Dossier strikes back
The Steele Dossier — the sensational opposition-research document that alleged, among other things, that Donald Trump once performed urinary vandalism on a Moscow hotel-room bed — has just celebrated...
View ArticleSell the New York Times. Now.
The cult worship of the New York Times commenced not long after that day in 1896 when Adolph S. Ochs of Chattanooga, Tenn., spent a mess of borrowed money to purchase controlling ownership in the...
View ArticleDonald Trump’s fake news mistake
After more than two weeks of buildup, my fellow press critic Donald Trump finally tweeted a link to his Fake News Awards. The awards, which he deemed important, were selected to single out “the most...
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McGahn talks Trump off the ledge
Old news became new this week as the New York Times reported afresh and with a wealth of new details that President Donald Trump ordered the firing of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III in June...
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What does Jeff Bezos want?
It has been almost five years since Amazon founder and CEO Jeffrey P. Bezos closed his purchase of the Washington Post for $250 million, and still we don’t know for certain why he bought it. President...
View ArticleThis is how a newspaper dies
For a preview of the newspaper industry’s coming death, turn your gaze to Colorado, where the withering and emaciated Denver Post finds itself rolling in profits. The Post’s controlling owner, “vulture...
View ArticleTrump loses his superpower
Donald Trump is good at many things, but his greatest gift may be his ability to distract the newshounds by shouting “Squirrel!” and sending them sniffing for a new story. But this week, the dogs...
View ArticleTrump’s losing a tabloid war to his own lawyer
Not since Donald Trump salted the New York tabloids in the 1980s and ’90s with his signature formula of leaks, lies and lunacy has our daily news diet tasted so vividly of scandal. The New York Daily...
View ArticleAmerica’s newspapers just played right into Trump’s hands
Nothing flatters an independent journalist less than the sight of him forming a line to drink from the same fountain as his colleagues. Such a spectacle will unfold on Thursday, August 16, as 200 or...
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Trump learns loyalty has its limits
Two of the president’s men jumped into the storm celler this week and locked it behind them to escape the legal storm tornadoing down on President Donald Trump. On Friday we learned that Allen...
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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Trump’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...
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Donald 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 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...
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How 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 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...
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Mueller 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 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...
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Trump’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 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...
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