I'm Charlie Sykes. Welcome back to the To the Contrary podcast. In my newsletter yesterday, I had to remind people that this is real life, this is not a parody, that Donald Trump actually did back the idea of changing the name of ice to nice. Orwell blushes. I don't think it's actually going to happen, but it gives you an idea of the kind of the very, very strange world that we are in. In case you missed it,

Donald Trump is also putting his face on certain passports. Now, of course, there's kind of a pattern here.

He's already put his name on the National Park passes. They're minting a $1 Trump coin coin and he's going to build the arc to Trump.

Yeah, I think we were kind of getting that.

Also, did you notice that when the king visited the White House official X account,

actually posted a picture of King Charles with Donald Trump with the caption,

Two Kings with a crown emoji, which is a hell

of a way of celebrating the 250th anniversary of our first No Kings Revolution. And of course,

at 4 a.m., the president of the United States, evidently in touch with his 12-year-old self,

posted an AI image of himself, coast playing, no more Mr. Nice Guy,

holding a gun looking like he's blowing up, Aram, which was kind of strange because he did this

after the state dinner with King Charles.

You think he'd be in a better mood, or maybe he figured out that the real king had actually schooled the fake

king. We're going to get to that in just a moment. And of course, in the midst of the war with

Iran, we found out that Peter Hegesith was taking a joyride with Kid Rock on an Apache helicopter,

because of course, rules do not apply to anybody that is a

Maga Toti. And also, we have to talk about this, the Trump administration continuing its

campaign of retribution, indicting James Comey, the former FBI director,

four seashells.

Now, I describe that as both ludicrous and disgraceful,

and we have to keep these ideas in our heads at the same time

that it's laughable, it's almost comically stupid,

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