Our constitutional republic is groaning under the weight of 250 years of unconscionable political and moral mendacity. On July 4, Trump will make a fool of himself as he did with his incredibly misbegotten parade last summer. We can do just the opposite. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/on-its-250...

This country has dumbed-down and red-necked itself into a level of promiscuous depravity and dishonor that would have been unimaginable to my own parents and grandparents, not to mention my ancestors. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/fuck-this-...

With his bullshit meetings at Mar a Lago, he’s got his headlines. He’s got his photo ops. Hell, he pushed the Epstein files right out of the headlines. You remember the Epstein files, don’t you? luciantruscott.substack.com/p/back-to-ba...

Pipsqueak Epstein’s long shadow is ruining Donald Trump’s Christmas. He’s ruining Donald Trump’s presidency. Bwwwaaahhh…sob…sob… luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-long-s...

My advice as an aging engineer: Channellock pliers can move smoothly from handling problems under the hood to problems of a culinary bent. When they go on sale, make sure that you buy two. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/holiday-em...

I was sitting on a pew in St. Mark’s just before the reading began when I smelled patchouli and felt a whoosh of feathers and fur to my right and turned to see Jimi Hendrix and his girlfriend and a couple of other friends as they slid down the pew. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/its-a-good...

I’ve been wondering what Donald Trump would be up to over the holidays at Mar a Lago besides playing golf and visits to special masseuses whom no one has yet “stolen” from him. Turns out he’s all fired-up about the Naval version of “Call of Doodie.” luciantruscott.substack.com/p/uh-oh-some...

We are already waist deep in waters that threaten to swamp the First Amendment, the 14th Amendment and every other Constitutional provision that Donald Trump doesn’t like, including the 22nd Amendment that limits a president to two terms in office. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/bari-weiss...

Greatness will forever elude this small, pathetic creature in a suit and polished shoes, because greatness cannot be packaged and named like a product or a building. It can only be lived and then accorded by others. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/john-f-ken...

If the goal of releasing the Epstein files is to make those men who joined Epstein in sexually assaulting and raping underage girls accountable for their criminal actions, it’s not going to happen. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/whats-happ...

Perfection is a series of mistakes that collects incremental bits of wisdom in a process that never ends. Progress is never quite getting where you want to go. You end up where life takes you. That’s how you know you’re human. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/musk-and-t...

Susie knew the mainstream media would swallow her bullshit like a martini in some mahogany-paneled boîte in Georgetown. There’s your news for you. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/susie-wile...

It won’t be death by a thousand cuts. A few deadly stabs in the back will do. The generals didn’t smile when he delivered right-wing applause lines at Quantico. They won’t be smiling when they slip the knife in, either. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/major-hegs...

This man, who refers to himself in the third person as “Trump,” is our president. Making sense of him isn’t working now, if it ever did. We are in a race between his unraveling and the unraveling of our country. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/donald-tru...

Lucian’s battalion is in exactly the same area at the south end of the post at Fort Carson where I served back in 1969 and 1970. The Army, as my mother used to say, is just a “big small town.” luciantruscott.substack.com/p/guarding-t...

He’s got portraits of himself on every surface in the White House. How long until we get in the car and drive down the street headed for the 7-ll in the mini-mall on the corner, and he’s staring down at us from a billboard or the side of a building? luciantruscott.substack.com/p/this-is-wh...

Snow has got us for the second day in a week, and I’ve been got by a bug as well, so I’m taking the night off. Soup and crackers and Pedialyte and early to bed for me tonight. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/under-the-...

Our politics have gotten only as far as junior high school, but we’re all still in kindergarten when it comes to learning to live together. Sharing is hard because so few of us have learned that when you share, you gain as much as you give up. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-most-d...

The only way any of these pardons makes sense is if Donald Trump was paid off to set these drug dealers and murderers free. This isn’t hypocrisy. It is terrorism committed against the American people and our system of laws. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/trump-is-p...

Trump’s staggeringly ignorant and juvenile introduction to the document is on White House stationery. It is enough to turn your stomach and make you cry for your country. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/trump-make...

The press covers the Epstein story like its a football game, with one side or the other gaining or losing yardage. But it's not a game. It's a crime. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/we-need-mo...

It looks like Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, Jean Pirro, and Dan Bongino have arrested the guy who bought enough components to put together galvanized pipe, wires, steel wool and kitchen timers and produced two elaborate duds. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/capitol-bo...

