Trump and his allies assume Democrats are trying to induce a recession. It’s classic projection. The current Republican line holds that the economy is in fine shape but that the liberal news media is running slanted or false stories predicting a recession in a deliberate plot to induce one. “Our …
Party officials are frustrated that the former president’s record was collateral damage in the debate attacks on Joe Biden. Joe Biden is fair game. Barack Obama is not. Former Obama White House officials and allies responded in force Thursday to stress that message after several Democratic contenders criticized the former …
Trump needs to placate voters who love his economic record but can’t stand his conduct. He doesn’t seem to care. This week’s presidentially driven orgy of racist and nativist sentiment — and the unusually loud (even for the Trump era) reactions to it — has been particularly fascinating to those paying close …
Mitt Romney was the only Republican senator to vote against one of President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees on Tuesday. And he did so in part to defend former President Barack Obama. Romney cast the lone GOP “no” vote against Michael Truncale, who was confirmed 49-46 on Tuesday morning to the …
Barack Obama’s is dividing opinions, as others have before THE BUILDING of Barack Obama’s presidential library in Chicago ought to be uncontroversial. Unlike many other such libraries, it will not be maintained by American taxpayers. The Obama Foundation, a non-profit organisation founded by the 44th president, will foot the bill …
White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney confesses the GOP Congress refused to give Obama any successes. White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, appearing on Fox News Sunday, repeated the official administration line that Democrats had to choose between legislation and investigation. Chris Wallace reminded Mulvaney that he had supported …
Trump has spent his brief political career systematically exposing the bad faith of every complaint Republicans made against Barack Obama. Today General Motors announced the closure of several auto facilities, including the Lordstown plant in northeast Ohio. This is a devastating development for those workers and their communities. Secondarily, it …
The president’s schedule shows huge swaths of his day unplanned, allowing his whims and momentary interests to drive White House business. President Donald Trump had about three times as much free time planned for last Tuesday as work time, according to his private schedule. The president was slated for more …
In October 2016, senior staff in the Obama White House discussed what they should do if Hillary Clinton won the November election and Donald Trump refused to accept the result as legitimate. They had cause to be worried. At that time, Trump had openly speculated that the election might be …
The former president loosens Trump’s stranglehold on the news. In November of 2016, in the simmering afterglow of Donald Trump’s stunning defeat of Hillary Clinton, a still-stunned President Barack Obama traveled to Lima, Peru, for a summit of APEC, or Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation. While there, Obama gave a press conference, and …
During a campaign speech rallying for California congressional candidates, former President Barack Obama shared a story of how he was “booted” out of Disneyland for smoking cigarettes. Source: Obama’s story of getting booted out of Disney
One hazard of the trolling that the United States has been subjected to from the White House for the past twenty months is that even the most alarming patterns can be hard to discern, and the most prominent dots impossible to connect. Yet a seemingly different pattern preceded the speech that Barack …
