Recidivist Criminal Smashes White House Walls in Sneak Attack

Trump's accomplices successfully destroyed the East Wing facade in the worst attack on the White House since the British burned it down

Oct. 21: Trump attack demolishes part of White House and, apparently, corporate-media memory that this is illegal … Vance in Israel to keep them in line and protect Hamas … Some GOP senators beg Trump to withdraw nomination of part-time Nazi for being too Nazi even for some GOP senators … Workers safeguarding U.S. nuclear-weapons stockpile get furloughed as :::gulp::: non-essential …

Accomplices of Pres. Donald Trump were caught in the act of attacking the White House on Oct. 20, 2025. (Uncredited witness now in fear for their life / Washington Post photo.)

The White House was struck by a sneak attack on Monday, as a criminal gang leader directed huge vehicles to tear down the facade of the East Wing on October 20, a day that will live in infamy but in the shadow of a lot of other infamy.

The only suspect, Pres. Donald Trump, had spoken often about his intent to attack the historic site and confessed in remarks Monday, calling the attack “construction.”

He gave no warning of the impending assault, which largely took place out of public sight. The Treasury Department sought to cover up the attack by ordering workers who had a view of the crime as it unfolded to suppress the evidence by not sharing pictures of it.

You wouldn’t know it from the corporate-media coverage of Trump’s attack but in a counter-counter-intuitive twist, it turns out that knocking down a part of the White House is a crime. In fact, if Trump had chosen a different religion and shade of spray tan, Monday’s attack would have been recognized instantly as terrorism.

It’s not as if corporate media don’t know that knocking down part of the White House is a crime. Much of the 9/11 coverage included the belief that the fourth plane was intended to strike either the U.S. Capitol or the White House, which at the time was seen as bad.

Both such attacks would have been crimes at the time, before the Supreme Court allowed the president to do criming. Both buildings, allegedly targeted by Osama bin Laden on 9/11, have now been attacked and damaged more successfully by Trump on 1/6 and 10/20.

Like bin Laden, Trump carried out his 10/20 attack by commandeering large vehicles and turning them into machines of destruction.

Corporate media reported as recently as August that knocking down parts of the White House is a crime. Totally unmentioned in Monday’s coverage, this was a literal Washington Post headline in August:

According to the Washington Post, plans for knocking down parts of the White House must, by law, be submitted to the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC).

When asked about the law back in August, the White House lied and said the NCPC “will be a part of that process at the appropriate time [i.e., after it’s too late].”

In fact, previous, law-abiding presidents had to wait more than a year for approval of a security fence and tennis pavilion. Both were approved, but the fence apparently failed to prevent Trump from entering the grounds.

The National Park Service is the agency charged with preserving the White House, a National Historic Landmark, and in 2014 vowed “to ensure both the preservation and use of one of the most recognized houses in the world.” Oops. Do better, National Park Service.

The New York Times captured a Google Earth image showing how the intact White House looked before the attack, highlighting the targeted area:

Inset of illustrated Google Earth image. (New York Times / photo illustration.)

Trump has said he intends to vandalize the site adjacent to the East Wing with a monument to his toxic ideology of militant capitalism, erecting an idolatrous temple where the rich can cavort and celebrate their wealth and plot deregulation schemes.

Reportedly, Trump has the backing of criminal associates including arms dealers and shady crypto robber barons who bankrolled Monday’s job with a total of $250 million. His accomplices include the leaders of cartels such as Coinbase, Lockheed Martin, Apple, and Amazon.

The new building will roughly triple the area available for Trump to assemble lackeys and supplicants bearing tribute extracted from the subjects of their fiefdoms. Designs for Trump’s vision reveal it as an homage to the Stanley Kubrick classic, “The Shining”:

An artist’s rendering captures the terrifying, dehumanizing abyss Trump is planning. (Hieronymus Bosch / McCrery Architects/White House illustration.)

Trump has already inflicted design changes on the White House interior. All told, his assaults on historic preservation and minimal good taste are intended to make the facility more to his liking, like his Mar-a-Lago club, which he transformed into a hunting ground for his favorite pedophiles. (No, really.)

The destruction of the White House wall is no isolated incident.

The suspect has a history of criminal attacks on buildings. His 1/6 attack caused the deaths of at least half a dozen people. Damage to the Capitol Building and other associated costs added up to $2.7 billion paid by taxpayers.

Beginning with civil-rights violations, Trump has been engaging in crimes against real estate and real people for half a century. And lying about his demolitions.

In 1980, for instance, well, let the New York Times tell it in their uniquely glib style:

In July, Trump said the new structure “won’t interfere with the current building” the way he claims he hasn’t interfered with dozens of women and girls. Trump extended his history of lying about his attacks in comments Monday.

