Let me bury the lede for the moment to point out that Donald Trump almost certainly thinks he won last night’s debate. Why wouldn’t he? He was quintessentially Trump, and that always gives the ocher asshat a tingling sensation. So it was no surprise when the redoubtable Gabriel Sherman wrote the following. Vanity Fair: Trump doesn’t…
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Trump 'furious' at Kushner over polling; Republicans giving Trump till Labor Day to right the ship
The redoubtable Gabriel Sherman has a new dispatch from the Land of Make-Believe (née the White House). Seems the current occupant, Donald John Trump, is feeling a bit like a gimpy gazelle flushed into one of Marlin Perkins’ nets. (According to Sherman, Trump, sensing electoral Armageddon, recently called Fox News’ Tucker Carlson to ask, “What do…
Trump on coronavirus: ‘This is so unfair to me! Everything was going great'
The redoubtable Gabe Sherman has another missive from the bottomless bowl of Kooky Krunch that is the White House. As you probably guessed, Donald Trump thinks the coronavirus that’s circled the globe and killed 100,000 Americans and counting has been totally unfair … to His Majesty. Vanity Fair: As he headed into Memorial Day weekend, Donald Trump complained…
Group aligned with Don Jr. reportedly buying stake in OAN: 'Trump is really aiming to take down Fox'
The redoubtable Gabriel Sherman has another dispatch from the Phantasmagorical Land of Cray-Cray. It seems Fox News is not nearly obsequious enough for Donald John Trump, so he’s itching to cut them off at the very knees they’ve been shamelessly bending for the past five years. Vanity Fair: Trump’s view that Fox is insufficiently loyal…
Kushner was reportedly the source of Trump's 'they don't need 30,000 ventilators' ravings
The redoubtable Gabriel Sherman has another missive from the Festering Wing of the Blight House, and it’s yet another eye-opener. For starters, blunderkind Jared Kushner was apparently the source of Donald Trump’s late-night raving about New York not needing as many ventilators as Gov. Andrew Cuomo insists they do. Vanity Fair: In recent days Kushner has…
'He's definitely melting down over this': Trump worries that journalists want to give him COVID-19
The redoubtable Gabe Sherman has another inside look at the paltry, ping-ponging passel of brain cells flitting about our pr*sident’s capacious kopf. Inside sources tell Sherman that Trump is becoming increasingly paranoid over coronavirus — simultaneously worrying that the media are hyping the virus to make him look bad and fretting that journalists might contract the virus…
Vanity Fair: Trump soured on Shine, started calling him 'Bill No Shine'
So what deeply inappropriate figure will Donald Trump tap as his next communications director? Brian Kilmeade? Bill O’Reilly? Mayor McCheese? The obstreperously flatulent ghost of Richard Nixon’s dog? Vanity Fair’s Gabriel Sherman reports that Bill Shine was shown the door earlier today because Trump had started blaming him for all of Trump’s own stupid moves….
Vanity Fair: Everyone inside the White House hates Trump
Well, why should they be any different than the rest of us? From the redoubtable Gabriel Sherman at Vanity Fair: Morale inside the White House, never high to begin with, has turned particularly bleak, according to interviews with 10 former West Wing officials and Republicans close to the president. The issue is that many see…
Trump reportedly lashing out at Mulvaney over bad press from shutdown
Is there a worse job in the world than Donald Trump’s chief of staff? Maybe Trump’s personal bathtub attendant. Or the guy who artificially inseminates zoo gorillas? I don’t know. Those last two are essentially the same job, so … Mick Mulvaney has been Trump’s “acting” chief of staff for a cosmic blink of an…
White House insider: 'The staff is fed up; he's acting like a nut'
The indispensable Gabriel Sherman has a new inside look at the Trump train, which went off the rails months ago and is currently barreling down a Tokyo thruway in a ‘50s Godzilla movie: Vanity Fair: As the Robert Mueller loop tightens around the president, his erratic behavior is causing alarm among his most senior staff. “The staff…
Ex-White House staffer: 'The Cohen news is very bad' — Mueller may have laid a perjury trap
Tricking Donald Trump into lying is not exactly sporting. It’s sort of like hunting manatees with an Uzi and a stick of dynamite. But Robert Mueller has a job to do, and it looks like he may have just done it. The redoubtable Gabriel Sherman at Vanity Fair has given us yet another peek behind…
Trump is already 'raging' over Ford testimony, per Vanity Fair's Gabriel Sherman
Rage level — orange. (It’s always orange, but whatever. Let’s just say it’s a Pantone number we don’t ordinarily see.) According to Vanity Fair’s Gabriel Sherman, even the dough-brained Donald Trump can see this morning’s SCOTUS testimony isn’t going well for Republicans: x Person close to Trump says Trump is raging at how bad this…
