The Week the Monster Turned on Its Creators

 As Victor Frankenstein learned in Mary Shelley's novel, sometimes you lose control of the monster you have created. Such appears to be the case with the Donald Trump administration--at least for the moment. For years Trump and his sycophants have preached the gospel of conspiracy theories and nefarious plots concocted by that amorphous cabal known as, "The Deep State." Even if they didn't explicitly endorse the wilder ones, they never disowned them, never condemned them. They simply let them fly, no matter how outlandish they became.

This past week, or so--much to the entertainment of many and seemingly to their stunned surprise--Trump and his merry band of pranksters learned they can't just turn off all the craziness when they want to. In fact, you can almost hear Brother Don thinking to himself something along the lines of, "I can't believe these idiots actually believed that shit."

This past weekend the reaction to the DOJ's statement that Jeffrey Epstein didn't really have a client list and that he really did commit suicide in 2019 became so negative and loud Trump felt he had to take to social media to calm the troops down, "What's going on with my boys and, in some cases, gals? They're all going after Attorney General Pam Bondi, who is doing a FANTASTIC JOB. we're all on one team, MAGA, and I don't like what is happening. We have a PERFECT Administration, THE TALK OF THE WORLD and selfish people are trying to hurt it, all over a guy who never dies, Jeffrey Epstein."

Perhaps the President was referring in particular to his former pal, Tucker Carlson who appeared the night before the post at the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit down in Tampa, FL. During his time at the podium Carlson claimed the late, unlamented, Mr. Epstein as a Israeli asset working with the Mossad to blackmail American power brokers. His job was to lure them in so they'd participate in his private island orgies involving underaged girls, then take names and videos. According to Carlson, "Everyone in Washington D.C. is talking about it."  Carlson also questioned how Epstein made all his millions to pay for the parties, the island, and his and private jets. The very ham-handed hint was this ill-gotten evidence was the real reason, "the client list," disappeared. 

Other speakers at the get together demanded the heads of Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel. The crowd, for the most part, roared their approval. It didn't help that there were reports of Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino throwing a screaming fit in Bondi's office, or in his office, or somewhere. Then not showing up for work on Friday to protest the lack of a list release. Well, who can blame the guy? The only reason he got the job is because his conspiracy driven, pro Trump podcasts made him a darling among the MAGA faithful. Now he has been made to look like either a liar, or a fool, or both.

So, what do you do when it looks like many of your own people are beginning to think your administration is starting to look deep statish? Obviously, you do what Donald Trump does best. Go fucking nuts. In the same social media post he also wrote, "For years it's Epstein over and over again. Why are we giving publicity to files written by Obama, Crooked Hillary, Comey, Brennan, and the Losers and Criminals of the Biden Administration, who conned the World with the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoa, 51 'intelligence' Agents, THE LAPTOP FROM HELL, and more? The created the EPSTEIN FILES, just like they created the FAKE Hillary Clinton/Christopher Steele Dossier that they used on me, and now my so-called friends are playing right into their hands." (Hey, the punctuation, use of caps, and syntax are all his. I can't make up shit like that.)

That's the ticket Don. Hit the bastards with more conspiracies and delusions of past grievances all wrapped up in one semi-coherent paragraph. Distract the mob and get their focus back on, The Others.

In the end this will all blow over. As one TV analyst said on Sunday, "We're all talking about Jeffrey Epstein this weekend. Next weekend we'll be talking about something else." She is right. If we've learned anything about Donald Trump it is that he never gives us time to dwell too much on any one thing, no matter how insane it is.  

It is, after all, what has made him the man he is today--the mad King.

7-14-25