NEW -- Exactly 10 days after taking the oath early this year, Donald Trump nearly drowned dozens, potentially hundreds, of his own citizens in California’s Central Valley. Why? Because he is one of the most ignorant people you will ever meet. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW -- Sure, Russia is slaughtering Ukrainians in their homes nightly, but Ukraine is damaging Russia's oil refineries! See? Both sides! www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW -- All the adult supervision left, leaving Trump to go right back to making excuses and parroting the talking points of his great war criminal pal, Vladimir. It's Ukraine's fault they got invaded. It was disrespectful to ask to be in NATO. On and on. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW — Trump rolled out the red carpet for a vicious war criminal. And what did he get? Nothing. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW — At this Alaska summit, the Russians have a trained KGB intelligence officer and ruthless war criminal. We have a guy who bankrupted casinos and thinks rain falling in Canada somehow flows to California. What could go wrong? www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...
NEW -- Donald Trump’s child sex-trafficking pal Ghislaine Maxwell appears to be eligible for work release assignments outside the "Club Fed" she was transferred to after meeting with Trump’s former defense lawyer, now a top DOJ official. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW -- Hugely successful press conference for Donald Trump this morning. Did not take a single question about his presence in the Epstein Files. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
ALSO NEW -- Trump is already hinting that he will demand that Ukraine cede territory to get a peace agreement with Russia, thereby rewarding Putin for his land grab and war crimes against civilians. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW -- I asked Trump why it took SEVEN years from the time Epstein started "stealing" the help from Mar-a-Lago to when he was finally kicked off the membership roll there. This was his answer: "I don't understand your question." www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW -- Well, at least this "fifteen hundred percent" nonsense maybe helps explain a couple of things. Like how he overpaid so much for the Plaza Hotel. Or how he bankrupted casinos. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW -- Trump's economy in his first six months has produced fewer than half the number of jobs created in Biden's last six months. Trump's solution? Fire the head of the office that compiles the statistics. That ought to fix it. With @delaneyrules.bsky.social www.huffpost.com/entry/july-j...
NEW -- Trump and his White House are taking his corruption to a brazen new level. This morning, White House employees helped him promote his participation in a marketing event at one of his Scotland golf resorts. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW -- Trump supporters need to download and update their Why Trump Finally After 15 Years Of Being Best Buds Split With Epstein explanation: Turns out because Epstein was poaching Trump's employees from Mar-a-Lago. Yes, our president actually said this. www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...
NEW -- Donald Trump is on his way to Scotland to promote a new course at one of his golf resorts. American taxpayers are footing the $9.7 million -- at least -- travel and security bill so that he can make more money at his family business. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW -- Donald Trump REALLY doesn't want to talk about his former pals, notorious child sex traffickers Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. When he was asked about them today, he went on a 7 minute, 41 second tirade spewing 1,281 words -- about Obama. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump has been lying about Russia and 2016 since early 2017. Only now, he's got his Putin-sympathetic director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard helping him. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NOT REALLY NEW BUT WHATEVER — Remember back in 2017 Trump started lying about how Russia had not helped him win and it was all a hoax? Well, he’s still doing it. This time with the help of Putin-sympathetic Tulsi Gabbard. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW -- If you like a big and growing national debt, you should absolutely *love* Trump's new law, which will balloon it to 120 percent of the gross domestic product within a decade, higher than it was even during WWII. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW -- Trump says his benefactor Vladimir Putin is killing "too many" people and so he is sending Ukraine more defensive weapons. Also he doesn't know who put a hold on sending them this most recent time. (HINT: Ask the guy sitting to your left.) www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW -- With the slashing of health care for poor people and extending tax cuts that disproportionately help the very rich out of the way, Trump can now turn his attention back to tanking the world economy with his Global War on Trade. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
STILL NEW TO YOU — Trump claimed that his new tax and spending bill fulfills a campaign promise by eliminating tax on social security. It does no such thing. That Big, Beautiful Lie and others from his victory speech last night: www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW — Trump’s Pentagon explained about the weapons pause to Ukraine and guess what — it’s all Biden’s fault! www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...
