Donald Trump is having a really shitty week. The latest polls show his presidential campaign going down in flames; he didn't do himself any favors with his latest pained debate performance (and Clinton's superb skewering of him); and last night he somehow managed to turn himself ...read more

Where do I even begin? How can I or anyone else put into words the embarrassing, immoral and generally repugnant shit-show that the Donald Trump campaign represents for this country? Each time it feels like Trump can't get any more disgusting, he somehow manages to up the ante, ...read more

Donald Trump's entire campaign for president has, from the very beginning, been based on his ability to successfully bullshit. His legion of red-cap-wearing reactionary zombies love him precisely because he's not a politician and is a gleeful bomb-thrower who takes an inordinate ...read more

Donald Trump is a liar. So much so that over a period of 9 days, one reporter found that Trump told 64 lies. He repeated those lies a lot, making him one giant lie dispenser, but he told 64 individual whoppers. Yet, somehow, there was one day in which he told none at all. ...read more

“I think personally, if you start getting into fact-checking, I’m not sure. What is a big fact? What’s a little fact? And if you and I have different sources of information, does your source about the unemployment rate agree with my source? I don’t think it’s a good idea to get ...read more

When it comes to Donald Trump, punditry has taken on the conspicuous air of psychoanalysis. Writing about him, certainly trying to predict his behavior, feels less like an exercise in political prognostication as it does a hapless attempt to analyze his various personality ...read more