Kagro in the Morning - June 5, 2025

David Waldman and Greg Dworkin pull out all the stops on today’s KITM!

David predicted that North Korea would be the US Hassle Target of the Day, but who would guess that it would turn out to be Burma! That and every other country darker than Trump’s spray tan.

That’s the same criteria Stephen Miller has outlined for ICE deportations. The problem is, MAGA knows some of “those good ones”. They’d never eat dinner with those people, of course, but they sure enjoyed being served dinner by them. Time for Trump’s three-word EO: “No, not them.” Meanwhile, arrest the moms, arrest their kids, arrest them all, let Trump sort them out.

The Trump administration is spending $2 million to figure out whether those people cause plane crashes.

If the report comes to conclusions that Trump doesn’t like, they’ll bury it, like the recent Agriculture Department trade analysis. Or say it’s a Dem cult, like the American Bar Association, the Congressional Budget Office, or Jews.

Howard Lutnick wants retribution over reciprocity even when neither is deserved.

Trump cut nearly 2,500 NIH research grants as whatever the cure was wasn’t going to be named after him anyhow.

Elon Musk is gone but not forgotten. Big Balls carries on. ICE is hot for the DC career conscious, but that leaves the counter-terrorism field wide open for enterprising grocery store clerks like Thomas Fugate, whose eyebrow game in on point.

Andrew Cuomo is somehow, again, the guy to beat for NYC Mayor, while in Canada they like their winners a lot more than their losers.