2025's Summer Silly Season: Faulting Trump, Predicting Doom
In April of 2025, the stock market was crashing, and Americans were being warned of a possible World War III. We were all going to die, and it was all President Donald Trump’s fault.
Three months later, the only thing dying is the legacy media begging for anything negative to talk about. Americans know our country is moving in the right direction.
Summer is typically the political silly season as Americans tune out and enjoy warm weather. The 2025 silly season is producing much ridiculousness, but very little real news worthy of concern.
Only in good times would anyone care about a wealthy CEO having an adulterous affair with his head of human resources.
Yet a cheating couple caught on a concert kiss-cam have been turned into thousands of internet memes. In the big scheme of things, wealthy and powerful people behaving badly is hardly news.
The real story is that most people pre-scandal had no idea what the company Astronomer actually did. After reading their company biography page, a large number of people still do not understand what Astronomer does.
Adding to the insanity is the band Coldplay.
Critics find their music bland and boring, but . . . they have a loyal fan base.
Either way, Coldplay was last relevant 30 years ago.
Only in the Summer silly season could they garner attention, for reasons having absolutely nothing to do with the band or their music.
At least Coldplay creates value.
Their concert tours are financially profitable. The media’s desperate attempts for real news have them inflating people who create zero financial value.
The news that CBS is firing Stephen Colbert and permanently eliminating "The Late Show" has been met with shock and anger from his liberal sycophants.
Somehow, Colbert’s firing became a conspiracy that was all President Trump’s fault.
The truth was that Colbert destroyed shareholder wealth.
He was paid $15-20 million annually on a program that was losing $40-50 million annually. He also had a bloated staff that would make the State Department blush.
The purpose of a business is to maximize shareholder wealth.
Colbert did the opposite, so his bosses pulled the plug.
Liberals are screaming that Colbert was fired for his politics, but they have it backwards.
His politics alienated half the country, driving away advertisers and sponsors and causing the revenue collapse.
Colbert’s predecessor David Letterman had an irascible streak that included skewering his own bosses, but he was kept on for eons because he made the company money.
Stephen Colbert did not.
Learning nothing from the Colbert debacle, top WNBA players showed up to their All-Star game wearing t-shirts that read "Pay us what you owe us." They played the gender card and pointed out that they earn far less than their male NBA counterparts.
The hard reality is that the NBA makes money and the WNBA loses money.
In 30 years, the WNBA has never turned a profit. The NBA subsidizes them.
From a business standpoint, the WNBA players are overpaid.
It's true that Caitlan Clark is a young phenomenom injecting a serious jolt of energy into women’s basketball.
While ratings have improved, there is a difference between being the most improved player and the most valuable player.
WNBA ratings had nowhere to go but up. Now the players are about to make the dumbest move in sports since the 1994 MLB players went on strike and canceled the World Series.
If the WNBA players want wealth, they should create it rather than merely demand it.
Beyond a concert kiss-cam and entitled celebrities, nothing culminates a summer silly season like political nonsense masquerading as news.
President Trump has a sore leg from working too hard and not relaxing enough.
The same media that covered up Woodrow Wilson’s stroke, FDR’s polio and Joe Biden’s cognitive decline are suddenly outraged that Trump’s leg hurts.
If this causes him to reduce his golf schedule, that will somehow be outrageous as well.
These are the best news stories the media can run with.
They are dying from a lack of oxygen. This happens every summer.
They could talk about ICE raids, but law enforcement people locking up criminals elicits shrugs from many Americans. That's what law enforcement is supposed to do.
As the media collapses, the rest of us will enjoy calm.
An old Wall Street adage is "Sell in May and go away (and come back after Labor Day)."
While that may have been unwise investment advice this year, it remains a reasonable train of thought regarding news and politics.
Times are getting better.
Trump’s policies are working.
People are becoming happier.
Only liberals and their media shills could possibly be miserable in such good times.
This creates yet another reason to tune them out.
Eric Golub is a comedian, author and retired stockbrokerage and oil professional living in Los Angeles. His interests include football, politics, Judaism, the stock market, and Angela Lansbury's "Murder, She Wrote." He has written for the Jewish Journal, The Daily Caller, and Breitbart's Big Hollywood. Read More of Eric Golub's Reports — Here.
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