, these stories in recent days need to be highlighted here.

“When you’ve lost the NASCAR audience, when you’ve lost the Country Music audience, there’s something much bigger and broader going on in the country and this just looks like how much of a relic he (Trump) is,” quoting Kurt Bardella, MSNBC Contributor.

The Trump administration has ended several Obama-era bans on ‘barbaric’ hunting practices championed by Donald Trump Jr. according to The New York Times.

Trump praises National Guard for dispersing protesters ‘like a knife cutting butter’

A new ad from Meidas Touch: “They Lie, You Die!”

Trump Threatens to Invade Seattle, Mayor Tells Him to ‘Go Back to Your Bunker’

Fox News runs digitally altered images in coverage of Seattle’s protests, Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone – and finally removed those images

Why QAnon supporters are winning congressional primaries

Going to the Trump rally in Tulsa? You must agree to COVID-19 disclaimer for a ticket

Days before Trump rally in Tulsa, city’s Whirlpool plant closes for COVID-19 outbreak

Biden: Military will escort Trump out of White House if he loses election and refuses to leave

Bolton book claims Trump committed other ‘Ukraine-like transgressions’ – due out June 23.

Mnuchin says from now on businesses getting taxpayer-funded COVID-19 loans will be kept secret – this is taxpayer money and we have a right to know who received these funds!

Trump to accept GOP nomination on 60th anniversary of Jacksonville’s ‘Ax Handle Saturday’ riots

Trump ready to declare that pandemics, protests, and recession are all fake news [if he does so, his poll numbers will decline further into the 30s]

[Republican controlled] Senate committee votes to strip Confederate names from military bases, setting up Trump showdown

National Guard units were ordered to be overly aggressive out of fear of what Trump might do next [in Lafayette Square]

Secret Service now says it did use pepper spray to clear protesters during the Trump church photo op

US taxpayers spent 5 times more on Don Jr.’s endangered animal hunt than originally reported

Trump administration moves forward with plan to end wild bird protections

The Trump administration has ended several Obama-era bans on ‘barbaric’ hunting practices championed by Donald Trump Jr. according to The New York Times. Click the hotlink to see video.

Republican Voters Against Trump Ad running in SC, NC, and DC. @LindseyGraham on @JoeBiden: “as good a man as God ever created.”

Cartoon: A Dr. Seuss protest – BLM-I-am

White voters are turning on Trump, new data shows. Why now?

US Air Force Gen. Charles Brown makes history by becoming the first Black officer to lead a military branch

Trump Made Inaccurate Claims About the Military During His West Point Speech