Trump’s speech on Jerusalem
[NOTE: I had said earlier today that I’d be writing a post about Strzok and one about Trump and Jerusalem. That turned out to be a case of biting off much more than I can chew at the moment. This … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Trump
Peter Strzok: one-man band
The twistings and turning of what we could call the case against Donald Trump are not easy to follow. But what has been revealed so far is a tangled web of interrelated actions on the part of investigators that indicate … Continue reading →
What’s the Flynn investigation all about? [Plus ABC’s “clarification”/correction]
There are several intertwined stories here that fit together to form a fascinating picture. So let’s try to untangle them, starting with the more trivial and leading to the most important.
Continue reading →Larry Tribe’s Frankenstein/ien’s monster
Larry Tribe, Harvard law professor, made a very weird (or is it wierd?) suggestion on Twitter: Trump [had] tweeted: The Al Frankenstien picture is really bad, speaks a thousand words. Where do his hands go in pictures 2, 3, 4, … Continue reading →
Trump’s China deal
Salena Zito notes that it hasn’t gotten much press: Last weekend in Beijing, as part of his 12-day trip to Asia, President Trump announced that the US and China had signed an $83.7 billion memorandum of understanding to create a … Continue reading →
One year later: Trump the unlikely populist
[NOTE: Today is the one-year anniversary of the 2016 election, so I thought I’d repeat a post I wrote about Trump in August of 2015, when it was beginning to dawn on me that he was a very serious contender.] … Continue reading →
Tales of Democratic Election Night woe
Here are some reminiscences by political operatives and media people about Election Night 2016 (hat tip Ace). They vary from the delighted to the devastated. The surprise and shock was enormous for Hillary supporters, as you can imagine. Here are … Continue reading →
Trump the conservative?
Unexpected (and certainly unexpected by me) but so far true: In assessing Trump’s accomplishments, let’s not get too distracted by his unconventional conduct. This hitherto ideologically unmoored man has set in motion an administration arguably more conservative than Ronald Reagan’s.
Continue reading →Twitter power
After President Trump’s Twitter account was shut down for eleven minutes by a rogue employee or contractor on Thursday, Steven Hayward wondered: …[T]his does raise an interesting question: If a Twitter employee can shut down Trump’s account, what else might … Continue reading →
Don’t they ever get tired of writing the same article…
…over and over again? The latest iteration: ““You Can’t Go Any Lower: Inside the West Wing, Trump Is Apoplectic as Allies Fear Impeachment.”
Continue reading →Trump and Tocqueville
Toqueville almost certainly would have looked down his nose at Trump—much as he did Andrew Jackson, who was president during the Frenchman’s 1831 visit to the US. But as Jean Yarbrough (Bowdoin professor of political philosophy and American political thought, … Continue reading →
On presidential calls to the families of dead servicemen and women
I hate when this becomes a topic for politics. I don’t care whether it involves a Republican or a Democratic president, or one I like or dislike. I believe that such interactions are private and should remain so. They are … Continue reading →