This week in The Cringe Report, we break down Kid Rock’s playdate at the Pentagon, debate what “86” means, and so much more (unfortunately).

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Lindsey Graham: "If you don't think $400m of taxpayer is a good investment to create a secure facility at the White House ... the number one job of national security would be to protect the commander in chief, and to have infrastructure under the ballroom that is very national… pic.twitter.com/vpwKPVEABP

Mike Johnson: "I hope voters remember this in the fall. You've gotta keep the grownups in charge, and that's the Republicans." pic.twitter.com/VuIgADZbi0

O'DONNELL: In his manifesto, he wrote that 'I'm no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.' What's your reaction?TRUMP: I was waiting for you to read that because I knew you would because you're horrible people. I'm not a… pic.twitter.com/zaZhcRwbWJ

HASNIE: There does seem to be a normalization of rhetoric about assassinating this particular president. How can this administration put an end to this?LEAVITT: We need to recommit ourselves as a country to toning down the rhetoric. Democrats compare him to Hitler. These are… pic.twitter.com/2ElRszjk88

FBI Director Kash Patel explains how the criminal investigation into James Comey’s seashell post wasn’t a simple one: This has been a case that's been investigated over the past 9, 10, 11 months. These cases take time. Our investigators work methodically pic.twitter.com/QEJ4GnwnEK

COLLINS: Do you really think that Comey was threatening your life with that post?TRUMP: Well if anybody knows anything about crime, they know '86' is a mob term for 'kill 'em.' You ever see the movies? pic.twitter.com/jeZixGF9Ks

I really think that the world would be a better place if everyone had to spend at least a year working in the service industry. 

The screenshot above is a little blurry, but that's a Truth Social post Trump shared during the 2024 campaign with an image of then-president Joe Biden hogtied on the back of a pickup truck. 

At the time, Trump's campaign spokesperson explained the post, saying, "That picture was on the back of a pickup truck that was traveling down the highway. Democrats and crazed lunatics have not only called for despicable violence against President Trump and his family, they are actually weaponizing the justice system against him."

Trump: To get to space, you have to be very smart. You have to do a lot of things physically good. So I would've had no trouble making it. I'm physically very, very good pic.twitter.com/AaSCftQwVp

Awkward scenes aboard Artemis II as Trump stops ranting and none of the astronauts have anything left to say to him, leading to extended dead air pic.twitter.com/4PjfPhfgY8

Whatever helps you sleep at night, Laura!

Alina Habba went on The View yesterday & it did not go well for herHABBA: The DOJ brings real cases. We are not Jack Smith. We are not Letitia James. We bring real casesAUDIENCE: *laughs & groans*HOSTIN: You actually were sanctioned nearly $1 mil for filing a frivolous… pic.twitter.com/oQqxXa0FdX

HOSTIN: What do you think '86' means?ALINA HABBA: To kill the president*audience laughs*HOSTIN: The dictionary disagrees with you on that pic.twitter.com/MOtQhDejFR

SCALISE: We've delivered. People will remember that two years ago, we were paying almost $6 a gallon for gas. Right now it's in the $3sKERNEN: When were we paying $6?SCALISE: Two and a half years agoKERNEN: That wasn't the average priceSCALISE: We are lowering inflation… pic.twitter.com/xPD172NdYq

Hegseth is so out of control that even the House Republican committee chair is telling him to calm down pic.twitter.com/AZVQOq8Ed5

HEGSETH: Their nuclear facilities have been obliteratedSMITH: Whoa whoa whoa whoa. We had to start this war, you just said, because the nuclear weapon was an imminent threat. Now you're saying it was completely obliterated?HEGSETH: They had not given up their *ambitions*… pic.twitter.com/T8c1vTfC0T

GILLIBRAND: 3 out of 5 Americans are against this warHEGSETH: I believe we have the support of the American people GILLIBRAND: So you don't care that the American people don't support this war? pic.twitter.com/vjqMT2y1CD