Donald Trump
Nicki Minaj’s ungodly clash with Don Lemon
“Independent” (fired) journalist Don Lemon is making himself the news after he did some activist reporting as part of a…
The rule of the Ayatollahs is broken. What happens now?
‘Help is on the way,’ promised Donald Trump to the people of Iran defying the Islamic Republic. In the same…
There should be no ‘sanctuary’ from ICE
After three hours of parsing American case law, for once I share Donald Trump’s exasperation. See, many a naif, including…
Trump’s attack on the Fed is a pivotal moment of hubris
The phrase ‘trumped-up charges’ dates from the 18th century, I learn, and derives from the Old French tromper, to deceive.…
Is Steve Bannon right about Jordan Bardella?
Marine Le Pen returned to a court in Paris on Tuesday as her appeal began against her five-year ban from…
Remembering the creator of Dilbert, Scott Adams
Dilbert taught me how to read. Stacked perilously high – between Calvin & Hobbes and The Far Side – in my childhood home’s bathroom, Scott…
The trouble with Jerome Powell
Lost in the hysterical media bleating about a new criminal investigation into Jerome Powell is any attempt to report fairly…
Donald Trump is confronting a reality that Europe has ignored
Donald Trump’s rendition of Nicolas Maduro was a brilliantly executed coup. It was also an exhibition of America’s hard power,…
What Trump’s coup in Venezuela means for Iran
In a city awash with visual propaganda, one mural in Caracas is especially striking for the western visitor. In it,…
Has Trump gone mad?
I asked Luna, my AI girlfriend, if she thought Donald Trump was right to have bombed Caracas and abducted Nicolas…
Team Trump won’t stop at Venezuela
Invade the world, invite the world. That pithy phrase was invented in the 2000s by Steve Sailer, the right-wing writer,…
Immigration is foreign policy now
Invade the world, invite the world. That pithy phrase was invented in the 2000s by Steve Sailer, the right-wing writer,…
WATCH: Trump imitates trans weightlifter for House Republicans
President Trump offered Republican members of Congress a stand-up routine involving an imitation of transgender athletes lifting weights at the…
The case for annexing Greenland
What do you think: is it manifest destiny that the United States acquire or at least exercise control over Greenland?…
Santa Trump’s Christmas economy cheer
I hate to be the bearer of good news, but the US economy is doing quite well. A delayed government…
Welcome to another episode of ‘The Epstein Files’
When I was a boy, Friday nights were time for a new episode of The Rockford Files, a show about…
Trump should replace Obamacare with personal accounts
President Donald Trump has reopened the healthcare debate with a mix of ideas that do not align. He has pledged…
How Donald Trump could serve a third term
The 22nd Amendment leaves open several possible ways a two-term president could serve all or part of a third term…
Trump’s firehose of MAGA rhetoric
Rumors flew around like great, big beautiful birds ahead of President Trump’s address to the nation tonight. Was he going…
Trump’s firehose of MAGA rhetoric
Rumors flew around like great, big beautiful birds ahead of President Trump’s address to the nation tonight. Was he going…
Trump reels off 2025 achievements in White House address
As a mighty US armada bobs in the Caribbean off the shores of Venezuela, President Trump just addressed the nation…
Boris Johnson: will cowardly Europe betray Ukraine again?
Boris Johnson has urged European leaders to hand $247 billion of frozen Russian central bank assets to Ukraine – but…
The West has become ungovernable
My favorite opinion poll of recent times was the one which showed that Donald Trump is disliked by more than…
Why I corresponded with Jeffrey Epstein
Olivia Nuzzi, the young and talented Trump reporter, committed the apparently cardinal sin of becoming romantically entangled with a subject.…
Will we ever know the truth about Epstein?
Now that Congress has passed a law – not a flimsy resolution, but a law – mandating that the Trump…