NEW COLUMN -- Remember that John Cleese sketch, "Don't mention the war!"? Well, it happened in real life this past week -- not about a war decades ago, but about Putin's murderous assault on Ukraine. Why? Because criticizing Putin might make Trump mad. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW -- Sure, it involved a lot of humiliating, demeaning sucking up to Donald Trump -- even calling him "Daddy" at one point -- but it worked. Trump didn't threaten to withdraw from NATO, didn't blow everything up to defend his buddy Putin. So, success! www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW — The latest installment in NATO’s campaign to keep Trump from blowing up the summit and hanging Ukraine out to dry: Donald, you’ve already won! Great job! www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW -- Europe is seeing its largest war on the continent since 1945, but NATO is not planning to talk about it much at its meeting this week in The Hague. Why? Because it would upset Donald Trump, who has consistently sided with aggressor Vladimir Putin. www.huffpost.com/entry/nato-t...
NEW COLUMN — Trump’s bombing of Iran is nowhere near the most dangerous thing he is doing with the military. Not even close. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW -- What happens when the top officials in an administration who had to prove their loyalty by spreading the president's Big, Ridiculous Lie about the 2020 election contemplate entering a new Mideast war? We have a government of unreliable narrators. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW -- Dozens of communities have been devastated by windstorms, tornadoes, flooding and wildfires since Jan. 20, killing nearly 100 Americans. Donald Trump has not visited a single one. He has, however, managed 40 days of golf. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW -- Trump finally got a $45 million military parade for his birthday. It may not have been all he had been expecting. The crowds were underwhelmingly. Even he looked bored. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW -- For years Donald Trump envied his dictator pals like Putin, Kim and Xi for the parades they got to have, with tanks and missiles and thousands of saluting troops. Today he finally gets one of his own. www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...
Trump is boasting that he renamed Fort Bragg after a treasonous Confederate general, as he promised. He did not. It’s unclear whether he’s just pandering to his racist fans of the Confederacy or if he truly does not understand it himself. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW -- SecDef Hegseth is asked in Congress what authority, precisely, Trump is using to put troops on the ground in Los Angeles. Hegseth says he doesn't know but is certain Trump has it. www.huffpost.com/entry/hegset...
NEW -- When Trump wanted his defense secretary to order soldiers to shoot Americans back in 2020, Mark Esper told him no. This time, Trump has a solid "yes" man in that job in Pete Hegseth. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW COLUMN — Is the sky green? Are lemons sweet? Does the existence of foreign criminals in the country constitute an “invasion” and a national “emergency?” Sadly for democracy, yes, if Donald Trump says so. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW -- Donald Trump's self image as a Great Dealmaker and his obsession with plane size have not just led to soliciting a $400 million gift from Qatar. They have already left America with a severely degraded wartime command post for future presidents. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW -- Yes, there absolutely was media malfeasance in our coverage of the 2024 presidential campaign. No, it wasn't about Joe Biden being old. It was about how we normalized the hell out of a man who had already tried to end American democracy once. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Using your office to enrich yourself is the literal definition of corruption. Trump is doing it right out in the open. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW -- Donald Trump is selling access to himself tonight to those who spent a total of $192 million to buy his souvenir crypto coin, which has an intrinsic value of exactly zero. No, you are not allowed to know the names of the attendees. Yes, it's as corrupt as it sounds.
NEW -- The first Trump constituency to be thrown under the bus: Retirees on Social Security. Trump promised "no taxes on Social Security." Instead he's backing a tax deduction for retirees -- which for most amounts to a cash benefit of less than $500. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW -- Donald Trump Monday honored fallen police officers in the White House. Yes, the same Donald Trump who on his first day back in office freed hundreds of domestic terrorists who assaulted police on Jan. 6, in service of his coup attempt. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW -- Trump's White House is hiding the vast majority of the transcripts of his remarks. Why? The White House won't say... But maybe reading the following might offer a clue: www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW -- Trump retreats, declares victory. Again. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW COLUMN — A “conflict of interest” is what Jimmy Carter avoided by putting his peanut farm in a blind trust. Donald Trump is using his position to enrich himself. That is the definition of corruption, and he is doing so openly, brazenly, cheerfully. www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...
