How to trick Trump into telling the truth
As Donald Trump approached the 1,000th day of his presidency last week, the Washington Post fact-checking team commemorated the milestone by noting that he had made 13,435 false or misleading...
View ArticleWhy Trump will survive even this
Nobody is going to hold Donald Trump accountable for his alleged Ukrainian shenanigans because — as we’ve seen in his career and the first 32 months of his presidency — he’s too good at deflecting...
View ArticleHow Trump changed after Charlottesville
Nobody understands the attention economy better than President Donald Trump. Whenever he slips from his coveted position as Topic A in the news, or whenever the news angle of the latest reports...
View ArticleKim Darroch’s 6 Ways to manipulate Donald Trump
Kim Darroch, until very recently the British ambassador to the United States, was forced to resign Wednesday for leveling with his bosses about U.S. President Donald Trump. In a series of confidential...
View ArticleWhy YouTube should stay weird
YouTube can only blame itself for finding itself in a muddy ditch, flipped over, wheels spinning. As Bloomberg’s Mark Bergen tells us in his tidy history of Google’s video-sharing site, YouTube...
View ArticleTrump’s fake fight against real news
U.S. President Donald Trump must spend hours and hours of his executive time thinking up new ways to tease and taunt the press. He has stirred hatred for reporters by calling them the “enemy of the...
View ArticleWhy New Zealand’s press just put on blinders for its biggest story
New Zealanders needn’t worry about their government censoring the press. On Wednesday, five of the country’s major news outlets proved only too happy to censor themselves. Representatives of Radio New...
View ArticleJulian Assange might have already won
Has WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange already won his case? British police arrested him on Thursday at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he has been living in external exile since 2012. The arrest...
View ArticleThe incredible shrinking Fox News
The world-sprawling media empire Rupert Murdoch built on the soft foundation of two properties he inherited 66 years ago — the Adelaide News and a radio station in a New South Wales mining town — has...
View ArticleFewer press briefings equals a dumber White House
The White House press corps has fumed the air with incense and prayers, beseeching the gods of journalism to increase the number of Sarah Sanders’ appearances in the James S. Brady Briefing Room. Once...
View ArticleTrump’s one summit win was over the media
There’s extra trouble brewing between Donald Trump and the press and, as usual, it’s of the president’s making. As you’ve probably read, the White House barred reporters from Reuters, the Associated...
View ArticleTrump’s love-hate relationship with World War II
You don’t need to consult an actuarial table to understand that we’re slowly running out of World War II veterans for the U.S. President Donald Trump to salute in the box seats during his State of the...
View ArticleUnsolicited advice for Trump’s next White House chief of staff
Even under normal circumstances, being the White House chief of staff sucks. But the fact that you’ve taken President Donald Trump’s offer after he humiliated your predecessors — Reince Priebus and...
View ArticleMueller crashes Trump’s liars club
It will cost you about $100,000 to join Trump National Golf Club here in Washington. Plan on setting aside $200,000 to join his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach. But put your money away if you want inside...
View ArticleWhy Trump can’t stop talking to the press
Whenever I’m stressed, I overeat. When circumstances overwhelm President Donald Trump’s psyche, he self-medicates by giving sit-down interviews with the press. Setting aside the usual press gaggles, in...
View ArticleHow to mute Trump’s boombox
The press gave primo coverage to Donald Trump’s outrageous utterances during the 2016 Republican presidential primaries because, well, he was a front-runner, and when front-runners speak, it’s news....
View ArticleLet’s get Donald and Stormy back together again!
The sexual sparring between rom-com lovers Donald Trump and Stormy Daniels — previously bottled up in court — ripped open like an overflowing bodice this morning on Twitter as the president called his...
View ArticleDonald Trump is the resistance inside the Trump administration
I’ve figured it out: Donald Trump is the leader of the resistance inside his own administration. The 45th president exudes more defiance from one of his short, little fingers than all the liberal...
View ArticleTrump’s final days
WASHINGTON — What if, after having moved into the White House and gotten comfortable, Donald Trump refuses to check out when his term ends? Preposterous, you say. No president, not even Trump, would...
View ArticleHow soon will the NYT’s Trump resistance writer be outed?
The op-ed came from inside the house. Posted late Wednesday afternoon on the website of the New York Times, the anonymous piece that everyone’s talking about reiterated all the wicked things anonymous...
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