This is amazing: Trump demanded that New Mexico change its name to “New America,” claiming it would raise property values and incomes. But Democratic Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham fired back with a brutal reminder about American history and Trump's record.
On Monday, Trump posted on Truth Social that New Mexico should change its name “immediately.”
He declared: “We are not Mexico, we are the United States of America!”
Trump claimed the new name would bring greater prestige, increase home values and incomes, and even improve the state's elections, which he called “Crooked.”
Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham responded sharply.
“This tired New America bit again?” she asked. “You have to ask — what policy failure is Trump trying to distract Americans from this time?”
Then came the history lesson.
“Let me repeat: New Mexico was New Mexico long before the United States existed and we’ll be New Mexico forevermore.”
The name New Mexico dates to the 1500s, more than two centuries before the Declaration of Independence. The territory became America's 47th state in 1912.
And the governor had more to say.
She pointed to New Mexico's universal, no-cost child care program and its decision to replace federal health insurance subsidies cut by Trump and congressional Republicans.
She also rejected Trump's election accusations. New Mexico ranked seventh nationally in MIT's 2024 Election Performance Index.
There's another problem with Trump's demand. He has no authority to unilaterally rename a state. New Mexico's constitution explicitly establishes its name.
Thank you, Governor Lujan Grisham, for defending New Mexico's history and standing up to Trump's attacks on your state

BREAKING: SELF-OWN! Trump's new "fraud hotline" could hilariously become the biggest self-inflicted political DISASTER of his presidency!
Donald Trump loves to promise voters a boatload of money if the Republicans keep control of Congress in the upcoming midterm elections. You may want to call an ambulance to pick up the people collapsing from holding their breath while waiting for any of that promised cash to find its way to their wallets. (Remember the undelivered DOGE dividend and the fictional $2,000 tariff dividend?)
Now Trump has finally come up with a plan that can make at least a few lucky citizens some cold, hard cash as he announced the launch of the new Fraud Whistleblower Incentive Program.
As Trump described the program in an Oval Office event today, now “Independent journalists and everybody and all Americans will now be able to go to the fraud.gov and report cases of corruption and theft of taxpayer dollars in their communities all via a new website.”
“Anybody that can prove that he turned somebody in, in other words, he or she, if you turn somebody in and you, let's say, report and you find a billion dollars, we are giving a commission to that person of 1%. It's a lot of money,” Trump explained. “And if it's $10 billion, $200 billion, $400 billion, we're giving a 1% commission to that person.”
Indeed, that’s some serious money, if it actually materializes. Of course, there will be some hoops to jump through.
“You have to prove that you were the one and prove that it was you,” Trump qualified the offer. “And I don't know if you can do this, but subject to the laws of our nation, which I feel very strongly about, if a reporter turns somebody in, you have to get approval, perhaps from your wonderful newspaper. But if you turn somebody in, you get a 1% commission. You may turn it down or you may say, I'm not going to be a reporter any longer, this is too easy.”
Perhaps this is Trump’s surreptitious plot to gut the media that he hates so much of their top investigative reporters?
Either way, this provides the American public the perfect opportunity to FLOOD the new website with reports of every bit of fraudulent activity perpetrated by the Trump administration. We’d like to report Trump for his pump-and-dump crypto schemes. How about reporting Kristi Noem and Cori Lewandowski for their corrupt, no-bid DHS contracts for detention centers?
Then there’s everything that Elon Musk did with DOGE. Sweetheart deals for the fossil fuel industry by the Interior Department? Certainly the Pentagon procurement process should be a ripe target for those seeking their 1% commission. And what about reporting all those corporate fraudsters already pardoned by Trump?
No one is likely to get paid for reporting all these sordid details, but if enough people report all these instances of fraud and corruption, at least the administration will know we’re watching and aware of their misdeeds.
Who knows, if the Democrats regain control of Congress in a few weeks, maybe some of these fraudulent acts will actually lead to a real prosecution.

They are attractive , well dressed, ask good questions and have a clue . No driver runs from either one .

Split the House did win the Breeders Crown in 2019? I think. Also wasnt he the trainer of Homicide Hunter. The switch to Pelling for Dandy Ideal all of sudden is a red flag

JUSTICE FOR SALE! Alina Habba's mysterious $50 million job sparks pay-to-play suspicions after Trump pardons her new employer's billionaire relative.
Anyone searching for concrete evidence of the MASSIVE corruption of the Trump administration needs to look no further than Dementia Donnie’s long list of pardons that have put convicted criminal fraudsters back on our nation’s streets, free of any obligation to make the financial restitutions that their original sentences called for, and ready to defraud the public yet again.
It’s an open secret in Washington DC that a well-timed payment to the right person or Super PAC suddenly puts a prisoner on the top of Trump’s pardon list.
Now, a new report just revealed how the pardon industry in Trump’s regime actually works — and how expensive it can be.
According to The New York Times, Venezuelan banker Julio Herrera Velutini faced felony bribery charges for allegedly helping finance the campaign of Puerto Rico’s then-governor in exchange for removing a regulator investigating his bank.
In August 2025, he struck an unusually lenient plea deal for a single misdemeanor. But Velutini still wanted a pardon.
So, he hired Christopher Kise, a member of Trump’s personal legal team. His 27-year-old daughter, Isabela Herrera, gave $3.5 million to a super PAC tied to Trump. Still, as of last fall, no pardon.
Then along came Alina Habba, another former personal attorney for Trump. According to the Times, the Herrera family offered her $10 million a year for four years, plus bonuses, guaranteeing more than $50 million. The job was general counsel at Concord Partners, a company Herrera set up in late October 2025 that has no public profile and whose business is unclear even to some people in the Herrera orbit. Habba finalized her deal days after the company was registered.
At the time, she was still a senior adviser to Attorney General Pam Bondi, with an office at the Justice Department and a U.S. Marshals protective detail. She started at Concord on January 1st. Weeks later, Trump gave Herrera a full and unconditional pardon. WHAT A COINCIDENCE!
People familiar with her contract told the Times they believed she was brought in to help with the pardon push and were surprised by the pay. Habba, naturally, denies any connection. “Any insinuation that my employment... had anything to do with securing a pardon is false,” she said. The Justice Department and a White House official also say she had nothing to do with it.
The Times notes the pardon covered more than Herrera. Trump also pardoned the former governor and a former FBI agent, all shortly before sentencing, disappointing career prosecutors who wanted harsher penalties.
Meanwhile, The Times reports a pardon industry has sprouted in Trump’s second term, with wealthy defendants paying well-connected lawyers and lobbyists, and many concluding that backing Trump is the fastest route to clemency.
Habba’s life has moved fast. She resigned as New Jersey U.S. attorney after judges ruled her appointment unlawful, started dating a Turkish investor soon after the pardon, married him last month, and is now feuding with Ric Grenell.
No one has definitively proven that offering Habba the job bought the pardon. But a $50 million deal, a pardon weeks later, and a company nobody can explain is exactly the kind of sequence that raises eyebrows and deserves answers. One question to pay attention to is what happens to the $50 million after it hits Habba’s bank account and who else may benefit from Velutini’s largesse