NEW -- Trump's new trade deal just raised taxes on Americans by $6 billion, and he's bragging about it. On the plus side, he agreed to raise import taxes on Rolls Royces, Bentleys and Jags by just four-fold, rather than ten-fold. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW -- President Keyboard Warrior wasn't so brave when talking to the Canadian PM face-to-face. Long and short of it is this: Canada elected a former central banker with a doctorate in economics. We elected a reality game show host who bankrupted casinos. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW -- Corruption experts warned that Trump's crypto coin scheme would lead to people buying them specifically to get favors. And now it's happening. How do we know? BECAUSE A PUBLICLY TRADED COMPANY STRAIGHT-UP TOLD THE SEC THAT'S WHAT IT IS DOING! www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW -- Donald Trump is running the actual economy into a ditch, so he's inventing a fantasy one in which everything is going just great. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW -- If you enjoyed the empty shelves of the pandemic, boy does Donald Trump have a treat in store for you! www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW COLUMN - It turns out the Supreme Court has no army, no police force, to carry out its rulings. Nor does Congress. They, and all of us, are dependent on Donald Trump to honor the rule of law. However scared you are, you're not scared enough. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW -- During the campaign, Trump promised over and over and over and over that he would "immediately" bring grocery prices down, starting on Day 1. It is now Day 97, and you will never guess what has *NOT* come down, not even a little! www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW -- Jay Powell managed a "soft landing" coming out of the pandemic, a feat many economists thought impossible. Pete Hegseth is already under investigation for using a phone app to discuss military attack plans. Guess which one Trump wants to fire. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW — Trump is constantly bragging about his “maximum pressure” campaign to squeeze off Iran’s exports. Except, of course, for the lethal drones and missiles it sells to Russia to slaughter Ukrainian civilians. That he seems to be okay with. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW - If you've been wondering: Sure, he did the trade war, but can't he do something that would crater the economy even faster? Well, you can stop wondering. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW COLUMN — For those who somehow missed his suggestion about injecting disinfectants, his trade war against the entire world should make it obvious: No, Donald Trump does not know what the hell he’s doing. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW -- If you're an investor who is shorting the entire American economy, good news! For everyone else, not so much. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW -- Peter Navarro invented an economist to quote in his non-fiction books. He pushed a fake COVID cure. He went to prison for refusing to talk about his scheme to overturn the 2020 election. Now, apparently, he's in charge of tanking the US economy. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW — If political leaders and investors around the world listened to Trump in the Oval Office for clues of what to expect, this is what they heard: www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW -- Trump's new tariff scheme increases tax on Americans by trillions and could well tank the economy -- but at least it gives an openly transactional president a whole new potential profit center. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW -- President Donald Trump skipped the return of four soldiers who died in a training exercise to Dover Air Force Base Friday and instead spent $4.2 million of taxpayer money to attend a dinner for one of his business interests and to play golf. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW — Donald Trump is liberating $2 trillion from Americans’ pockets over ten years. Happy Liberation Day! www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW -- Donald Trump campaigned on lowering taxes by trillions of dollars but ... PLOT TWIST! Today he's set to announce he's RAISING them by trillions of dollars instead! www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW - Pardons for crypto fraudsters. One for the electric truck fraudster. Another one for the new media fraudster. This on top of pardons for all the insurrectionists and the Silk Road guy. Is America a great place to be a criminal right now or what. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW COLUMN - Trump avoided Vietnam with "bone spurs." He mocked John McCain for getting shot down and captured. He told his chief of staff that Americans who died in combat were "suckers" and "losers." The Houthi Signal chat affair should surprise no one. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW — The guy who for years said he would be too busy working to play golf is back at his West Palm course. Playing golf. Of the 10 weekends since Jan 20, he has been on one of his courses for nine of them. Updated cost to taxpayers: $26 million. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW — Overlooked in the whole Signal military attack chat scandal is this: Top Trump national security were cheering on the destruction of an entire residential building to kill one suspected terrorist. How many innocent civilians were killed? www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW — DCI Ratcliffe came up with a new explanation for why he and other Trump national security officials used a non-secure messaging app to discuss their impending military strike on Yemen: It’s Biden’s fault! www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW COLUMN -- If you live in the Florida Keys, the southern Bahamas, the Turks and Caicos, perhaps even Miami and Cuba, Elon Musk’s SpaceX appears intent on repeatedly — and needlessly ― endangering your life. www.huffpost.com/entry/musk-r...
NEW COLUMN: On Mirror Universe Earth, Bill Clinton creates a Beanie Baby Strategic Reserve. On Alternate Reality Earth, Joe Biden orders a Hunter Biden Painting Asset Stockpile. On Actual Earth, we get the worst of both worlds: inanity AND corruption. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW — Trump is back at his golf course adjacent to the county jail in West Palm Beach. Of the seven weekends since returning to office, he has played golf at his Florida courses on six of them. The cost to you: $18.2 million. And counting. www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...
