Secretary of Whatever Pete Hegseth is nervous. Everyone at the Pentagon knows it. How do they know Pete is shaking in his loafers? That five-sided building is just like a small town. And what they’re talking about is how weirdly frightened the boss is. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/what-the-h...

Trump knows he isn’t going to get the Nobel Prize for his phony claims of ending seven wars. Maybe he’s got his eye on the prize in Ukraine now. We, and Ukraine, can only hope. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/trump-didn...

But these are niggling details, and as we all know, Donald Trump doesn’t do niggling details. By this time next year, he will probably be bragging that he has ended six more wars, that windmills are blowing up off the coast of Great Britain. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/how-long-o...

If I were Brendan Carr, I would duck and cover. Kimmel will be coming for the easiest target he’s had in his career, with the sole exception of Orange Littlehands himself. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/trumps-big...

My question is, why is he even bothering to ask for legislation that will allow him to commit murder when he’s already doing it? luciantruscott.substack.com/p/using-our-...

Slavery and its descendants are everywhere in this country. All you have to do is look around. History is in our bodies and in our land. It cannot be denied because it is alive in all of us. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/why-trump-...

Kimmel’s remarks were made with his vocal chords, forming sounds we normally refer to as “speech.” The First Amendment is supposed to protect remarks like Kimmel’s, even if people in power consider his words objectionable or offensive. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/trump-is-t...

Silly me. It’s not a lawsuit. It’s an 85-page tantrum. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/whiny-litt...

I will not be cowed. I will not bend. I will stand up and be counted and be damned with Stephen Miller and his thought police. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/a-few-thou...

The next thing you know, he’ll be renaming the Rose Garden “Charlie’s Garden” and putting Kirk’s name under his on the Trump Bible. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-new-bl...

People paid to listen to his podcast and attend his Turning Point USA speeches on college campuses. Capitalism is perfect in that way. You get what you pay for. Martyrdom is its own reward, and the person now profiting is Trump, not Charlie Kirk. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/as-a-maga-...

Guns kill people. There will be more Uvaldes and Sandy Hooks and Parklands and Columbines. We are at the mercy of killers who use guns, because we have allowed guns to rule us. Guns have more rights than we have. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/gun

The whole thing was a stage, and his presentation was as much a play as anything on Broadway. Everyone had a role, and your first act in the drama of Jeffrey Epstein was to keep your mouth shut, or there would be consequences. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/i-read-or-...

Induction involves constantly reaching out. Deduction involves constantly taking in, which is why all those data centers are so enormous. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/why-artifi...

Fascism is turning out to be more complicated than Trump and his minions thought. It turns out that the people have a voice, and they don’t like it when Trump tries to rig the justice system against them. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/fighting-f...

My personal favorite Thayer Award recipient is Cardinal Francis Spellman, who was given the honor in 1967, the same year he groped my thigh repeatedly in his quarters at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/politics-c...

The point is, who knows? Was that really a drug boat? Were they really narco-terrorist evil gang members? Why did it take 11 men to run drugs? Were there really any drugs on board? luciantruscott.substack.com/p/splash-one

Kennedy, insulated from the effects of his own decisions by money and privilege, ridiculed senators today, but his contempt and anger will hurt us all. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/rfk-jr-is-...

We are engaged in a great struggle, not just against Donald Trump and his enablers at the Heritage Foundation and their ideological fellow travelers, but against those among our fellow citizens who have become known as the MAGA faithful. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/what-can-w...

The judiciary is doing its part to hold up the rule of law. If we don’t want soldiers walking around in combat gear carrying automatic rifles in cities from Washington to San Francisco, the next move is up to us. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/a-scalpel-...

It will happen over there, and then it will happen here, and Kennedy will still be yapping that vaccines will kill you, and Trump will start pumping up stock in Ivermectin, and people will get sick and start dying. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/a-paroxysm...

This is our country, and we live here not alone, one by one, but together. We used to have a saying in the army when the going got nasty and uncomfortable and difficult. Drive on. That’s what I’m going to do. I’m going to drive on. Please come with me. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/a-confessi...

It may be that we are not hallucinating, but what is happening right now in Washington D.C. is causing us to lose our minds. And it may be our minds is not all we will lose. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/you-are-no...

Joni Mitchell’s “Big Yellow Taxi” got it so right: “They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.” The only thing missing in that genius lyric is “at Donald Trump’s White House.” luciantruscott.substack.com/p/hurry-up-a...

