Meanwhile, 7-time champion Lewis Hamilton continues down the primrose path blazed by 4-time champion Sebastian Vettel, who left Red Bull only to close out his career in relative obscurity at Ferrari. I took plenty of flak for urging Lewis to retire in 2021, before it came to this. Well… here we are.

As America pauses to remember Pearl Harbor, this iPINIONS commentary warns that Trump’s bullying of peaceful neighbors is turning 2025 into a year of infamy in the Americas — a dark echo of the very imperial aggression FDR once condemned. ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/from-fdr-d...

Sydney can’t win (and her movies continue to flop) because she can’t make up her mind. First she’s selling Joseph Mengele–inspired eugenics, then she’s channeling Marilyn Monroe–style sex appeal, and now she’s going full Margaret Atwood Handmaid. Vestes feminam faciunt: the clothes make the woman?

Sure, who needs a Nobel Peace Prize when you can bully FIFA to create one just for you? But FIFA isn’t honoring Trump, they’re trolling America. What’s next, a Paramount Oscar for Dear Leader? Infantino should be fired for making the World Cup more about Trump than the game.

Trump tried to strong-arm WBD into selling to Paramount, owned by his billionaire backers. But Netflix won — exactly the outcome iPINIONS championed. A win for media independence, even as MAGA keeps pushing for a propaganda empire. ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/paramount-...

Jada couldn’t be more flattered; she’s been pining for Tupac so long she’s now channeling his wannabe-thug-life energy. Tupac is still cuckolding Will from the grave. And that slap we thought was Will being gallant? Jada’s made it clear: he was just doing what she told him to.

Trump may be slipping, but he’s lucid enough to know he’s headed to Hell, and determined to drag Republicans with him. Calling Somali immigrants “garbage” is just his latest test to see if any has the moral courage or balls to say: Hell no, I won’t go.

Except that the critics savaging Meghan have nothing on the hordes who savaged Martha Stewart. Which is why all Meghan needs now is for Harry to run off with one of her cute little helpers to seal her place as the most suitable heir to that domestic goddess...

Trump isn’t just passing the buck. He’s selling pardons and selling out America. Trump has turned the Resolute Desk into the Excuse Desk. And if you pay, he’ll betray. Read more: ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/when-he-is...

You’d think NASCAR would welcome Michael Jordan on bended knee. After all, the reputational boost alone from this GOAT’s name and likeness is worth ten times whatever its good-old-boys are trying to monopolize for themselves. Besides, no jury is siding with NASCAR against Jordan.

Trump is refusing to mark World AIDS Day, breaking a 40-year tradition. AIDS joins the truths this MAGA White House wants erased: democracy, climate change, reproductive rights, DEI, America as a land of immigrants. And with anti-vaxxers running HHS, measles is going viral again. Silence = Death.

Trump is banning Black and Brown migrants while granting a VIP asylum lane for white South Africans. He calls it security. iPINIONS calls it apartheid. Because racism isn’t a side effect of his immigration policy. It is the policy… ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/from-musli...

What oversight? Everyone knows exactly why Hegseth is ignoring the laws of war. It's the same reason (ICE Barbie) Noem and every other secretary are ignoring the rule of law. They all know Trump will pardon them... even for mass murder... committed during his administration...

Americans think Trump taught them corruption. South Africans say Americans don't know what real corruption looks like. Especially now that SCOTUS is channeling Nixon: “When the president does it, that means it’s not illegal.”

Trump pardoning a drug trafficker while threatening war to stop drug trafficking isn’t hypocrisy; it’s pay-to-play. Dirty money buys clean pardons. And he couldn't care less how many Americans this trafficker killed. His contempt for America is now as brazen as his grift.

Bezos canonizing Melania reeks of “Evita” cosplay, except Eva actually fought for the poor. Melania just smiles and waves. Remember, this is the same woman who wore “I really don’t care, do you?” while migrant kids were being torn from parents. She makes Marie Antoinette look charitable.

Zelensky is fighting on three fronts — Russia, wavering allies, and corruption at home. Meanwhile, Trump is trying to reward Putin for stealing Ukrainian land. One defends democracy. The other defends dictators.

Airport lounges no longer separate the haves and have-nots. Sure, Perrier instead of seltzer, but same chaos. Sean Duffy says dress up to “restore civility.” Lipstick. Pig. Godspeed to everyone flying home for the Christmas encore. ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/holiday-tr...

So much for Trump’s cosplaying diplomacy. Putin isn’t even pretending to indulge his Nobel fantasies anymore. He’s making Trump look like an even bigger chump than Hitler made Chamberlain look. And instead of waving a bogus peace treaty, Trump is just flailing like a “Putin puppet” on a string.

Happy Thanksgiving Day!

A judge ruled just last week that National Guard deployments, like those in other “blue cities,” are illegal. Yet Trump’s response is to deploy another 500 troops. Because soldiers are nothing more than cannon fodder for his military bluster. Wake up, America!

Republicans crusade for mass deportations until it’s someone in their own family. You watch: Leavitt will fight to save her brother’s Latina baby mama… unless he actually wants her deported. You never know.

Thanksgiving 2025 should be a celebration. Instead, families are counting bills instead of blessings, while politicians pretend life is “wonderful” even as millions slide toward modern breadlines. ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/thanksgivi...

Meghan just wants to live like a royal without all the duties and responsibilities of having to work like one. So nobody should be surprised that this imperial shrew expects Americans to be even more deferential to her than the British ever were to the Queen.

Democrats building a digital media army is smart. Doing it with influencers who look like a Young Republicans mixer… not so much. Frankly, it looks like they’ve joined MAGA’s anti-DEI crusade, too. Can’t beat ’em… join ’em?

