Because sometimes things just need to be said….
Your boss would ask one question before hiring you: does your last job look anything like this one? I ran that test on ten of Trump’s most prominent hires from both terms, using nothing but public résumés. Here’s my rubric, and yes, it’s subjective. I compared the size and type of what each person had …
A federal judge had to order the government to stop airing commercials for the president, and the government’s best defense was that they were about to stop anyway. Here’s what happened. Judge Jennifer Rochon in New York issued a two-week temporary restraining order Sunday night, telling the administration to cancel every remaining ad it bought …
Seven months ago Donald Trump started a war with Iran he said would take “four to five weeks.” Now he’s decided the reason your diesel costs so much is the president of Ukraine. Earlier today I wrote about the 77 million people who voted for the dumbest human on earth. I figured I’d have to …
Almost two years ago, 77,303,573 Americans voted for Donald Trump. I think they picked the dumbest human on earth for the most powerful job on earth, and I’m done being polite about it. That’s my opinion. The receipts below are not. Prices were the pitch. At a rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, he said “Groceries, cars …
Trump says Republicans will send every American adult $5,000 if they win the House and Senate in November. I did the math so he didn’t have to. The U.S. has roughly 270 million adults. Multiply that by $5,000 and you get about $1.35 trillion. The plan is supposedly paid for with tariffs, which is where …
A federal judge told the President of the United States no on the same building-naming question twice this year, and instead of accepting it like anyone else would have to, he got on a call with a sitting member of Congress and told her she was dumb. Quick timeline, because it matters here. Trump’s handpicked …
Ursula von der Leyen stood up this week and offered Canada something the European Union has never handed anyone before: associate membership. Not full membership — Canada’s own ambassador-designate was careful to say Ottawa doesn’t want to hand over sovereignty for that — but a new “Alliance for the Future,” built around manufacturing, AI, defense …
The Federal Reserve raised interest rates today for the first time in three years. The vote was unanimous. The man running that vote is Kevin Warsh — the same guy Trump nominated because he wanted someone who’d cut rates, not raise them. Back in February, at a Semafor economic summit, Trump said he wouldn’t have …
Donald Trump has predicted the end of the Iran war so many times that reporters started keeping a running tally. As of this week, the count sits at 23. On September 9, he made prediction number 24: “I think the war’s going to end immediately after the election because they can’t hold out any longer.” …
August’s jobs report came in Friday morning, and it was a good one: 162,000 jobs added, more than double what economists were expecting, unemployment holding steady at 4.1 percent. That’s normally a number worth celebrating. Instead, a few hours later, the president threatened to stop trading with most of the world. At 9:56am, he posted …
In February, six Supreme Court justices told Donald Trump his tariffs were illegal. Two of the six were his own appointees. His response was to call them fools, question their loyalty, and keep charging you the tariffs anyway. Here’s the part that should bother you more than the insult. On February 20, in Learning Resources …