As #47, Trump’s style of swift dealmaking gained a real head of steam and required a proper venue to accommodate the heavy traffic. What more appropriate place to host his supplicants and seal his high-level deals than a high-security Donald J. Trump Ballroom. The public wouldn’t mind. He’d see to that. Continue reading
Speaker Johnson’s big reward was the ride Trump had promised him in Air Force One down to Mar-a-Lago if he kept the House of Representatives out of session for as long as Trump wanted. And Johnson was doing just that, but his trip got spoiled anyway. Continue reading
When framing tax legislation designed to drain the blood of its citizens, policymakers are wise to keep the language complex. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act made excellent use of that device. Now nobody seems to know who benefits from Trump’s hefty tax cuts. Continue reading
Trump, a 24/7 bribe taker, has burned us out. He’s won. We have to admit it. He’s getting away with it. We don’t even call them bribes anymore. Take, for instance, the hundred-million-dollar bribe he accepted in broad daylight just recently. Didn’t notice? Don’t fuss. No one else did either. Continue reading
No verse of Shakespeare, no song of Roland, no tale of Beowulf, no fruit of ancient fabled poet rich with rhyme and meter is this. Nor of such things herein did they sing, for never was there cause till now for such lament as for this nation who would be God’s. Continue reading
Billionaire Bill Ackman is feeling good about Israel. And Israel is certainly feeling good about Bill. Their mutual admiration was fulsomely expressed during Bills’s recent visit. No red carpet was ever so long. Continue reading
Certain it is that conservative activist Charlie Kirk is beyond recantation now. Notwithstanding, will the words he so recently spoke surely haunt his family. Continue reading
Donald Trump remembers only dimly what he did during his Jeffrey Epstein days. And yet the idea of releasing what the country was calling the Epstein files made him deeply uneasy. Continue reading
Trump recently returned from what turned out to be just one more of his incredibly expensive fiascos, his Anchorage “summit” with Russian President Vladimir Putin. But this time he accomplished something pretty important: He showed us what a whopping coward he is. Continue reading
No one can deny Trump’s extraordinary power in forcing players domestically and worldwide to yield to his demands. While some enjoy watching him grind his opponents into the dirt, others are wistful, thinking how much good such a powerful man could do if only he had a change of heart. They are mistaken. Continue reading