Could this be the most “Trump” event to appear on the White House daily schedule yet?
THE PRESIDENT participates in a LIV Golf Dinner
Sterling, Virginia
Yes, tonight President Trump will head out to the Trump National Golf Club Washington, D.C., for a dinner with competitors in LIV Golf Virginia.
The LIV golfers are competing for a $20 million prize this weekend – though due to financing issues, this may end up being the last year of LIV, as Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund has pulled its backing. A “riyal” disappointment.
The President will link up again with his old pal Bryson DeChambeau, with whom he famously golfed during the 2024 presidential campaign. DeChambeau, who has visited the White House to support Trump’s reinstatement of the Presidential Fitness Test, is the poster-boy for the LIV tournament. His time with LIV coincides with DeChambeau’s woeful underperformance in recent PGA events, such as missing the cut at this year’s Masters and playing a major role in Team USA’s Ryder Cup humiliation.
DeChambeau would likely face heavy PGA fines if he attempts to rejoin the tour after LIV’s demise – and so has expressed the intention to grow his YouTube channel if the league ends. A suitably dignified exit.
On our radar
THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE The Department of Defense began publishing unreleased files relating to unidentified anomalous phenomena Friday.
BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD The Supreme Court of Virginia has struck down a redistricting map that could have given the Democrats four additional US House seats.
MOMMY ISSUES First Lady Melania Trump has written a Washington Post op-ed ahead of Mother’s Day, declaring mothers “America’s strength.”
The morality of Mark Moran
As far as midterm candidates go, Mark Moran’s journey is among the more unusual. Moran entered the race last November as a Democrat attempting to primary Senator Mark Warner of Virginia. Last month, he announced that he was “putting Virginia & America First” and standing as an independent – in a strange video where he addresses the camera with the posture and intensity of, to quote one reply, a guy who “learned how to move by watching rappers rap in video.”
Fast forward to this week, and Moran is addressing the America First United Conference, and saying he’d like to thank “Nick Fuentes, who created this movement.”
Moran is an MBA grad from northern Virginia, who worked in mergers and acquisitions before appearing on the reality show FBoy Island and working for the Twitter meme page Litquidity. (Fun fact: he attended the same high school as infamous former JPMorgan employee Chirayu Rana.) In 2024 Business Insider reported that he’d left his first two jobs due to “moral issues he had with some of the deals he worked on.” He is yet to develop similar qualms about transforming into Virginia’s answer to James Fishback.
To his critics, Moran says, “We only have a few years to take the Commonwealth back and that’s all I care about.” Take it back from whom? Cockburn is curious.
Seed round
Elon Musk offered one of his female employees, Shivon Zilis, some of his sperm for free. Despite the nature of their relationship being “platonic” at the time, she wanted a child and he had agreed to keep it confidential, so she accepted this generous offer.
Zilis’s twins were born in 2021. Business Insider told her it planned to publish a story about the fact that Elon was the father of her children after details emerged during a legal battle between Musk and OpenAI’s Sam Altman. Zilis, who still worked at OpenAI, was considered a potential information funnel to Musk, an idea which she denied. Zilis became involved with Musk in a romantic sense at some point after the information regarding their shared children became public.
Elon has 14 confirmed children with several different women including Grimes, the experimental pop music artist, and Ashley St. Clair, the right-wing influencer turned activist. And Zilis might not be the only subordinate to receive Musk’s “pitch.” Rumors about a hospital full of hundreds of employees who are pregnant with Elon’s unborn children have spread in recent years. Cockburn has trouble believing they could be true. But someday soon there may be hundreds of little Xs and Ys running around, spawning rocket ships and zipping through America in electric cars. Theoretically, each child would be one-third Elon, one-third many different mothers and one-third the Elon-developed chip in their brain – a dystopian nightmare if there ever was one.
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