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The one thing that struck us and it's one of the big three today is just the different

tone in which the media is covering Trump.

Even now, when Trump weighs in, Elon Musk weighs in and blows up this interim spending

deal, instead of just saying Donald Trump's a horrible person who doesn't know what he's doing and he's just, he's cutting the knees out of his own party.

They're doing analysis more than ever. And this new fair way of dealing with Trump for now

is something that I think is very noteworthy, especially some of his victories. In case you do not know,

Fannie Wallace has been pulled off the case.

Remember the Georgia case saying that he was trying to manipulate the outcome of an election in that state in 2020?

She's out. The only case that's in hyperspace now is the one in New York. So he's done with that.

That's a victory. And he also got another major victory. ABC acquiesced and paid out Trump $15 million for defamation when they said he wrongly called him a rapist, which by the way, calling him a rapist is wrong.

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