What follows is a true story. If you don’t believe me, check out: https://www.gofundme.com/giant-robotic-trump (And while you are at feel free to write a large check). As one of many who love the Trump Baby Balloon, I wanted to make my own contribution to anti-Trump art. My own inspiration was provided by a tour of […]
President (for Life) Trump’s annual Dictators’ Ball at his Mar-A-Lago estate was, by all permitted accounts, a rollicking success. The event was a sellout, though the 500 highly coveted $1 million dollar tickets were restricted to “current and former dictators, their spouses, mistresses, cronies, money-launderers and weapons-suppliers, and Fox News hosts and executives.” As always, […]
“No smoking gun.” That’s the experts’ verdict on the testimony before the House Oversight Committee by ex-Trump attorney and now felon Michael Cohen. None other than media whore and accused whore-chaser Alan Dershowitz said as much. It’s a ludicrous statement. There CANNOT be a smoking gun in Cohen’s testimony. Any crimes Cohen was aware of, […]
How did Lindsey Graham, who once called Donald Trump “a race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot,” become his leading ally in the Senate? Perhaps this golf course conversation was a factor. June 2017, 18th hole at the Mar-A-Lago golf course where Trump and Graham are preparing to putt: Trump: Lindsey, you need to learn to play ball […]
When a lie works better, President Donald Trump never tells the truth. So his protestations of no collusion with the Russians carry little weight with anyone. How can he have missed the chance when every significant adviser — from Manafort to Flynn to Ivanka, Don Jr. and Jared Kushner, has lied about their participation in […]
Someone needs to introduce Donald Trump to the phrase Pyrrhic Victory. Trump claims victory in his government-paralyzing Wall tantrum. In truth, he gets no Wall and $3 billion less in congressional funding than he could have had a few months ago. That “victory” comes at a cost of many more billions in a month-long hamstrung […]
All we need to do is to grit our teeth and bear the next two years. And we best keep quiet about it too — for fear of arousing red-hat lunatics into pointless argument. I hear the same sentiment everywhere — even as recently as a couple days ago in Helsinki from Finns, who are […]
We are all waiting for the other shoe(s) to drop from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. Here are my thoughts (or hopes) for how it will all go down in the coming months: Don Jr. and Jared Kushner are arraigned for perjury. We already know they lied to congressional investigators about Russian meetings, and in […]
Like any red-blooded American I want to help our president. Because he’s the president he deserves everything he wants. This is, after all, not a democracy and hasn’t been for some time. Right now Beloved Ruler is having a hard time convincing anyone that a border wall is needed. He hasn’t helped the cause with […]
Trump’s colossal failings have long been evident to most of us. Now as the economy totters, foreign relations deteriorate, democracy decays and Trump’s criminality is exposed, it’s nearly unfathomable that there are tens of millions who still favor him. How was it that this horrible human being was elected? The seeds that made this national […]
The Base. Who are these people? How can they continue unshakeable in their support of Trump? The answer is more easily found in who they are NOT: Women cannot in good conscience support a man who claims he can fondle their genitals with impunity. Blacks cannot in good conscience support a man who was cited […]
The good news about recent debacles is that it seals Trump’s doom. How so? I’ll get there in a minute. First let’s dispense with any imputation of Trumpian strategy to the pre-Christmas disasters. “Deliberate Chaos” it’s been called, as analysts struggled to find motive and pattern in a week of unparalleled disasters — Wall Street […]
As a boy I learned that the Nazis killed my grandparents and millions of others. Once I could grasp the enormous horrors of the Holocaust, I began to understand the contagious evil of fanatical racism. What I could not understand was how so many Germans turned a blind eye to the brutality. Now I am one […]
Chinese citizens, once terrified to voice their political views, speak freely now, as I learned last week touring three of the country’s (and the world’s) largest cities. At least, they talk freely when commenting on foreign leaders. Political freedom in China? Let’s not get carried away, as was the friend of one of my co-workers […]
Trump’s announced himself to be “Tariff Man,” a new superhero whose powers apparently include triggering a massive drop in the stock market just by declaring his new cognomen. Trump’s long been known for his infantile disparagements of other candidates with monikers like “Little Bob” Corker for the diminutive Tennessee Senator or “Lyin’ Ted” for Texas […]
It’s a mystery to rival “Who’s Buried in Grant’s Tomb?” Is the de facto Saudi ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (known as MBS to Vlad Putin and his many party pals) responsible for the recent death in Turkey of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi? President Trump is unconvinced. As always, Trump’s word is good enough […]
So many options for this one. Impeachment? Prison? A Rogaine company bankruptcy? You’d think one or more of these would strike terror into the ball-bearing-sized heart of IM-POTUS. But Trump’s racist appeal has trumped every manifestation of his seaminess. Insider reports of his penis shape, sordid affairs and mistress payoffs don’t matter a whit. The […]
Yes, Virginia, there is a God. And Justice. Donald Trump is going to jail. You heard it here. Trump is going up the river. No later than 2021. For those of us who can’t wait, let’s take a quick look at how it’s going to happen. Special Counsel Robert Mueller has likely been sitting on […]
I don’t own a soapbox. If I did, I’m not sure I could use it to compelling effect. But if I were silver-tongued, here’s my Gettysburg Address. I have a dream — the dream of Gandhi, the dream of Martin Luther King, the dream of change, of justice, of the power of passive resistance. But […]
The most recent expose of Trumpco deceit, the one from the New York Times that documented real estate fraud and implicated golden girl Ivanka, adds more than just another prospective charge to the Trump rap sheet. If not impeachment-worthy, the New York state courts now have indictable, non-pardonable crimes to pursue ranging from money laundering […]
