“Beyond disaster,” one close Trump ally texted as the backlash mounted Friday morning. “It’s the worst post I’ve seen in a very long time.”

I spoke with former Washington Post editor Marty Baron about the devastating cuts to the paper and Jeff Bezos's "sickening efforts to curry favor with President Trump"

The bizarro split screen at the Kennedy Center Thursday night, where Trump hosted a decadent celebration of MELANIA, the new documentary the first lady made about herself: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...

From my new profile of Alexis Wilkins, the girlfriend of FBI director Kash Patel: A former senior FBI agent called the protective detail afforded to Alexis Wilkins "outrageous" "There’s no justification whatsoever to provide federal resources to protect her.” www.vanityfair.com/news/story/a...

Alexis Wilkins, the 27-year-old girlfriend of FBI director Kash Patel, has a security detail and a boyfriend who zips to her concerts on a government jet. But life as the first lady of the FBI isn’t always so easy, she tells Vanity Fair’s @aidanmcl.bsky.social

A somewhat incensed former NSC official on Trump linking his escalating threats against Greenland to the Nobel peace prize: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/d...

Just 28% of Americans think the ICE agent’s shooting of Renee Good was justified

Swamp? Drained https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/washington-lobbyists-paid-online-influencers-few-rules-69eccd13?st=bG8Gfx&reflink=article_copyURL_share

Helluva response to Elon Musk from this French government account

“We are doomed to have another January 6 if we’re not honest with ourselves," says @ericswalwell.bsky.social, "about why it happened, who was responsible, and what we can do to make sure it never happens again.” House Democrats are fighting Trump to preserve the truth of what happened in Jan. 6.

Good lord: Trump in his Mar-a-Lago presser said Maduro was the head of a "the vicious cartel known as Cartel de los Soles, which flooded our nation with lethal poison." Now, his DOJ is admitting no such cartel exists — it's a slang term for officials corrupted by drug money:

MTG tells the Times that when she threatened to expose the men who abused Epstein’s victims, Trump called to scream at her. “My friends will get hurt,” he said.

Before she got dragged into the fight between Ben Shapiro, Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly, Bari Weiss spent weeks lobbying Kelly to participate in a town hall on feminism with Call Her Daddy host Alex Cooper

“Dismal,” “confused,” “demoralized,” “super fucked.” That, as one reporter tells Vanity Fair, is the mood inside CBS after editor Bari Weiss pulled a 60 Minutes segment that was critical of the Trump administration.

I spoke with Megyn Kelly at AmericaFest, where fissures in the MAGA movement erupted into a bitter feud. “They are making antisemites,” she said of Ben Shapiro and Bari Weiss. “Tucker is not making antisemites. They are.”

Trump “has an alcoholic’s personality.” Vance’s conversion to MAGA was “political.” Elon is “an avowed ketamine [user].” Trump’s chief of staff Susie Wiles tells all in a series of extraordinary interviews with @vanityfair.com

Christ. Trump says Rob Reiner and his wife were murdered “due to the anger he caused others” through his “TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME”

Trump: “We should take stakes in companies when people need something. I think we should take stakes in companies. Now, some people would say that doesn’t sound very American. Actually, I think it is very American.”

“Trump 2.0 appears at the nadir of its power,” @adamwren.bsky.social writes in Playbook

There's this strange tendency among Trump's backers where they hold his deputies to standards they would never hold him to. Of course Trump's FBI director posts own-the-libs memes on Twitter! This is what you voted for!

Trump in his second term has sought more aggressively to undermine and destabilize America’s institutions, but he also craves their recognition. On Sunday night, he hosted the prestigious Kennedy Center Honors—and mused about renaming the place after himself.

Fox News will applaud this but can you imagine their coverage if President Biden hatched a secret plan to take over Fox News and revamp its programming to be nicer to him

Trump basked in two hours of adulation from his Cabinet secretaries in a televised meeting this week. Are they auditioning for 2028?

“I almost couldn't speak.” Top Trump allies were stunned by the president's remarkably amiable meeting with Zohran Mamdani on Friday. A look the wild scene at the White House:

"My suspicion and question is: Has stuff been destroyed? I just can’t help but ask that. And will the public ever really know?" I spoke with Marjorie Taylor Greene about Trump, Epstein, Israel, and 2028, as tensions between Trump and his most loyal disciple exploded into a bitter public feud

A lot of scathing quotes aimed at Pulte for the 50-year mortgage idea in this great piece, but seemingly no blame for Trump who fully bought into it after 10 minutes

A data point on how much Mamdani's win in New York has resonated on the right: on Fox News, "affordability" has been mentioned 240 times since last Tuesday

“It’s like Vienna in 1914.” Wrote about the memorial for Washington power broker Bob Barnett, where Dr. Fauci backslapped Jesse Watters, Amy Klobuchar comforted nervous voters, and everyone wondered if they'd see a room like this again

When he worked at Fox News, Pete Hegseth wrote “FAILING” in Sharpie on his copy of the New York Times every morning. As Secretary of Defense, he’s turned that performative press hatred into policy:

New Press Club: Fox News chief foreign correspondent Trey Yingst on covering war, speaking out about the killing of Palestinian journalists, why Israel should allow foreign press into Gaza, and the criticism he's faced for reporting on the deaths of civilians

New Press Club: @praddenkeefe.bsky.social on his writing process, turning Say Nothing into an FX show, the future of magazine journalism, how to cover Trump 2.0, and whether access matters when you're dealing with pathological liars

We obtained the full police report detailing a 2017 sexual assault allegation against Pete Hegseth, the Fox News host Trump wants to serve as the next Secretary of Defense

New episode of The Interview: @jaketapper.bsky.social discusses the Israel-Hamas war, media coverage of conflict, the collapse of Twitter under Musk, why John Kelly spoke out against Trump and new leadership at CNN

Fox News is declining to comment on Greg Gutfeld’s declaration that elections no longer work and violent civil war is the only solution

Succession watch: Murdoch chose Lachlan to succeed him as head of Fox and News Corp. But when Rupert dies, the 4 kids - Lachlan, James, Prue, and Liz - will be left with equal votes. That makes a potential alliance between his more liberal siblings very dangerous for Lachlan (and Fox News)