Donald Trump thinks that Bruce Springsteen looks like a "dried out prune," but has he looked in the mirror lately? I bet he has. He also picked a fight with Beyonce, Oprah, Taylor Swift, Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, and Harvard University. But he loves free jets that will cost a billion dollars to retrofit and ginning up conspiracy theories about Joe Biden's cancer diagnosis. He is truly a class act. Also, some pesky scientists have figured out how to make chili peppers less spicy for some reason. The United States now has a bad credit rating, just like the rest of us. A college professor faces some heat by using AI. Pot kettle black. A Mississippi wedding location that was once a slave plantation burns to the ground and the predictable people think it is a tragedy. And a couple drummers are out of work. Do you need your house painted?

Do you want a free airplane? Who doesn't? But is it a Trojan Boeing? Trump courts supporters of terror in the Middle East. Back home, Oklahoma is getting dumber by the minute. The Trump administration wants to deport a million people a year. Unless you happen to be white and you're from South Africa, where Trump believes that a genocide is happening. Except it isn't. A Utah GOP senator wants to ban porn. Good plan. Chicago is sinking. And Robert F. Kennedy Jr. thinks that raw sewage is good for you. And also for his grandkids.

This week delivered another deluge of dumb, but don't give up. We'll get through it. When Donald Trump goes fully off the rails, how will we know? JD Vance is a harbinger of doom, and you heard it here first. Or maybe second. The new Pope is from Chicago, and now that we Chicagoans have the first Black president, Michael Jordan, John Hughes, and the first Yankee Pope, we will never let you forget it. (The memes alone are priceless.) My beef with the Catholic church remains. Call me when we have a woman for a Pope. News flash! A straight white guy gets upset about seeing lesbians on his TV. A couple American tourists narrowly avoid getting themselves killed in bizarre ways. The Navy is now storing their planes at the bottom of the Red Sea, apparently. And I share a story of stolen rabbits that staggers the imagination.