Ann Teleans is a brilliant caricaturist with a style all her own. Last week she took us on a downward escalator ride through the highlights — or lowlights — of the Trump years. It only takes a minute or so, but given the detail (Can you spot the bone saw? Do you recognize the senator obsequiously fanning…
Read More Fun Trip down the EscalatorBy Aaron Feis November 5, 2020 When Inauguration Day rolls around on Jan. 20, if Trump has exhausted his legal challenges and physically refuses to leave the White House premises, Biden said in June that he was “absolutely convinced” the military would remove Trump “with great dispatch.” But Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told NPR last month that…
Read More What happens if Trump refuses to concede the 2020 election?I’ve been thinking about how much the past 3.5 years reminded me of the assent of the dangerous demagogue Senator Joseph McCarthy. This is why it is really important to know your history. I’ll be writing more about this when the site is fixed. PBS’ “American Experience” documentary about Joe McCarthy is deeply disturbing —…
Read More Trumpism Is the New McCarthyismAccording to the New York times, it’s not just the public polls. Recent private polls conducted by political campaigns are filled with bad news for President Trump. He is doing eight to 10 percentage points worse in many congressional districts than he did in 2016, Dave Wasserman of The Cook Political Report writes. His struggles have…
Read More The Latino gender gapBy Kevin Liptak and Maeve Reston, CNN Updated 7:40 PM ET, Mon October 5, 2020 (CNN) President Donald Trump staged a reckless departure from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Monday, telling his followers the virus that dangerously deprived him of oxygen and hospitalized him for 72 hours was nothing to fear before posing for a mask-less photo-op on…
Read More Trump returns to White House and removes mask despite having CovidIt is what it is because you are who you are. Joe Biden Proud Boys, stand back and stand by. Donald Trump The main takeaway is that the debate didn’t alter the race. UBS’s Paul Donovan wrote in a note to clients today that, if anything, “the debate may have increased expectations for a contested election…
Read More Debate?Why should I go to that cemetery ( Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris)? It’s filled with losers. Donald J Trump (Speaking to President Trump) You have sacrificed nothing and no one. Khizr Kahn, Gold Star father Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers’ The president has repeatedly disparaged the intelligence of service members…
Read More The latest kerfuffleWoodward quoted Dan Coats, Trump’s former director of national intelligence, saying: “To him, a lie is not a lie. It’s just what he thinks. He doesn’t know the difference between the truth and a lie.” Yet in recordings Woodward has released of Trump talking about the coronavirus — excerpts from interviews conducted for Woodward’s new book,…
Read More Trump’s Deliberate DeceptionBy Margaret Sullivan Media columnist August 29, 2020 at 7:00 a.m. EDT Daniel Dale met President Trump’s convention speech with a tirade of truth Thursday night — a tour de force of fact-checking that left CNN anchor Anderson Cooper looking slightly stunned. The cable network’s resident fact-checker motored through at least 21 falsehoods and misstatements he had found…
Read More Fact-checking Trump’s lies is essential. It’s also increasingly fruitless.