Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is in boiling-hot water for texting U.S. war plans to seemingly everyone, the Dow is racing toward its worst April since the Great Depression, the U.S. dollar just hit a three-year low as the world questions the stability of America’s economy AND President Donald Trump, after fewer than 100 days in office, is already on his fifth IRS commissioner.

Oh, and grocery prices remain high and will likely rise more thanks to Trump’s tariffs.

I realize all of that might seem, to the untrained eye, almost comically bad. But trust me, it’s worse. A more accurate term would be “cosmically bad.”

Let’s start with Hegseth, who, as I write this column, has probably leaked sensitive U.S. troop locations via Signal chat to his mom, Ted Nugent and an old Russian drinking........

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