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Expect to see this smile again on Wednesday. Donald Trump participates in the first prime-time presidential debate hosted by Fox News on August 6, 2015 in Cleveland, Ohio.Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Ding, ding: Round 2. The Republican presidential contenders are in Southern California on Wednesday for the second pair of primary debates. CNN’s…
At the 2011 White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, Trump’s humiliation in the face of Obama’s jibes seemed absolute, and very visible. Credit PHOTOGRAPH BY JOSHUA ROBERTS / BLOOMBERG VIA GETTY Barrier Status: ‘none’ Once, and only once, in 2011, have I attended the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington, D.C., on the grounds,…
There are many, many reasons to abhor Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, but there’s at least one reason to appreciate it, for now: his constant and merciless trolling of Jeb Bush that is currently tanking Bush’s shot at the presidency. In some sense, Trump is doing democracy a service by helping ensure we will not have…
If you’re a fan of good television, you know Lucille Bluth from Arrested Development. If you’re a fan of bad politics, you know Donald Trump. These two seem to have a lot in common. Who Said It: Donald Trump Or Lucille Bluth.
Scott Walker has told the world that the shooting deaths of police in the United States are a major problem and implied there is really only one cure: to return to the bygone era of his youth, when life was safer and more idyllic. His language was vague, incorrect, and most importantly stokes a fear…
Donald Trump in August. Credit: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg AD UNIT 1 /AD UNIT 1 CNN is asking 40 times its normal rate for commercial time in the next Republican debate. The cable news network is charging as much as $200,000 for a 30-second spot in the prime-time brawl taking place on Sept. 16, according to a…
Photo Credit Illustration by Jennifer Daniel. Cat: EEI_Tony/iStock. Wig: greg801/iStock. We begin, as many discussions about politics today should, with an analogy to pro wrestling. Consider the ‘‘foreign object’’ routine: One combatant produces a concealed item, usually from under his tights — a pointed stick or some hand-size tool of menace — and proceeds to…
It’s the morning of Friday, January 20, 2017, and it’s Inauguration Day. Donald John Trump Sr. has his hand on a Bible, and America looks on, agape, as he swears to “preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.” How we got to this point isn’t important. The question now is, what the…
CREDIT: AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump has built his campaign on belligerent — even outright racist — rhetoric. On Tuesday, for example, Trump told Jorge Ramos, a prominent Mexican-American journalist, to “go back to Univision” shortly before one of Trump’s bodyguards pushed Ramos out of the room. Outside of immigration policy, however,…
Plumbing Trump’s psyche is as productive as asking American Pharoah why he runs. The point is what happens when he does. Credit Illustration by Christoph Niemann Barrier Status: ‘none’ On July 23rd, Donald Trump’s red-white-and-navy-blue Boeing 757 touched down in Laredo, Texas, where the temperature was climbing to a hundred and four degrees. In…