Please shut down the government, Mr. President. Don’t make it an idle threat this time. You say that you must have that wall. Without it you won’t permit any government. So go ahead. Let’s go with that. We are inside 100 days from an election that is going to retire many in your legions of…
Nobody wants a convention of Trumpsters. A convention of Republicans, maybe, but not — well, let Charlotte, N.C., City Council member Larken Eggleston explain it: “If it were Mitt Romney or damn near anybody besides Donald Trump,” he told the Los Angeles Times, inviting the national GOP convention would be a slam dunk. However, not…
“During the past year the wildest accusations have been given banner headlines and ready credence as well.” – Richard Nixon, 1972. “The Fake News is working overtime.” – Donald Trump, 2018. Mr. President, we now have indictments that would link the Russian government — not the fat person you imagined on a bed somewhere —…
“Nice guy; good-looking guy (Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau) comes in (and says), ‘Donald, we have no trade deficit.’ I said, ‘Wrong, Justin, you do.’ I didn’t even know . . . I had no idea. I just said, ‘You’re wrong.’ “ So said our president to a private fund-raiser. Someone with a tape recorder…
“A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame is imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles.” – Emma Lazarus. “A nice piece of brass.” – Donald Trump. Understand: That first depiction of the Statue of Liberty is for real; the other is only an attempt to track the gerbils churning in one man’s mind.…
I can’t believe what I’m saying here, but Stephen Colbert miscalculated. Of the abominable act of sending children to chain-link big-box jails at the border, he said: “Either you could be horrified or you could be working for Donald Trump.” It was unclear if in his calculation Colbert considers Fox News personnel to be salaried…
Crossing the street on foot the other day, a terrible thought crossed my mind. It was a vision, actually: of my offspring broiling in a remote tent city under the blazing Southwest sun at the behest of Attorney General Jeff Sessions. You see, I was committing a crime at the time — jaywalking. Sure, it’s…
The explosion didn’t destroy the small Texas town of West. It only took out 120 of its homes, its nursing home and three of its schools. Add to that tally the deaths of 15, including 12 first-responders who showed up to a fire alarm, not knowing they were about to be vaporized. More than 150…
John Dean famously warned Richard Nixon of a “cancer on the presidency.” The diagnosis today would be that the presidency has a tapeworm. That would seem to be assessment of Adam Serwer, senior editor of The Atlantic. He writes to empathize with those flustered as they attempt to connect the dots between the varied outrages…
It goes and goes and goes — the stretching of credulity by the team of scoundrels Donald Trump has assembled to oversee our air, our forests, our waters. We have Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt with his $3.5 million round-the-clock security detail and the $43,000 soundproof phone booth he had built in his own…