Auto Sales Dropped in 2017, and They’ll Drop Again in 2018
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Wall Street Journal reports that auto sales dropped 1.8 percent last year: The U.S. auto industry suffered its first annual sales decline since the financial crisis eight years ago, but a streak of strong profits is expected to overshadow a slowdown in dealership traffic….Executives…
A Reporter in the Oval Office? What Could Go Wrong?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over lunch I read the Michael Wolff piece everyone is talking about, and the basic takeaway is the same as hundreds of other articles about Donald Trump: he’s a moron; he’s only barely functionally literate; he watches a ton of TV; he’s ignorant about almost…
Voter Fraud Storyline Axed in “Donald” Season 2
Kris Kobach was hoping his misfit character would become a regular, but “Donald” audiences never warmed to him. His contract wasn’t renewed for season 2.Mark Reinstein via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The scriptwriters for The Donald Show are getting lazy with their story arcs. I mean, take a…
Government Media Awards Show Scheduled for 5 O’Clock
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Monday at 5 pm, college football holds its national championship game. But if you’re not a sports fan, don’t worry. Donald Trump has you covered: I will be announcing THE MOST DISHONEST & CORRUPT MEDIA AWARDS OF THE YEAR on Monday at 5:00 o’clock.…
Still No Deal on DACA?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over the past few months, Republicans have been too busy reducing corporate taxes to bother negotiating a budget for the 2018 fiscal year (which is already three months old). Instead they keep passing stopgap bills to keep the government going for a few weeks longer.…
NATO Defense Spending Started Increasing Three Years Ago
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Susan Glasser has a long piece in Politico today about Donald Trump’s foreign policy, and it’s about what you’d expect: pretty much everyone overseas thinks Trump is dumb, ignorant, and vain. They’ve responded in various ways: opportunistically when Trump is on their side (Israel, Saudi…