Everything Trump has done up to this point has been for one reason, & one reason alone – hold on to power. The closer we get to the November elections, the more desperate he will get.

We are presently in Stage 1

Trump & his cohorts continue to spread the false narrative of voter fraud; push restrictive voter ID requirements; reduce polling places & voting machines; ignore language barriers & continue
to spread misinformation. 10 States have redrawn their electoral maps, mid-decade – out of those 8 are Republican led or Republican controlled; make threats of federal agents, at polling booths; stop mail in voting; purge voter rolls, & so on.

Stage 2

In his mind ideally, he wants to create an excuse, not to hold elections. He said as much at a West Palm Beach event organized by Turning Point Action, in July 2024: “vote me in & you will not have to vote again. We will have it fixed that you will never have to vote”.

He will try, but it is unlikely be able to pull it off because:  

• The elections are already too close.
• His poll numbers are the lowest of any President, at this stage of his Presidency, in recorded history.
• His MAGA faithful enforcers & influencers are increasingly abandoning him, & without them he is nothing. While, this contingent was never enough, on their own, to vote him into office, they were the ones who carried out the intimidation. All he had to do was point, & people would start receiving threats; doxxing; pizza deliveries & what not.

Stage 3

If elections are held, Trump will hope that they are close. He can then cry foul by calling the election process & the people administering it, corrupt, and seize ballots & so on. If the elections are not close, his ability to do that becomes much more complicated.

Stage 4

If the Democrats take the house:

Create enough destruction & chaos between the November elections & the 2028 Presidential election, wherein nothing meaningful gets done.

Then in 2028, sell how the Democrats are totally inept, & therefore Trump (ism) is a better bet.

There is no guarantee that the Democrats will control Congress, this November, but two things are guaranteed:

• if the Republicans control the House & the Senate, the 2028 Presidential elections will be more or less, moot!
• If we do not show up to vote, Trump’s version of America will know no bounds.

The Democrats have a deep bench:  Jon Ossof; Wes Moore; Pete Buttgieg; Andy Beshear; Roy
Cooper; Jason Crow; Alexandria Cortez; J.B. Pritzker; Josh Shapiro; Elisa Slotkin; Raphael Warnock; Jocelyn Benson; Madeline Dean; Gavin Newsom, Jon Stewart; Jacob Frey, & others.

Personally, I will vote for a tree stump, over Trump (ism), but either way, at the very least, the choice should be ours. If the Republicans control Congress, after November, I do not believe that it will be ours! We should believe Trump when he says, he plans to run for a third term – he has been selling Trump 2028 junk, at his official store, for God’s sake!

About 66% of voters turned up in 2020 elections (highest turnout since 1908), in the middle of Covid. Trump lost!

About 49% showed up in the 2018 mid-terms. The Democrats flipped 40 seats (30 in States that Trump had won). Think about that about 51% of the voters sat out, & yet it was the highest midterm turnout since 1914.

90m people sat out the last Presidential election. Trump won by less than 3m votes.

Please vote!

From her perspective, it probably feels like a second chance at life

President floats second executive order after discovering artificial general intelligence would require an even more impressive name

WASHINGTON—One day after signing an executive order rechristening AI “super intelligence,” President Donald Trump told reporters Wednesday that his administration was already considering another name change after discovering that an even more advanced form of artificial intelligence may be right around the corner.

Speaking to reporters while descending the stairs from Air Force One, Trump defended the terminology.

“Sir, why did you decide to rename AI ‘super intelligence’?” a reporter asked.

“Well, a lot of people are saying, ‘Isn’t it terrific?’” Trump replied. “So I went to ChatGPT for other words for ‘terrific,’ and it suggested ‘super,’ which I would have thought of probably, but yeah, I think it’s super. So that’s why.”

Trump added that the technology had already become an indispensable member of his inner circle.

“I think it’s terrific that now I can have a team of advisers on my dictaphone and I don’t need a loyalty test,” he said. “It knows I’m the greatest president that ever lived, hands down.”

“Oh, so you’re using AI these days, too?” a reporter asked.

“It’s called super intelligence now,” Trump quipped.

“Okay. Are you using super intelligence, and how are you using it?”

“I love that I can now make lots of Truth Social posts and real photos super easy,” Trump said. “See that? Super. It really is. Everyone’s saying so.”

The president said he also occasionally consults the technology on national security matters.

“Once in a while I use it for the tough military questions because it helps me stay smarter than the generals,” Trump said.

Asked whether he had learned much about prompting, Trump appeared to bristle.

“I’m not a big fan of teleprompters,” he said. “It’s all fake news.”

The exchange reportedly became more complicated when another reporter asked Trump what his administration planned to do once AGI, or artificial general intelligence, arrived.

“Well, with AGI—artificial great intelligence—around the corner, I realized I might have boxed myself in again,” Trump said. “Because if regular intelligence is already super, you need something bigger. Like much bigger,” he added, glancing down at his hands.

Trump said administration officials were therefore considering a second executive order formally designating AGI as “super-duper intelligence.”

“Because that’s really what it is, isn’t it?” Trump said. “Super-duper. Super intelligence is really great, obviously. But super-duper is even greater. Everybody knows this.”

Asked what he would call the next level of artificial intelligence beyond AGI if developed, Trump paused.

“That would be tremendous, and it's a very important question,” he said. “A lot of people are looking into this.”

Trump then pulled out his phone and asked ChatGPT for another word for “tremendous.”

After reading the response, the president nodded. “Enormous,” he said. “That’s a very good word.” Trump stared at the screen for several seconds.

“Super-Duper Enormous Intelligence,” he said. “SDEI. I like that! Or, Super-DEI." 

Credits:
Not the Onion
Written by my brother from another mother with Chat GPT
Image with Gemini

Source article (published October 1, 2026): https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/6123889-trump-rejects-oval-office-demolition-plan/

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