Trump began by calling for Iran’s unconditional surrender. He ends by calling the mullahs “very rational people,” “nice to deal with,” and “strong and smart.”

Trump’s birthday should be a national day of mourning.

To succeed in today’s GOP, you have to fail as a human being.

Like Jesus, Trump has never read the New Testament.

Happy April Trump’s Day!

My latest:

It’s embarrassing that Trump needs to put his name on everything, like a child with a crayon and no supervision www.thedailybeast.com/the-true-cos...

Not trying to brag but I’ve never voted for Trump.

Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t think Trump alone can fix it.

Trump runs wars almost as well as he runs.

Kristi Noem is retiring to spend more time killing her dogs.

Is anyone else distressed by all the commercials that address Trump directly?

Trump is not pro-war or pro-peace. He’s pro-Trump.

Trump’s State of the Union address was nasty, brutish, and too long.

Presidents’ Day is the participation trophy of holidays. It’s like celebrating “the teams in the NFL” or “the leaders of World War II.”

The problem with Europe was that there was no one to confide my distress about American politics to.

“I never thought of myself as someone who runs away from my problems. I always thought of myself as someone who flies away from them.” Me on my attempt to expatriate in @thedailybeast.bsky.social: www.thedailybeast.com/i-fled-trump...

Happy birthday to Alex Jones, although it’s possible his birth was a hoax staged by actors paid by the Illuminati!

“Don’t obey illegal orders.” “We’re going to throw you in jail for saying such an outrageous thing!”

Trump hates Bad Bunny because he did something Trump cannot do: He got millions of people all over the world to watch him on TV and cheer for him.

“No form of prayer breakfast yet devised will save this crew, or earn it forgiveness.” —Christopher Hitchens

It’s only a matter of time until Trump renames Reagan National Airport “Trump Nationalist Airport.”

When Trump is president, time goes so slow and yet everyone ages so fast.

Personally, I’d rather hear “I’m from the government and I’m here to help” than “I’m from the government and I’m here to shoot you.”

I really want to move to another country, but I’m afraid Trump will invade it and start running it.

Trump takes trivial things seriously and serious things trivially.

The only way to get ICE agents to take off their masks is to tell them that there’s a deadly virus and wearing those masks is the only way to prevent it from spreading.

“MAGA is many things, but above all it’s a movement about redistributing respect away from those who command too much (overeducated coastal elites) to those who don’t have enough (white Americans without advanced degrees who feel left behind).” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

This, along with the talk of fighting Venezuela, seems very “I’m unpopular so I’ll start random wars” to me.

You Winsome, you lose some.

January 23, 2025:

George Orwell wrote in 1941:

Trump thinks D-Day stands for Donald Day.

Trump is doing to businesses what he did to his businesses.

Happy April Trump’s Day!

I appreciate that Jeffrey Goldberg did not sit on this news for a book that he writes two years from now

My DMs are open for anyone who wants to text me their war plans.

The weirdest thing just happened to me. A guy just asked me what time it was.

Remembering this nugget from @davidfrum.bsky.social’s March 2017 cover story: “The benefit of controlling a modern state is less the power to persecute the innocent, more the power to protect the guilty.” www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

“American politics has an ingrained philistinism and anti-intellectualism that has been the cause of infinite mischief.” —Irving Kristol (born OTD in 1920)

I’ll procrastinate later.

"When conspiracy theories and nonsense cures are widely accepted, the evidence-based concepts of guilt and criminality vanish quickly too." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

If you think it’s “divisive” to talk about January 6, you should have seen the time the president incited a mob to overthrow the government.

“Hatred has become a habit. With no more outside enemies to destroy, the fanatics make enemies of one another.” —Eric Hoffer, The True Believer

New Year’s Resolution: make better decisions, like not purchasing Saved by the Bell: The College Years on iTunes.

Isaac Asimov was born on this day in 1920. This quotation from 1980 holds up: “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States…. [It is] nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’”

Happy birthday to Andrew Johnson, the second-worst president of the United States!

I would wish everyone a Merry Christmas, but I can’t do that because Biden is still president.

Column 1: Trump is a conspiracist. Column 2: Bullshit! All Democrats are pedophiles!

Christopher Hitchens died 13 years ago today. I miss him.