On Dec 19, Trump tweeted, “Wait until January 6! It's going to be wild!”

It’s not the Bastille. Trump did incite a riotous mob to disrupt the legislative branch. People died. Trump got excited about the chaos he’d caused. The last day of Trumpstock. … Read More

no viral load news, Trump “not out of the woods”, but Trumpism remains infectious

The Walter Reed medical briefing this afternoon answered some questions about Trump’s return to the White House, but left contact tracing information unknown. His return will likely coincide with the Biden … Read More

Yeah, everything those doctors said? Bullsh*t

So was that huge team of doctors at that press conference earlier today for monitoring Trump's condition or for flipping his body around so he doesn't get bedsores? Or were … Read More

Trump campaign reportedly worried that Brad Parscale will start squealing

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 … Read More

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 … Read More

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 … Read More

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 … Read More

this is far better happy talk: “What we need is more 'economic intercourse'”

Giggling RWNJs seized on a Biden comment that only reveals how much context will be needed with an IMPOTUS who’s a pathological liar. If @realDonaldTrump said this the left would … Read More

AntiCapitalist Meet-up Hodge-podge

Below is a collection of things that I’ve been saving up — including the problems of CV-19, MMT, neoliberalism, and other things relating pandemics to the economy. If there’s a point … Read More

#TrumpOwnsEveryDeath “Whatever his tone, it will be a very hard future to sell”

It’s enough to steam your pants. x “He took a gamble and got it wrong.” They know he blew it. Now they will spend eight months lying to America about … Read More

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 … Read More

#TrumpSlump …Caine Mutiny time

Global reality versus Trump ravings on Twitter. The clusterflop continues as a point loss greater than anything in the PBO presidency. Thanks, Obama. Trump now believes that journalists are trying … Read More

'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 … Read More

“Not one of the Republican senators who voted for acquittal ever again served in an elected office.”

The Johnson impeachment was disastrous for GOP senators. Will history repeat itself, or will there be much more complex purges including revenge against Mitt Romney, John Bolton, and others. Because … Read More

Good lord, the Dear Leader cult has colonized Planet Cray-Cray

What on God’s green Earth could possibly account for such uncommon unhingery? x On Fox & Friends, Ainsley Earhardt says Trump never loses his temper and always answers when reporters … Read More

Conservatives far angrier about WH leakers than the corruption of their president

The BIG BOLTON BOMBSHELL is the talk of the town this morning, and, of course, every last American is simply outraged that it’s now basically irrefutable that our pr*sident is … Read More

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 … Read More

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, … Read More

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. … Read More

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 … Read More

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 … Read More

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 … Read More

Guess what Fox News led its latest broadcast with (hint: not Cohen or Manafort)

The bad news has come so fast and furious for Donald Trump in the past couple of hours, you could write an entire “We Didn’t Start the Fire” parody based … Read More