It's Monday, May 18th. I'm Jane Koston, and this is what a day, a show enjoying this response from former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to current Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's corporate road trip reality show adventure.

Here is Buttigieg on CNN Sunday discussing the time he too took a road trip.

I love road trips. I love America.

I actually took a taxpayer-funded road trip lasting about seven months.

It was in Afghanistan.

Sean Duffy, of course, never went to Afghanistan.

But he did spend time as a lumberjack before going on the real world, Boston,

where he compared a black woman to Hitler.

On today's show, President Donald Trump continues to threaten Iran via social media. How presidential.

And Trump debuts a new superlative for one of his critics, the worst Republican congressman in history.

Place your bets on who that might be in the comments.

But let's start with happiness, or a lack thereof.

It's easy to say that Americans have not exactly been cheerful for the last few years.

It's even showing up in the data.

The general social survey, the consumer sentiment survey from

the University of Michigan, the World Happiness Report, and even the Federal Reserve all say

that Americans are less happy than they were a decade ago. Whether that's about their jobs,

the economy, the state of the world, no matter the metric, Americans are not having it. The question is,

why? Why, after roughly 50 years of being a relatively happy country, have we collectively fallen into a happiness ditch?

I'm sure you've got receipts as to why you're not thrilled about the state of things right now.

Like, the president of the United States wants taxpayers to fund a fancy White House ballroom while we're at war with a country for reasons they keep changing.

But this drop in unhappiness has lasted through both the Biden and Trump administrations.

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