Is Donald Trump becoming the new Jimmy Carter?
One day President Trump wants to dial down hostilities with Iran. “We’re low-keying” the conflict, he said Sunday. A day…
Trump is a study of indecision on Iran
The US Senate narrowly defeated a measure yesterday intended to crimp, if not terminate, President Trump’s ability to conduct hostilities…
Abdul el-Sayed’s nasty streak
On the eve of his final debate with Michigan Democratic Senate rival Haley Stevens, Abdul el-Sayed was busted by Politico for declaring at a recent donor meeting: “Ideally…
The media will miss Trump when he’s gone
Hats off to President Trump! At the conclusion of his speech to the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Trump donned…
The Fetterman Show
Will he or won’t he? Senator John Fetterman is causing heart palpitations among Democrats with his recent threat to cross the political aisle…
Trump is doing a fine job of winding up the Democrats
Pete Hegseth announced on Wednesday that the US military will test soldiers over thirty years old for low testosterone. But…
Trump looks like a spent force
Pete Hegseth has announced that the US military will test soldiers over 30-years old for low testosterone. But judging by…
Will Lindsey Graham be remembered as a great senator?
Already the denunciations of Senator Lindsey Graham, who died at 71, are piling up. Former Republican operative Steve Schmidt’s verdict was not untypical. He declared…
Trump’s America is losing its mojo
The heat is on. The R&B group Kool and the Gang may be co-headlining the historic “A Capitol Fourth 250th…
Trump has been humbled over Iran
Donald Trump is engaged in one of the biggest battles of his career. After spending millions to turn the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool “flag…
Trump is in a sea of trouble over Iran
Donald Trump is engaged in one of the biggest battles of his career. After spending millions turning the Lincoln Memorial…
Is Trump’s birthday extravaganza his last hurrah?
In January 1934, Franklin D. Roosevelt held a toga-themed birthday party at the White House to mock the accusation that…
Are hostilities in Iran really about to cease?
Donald Trump is trying to wriggle out of his self imposed Strait-jacket. After a renewed round of bombing Iran and…
MAGA is doubling down
Over the past several months, various news outlets have been prognosticating the flight of young conservative women from the Republican Party.…
Why Trump is wobbling on restarting the Iran war
Donald Trump was for the Iran war before he was against it. His latest post on social media about the conflict indicated that…
The battle for the neoconservative soul
Robert Kagan has long had a knack for capturing public attention with bold pronouncements about American foreign policy. In 1996, together…
Trump is in the mood to do a deal with China
As President Trump travels to China today, his original plans for the visit have been upended. He wanted to arrive as…
Trump is clinging to a mirage in the Middle East
Well, well, well. For all the head-scratching that it initially occasioned, President Trump’s hasty abandonment of ‘Project Freedom’ – his…
Trump is too busy with himself to notice the chaos around him
King Charles and Queen Camilla were at their most emollient in Washington, where they exchanged a flurry of presents with…
For Trump, it’s lonely at the top
King Charles III and Queen Camilla were at their most emollient in Washington, where they exchanged a flurry of presents…
Virginia referendum loss adds to Trump’s woes
In 2020 Donald Trump became the first Republican presidential candidate to lose Virginia twice since William Howard Taft. Then in 2024 Trump lost once…
Trump’s foe-bashing won’t save his capsizing presidency
Has the dustup between Washington and Tehran come to an end? ‘They’ve agreed to give us back the nuclear dust…
What will the Iran ceasefire cost Trump?
Might Donald Trump travel to Tehran this spring to open an American embassy and declare that he’s fallen in love with the new…
Why Trump is tempting 25th Amendment talk
During his remarks in Budapest, Vice President J.D. Vance, who is trying prop up Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán as he runs for reelection, appeared to think the unthinkable.…
Will Trump really obliterate Iran on Tuesday?
Was Donald Trump’s profane and threatening tweet, which included an F-bomb and an allusion to Iran’s leaders as “crazy bastards,”…
