Here is Max Greenwood at The Hill: Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said Monday that she would not mount a bid for the White House in 2024 should former President Trump decide to run again. “I would not run if […]
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Interpreting Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago office
Stephen Miller, Donald Trump’s nativist speechwriter and adviser, recently shared a picture of himself with Donald Trump after a meeting in Mar-a-Lago: Over at Politico, Daniel Lippman interprets the picture in a masterful piece titled “What a photo of Trump’s […]
Former House speaker blames the January 6 insurrection on Trump
In his forthcoming memoir, former Speaker of the House John Boehner has some choice words for Donald Trump. Maggie Haberman reports at The New York Times: John Boehner, the Republican former House speaker, issues a stinging denunciation in his new […]
The New Republic gives Eric Metaxas a platform
The magazine is hosting a “conversation” between court evangelical Eric Metaxas and conservative writer Matt Labash titled, “An Epic Debate on Trump and True Evangelicalism.” The whole thing is pretty disgusting. Here is a taste of Metaxas’s side of the […]
The anti-vaxxer movement does not take its marching orders from Donald Trump
Over at The Week, Ryan Cooper thinks that Trump’s followers will get the COVID-19 vaccine if the former president will just encourage them to do so. Here is a taste of his piece: Dear Mr. Trump, I know it’s been […]
Trying to get a vaccine appointment? Just google “places where Trump won in a landslide”
It worked for Jennifer Salzano of Columbus, Ohio. Here is Larrison Campbell’s piece from The Daily Beast: As soon as Ohio opened up its coronavirus vaccine eligibility to residents over 70, Jennifer Salzano threw herself into finding an appointment for her mom, […]
Trump tells the story of his presidency
The former president has a new website. Under the “About” tab we get an early glimpse of how Trump wants people to remember him. Here is the first paragraph: Donald J. Trump launched the most extraordinary political movement in history, […]
Don’t let Donald Trump speak at your wedding reception
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Pro-Trumpers are upset that Biden used notecards at his recent press conference
Fox News is calling them “cheat sheets.” Sean Hannity is outraged! Actually, I am glad to have a president who is prepared. Biden can use all the note cards he needs. Trump, of course, did not “need” notecards: 🙂
Franklin Graham thinks evangelicals should get the vaccine. He’s getting blowback.
In a previous post, I suggested that Donald Trump can do very little to convince his evangelical followers to take the vaccine. White evangelicals are the least likely group to take it. As part of that post, I wondered whether […]
Trump may have hit a new low last night
Here is the AP: Former President Donald Trump on Thursday defended some of his supporters who rioted at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, saying they posed “zero threat” to the lawmakers who had assembled there to certify the Electoral […]
Historians assess the Trump presidency
Historian Julian Zelizer gathered an esteemed group of American historians at Princeton to assess the Trump presidency. Here is a taste of Jennifer Schuessler’s piece at The New York Times: From the day he took office, Donald J. Trump had […]
Trump’s new social media network is coming soon
It’s gonna be huuuuuge! Here is Jazmin Goodwin at CNN Business: Former President Donald Trump is coming back to social media — but this time with his own network, a Trump spokesperson told Fox News on Sunday. Jason Miller, a […]
Why did a San Antonio wax museum have to remove a Trump figure?
Because too many people were punching it. Here is Sanford Nowlin at the San Antonio Current: Louis Tussaud’s Waxworks in Alamo Plaza has packed away a figure of the former reality show star-turned-former president after visitors took out four years’ […]
Trump will meet with authors
A lot of folks are writing books about Donald Trump and the former president is more than willing to sit down with them for interviews. Over the next week or two, Trump will meet with Maggie Haberman of The New […]
There have been 3,795 hate incidents targeting Asian Americans since March 19, 2020
And now six Asian woman are dead in Atlanta. What is going on? Here is Kurt Bardella at the Los Angeles Times: Last September, 164 Republicans in the House of Representatives voted against a resolution authored by Rep. Grace Meng (D-N.Y.) to […]
Franklin Graham tells his followers to get the COVID-19 vaccine
According to a Pew Research study, white evangelicals are the least likely to get the COVID-19 vaccine. There are a lot of reasons for this. As I told Yonat Shimron of Religion News Service earlier this month, there is a […]
More on what Trumpism is doing to families
We’ve called your attention to several stories about how the Donald Trump presidency and the pro-Trump media have divided families. Some of you may remember this one about Adam Kinzinger. Jose Del Real’s piece at The New York Times is […]
5 types of post-Trump Republicans
Over at The New York Times, Maggie Haberman references a survey that identifies five “factions” or “tribes” of Republicans: Trump Boosters: GOP voters who approved of Trump’s presidency, but are more supportive of the party than any one candidate. They […]