All his life, even before he boorishly occupied the White House, Impeached President Donald J. Trump has entertained the country and the world with thoughtless, self-promotional rants on a wide variety of topics. Remember this classic Trumpism from the 2016 presidential campaign? “I’m the most successful person ever to run for the presidency, by far. […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Sick of Donald Trump? So are we, so The Shinbone Star’s Canada Bureau Chief decided to give American readers a view of what’s been happening north of the border. Hey, it’s tough all over. By MADMEGSBLOG On Monday, March 2, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sat through a Cabinet meeting while holding a […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: During the run-up to the 2020 presidential sweepstakes The Shinbone Star will highlight Big Lies uttered and promoted by the current occupant of the White House, lies that hurt our country. Today we tackle The Donald’s “big bribes” (unkept promises) offered to many Americans during the 2016 election season. These were payola pledges that helped land him […]
It’s abundantly clear that Donald J. Trump was all talk about making America great again during the 2016 presidential campaign and his first two years as the scandal-ridden chief executive of our government. Fact is, Trump is crippling America financially and blaming everyone but himself for the problem created by a businessman who is 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 […]
No matter how The Donald slices it, The Wall is a failed campaign promise. He can pull money — American taxpayer dollars — from departments or agencies in the federal government to cover construction costs, but Mexico will not pay for the concrete “white elephant” as he promised on the 2016 presidential campaign trail. The […]
A self-imposed exile from the machinations of Donald Trump is a good thing. It is like spraying Febreze Clean Linen scent inside your skull until the rotten stench is completely covered. Two weeks wasn’t long enough to fully enjoy it, but it is a start. A real exile from Trump means no cable news, newspapers, […]
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 […]
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 […]
There’s new trouble in Trumplandia: Just when Mr. Trump figured he had his red-hatted MAGA sheep running mad with fear over the approaching hordes from south of the border, synchronized deceleration raised its ugly head. Whoa! The toothy term describes an emerging economic condition that bodes ill for everybody — economists who stay four or […]
What evidence, what proof, what hard facts do any of us need to realize our country is not better off nearly two years into the Donald J. Trump era of governance in order to vote out anyone who supports the misguided, self-absorbed person currently occupying our White House? Just to be clear, there is no […]
President Donald Trump is determined to make America great again — by selling hats with that message, funding moribund industries, shutting out hard-working immigrants, dismantling health care, environmental and financial safeguards, and reinstituting the tariffs that led to the Great Depression. Not only is Trump incapable of restoring American greatness — it arguably never existed. […]
Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau views himself as the young, hip chancellor of his generation. He doesn’t see that his demeanour and his indecisive political nature actually hurts our country nationally and globally. But who cares when everyone thinks you’re a selfie and social media darling? What does it matter that Canada’s healthcare and immigration […]
Editor’s Note: Staff writer Deborah Quinn Hensel says she’s been bottling it up for too long, and now there’s such an accumulation that it’s spilling out in chapters. This is the first, but the pressure keeps building, so watch out for more. Looking down the barrel of the midterm elections in November, perhaps the Republican Party […]
‘We’re not negotiating with Canada right now. Their tariffs are too high, their barriers are too strong, so we’re not even talking to them right now.’ — Donald Trump Yep, that’s the latest from the Big O Down Below (and no, “O” doesn’t stand for orgasm). Apparently, U.S. President Donald Trump — The Big Orange One […]
“Fox and Friends’ ” so-called “news anchor” Ainsley Earhardt sat across from Donald outside the Oval Office this week and tossed softball questions at the self-proclaimed “president for life.” She asked him for a grade on his job performance to date. Surprise: He gave himself an “A-plus.” Not so fast, Donald. This isn’t reality television […]
Psycho Donald Trump seems to be becoming more maniacal and delusional by the hour. Last week he bragged to enthralled Veterans of Foreign Wars conventioneers in Kansas City, Mo., that the military is ordering 147 new stealth aircraft and indicated that he thinks they’re literally invisible. “This is an incredible plane — it’s stealth, you […]
Donald J. Trump is busy trying to turn public opinion against news media outlets that provide us — on an almost daily blow-by-legal-blow — coverage of his corrupt administration. He has gone so far as to label journalists the enemy of the people. Sorry, Donald, truth be told — and that’s what we do at […]
Television news was kind to the Blonde Bomber last weekend for his skill at practicing self-deprecating wit. Lyin’ Donald was at his cunning best captivating the cynical Gridiron crowd with Trumpian witticism. For an evening, the progenitor of blind-side economics was given a human face. Even those who publicly despise the vainglorious madman basked in […]
Donald Trump’s spontaneous threat to impose huge tariffs on steel and aluminum smacks of the kind of nationalism that appeals to his base. It’s another campaign promise, like the border wall, that he runs to when things get hot in the Oval Office. And last week was downright blistering in Washington. It included this classic […]
