Watch a Fake Rabbi Wrap Trump’s Spiritual Adviser In a Torah Scroll
Televangelist and personal pastor to the president, Paula White Cain, speaks during a Donald Trump campaign event courting devout conservatives by combining praise, prayer and patriotism, Thursday, July 23, 2020, in Alpharetta, Ga. John Amis/AP Photo For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.In honor…
Trump Doesn’t Care About the People Who Got Coronavirus. Now He’s One of Them.
Carolyn Kaster/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.In the early hours of Friday morning, the White House announced that President Trump and his wife, Melania, had tested positive for the coronavirus. Almost immediately, there were calls for expressions of empathy for them as…
In the Coronavirus, Donald Trump Has Met His Match—a Reality That Won’t Budge to Alternative Facts
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.If your morning (or late night) was anything like mine, it was consumed with speculation about what it means that the president has tested positive for coronavirus. That’s a natural impulse, and cable hosts and social media pundits…
President Trump Has Contracted COVID-19
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.Holy shit: As too many Americans have done this year, @potus & I are quarantining at home after testing positive for COVID-19. We are feeling good & I have postponed all upcoming engagements. Please be sure you are…
Will Someone Rid Biden of This Meddlesome Filibuster?
Matt Smith/Shutterstock For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.Over at New York magazine, Gabriel Debenedetti has a long article on what President Biden would do about the filibuster if Democrats take the Senate. One of the people Debenedetti spoke to is Sen. Chris Coons,…
Donald Trump Can’t Denounce White Supremacists Because He Is One
Yuri/Abaca via ZUMA Press For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.On Wednesday—one day after the debate in which he refused to condemn white supremacists and told a neofascist street gang to “stand by”—President Donald Trump reprised his bigotry at a campaign stop in Duluth,…