Donald Trump

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We are living in a NeverTrump fantasy universe

7 January 2021 6:50 pm

Last July, Cockburn had this to say: ‘Commentators daydream of the moment Trump is dragged out, like Saddam Hussein from…

Only Trump is to blame for the Capitol chaos

7 January 2021 6:33 pm

On a recent visit to Central Europe I heard a joke that was going around in those parts, as well…

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Remove Donald Trump now

7 January 2021 11:59 am

Enough is enough. There really is no other way to contextualize perhaps the darkest day for America since airplanes hit…

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This is not what a constitutional republic looks like

7 January 2021 10:21 am

When a violent mob broke into the Capitol building, they did more than breach the barriers of House and Senate…

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Trump is the gravedigger of the GOP

7 January 2021 9:37 am

Congratulations, President Trump! It took a while but you’ve finally achieved the American carnage that you purported to descry in…

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This scene shows how a democracy ends

7 January 2021 9:06 am

This is the house that Trump trashed. The President claimed that the election had been stolen. He pressed elected officials…

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What’s happened to Trumpism?

7 January 2021 7:36 am

Is this the death of mainstream Trumpism? Trump supporters left a peaceful rally near the White House on Wednesday afternoon…

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Why Trump must attend Biden’s inauguration

4 January 2021 8:00 pm

Recent political talk has focused almost entirely on January 5 (the Georgia Senate runoffs) and January 6 (congressional certification of…

Trump supporters never stood a chance

23 December 2020 3:01 am

New York There are times, living in this here dump, when I doubt if anyone’s heard of the word magnanimity.…

A conciliatory P.J. O’Rourke is not the satirist we know and love

19 December 2020 9:00 am

There was an acidic bravura and beauty in P.J. O’Rourke’s early journalism and a gleefulness in the ease with which…

nevertrumpers

The never-ending smugness of the NeverTrumpers

19 December 2020 3:32 am

In March 2016 as Donald Trump looked likely to be the Republican party’s nominee to run for president, more than 100 foreign…

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Farewell, Donald

16 December 2020 7:11 am

Madeleine Kearns To Trump or not to Trump? Whether ’tis nobler on the page to be a morbid cynic or a self-righteous…

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Closing time at the Barr

15 December 2020 10:47 am

William P. Barr is out. Joe Biden is in. And Donald Trump has a few more weeks left to bemoan…

vaccine

Trump was right about the vaccine release

15 December 2020 8:54 am

Donald Trump said during the second and final presidential debate on October 22 that he was optimistic a vaccine would…

US Supreme Court ends Trump's last hope

12 December 2020 9:27 pm

This is the end, my only friend, the end. The Supreme Court yesterday struck down Texas’s legal bid to challenge…

Biden’s burden: can he save the free world?

12 December 2020 9:00 am

Will he build on Trump’s foreign policy achievements – or destroy them?

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Republican resurrection

9 December 2020 1:23 am

When Donald Trump took his famous escalator ride, the Republican party was too attached to abstract principles at the expense of the material interests of…

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Brace yourselves for President Harris

8 December 2020 2:36 am

Although the electors for the presidential election of 2020 do not cast their votes until December 14, and their votes…

Iran vs the rest: the Middle East has reached a tipping point

5 December 2020 9:00 am

The next six weeks will be crucial for the Middle East

bill barr

Trump’s big Bill Barr bust

2 December 2020 9:15 am

For all the caterwauling on the left about one William P. Barr, he hasn’t really delivered for Donald Trump, apart…

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The coming cable news crisis

2 December 2020 3:16 am

TV pundits and reporters may personally be cheering that President Trump appears likely to be booted from office come January,…

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The Trump presidency’s funniest moments

1 December 2020 4:46 am

Is it too early to wax nostalgic about the hilarity of the Trump years? Could Trump somehow — somehow —…

libertarians

Libertarians suck

30 November 2020 1:58 am

Everyone knew some husky chap in college who smelled like onions and called himself a libertarian. He may or may not have worn…

My advice to Trump supporters? Smile and take it

28 November 2020 9:00 am

New York There are times, living in this here dump, when I doubt if anyone’s heard of the word magnanimity.…

Portrait of the week: Christmas is on, Trump is off and Piglet stars on a 50p piece

28 November 2020 9:00 am

Home The AstraZeneca vaccine developed by the University of Oxford was found to be 70 per cent effective — 90…