Friday Afternoon News Updates: Trump Just Trashed Our Troops – 8/14/26
What a disgrace. Here are your afternoon updates.
Hi all, Ben here. I am disgusted by what I just witnessed from Donald Trump while he was on the tarmac. What a vile, pathetic excuse for a human being. This isn’t a red vs. blue thing. It isn’t Democrat vs. Republican. This is objectively cruel and evil. I’ll get into it in greater detail below, but first, the headlines. By the way, if all this news makes you say ‘WTF!!,’ make sure to preorder the book I wrote with my brothers, WTF America?!: The Way Out of This Hell and Back to Democracy. We have to break this cycle.
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Retail sales are cratering
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Let’s start with the big one, and I’ll also show you the clip so you can see it for yourself.
