“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 —…
Details“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…
Details“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.…
DetailsI 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…
DetailsCrossing 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…
DetailsThe 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…
DetailsJohn 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…
DetailsIt 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…
DetailsThe old farmer says, “Don’t eat your seed corn. You need it for planting.” What would Steve Mnuchin say about that? Donald Trump’s treasury secretary clearly would say, “It depends. Can it be sold on the futures market?” We know what Trump’s man heading the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, would say: “Seed corn makes…
DetailsI overheard the voter stand by her man, Donald Trump, the day after the “Access Hollywood” tapes showed him in vibrantly misogynistic Technicolor. “I’d rather have someone coarse than someone corrupt,” she sniffed — the latter reference being to Hillary Clinton. What does that Trump voter smell now? Roses, no doubt. This, though we’re learning…
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