It’s Friday, Feb. 7, 2025. 

Donald Trump can’t stop making history. On Sunday, he will become the first sitting president to attend the Super Bowl. That’s kind of cool, but it’s nothing compared with his world-history-making triumph as the first politician ever to defeat the scourge of racism. The NFL announced this week that, for the first time since Joe Biden took office in 2021, the phrase “End Racism” will not appear in the end zones at the Super Bowl. Is this proof that performative wokeness gets results? We might have ended racism even sooner if more people had been paying attention. Fortunately for the cause of social justice, Donald Trump saw the message and got results within a few days of taking office. America’s Golden Age is off to a great start.

Make WAGs Great Again: America’s WAG (wives and girlfriends) discourse leaves much to be desired. Maybe it’s because Travis Kelce is dating someone who, while marginally above-average in terms of attractiveness, happens to be obnoxiously famous for writing feminist breakup songs. This year’s Super Bowl features two teams (and their respective fanbases) that are irredeemably annoying, so it’s especially important to highlight the WAGs who don’t get nearly as much attention as the Childless Cat Lady. Whatever their names may be.

Kansas City Chiefs

Philadelphia Eagles

If it ain’t woke, don’t build it: Speaking of celebrities with famous girlfriends, Barack Obama made headlines this week after his $800 million presidential center—still under construction nearly a decade after he left office—found itself mired in a racial discrimination lawsuit. Obama’s aesthetically monstrous monument to himself has taken so long to complete—his three predecessors opened their presidential libraries within five years of leaving office—in part because of draconian racial and other demographic quotas. Now a black-owned concrete firm is suing the project manager for imposing “excessively rigorous and unnecessary” inspection standards and singling out the firm for errors that resulted in “extreme financial loss.”

The black-owned concrete firm, II in One, accused the project manager, Thornton Tomasetti, of undermining “the Obama Foundation’s DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) goals and commitments and mission to bring transformative change to the construction industry and local community.” They are seeking to recoup roughly $41 million in additional costs allegedly incurred due to racism. Thornton Tomasetti denied the accusations, insisting the excessive costs and delays were “driven by the underperformance and inexperience … [of] what everyone knows was a questionably qualified subcontractor team.” The Obama Foundation said it had “no reason to believe that Thornton Tomasetti acted with racist intent.”

Read: Obama’s $800M Presidential Center Slapped With DEI Lawsuit

Analysis: Democrats are bad at building things, and even worse at finishing them on time. In related news, California’s unremitting high-speed rail project connecting Merced (population 94,000) and Bakersfield (population 413,000) was recently delayed again. It won’t be completed until 2034 at the earliest, at a cost of (at least) $32 billion.

Further analysis: Barack Obama’s Monument to Himself Is a Hideous Eyesore

Castrating the shark: Ladies and gentleman, the Democratic Party. Defenders of the status quo. Custodians of bureaucracy. Assembly of freaks. The #Resistance is alive and well in 2025. This week, the Democrats did a lot of shrieking at the thought of useless government employees being forced to find real jobs for once in their lives. Generally speaking, they aren’t behaving like a political party that is interested in winning back the votes of normal Americans anytime soon. Here are just a few examples of Democratic shenanigans from the past week:  

• Sen. Chuck Schumer, 74, and Rep. Maxine Waters, 86, chanted “We will win!” outside the U.S. Treasury Department while Rep. Al Green, 77, shook his cane in anger during an anti-Elon Musk protest. Even the liberals at CNN couldn’t contain their laughter. “Oh, we are so f—d,” said Democratic fundraiser Jimmy Kimmel.
• Green became the first Democrat to file articles of impeachment against Donald Trump, for “dastardly deeds.”
• Congressman Jared Huffman of California (obviously) protested the National Prayer Breakfast, an annual bipartisan event chaired by a former Democratic senator and attended by every president since Dwight Eisenhower, calling it “a big part of the dystopic, authoritarian agenda at the heart of Donald Trump and his MAGA movement.”
• Governor Phil Murphy of New Jersey, sometimes considered a presidential contender despite being too aesthetically challenged to win a national election, bragged about harboring an illegal immigrant above his garage and dared the Trump administration to “try to get her.” His office frantically backpedaled, claiming the governor’s remarks had been “misinterpreted.”
• David Hogg, the obnoxious Harvard grad and anti-gun activist who swore he would never run for office because he was “too radical for American politics” and “we have enough straight white men in power,” was elected vice chair of the DNC. We would like to extend our sincerest congratulations to… Donald Trump and the Republican Party.

Brave hero of the week: Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut narrowly survived after taking the 2-5 a.m. shift on the Senate floor as part of Democrats’ futile effort to block the confirmation of Trump’s nominee for OMB director, Russell Vought, who was eventually confirmed. “We don’t rest. Keep going. Democracy on the line,” Murphy posted on X alongside an image of an empty Red Bull can. Please keep this noble warrior in your thoughts and prayers.

Even braver hero of the week: Michigan state legislator Laurie Pohutsky, a 36-year-old bisexual who is nowhere near as attractive as Kyrsten Sinema, announced she underwent voluntary sterilization surgery to ensure she would “never have to navigate a pregnancy in Donald Trump’s America.” We commend this act of courage and would like to extend our sincerest congratulations to… the human race.

Song of the week: “Trust Black Women, They Lead The Way” by Unknown White Female Artist (so to speak) Standing on Street Corner With Microphone.

Trust black women, they lead the way.
Trust black women, they lead the way.
White women, stop abandoning your sisters.
Trust black women, they lead the way.
Oh, we’re mad as hell (we’re mad as hell).
Oh, can’t you tell (oh, can’t you tell)?
Oh, we’re mad as hell, can’t you tell?
We dissent, you f—ing fascists.
Oh, we’re mad as hell, can’t you tell?

Meanwhile, Donald Trump signed an executive order banning biological men from women’s sports. According to a recent New York Times poll, nearly 80 percent of Americans support the ban, including 67 percent of Democrats. Very few elected Democrats are on board, as evidenced by the insane backlash that Democratic congressman Seth Moulton of Massachusetts received for daring to suggest he doesn’t want his young daughters “getting run over on a playing field by a male or formerly male athlete.” The issue is only controversial because the 18 percent of Americans who support letting men play women’s sports include most mainstream journalists. According to ESPN, for example, Trump’s executive order was “designed to prevent people who were biologically assigned male at birth from participating in women’s or girls’ sporting events,” whatever that means.

Activist of the week: Paula Scanlan, a former member of the University of Pennsylvania women’s swim team alongside biological male Lia Thomas, visited the White House this week to celebrate the occasion.

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