Welcome to Hell: More Trumper Tantrums Aimed at Colorado

I woke up on New Year’s Day in the “hell” of Colorado — at least according to President Donald Trump — only to find an email from a reporter with the LondonTimes who’d read my year-end piece on Trumper tantrums and wanted to talk about why the president seems to have a vendetta against this state.

And who was this Tina Peters, anyway?

At the very end of 2025, Trump had gone on another Trumper tantrum, posting this on Truth Social: “God Bless Tina Peters, who is now, for two years out of nine, sitting in a Colorado Maximum Security Prison, at the age of 73, and sick, for the ‘crime’ of trying to stop the massive voter fraud that goes on in her State (where people are leaving in record numbers!). Hard to wish her a Happy New Year, but to the Scumbag Governor, and the disgusting ‘Republican’ (RINO!) DA, who did this to her (nothing happens to the Dems and their phony Mail In Ballot System that makes it impossible for a Republican to win an otherwise very winnable State!), I wish them only the worst. May they rot in Hell. FREE TINA PETTERS!”

To make sure Colorado got the message, on December 30 Trump had used his first veto of his second term to stop a six-decade-old pipeline project that would send clean drinking water to the Eastern Plains, a dirty move that had even Congresswoman Lauren Boebert drying foul. “Nothing says America First like denying clean drinking water to 50,000 people in southeast Colorado, many of whom voted for him in all three elections,” said Boebert, who in 2024 had left the Western Slope district where Tina Peters/Petters commited her crimes and now represents the even redder district where Trump has shut the spigot.

Trump’s veto came right after Energy Secretary Chris Wright, the only Coloradan in Trump’s cabinet, announced that the coal-fueled power plant in Craig that was scheduled to go offline in the new year must stay operational — even though the plant has major problems that will cost consumers. “The DOE order is the latest in a string of attacks against Colorado, because we refuse to bend to the President,” said Senator Michael Bennet in response to the news. “I am disappointed but not surprised by this continued revenge tour.”

And that DOE move followed the vengeful federal rejection of disaster relief for rural counties that had suffered major floods and wildfires, as well as Trump’s order to dismantle the Boulder-based National Center for Atmospheric Research, which has done so much over the decades to predict major floods and wildfires. In fact, NCAR had just issued a warning about high winds slated to hit the Front Range when it got blown away by Trump, whose henchman blamed the facility’s demise on its own “climate alarmism.”

And all that happened just in the last few weeks, following Trump’s announcement on December 11 that he was giving a “full Pardon” to Peters, despite the fact that she’d been convicted of state, not federal, crimes — including allowing an associate of MyPillow founder Mike Lindell to access county election equipment, a system she was sworn to protect as the clerk of Mesa County, an area that had voted for Trump three times — and had been prosecuted by a Republican district attorney, Daniel Rubenstein, who’s now also been consigned to rot in the hell of Colorado.

Earlier this year, Trump had pulled Space Command from Colorado Springs, which has not endeared him to that red district. And threw a tantrum over his Republican Party-authorized portrait in the Colorado State Capitol. And dragged Denver Mayor Mike Johnston to Washington, D.C. before a congressional committee studying so-called sanctuary cities.

Other states have been hit by the federal cutbacks, of course. Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser has now sued the Trump administration 49 times, often signing on to lawsuits by other aggrieved states. Still, Trump has never been a big fan of Colorado; his accusations against this state’s voting systems date back at least to 2016, when he accused them of being “rigged” after he didn’t get the Republican presidential nomination. And there was that spat on the slopes of Aspen back in 1990…,

So don’t tell Trump that Toby Morton, the comic who snagged the Trumpkennedycenter.org domain that currently promises a performance by the Epstein Dancers, is a native of Conifer, Colorado, and a pal of South Park‘s creators.

There’d really be hell to pay for that.

Read the Times of London piece on Colorado and Tina Peters.