Trump, Epstein and My Met Gala Rant

And a drawing for fun

Maybe not the kind of fun I would want right now, but to each her own. The above is a drawing that The New Yorker did not take, so you get to see it! I so value your support here and love showing you my drawings.

So, some news.

There are several primaries coming up in May. Trump and his people have been hand-selecting people to run against candidates they detest, local and nationwide candidates. He has been inviting his picks (great analysis and video from the NY Times here) to come to the Oval Office and take photos with him to use in their campaigns. He is preying on ambitious men and women, excited to be called to the Oval Office by the president, who perhaps have not been in government before (I don’t now that, but he’s done that before…in fact just look at his administration, starting with Pete Hegseth). It’s a false and dangerous game he’s playing, trying to prop people up in an election. It might not work.

Politico reports that on Tuesday. there is a primary for state legislators in Indiana: Trump wants to oust 8 Republican state legislators who blocked his redistricting effort there. Then on to Louisiana and Kentucky, where he’s backing challengers to two longtime enemies, Sen. Bill Cassidy and Rep. Thomas Massie (the man who spear-headed the Epstein Files Transparency Act with Rep Khana). Trump has also selected his favorite candidates in the crowded GOP primaries for Alabama Senate and Georgia governor. Stay tuned.

“The [Trump] endorsement just isn’t moving voters. It just isn’t,” said a GOP operative working on the Alabama Senate race who was granted anonymity to speak candidly. “When you’ve endorsed more than 800 people in 10 years, the potency of an individual endorsement wanes.”

Epstein: In April 2026 Marjorie Taylor Green made an appearance at the Ron Paul Institute, and spoke about a private conversation that damns Trump even further concerning the Epstein Files. Aaron Parnas and the International Business Times shared a video of former House member Marjorie Taylor Greene revealing a phone call with Trump before she left government.

Greene: Trump said his friends would get hurt if we release the Epstein files. He said, “Marjorie, these are good people. These are people you know at Mar-a-Lago. People in Palm Beach—they’re going to get hurt by this.”

And I said, “Mr. President, people have been hurt. These women have been hurt. Have you talked to them? You should talk to them. You should have them in the Oval Office, Mr. President. You have everybody in the Oval Office—you have sports teams, you have world leaders, you have al-Qaeda terrorists that are now leading Syria, you have Mamdani. I mean, you have everybody in the Oval Office. Surely, you can have these women. Talk to them. I talk to them all the time. As a matter of fact, many of them voted for you.”

That’s what I told him—they voted for you. Epstein victims voted for Donald Trump, and he wouldn’t have anything to do with them. And he told me his friends would get hurt. And I said, “I’m not taking my name off the discharge petition.”

Here also is the video on X, as shared by Acyn Torabi Senior Digital Editor for Meidas Touch.

Acyn@Acyn

Marjorie Taylor Greene says Trump told her that people at Mar-a-Lago would be hurt by the release of the Epstein files. Greene: Trump said his friends would get hurt if we release the Epstein files. He said, “Marjorie, these are good people. These are people you know at

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Okay, here is a rant that you probably didn’t expect from me. It combines art and politics. Perhaps I shouldn’t let it get to me so much. The Met Gala was once a celebration of creativity in fashion, but now has become a grotesque display of insane wealthy and gaudiness. Instead of being playfully artistic, the outfits have become garish, aggressive displays of look-at-meism, and overly sexualized, plastic surgery-enhanced garbage (I’m looking at you, Mrs. Bezos). I used to enjoy looking at high fashion from time-to-time, but this is beyond ridiculous, not to mention ethically suspect. I also feel that we are in a period of time where women’s bodies are being used by the media in a way that is mangeled and malformed.

We are in a visual feminist backlash.

Last night, I kept being tempted to go see which celebreties dissapointed me by attending (Ben Stiller?!!), but I didn’t want to click on the coverage. I also wanted mainstream media to be more critical. I am becoming more and more angry about those not taking a stand against injustice and the fact that because of people like Bezos, our democracy is at stake. It doesn’t have to be loud.

I hope you are having a good Tuesday. It is so beautiful here now in the Northeast, I hope it is as well where you are.

As I alluded to above in my opening paragraph, you all here with me on Seeing Things are keeping me going, both mentally and financially, and I can’t thank you enough.