HART: A Mid-Year Lookback — In Case You Missed It

Trump moves at the speed of Trump. That keeps me from being able to write on all the belt-high fastballs he throws at me. Here are a few mid-year items to remind readers of:

• Trump floated the idea of directing $3 billion of federal money from Harvard to trade schools. Only people who went to Harvard care about Harvard anymore. Last week, a Harvard professor, writing a study on “honesty” got busted for fabricating results. Trump needs to make her conduct her next federally funded study on hypocrisy. 
• NFL team owners attempted to ban the Philadelphia Eagles play the “Tush Push.” It is a red zone play when all the players gang-push from behind to force a score. It failed. Reaction was mixed. Citing that case, P-Diddy’s attorneys asked for his acquittal. Yet it became another thing the gay community is mad about, since this attempt to ban the “Tush Push” came during Gay Pride Month. (RELATED: Democrats’ New Political Football Could Bench Their Top 2028 Contenders)

WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 20: President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump takes office for his second term as the 47th president of the United States. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

• The new Pope remains a U.S. citizen. He was born in Chicago, now he is the head of state of the Vatican. An odd, and unprecedented situation. Our country, especially us Southerners, don’t fully understand Catholicism, since we are mostly Protestants. We can never match the rituals of the Catholics. The closest thing is when Baptist hire a new preacher, at his church social introduction, you will see smoke rising from the barbecue pit, and half the cars in the parking lot.
• Students’ text scores fell during and after COVID-19. Texas passed a law placing the Ten Commandments in all schools; the bad news is, they are a part of AP Algebra.
• Senator Josh Hawley said on national TV that a Secret Service whistleblower told him that Joe Biden would often get lost and stuck in his closet at the White House. They need to check on him, if he cannot find his way out of the closet during Gay Pride Month, he may stay closeted. 
• Ellen DeGenerous, Rosie O’Donnell, and the like continue to move to the UK. They flee America for England, because they say Trump wants to be King. To a country that has a King.  
• RFK Jr. has made progress with his Make America Healthy Again. We have gotten fat. Young American women used to aspire to be a ballerina, dancing in Swan Lake. Today’s kids, today, best case, can be the lead dancer on an Ozempic commercial. 
• Libs continue to oppose Trump on everything. Deporting illegal gang members to tariffs. Dems can only nuance his good ideas. Libs say Trump’s executive decisions do not go through the proper channels, PBS, CNN, and MSNBC. 
• News reports continue to lament Millennials waiting to get married, buy a house, and have kids. The cite the cost of living. I delivered a graduation address to college kids last month, and told them to thrive, two jobs in the family is the best way to go. So make sure your spouse has two jobs. 
• Bill Clinton said he had no idea Joe Biden was in cognitive decline. He still has it. The smoothest slickster ever. He managed to stay married to Hillary, operating under a simple understanding my grandfather told me: no man has ever been shot by his wife while doing the dishes. 

Disingenuous dolt James Comey and Bill Clinton, now that they cannot grift with their political positions, are writing novels for money. Bill’s is a murder mystery named First Gentleman. 

Maybe it is not as bad an idea as it seems; she probably does know how to order a pizza. Tim Waltz, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, and others were viewed as the manliest men in the Democrat Party, and they tried to manufacture them as such. It all fell apart when Tim Waltz, on stage, developed an advanced case of jazz hands. 

• Bill Belichick’s young girlfriend Jordan Hudsen again tried to win Miss Maine. It bothered her that a transgendered contestant who finished in the top 10 garnered most of the attention. He/She impressed the Maine judges in the talent section of the pageant when she spelled her name in the snow.

And finally, Mary Lou Retton got a DUI in WV. She was great on the balance beam, but apparently not on Jim Beam.