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Rick Wilson’s Against All Enemies

Trump's Civility Con Job Falls Apart

"Shut up, and build the ballroom is dumb," even for MAGA

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Rick Wilson
Apr 28, 2026
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The MAGA brain trust, summoned to its keyboards like dyspeptic moths to a Twitter flame, settles on its message within roughly the time it takes Karoline Leavitt to blink her dull, porcine eyes. That message, in full: Democrats did this, shut up forever, and also, taxpayers should fund Donald’s $400 million party bunker.

It is, even by the historically generous standards of the MAGA cinematic universe, a thunderingly stupid response to a serious moment.

Let’s take it apart, because I’m never, ever going to shut up about the profound damage Trump has done to this nation and the world until he’s moldering in his piss-soaked grave…and the ballroom might just become the nail in the political coffins of more than a few Republican Members of Congress.

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