A very smart writer friend of mine suggested that I use my skills in dramaturgy to analyze the Trump presidency as an unfolding dramatic story. He argued that a weekly column analyzing events – “The Week in Trump-a-turgy,” perhaps – could make sense, from a writerly perspective, ...read more

This weekend, White House Senior Policy Advisor Stephen Miller was forced out of a CNN studio after Jake Tapper cut him off in an interview for "[wasting] enough of my viewers' time." Miller spent the interview praising Donald Trump and bashing the media, which anyone who's read ...read more

In the first Bantercast episode of 2018, Ben and Michael discuss Michael Wolff's new book 'Fire and Fury', what is happening to the Alt Right movement, Trump's intelligence, and how we can all survive 2018 without going completely insane. We are excited about the upcoming year ...read more

For your Sunday viewing pleasure, take a minute and watch CNN"s Jake Tapper incinerate hapless Trump advisor Stephen Miller after a non-stop stream of nonsense, then cut his mic mid-sentence:  The interview was supposed to be about the claims made by former White House chief ...read more

“Everybody was painfully aware of the increasing pace of his [Trump’s] repetitions.” “It used to be inside of 30 minutes he’d repeat, word-for-word and expression-for-expression, the same three stories – now it was within 10 minutes. Indeed, many of his tweets were the product ...read more

It's difficult to know where to begin. Donald Trump continues to rapidly descend into the depths of mental incapacity, proving in the first three days of 2018 that he's even more unfit for the office than we previously observed. During his holiday break at Mar-a-lago, Trump ...read more