“For more than 150 years, every President has dreamt about having a Ballroom at the White House to accommodate people for grand parties, State Visits, [teenage-girl pool parties, porno film festivals, KKK rallies like my Dad went to] etc.,”

In fact, the most recent non-Trump presidents — Barack Obama and Joe Biden — dreamt of not having a ballroom at the White House and flatly rejected Trump’s criminal scheme.

We already had evidence of Trump’s mar-a-lagice aforethought intention to remake the people’s house in his own image. He’s redone the Oval Office and Cabinet Room in the mid/late 20th-century style popularly known as “cheap hood.” He paved First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy’s Rose Garden paradise and put up a patio for a lot of rich people to park their rich asses.

Recently, he’s expressed interest in building an arch like the Arc de Triomphe across the Potomac. And Democrats can simply announce right now that they’ll remove anything built illegally and restore it just as it was.

RAP SHEET Trump has already been convicted of business fraud and found liable for sexual assault. Just last week, he violated the Antideficiency Act with his illegal misappropriation of Defense Department funds for payroll during the shutdown.

Trump’s deployment of armed gangs to terrorize U.S. cities has also been declared illegal by a number of judges, which you might’ve thought would’ve been clear before Trump did it.

MEDIA WATCH How the fuck can it be that the pillars of modern American journalism don’t even mention in their coverage that it’s illegal to smash open the White House and tear down the walls?

Editors and producers just aren’t interested in petty caviling about legalities that constrict the little people. In fact, there’s more mentions (some) of the fact that First Lady Melania Trump and her staff had to vacate than there are mentions (zero) of it being a crime.

In their defense, if our corporate media were to suddenly start afflicting the comfortable, next thing you know, someone might expect them to start comforting the afflicted.

Trump Cuts off Ukraine Supply of Lovebombs

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday that he is open to joining President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in a three-way.

Putin and Trump are expected to hook up in Budapest in the coming weeks. They were on the outs until making up in a phone call last week.

Before the call, Trump had returned to lovebombing Zelenskyy, but then on Friday, after the Putin call, totally negged Zelenskyy. Putin has previously said he’s open to a three-way, but keeps stalling.

Zelenskyy, meanwhile, would love to be included, but has objected to doing the three-way in the capital of Hungary, where Prime Minister Viktor Orban is thirstary for Putin.

That love-torn, orange-topped Riverdale boy, President Donald Trump, center, just can’t choose between scheming Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and sweet but naive Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. (Dan Parent / Archie Comics illustration.)

Trump, meanwhile, unveiled his own plan to end the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Russia has seized thousands of square miles of Ukrainian territory, so Trump proposed freezing both nations in their current positions, a diplomatic maneuver taught in kindergarten as “Red Light, Green Light.”

Anyway, the point is that Trump’s a mature, thoughtful, strategic master of diplomacy.

Trump Sides with Hamas, Casts Israel as Greatest Threat to Peace

The Trump administration on Monday sent Vice President JD Vance to Israel to try to stop Israel from defending itself against Hamas, the administration’s terrorist ally for peace. Pres. Donald Trump fears that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — a wanted criminal except in Israel where he’s an unwanted criminal — will violate the cease fire like he already has.

Referring to his Hamas allies Monday, Trump said, “[T]hey’re going to be very good. They’re going to behave. They’re going to be nice.” If not, Trump said, he would “eradicate” them.

Interestingly, Trump has not threatened to eradicate Israel, despite private White House fears that it’s Netanyahu they need to worry about being neither good nor nice.

For instance, the White House doesn’t believe Israel’s claim that Hamas killed two Israeli soldiers over the weekend. Israel on Sunday reportedly launched dozens of cease-fire-violating missiles into Gaza, calling it retaliation.

But the White House doesn’t believe Israel’s Jewish leaders (who, after all, killed Jesus, according to the White House Bible study). Trump believes Hamas, who didn’t kill Jesus.

Trump on Monday defended Hamas’s leaders and said the Israeli soldiers were killed by a Hamas splinter faction in a “rebellion” against Hamas that “got very rambunctious,” a phrase often used by normal people to describe murdering Israeli soldiers.

Less than two weeks after accepting credit for the peace plan, Trump has already begun the process of allocating the blame for its failure to others. “[I]t’s in the hands of others,” Trump said Monday. “You know, we have 59 countries that agreed to the deal.”

Highlights of Trump’s success so far include Israel successfully defending a crossing point from a family of 11 in a bus on Friday. The family was carrying out a plot to go home when they were thwarted by the heroic Israeli military, which stopped the attempted home-going with an anti-bustank shell that killed them all, including seven child terrorists.

