The NYT Just Published a Story Showing Even Trump’s Friends Are Worried About His “Isolated” Behavior
Carolyn Kaster/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Trump regularly fumes during meetings and calls his aides and advisers “fucking idiots.” He watches ever more TV, wonders why the press covers him so critically, and distrusts advisers who tell him that even as president he doesn’t always have the authority to make his wishes…
“Words Fail Me”—This Is Who Donald Trump Really Is
Matt Cardy/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. CNN published a bombshell report last night about more temper tantrums in the White House. This is not surprising because, of course, it’s about Donald Trump, but reading the details is still galling. President Donald Trump has at least twice in the past few weeks vented to his acting…
Baby Trumpers Aren’t Necessarily Climate Deniers
Alex Epstein/Center for Industrial Progress Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Alex Epstein is the author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels and works as a consultant for the coal industry and other dirty companies. On Friday, he came to the Turning Point USA student action summit in Palm Beach, Florida,…
The Top US Diplomat in the Fight Against ISIS Just Resigned Over Trump Pulling Out of Syria
Brett McGurk briefing reporters at the State Department in 2017Susan Walsh/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The lead US envoy in the fight against ISIS resigned abruptly on Friday due to his disagreement with Trump’s decision to withdraw 2,000 troops from Syria. Brett McGurk, special presidential envoy for the State…
Emails Show How Determined Scott Pruitt Was to Destroy the Environment
The scandal-plagued Pruitt had long pushed for a public “red team, blue team” debate between mainstream scientists and the small minority of scientists who disagree with them about climate change and its causes. In late 2017, White House officials urged him to abandon the idea. Yet according to emails obtained by the Guardian through a Freedom…
Wall Street Suffered Its Worst Week Since the Financial Crisis
Wang Ying/Zumapress Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This week marked the one-year anniversary of President Donald Trump’s crowning legislative achievement: a $1.5 trillion tax cut, supported by a GOP Congress that assured the American people the overhaul would boost economic growth to record levels. Instead, the Tax Cuts and Jobs…