This is the way stories about the demise of a cabinet secretary classically begin: The knives are out for Schmucko at the Department of Mistakes Were Made. This time it’s more like the bazookas are out for Champagne Pete. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/in-the-bun...

That’s where all his payoffs are. No more paper trails. No more electronic trails. No more evidence of corruption. It all happens out there in a mysterious, impenetrable land called crypto. What other conclusion can you draw? luciantruscott.substack.com/p/our-presid...

I have been working on a column for tomorrow called “What other conclusion can you draw?” I can report that a night off with the Box Cat and Tracy and the rest of our menagerie has been restorative. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/it-may-not...

Crime pays. That has always been Trump’s motto. Crimes have victims, and the question this country faces every day is, when will enough of Trump’s victims in this county be mad enough to fight back? luciantruscott.substack.com/p/there-is-n...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a fanatic who has hired other fanatics such as Vinay Prasad to carry out an ideological assault on the healthcare of more than 300 million Americans because Donald Trump empowered them. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/what-is-go...

Bullets don’t care who they kill or where. Sadness from loss abounds when war is made and even when it ends. It is equally sad that this fact is not remembered by leaders who inflict war on soldiers and civilian victims. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-dc-nat...

‘Twas the night before Thanksgiving When all through the disgusting, gilded, marbled, half-demolished White House Not a Stephen Miller was stirring, not even a louse luciantruscott.substack.com/p/a-mar-a-la...

Where is it written that speaking out in defense of liberty is an illegal act? In the minds and morals of these people who want to destroy laws and lives and the Constitution itself. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/hegseth-is...

Stay tuned. Donald Trump has been trying to get Comey charged with a crime for nine years. This may be the week when we learn whether or not the charges he has ginned-up will stick. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/comey-indi...

Trump knows Republicans are going to lose the House and might lose the Senate. If that happens, he’s going to face another Bill of Impeachment in the House and trial in the Senate. Trump hasn’t got enough gold leaf to paper over his ego if that happens. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/trump-is-v...

The whole thing sounds like a typical Trump cobbled-together total clusterfuck at this point. Stay tuned. By midnight, they might be pushing the line that Little Green Men threw the thing down from a hovering UFO. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/so-called-...

Trump has his nose shoved so far up Putin’s ass, it’s amazing he can see enough to play golf. The question is, why? This week, we got our answer: Trump’s “peace deal” will make him and his family and his gang of American oligarchs much, much more wealthy. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/trumps-so-...

The way you beat a tyrant is standing up to his tyranny. Six members of Congress gave us an example of exactly that on Tuesday. Each of them is under special guard by Capitol Police because of threats to their lives by MAGA followers of Donald Trump. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-bill-o...

Our future is somewhere in one of those multi-acre data-centers that are popping up everywhere there is a fallow field that used to grow soybeans before Trump killed that market with tariffs. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/how-do-we-...

Comey will walk free one day soon, and he will be able to sit back and watch Donald Trump try to lie his way out of a whole bunch of evidence that shows his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein is the one corrupt thing he won’t get away with. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/this-is-wh...

It turns my stomach to say this, but we have not yet seen the bottom into which these wicked creatures have led us. Not even close. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/as-my-stom...

luciantruscott.substack.com/p/this-is-a-... Larry Summers steps away due to Epstein emails.

He will deny that he is weak, but that’s the danger all autocrats face in the end. When you have to deny that you’re weak, everybody already knows it, and they will treat you accordingly. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/hes-weak-w...

It is not hard at all to say that Donald Trump’s long friendship with and personal business connections to the known pedophile Jeffrey Epstein is the crime of the century. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-deep-d...

Refusing to vote to reopen the government unless the ACA subsidies are extended is maybe the single most popular thing Democrats have done since…jeez, I don’t even know when. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/dont-lose-...

We’ll be back to gazing at our newsfeeds and holding our breaths waiting to see if our Navy and Air Force have begun bombing Venezuela, or Delta Force special operators have rappelled from a helicopter into a drug lord compound somewhere in Mexico. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/wtf-is-wro...

So long as there are Confederate flags and Nazi flags and Nazi salutes and Jew haters and white supremacists walk proudly among us, we are a fallen country. We need to save ourselves from this horror before it’s too late. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/maga-extre...