Are you listening, Nobel committee?!?

Trump-Nominated Republican Just as Racist as Young Republicans and Old Nazis

Pres. Donald Trump’s nominee to lead an agency that investigates discrimination is too racist even for Republican senators.

Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel (OSC), is currently the White House liaison to the Department of Homeland (sic) Security, so obviously he’s got a little Nazi streak in him.

On Monday, just a week after revealing a whole group chat of racist/everythingist Young Republicans, Politico reported that Ingrassia has his own text history. Some samples (NSFOSC):

• “MLK Jr. was the 1960s George Floyd and his ‘holiday’ should be ended and tossed into the seventh circle of hell where it belongs.”

• “No moulignon¹ holidays … From kwanza [sic] to mlk jr day to black history month to Juneteenth.”

• “Blacks behave that way [like victims] because that’s their natural state … You can’t change them.”

• “[A]ll of Africa is a shithole, and will always be that way.”

• “We need competent white men in positions of leadership. … The founding fathers were wrong that all men are created equal … We need to reject that part of our heritage.”

• “I do have a Nazi streak in me from time to time, I will admit it.”

• Referring to Vivek Ramaswamy, former DOGE co-leader and now Ohio gubernatorial candidate: “Never trust a chinaman or Indian … NEVER.”

Ingrassia’s also been the subject of a sexual harassment complaint, which was later withdrawn the way Ingrassia wants “All men are created equal” withdrawn. The OSC investigates federal whistleblower claims and allegations of workplace discrimination such as referring to Black people by Italian slurs, not trusting people born in the world’s two biggest countries, and having a recurring Nazi streak.

Senate Majority Leader — but definitely not minority leader — John Thune (R-SD) said Monday he hopes that Trump will withdraw Ingrassia’s nomination before Thursday, when he’s set to testify in his confirmation hearing. Your TFN would love to see Trump stick to his guns so we can all enjoy the hearing and see how many Republicans vote for this guy and if they’ll need Vice Pres. JD Vance to break a tie.

Vance last week came to the defense of other Republican Nazis who made similar comments in a text group of members of Young Republicans organizations. Vance is traveling in Israel this week but upon his return is expected to defend Ingrassia, 30, as a “young boy” who made a one-time mistake over and over and then defended it.

Four-and-a-Half Quickies

• One of those two survivors of Pres. Donald Trump’s maritime murders may not be going to prison in their home countries as he said. Ecuadorian survivor Andrés Fernando Tufiño is not expected to be prosecuted because “there is no evidence or indication that could lead prosecutors or judicial authorities” to charge him, an Ecuadorian government document reportedly says². Also not charging Tufiño: The U.S. government that rescued him from the attack by the U.S. government. Meaning we’ve now got official confirmation that the United States under Trump has been attacking innocent people, which is just as illegal as attacking guilty people. And you can bet I’ve got more reporting on this, thanks to your support, coming on my original-reporting Substack.

• In case you need another reason to cancel Amazon Prime, the company cost the human race hundreds of billions of dollars on Monday by not delivering internet services on time the way it usually just not delivers packages on time. Amazon’s global outage was quickly fixed and then followed by Amazon’s other global outage. It’s estimated that if Amazon’s internet outages continue, it could usher in a golden era of human serenity, connection, and fulfillment.

• Pres. Donald Trump on Monday declared 1,400 federal workers un-essential because all they do is safeguard the nation’s nuclear-weapons stockpile. The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has been kept open throughout every previous government shutdown because nuclear. As of Monday night, there were fewer than 400 NNSA staffers safeguarding the nation’s nuclear-weapons stockpile to prevent its use by enemy actors for potential attacks like taking out part of the White House.

• More than one third of the new Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recruits have flunked out, reportedly failing the physical-fitness test. Pres. Donald Trump, who is in perfect physical shape, is trying to double the size of ICE by hiring 10,000 new ICE agents, which is not the way he doubled his own size. But some of the ICE recruits are double the size they should be. ICE has already dangled a $50,000 bonus and dropped its standards to entice grown men to make a career out of their hobby: Harassing law-abiding brown people. Hilariously, ICE reported internally that a “considerable amount” of recruits “misrepresented” their physical condition when they signed up. Wonder where they got that idea.

• Former Daily Show and WTF writer Jim Earl takes a shot at Trump’s aerial shitting and also weighs in on the last episode of WTF, in which Marc Maron interviewed former Pres. Barack Obama and pissed the shit out of Jim Earl.

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1. Italian slur against Black people, in case you’ve never once watched a Mafia movie or TV show.

2. Although, awkwardly, I found a court filing suggesting he was charged with cocaine distribution several years ago, although I can’t confirm it’s the same guy. Still hilarious either way.