Donald Trump’s Businesses Did Okay in 2019. But 2020 Might Be Awful for His Personal Wealth.
AP Photo/Alex Brandon For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Before COVID-19 hit, Donald Trump’s business empire was continuing to earn hundreds of millions of dollars. But the president’s recently filed personal financial disclosures show that much of that came from hotels and resorts, two of the industries hardest…
Here’s How Trump Is Emboldening Other Countries’ “Bad Behavior” on the Climate Crisis
President Donald Trump in 2017, around the time he announced plans to pull the United States out of the Paris Agreement.Xinhua/Zuma For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.This piece was originally published in the Guardian and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. The origins of the…
A Hurricane, a Pandemic, and Trump: The Triple Crisis Is Barreling Down on Florida
Trump returning from playing golf at his Sterling, Va. course on August 1. Patrick Semansky, AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Hurricane Isaias is expected to make landfall sometime tonight near southeast Florida after causing landslides, power outages, and widespread flooding in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic,…
Could Trump Have Another Reason for Banning TikTok?
David Talukdar, Zuma For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.The latest target in the Trump administration’s escalating tensions with China is TikTok, the wildly popular music-video app with 2 billion downloads worldwide and a 165 million in the United States. “As far as TikTok is concerned, we’re banning…
Impeachment Witness Alexander Vindman Just Wrote a Scathing Indictment of Trump
Andrew Harnik/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Former Army Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman, who was fired by President Donald Trump in February from his position in the National Security Council in apparent retaliation for Vindman’s crucial testimony in the House impeachment trial, has written a searing op-ed for…
The Trump Files: Donald Tried to Make His Ghostwriter Pay for His Book Party
Mother Jones illustration; Shutterstock For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.This post was originally published as part of “The Trump Files”—a collection of telling episodes, strange but true stories, and curious scenes from the life of our current president—on July 22, 2016. Donald Trump’s 1987 book, The Art…