NEW -- Trump today mused whether, if the US were attacked, NATO would really come to our aid. Except it already has. In fact, the ONLY time the alliance's mutual assistance clause has been invoked was after Sept. 11 -- on behalf of the United States. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW -- Remember that reporter who asked Zelenskyy why he wasn't wearing a suit? His former "news" outlet has taken $192,000 from the Trump campaign -- nearly half of which took place while he was program director director there. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW — In a lie- and grievance-packed speech to Congress, Trump repeated his imperialist threats against Panama and Greenland — but not Canada! Moderating his views! New tone! It was the night he became president! www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW -- Critics, including many economists, describe crypto as a "greater fool" scam. With Trump creating a US "crypto strategic reserve," that would mean that greater fool would be ... you, the US taxpayer. So congrats? www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...
NEW -- President Donald Trump and his vice president, JD Vance, took the side of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin in his brutal invasion of Ukraine, berating that country's leader in the Oval Office for being "disrespectful." www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW -- Trump, again defending Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, reups his first-term lie that Russia did not help him win the 2016 election. It most certainly did. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW COLUMN -- American journalism is not equipped to deal with an autocratic president, and it shows. www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...
NEW COLUMN -- Trump put up a new portrait of Ronald Reagan overlooking the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office. If it could move, it would turn its back in shame. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
ACTUALLY NOT NEW AT ALL -- Trump lied about Ukraine and a bunch of other things in his CPAC speech. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW -- DOJ says that Elon Musk is just this random White House aide, really has nothing to do with DOGE at all, your honor, so these lawsuits are without merit. Trump tonight: Hey, I put Elon in charge of DOGE! www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW --There's this guy in the executive branch who in less than a month has already spent NEARLY 11 MILLION DOLLARS of taxpayer money playing golf. Yet the whole thing has flown under the radar of the crack waste/fraud/abuse squad over at DOGE somehow. www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...
Makes a convincing case that the WHCA should boycott the pool until this policy changes "We should tell the White House that if the AP is not invited to participate in his photo ops, then we’re not interested, either." - @svdate.bsky.social www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
I wrote about all the places in America where Trump got lots of votes — and his MAGA/DOGE agenda is hitting hard www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
It was pretty obvious during his campaign he was going to try this little dictator stuff with the WHCA sooner or later. Well, it came sooner.
Trump enjoys punching down on and mocking reporters who nevertheless have to call him “Mr. President.” We don’t have to let him. Tell them we’re happy to send in a pool camera instead, and he’s free to say whatever he wants for however long he wants.
We should tell the White House that if the AP is not invited to participate in his photo ops, then we’re not interested, either.
Trump needs and wants the reach of the real media, not just his fan club. We should stand by our colleagues at the AP, which is actually an alma mater for many of us.
So far, we’ve issued strongly worded statements, but I’m not sure that’s ever going to work. But there's something that might:
It's also going to test the WHCA, because if Trump can do this to the largest news organization in the world and get away with it, he can do it to any and all of us.
If this sounds petty, that's because it is. But it's also dangerous. This is the sort of thing you see in autocracies.
Trump is mad that the AP, in its widely used style guide, correctly notes that Trump's decree does not force other nations to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America." So he is banning the AP from participating in the White House press pool.
NEW COLUMN -- Maybe you don't care that Trump is trying to force the Associated Press to bend to his will. But if you want to hang onto our democracy, you should care, and deeply. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW -- Elon Musk claimed to know the net worths of federal employees during an Oval Office visit yesterday. Not salaries. Net worths. Now how exactly did he get his hands on that information? The White House won't say. www.huffpost.com/entry/musk-t...
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NEW -- The convicted felon who attempted a coup the last time he had the job promised he would lower prices on day one. Instead he's spent the first three weeks Making Corruption Great Again. www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...
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Weirdly, he was not interested in a follow-up from me.
NEW -- Trump pardoned hundreds of violent domestic terrorists who assaulted police officers in furtherance of his coup attempt. Trump described it to me this way: "They didn't assault. They were assaulted, and what I did was a great thing for humanity.” www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NEW — Trump constantly complains about China’s expanding influence, but simultaneously has undermined American “soft power” to counter it. In the first term it was pulling out of TPP. Now it’s eliminating USAID. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
UPDATED -- Kash Patel could be the first FBI director ever to be confirmed after having taken the 5th to avoid incriminating himself. He did that, of course, in service of Donald Trump, on whose behalf he has produced a a 60-name enemies list. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...