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An increasingly prominent part of my life in 2018 is the urge to grab and cling onto anything that seems, even a little bit, like it might be the thing that Finally Defeats Donald Trump. No small portion of my day is spent managing my relationship to that urge, trying to resist its downward pull, reminding myself that the horror of Trump has not actually upended basic truths about what’s poisonous and dangerous in the world, and where and where not to vest whatever faltering conviction I have that things can be different and better, but only reiterated them in a newer, more explicit, more grotesque form. Maybe this seems familiar to you. Ultimately, I think this is what the obnoxious #Resistance is about, right? Not resisting that urge to grasp for whatever seems like it might portend some great, glorious, imminent comeuppance, but feeding it, wallowing in it, cultivating it to a frenzy (and then, for some, selling quickie books to credulous suckers). Robert Mueller might save … [Read more...] about Op-Ed: John McCain Will Haunt Donald Trump Into Defeat From The Mirror Dimension

It’s hardly a secret that President Donald Trump and Arizona Sen. John McCain weren’t exactly best buds while McCain was still alive. But now that the Republican senator has died following a lengthy battle with brain cancer, it’s impressive to see just how committed Trump remains to being a complete and total dick to his longtime foil. As the Washington Post reported on Sunday: Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Chief of Staff John F. Kelly and other White House aides advocated for an official statement that gave the decorated Vietnam War POW plaudits for his military and Senate service and called him a “hero,” according to current and former White House aides, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive internal deliberations. The original statement was drafted before McCain died Saturday, and Sanders and others edited a final version this weekend that was ready for the president, the aides said. But, instead of releasing a … [Read more...] about Donald Trump Not Even Bothering to Pretend He Didn’t Hate John McCain’s Guts

Over the course of his brief political career, Donald Trump’s tactics have been generously called “thuggish.” His puffed-up bravado and thinly veiled, clumsy threats directed at opponents are like cheap imitations of the mobster characters of classic cinema. As a citizen it is, to say the least, embarrassing. Recently, The New York Times launched a thorough investigation into why the President regularly acts and talks like someone in a straight-to-DVD gangster movie, besides the obvious reason—he’s dumb and thinks it sounds cool. To understand where his paisano vocabulary comes from, the Times says, you must remember the kind of guys Donald Trump came up idolizing. Growing up the son of a wealthy real estate mogul in the outer-boroughs, Trump had firsthand knowledge of the kind of political muscling that went on in the smokey backrooms of city’s social clubs. His heroes weren’t just the iconic mobsters that would later appear in Goodfellas or … [Read more...] about investigates why Donald Trump talks like a straight-to-DVD mobster

Michael Cohen, who? Donald Trump does not seem to remember much about his personal lawyer and fixer for more than 10 years, the guy who once vowed to take a bullet for him—and recently pleaded guilty to eight federal crimes. In a Fox News interview that aired Thursday, Trump said that Cohen was “not somebody that was with me that much” and that he only worked for him “part time.” “You know, they make it sound like I didn’t live without him, I understood Michael Cohen very well,” Trump told Fox News. “Turns out he wasn’t a very good lawyer, frankly.” Wow, harsh. In the same interview, Trump also told Fox that the stock market would crash if were to be impeached. “Without this thinking,” he said, pointing to his head, “you would see numbers that you wouldn’t believe.” … [Read more...] about Donald Trump Barely Knew His Lawyer of 12 Years, Says Donald Trump

Donald Trump’s Wednesday night tweet instructing Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (better known as the real-life inspiration for the character Nelson Muntz on The Simpsons) to look into South Africa’s non-existent war on white farmers was the latest example of Trump’s long love affair with white supremacist conspiracy theories. While many pundits assume the president’s embrace of harebrained alt-right rumors is an unapologetic attempt to appeal to his Skoal-chomping, rosacea-collared base, the truth is, Donald Trump’s willingness to discard racist dog-whistles for bigot bullhorns is part of the president’s decades-long affinity for the fever dreams of hate groups. And nowhere is that fact more evident than on Donald Trump’s Twitter account. Since joining the social media behemoth, Trump has repeatedly shared white nationalist fantasies with his followers. It would be impossible to list them all, but here are Donald Trump’s greatest white … [Read more...] about Donald Trump’s Top 10 Most Racist Conspiracy Tweets