There is power in numbers, but there is even more power when those numbers are organized into a single fighting force. We’re fighting with one hand tied behind our backs. It’s the hand you raise in the air and motion forward calling out, follow me. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/army-of-ou...

Trump: “I'm not a dictator. I'm a man with great common sense and a smart person." Me: When you find it necessary to deny that you’re a dictator, you are a dictator. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/this-is-ge...

Donald Trump has Epstein DNA smeared all over him. He tries to hide who he is with concealer pancake make-up, but we know who he is. He is Jeffrey Epstein’s best friend. He’s dirty, as dirty as Epstein was, and that dirt will never come off him. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-epstei...

Is it really time to say, “First they came for John Bolton, and I didn’t not speak out, because I’m not John Bolton.” Yes, it’s time. We’re next. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/command-in...

The fundamentalist Christians who wrote the laws in Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas are not confident about their own faith. For right now, the law as written by the founders in the First Amendment is on our side, but for how long? luciantruscott.substack.com/p/shoving-re...

How this war ends will determine the next 100 years of world history. This may turn out to be the last war involving a nuclear power that comes to an end with anyone left to record it. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/what-is-re...

That Donald Trump had to be reminded by his fellow leaders who his allies are, and who is their and his enemy, is an outrage. It is a comment on how far we have fallen that Donald Trump, ablaze in his ignorance and ego, was elected as our president. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/mr-rogers-...

The next time Putin gets a hair up his ass for more territory to add to greater Russia, the United States is going to find itself mobilizing to come to the aid of Europe. Or maybe not. That is the depressing reality we face on this August night. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/adults-in-...

The New York Times has a decision to make. They can cover Russia’s war of aggression as what it is – murderous, outrageous, illegal, and unacceptable – or they can cover the whole thing as if it’s a game of power played by big men. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/wtf-is-wro...

He’s not getting the Nobel Prize. He didn’t get peace in Ukraine. He didn’t even get a ceasefire. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/impotent

We live in difficult times. The troops in Washington D.C. are engaged in difficult service. We can get through this together, soldier and civilian alike, or the whole thing will fall apart. It is the choice we face. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-thin-c...

That’s what Trump is doing with Nvidia and Advance Micro Devices. He’s running a protection racket. It’s terrible you can’t get that license to export those AI chips to China. Must be terrible for business. How does 20 percent sound? luciantruscott.substack.com/p/all-you-ne...

This is not Nazi Germany, it is the United States of America. We know it. They’re going to learn it. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/trump-is-t...

There were three dead bodies in the parking lot of a Target store in Austin, Texas. No problem. It’s Texas. But look over there! Graffiti and potholes and cracked marble and dirty streets in Washington D.C.! Send in the National Guard! luciantruscott.substack.com/p/donald-tru...

The idea that Kash Patel is in charge of the FBI deployment in Washington is just one of the delicious but horrifying aspects of this story. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/red-alert-...

Ooops! I’m sorry! That’s not the French hotel! It wasn’t even taken on the Las Vegas strip! It’s a photo of Oval Office in the White House in Washington D.C., freshly redecorated by its recently installed resident, President Donald Trump. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/1600-las-v...

I’ve been a writer and a reporter for 57 years, and I cannot find the words to describe the existential danger we face and express my horror and sorrow at what they are doing to our country. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/mass-arres...

“She explains what a character really meant,” he sings playfully, as if for an audience of children, not adults. “What was their motive? What was their intent?” Boy, is that me. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/talking-he...

Man runs for Biggest Bear on the Mountain. Man sets bear trap to catch other bears running for same office. Man gets elected Biggest Bear on the Mountain, forgets he set bear trap. Man steps on trap. Man is caught. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/trumps-eps...

If only Republicans would allow their politics to be affected by the elemental human truth that nobody wants to die young, lives could be saved. But health care is expensive, and sadly, lives are cheap. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/nobody-wan...

It’s good to have cats, good for your health, good for your mood, helps you stay sharp and live longer. I recommend it. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/taking-a-n...

And then history will record that man as having brought disgrace on Washington D.C. by filling its big empty box full of lies and everything he stole from the people who put him there, and he won’t be able to fire history. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/donald-tru...

To the barricades! You can read it on your phone, but so help me God, what I write will not be doom and gloom. I will cover the present by keeping in mind our past to ensure we have a future for ourselves and our children. That is my commitment. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/my-pledge-...