I've been using ChatGPT for months. Turns out I spend more time correcting its mistakes than benefiting from its "intelligence." There's a better way. My latest on AI hype vs. reality. ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/chatgpt-th...

We used to say “a penny for your thoughts.” But now nobody has pennies… or thoughts not trapped in their phones. With cash disappearing and even coins becoming relics, bitcoin is looking like the one coin to rule them all, and not minted by the US Treasury. ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/death-of-p...

Bill, you’re saying you’d keep breaking bread with relatives cheering Hitler’s plans to exterminate all Jews... because “family is family”? Pro tip: When MAGA trolls are quoting you to defend their fascistic white-supremacist hate-isms, you’re not the sensible centrist… you’re their useful idiot.

Oh dear, as if this family (especially Caroline) hasn’t endured enough tragedy. My thoughts and prayers are with Tatiana and her family. Surely her brother Jack will suspend his congressional campaign to spend whatever time they have left together. Politics can wait; family can’t.

Charles returns to Fortnum & Mason, the scene of his cash-for-honours scandal, now for charity PR. Same royal. Same grift. Fancier crown. Read my full take on Substack: ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/charles-re...

Because everything MAGA manages turns into a grift. Trump has turned the Kennedy Center into a private club for MAGA cronies and bribing suck-ups. And ticket sales are plummeting because no self-respecting American will attend anything under their kakistocratic management.

Not since Clarence Thomas railed about a “high-tech lynching” to keep uppity Blacks like him in their place has a "darkie" displayed the self-hating paradox of trying to be more White than White supremacists to show they belong in the GOP.

But why the outrage now? Ronaldo sold his soul years ago when he took Saudi sportswashing money to play for a crown prince. Fawning over Trump is just performing another part of his Faustian bargain...

Remember when Michelle Obama held up that #BringBackOurGirls sign? Now 25 more schoolgirls are gone… and the hashtag warriors have moved on. The world forgot. Terror did not. Full commentary — new at iPINIONS: ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/the-silenc...

Trump keeps losing his anti-democratic cases, like this Texas gerrymander, thanks to the Democracy Avengers led by Marc Elias. In fact, Elias is as much a foil to Trump’s Jim Crow 2.0 as MLK Jr. was to Bull Connor’s original Jim Crow. That's why I hereby nominate Elias for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Earth to people outside MAGA world, these are intended to be political persecutions, not criminal prosecutions. For Trump, indictments and arrests, with all the humiliation and costs they entail, constitute enough retribution.

Trump’s foreign policy has become a grotesque mix of Musk’s ego, Fox’s fiction, and white grievance. From South Africa to Venezuela, it’s ignorance on parade and power without principle. Read more on iPINIONS Daily: ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/on-foreign...

Because using the title of a beloved children’s book to brand immigration raids that tear families apart is peak trolling and gaslighting. It's the kind of cruelty that thrills MAGA.

Pro tip: If you're a citizen or legal resident and ICE stops you, don’t refuse commands to show ID or step out of your car. Refusing will only lead to unnecessary damage to your car (and possibly to your body), while ICE just moves on with impunity to the next target.

Not since Trump betrayed and banished Jeff Sessions (the first senator to endorse him in 2016) has one of Trump’s betrayals been so redolent with schadenfreude. But if MTG ends up like Charlie Kirk, Trump will not only pretend he had nothing to do with it, he’ll hint at pardoning her assassin, too.

iPINIONS imagined the apocalypse would be cinematic; not something we’d scroll through between coffee and deadlines. Eliot said it more poetically, but Huxley depicted our brave new world more accurately. ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/doomscroll...

Kris Jenner’s $6M Bond-themed 70th wasn’t just a party; it was a cultural coronation. It had Oprah leading Hollywood, including exiled royals, in keeping up with the Kardashians. www.theipinionsjournal.com/momager-kris...

What self-respecting woman shrugs at 50-year-old men preying on teens, so long as they’re closer to 14 (like her own) than 7? Sadly, she's trying to look like more of a MAGA White supremacist than Stephen Miller and like more of a MAGA handmaid than Laura Loomer.

Well, if this brownface of MAGA white supremacy can deny visas for race, ethnicity, and religion, it's hardly surprising that he can do so for obesity, cancer, and diabetes. This is us, now, America...

Peaty conquered the water that made him famous, but now he’s drowning in shame. Reports say the Olympic champ snubbed his own mother to marry into Gordon Ramsay’s rich clan. iPINIONS dives into the class shame behind Britain’s latest fallen hero. 🔗 ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/shame-on-o...

And Jeffrey told him to get a madam like his Ghislaine Maxwell. So Harvard’s Prof. Summers didn’t just get bad advice. He got the predator’s version of a tutorial — proof that among the powerful, it’s often the blind seeking guidance from the damned.

The College of Cardinals knew what they were doing when they elected Leo to be a woke, anti-Trump pope. Now US bishops are returning the favor — picking a MAGA, anti-pope leader. Even churchmen are bending the knee to Trump to dodge his wrath. Shameful. UnGodly.

Caroline must've had this fortunate son in mind when she warned about RFK Jr. luring relatives down a primrose path of drugs and debauchery. His campaign launch shows he’s trying to mimic Mamdani, but he seems possessed of a helter-skelter personality laced with Trumpian narcissism. So...

Trump is marking this Veterans Day by plotting his own Ukraine-style war in Venezuela. He's turning foreign policy into an arcade game, picking off weak targets in Latin America like sitting ducks, while ducking strong targets in Moscow and Beijing. 👉 ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/trump-hono...