The government shutdown over president Trump's border wall is a crisis manufactured by one person: Donald Trump. Outside of his rabid base, literally no one wants the giant concrete wall he has been promising, including most of the GOP. Unfortunately for the rest of the nation, ...read more
Last Friday, president Trump claimed that some former Presidents of the United States told him they agreed with building a wall along the US border with Mexico. “This should have been done by all of the presidents that preceded me," said Trump. "And they all know it. Some of ...read more
When you want to move the goal post in politics, the first thing you do is start to play with language. When Tony Blair and George Bush could not sell their war with Iraq on the basis of the non-existent threat Saddam Hussein posed, they started to change their language. Saddam ...read more
Donald Trump has to know. He has to know that he's in deep trouble. I mean, he can't really believe the court memos that dropped on Friday actually cleared him, can he? Between the time at which the explosive Michael Cohen sentencing memo went public and the time at which the ...read more
In case you've been avoiding Fox News Channel and the Red Hats, here's what they're saying about this week's historic events. They're saying it's all a big nothingburger, just like always. Specifically, we learned this week that, yes, Donald Trump secretly worked on a deal to ...read more
I'm not breaking any news when I announce that I have total contempt for our current president. This is about more than just my mirror-opposite view of the issues. This is about Donald Trump as a man. Everything I've learned about character, ethics, morality, and especially ...read more
Beto O'Rourke has turned out to be one of the most inspiring political candidates in 2018. The fresh faced Texan is dynamic, charismatic, and giving incumbent Senator Ted Cruz all he can handle in Texas. His ability to compete the deep red state is a testament to his ability to ...read more
While failing to promise the press yesterday that there would be no audio with the president using the 'N' word, Sanders used the opportunity to target Obama and claim that he only created 195,000 jobs for African Americans during his tenure as presidency. "When President Obama ...read more
Andrew Sullivan's latest essay on Trump as a conman perfectly encapsulates just how crooked the leaked Michael Cohen tape shows the president to be, and how breathlessly cynical his lying is. Sullivan, perhaps better than anyone, has always managed to nail Trump's deeply damaged ...read more
In response to the leaked audio from Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen, the president’s legal team have provided a fake transcript of the audio recording in order to mitigate the damage. In Cohen's recording, Trump can clearly be heard telling his lawyer to "pay cash" to buy the ...read more
Sam Harris absolutely nails Donald Trump here, and articulates why his non-stop lies are so corrosive. It is about the most withering critique I've heard of Trump's incessant bragging and bullshitting and is worth watching in full. Key quote: Honestly, thus far, that [the ...read more
As though we needed more evidence proving that Donald Trump is the world's most powerful bullshit machine, he did it again. When asked about a letter delivered to him on Friday from North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un (a name he recently misspelled in a tweet because he's so ...read more
Thursday evening, Donald Trump delivered another of his screech regattas, this time in Mike Pence's home state of Indiana. We're all familiar with his rallies as well as the all-too-familiar urge to hurl our televisions out the nearest window by the time he blurts the first of a ...read more
Neil Cavuto is no hero. The Fox News Channel host has always been a team player, dutifully cheerleading first for George W. Bush and now for Donald Trump. We've seen Fox News people occasionally criticize Trump and, before him, Bush, but we've never quite seen a ...read more
Fox News must be a strange place to work these days. While the network's coverage of president Trump has been steadfastly supportive, there are a few rogue journalists and presenters who have deviated from Rupert Murdoch's script. Shep Smith, Judge Napolitano, Neil Cavuto, and ...read more
The news that president Trump's personal physician, Dr. Harold Bornstein, released a letter about his health that was dictated to him by Trump will be forgotten about roughly this time next week. We can safely add it to the extraordinary list of lies and unconstitutional ...read more