JUST ANOTHER INSTALLMENT IN TRUMP’S ANACONDA STRATEGY:

Trump wages financial war on his opponents, and Scott Bessent is his financial Patton, Marco Rubio his diplomatic Eisenhower.

It’s funny that this came out right after Canada walked away from the trade deal.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: ‘It’s going to be beautiful’: President Trump signs order to create US Space Academy.

President Donald Trump today (Aug. 28) signed an executive order creating the U.S. Space Academy, an institution of higher learning that will train students for a career studying, exploring, exploiting or helping to protect the final frontier.

“It’ll serve both the United States Space Force as well as NASA and the civilian spaceflight industry, and it’ll attract, train and graduate the very very best of our nation,” Trump said today during a ceremony at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, at which he awarded the Artemis II moon astronauts the nation’s highest space honor.

Within the next 120 days, the commission will submit a report “with recommendations on governance framework, service obligations for graduates, physical location of the academy, legislative requirements and more,” NASA officials wrote in today’s statement.

It’s a shame the name Starfleet Academy is sullied.

$50 TRILLION IN THREE YEARS? America just hit the $40 Trillion National Debt milestone. But another $10 Trillion added by July 2029?

YES:

FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: He Did What We All Want to Do to Cyclists Sometimes. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll learn the worst excuse for super-speeding, how to get lucky with Sheriff Grady, and the perfect thing to wear to a robbery in Tennessee.”

21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: Laser used to shoot down cartel drones near Mexico border. “Officials described the drones, though exact locations were not disclosed, as ‘hostile’ and that they posed a ‘physical threat’ to U.S. service members and Customs and Border Protection personnel.”