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The Dark Prediction Trump Will Make After MAGA Ally’s Loss

The Dark Prediction Trump Will Make After MAGA Ally’s Loss

His best trans-Atlantic buddy just lost bigly. Hungary’s MAGA-friendly leader Viktor Orban got the boot from voters after 16 years in power, despite...

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Eleanor Clift

How the American Pope Exposed Trump’s Un-American Delusions

How the American Pope Exposed Trump’s Un-American Delusions

President Donald Trump was octagon-side at a bloody Ultimate Fighting Championship in Miami even as Vice President JD Vance was announcing in Pakistan...

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Michael Daly

JD Vance Had His Worst Week Ever. Let’s Celebrate

There is no doubt that JD Vance is one of the smuggest, smarmiest politicians in modern American history. And that is saying a great deal, given that...

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David Rothkopf

How Trump Just Proved He Is History’s Most Powerful Idiot

How Trump Just Proved He Is History’s Most Powerful Idiot

It is well known that Donald Trump covets titles, awards and honors. After all, you do not acquire the FIFA Peace Prize, the first and only trophy for...

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David Rothkopf

The Real American War Is Between Trump and This Holy Warrior

For decades, conservative Catholics and the religious right have prayed for a “red”-blooded American pope. Someone who would place the Vatican’s...

11.04.2026 2

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John Casey

Trump’s ‘Weekend at Bernie’s’ Moment Is Fast Approaching

Trump’s ‘Weekend at Bernie’s’ Moment Is Fast Approaching

Even under the best of circumstances, Trump is almost dead. I’m speaking actuarially. He’s old, obese, can’t stay awake in meetings, and his...

09.04.2026 3

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Michael Ian Black

There Can Only Be One Bad Reason for Melania Talking Epstein

There Can Only Be One Bad Reason for Melania Talking Epstein

Donald Trump has apparently decided that being heavily linked to a notorious sex trafficker, while bad enough to make him want to start a war to...

09.04.2026 3

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David Rothkopf

Why Hegseth Is Certain to Be Trump's War's Biggest Casualty

Why Hegseth Is Certain to Be Trump's War's Biggest Casualty

As he declared a “decisive military victory” over Iran on Wednesday, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth repeated his favorite self-arousing...

08.04.2026 3

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Michael Daly

Trump Exposed His Monstrous Self. He Will Only Get Worse

Trump Exposed His Monstrous Self. He Will Only Get Worse

We will never be able to unsee the monster Trump revealed on Tuesday morning with his genocidal threat to destroy Iran’s “civilization.” The...

08.04.2026 1

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David Rothkopf

How Trump Just Proved He Is the Worst of the Worst

How Trump Just Proved He Is the Worst of the Worst

The President of the United States is a monster. At shortly after 8 a.m. on Tuesday morning, Donald Trump threatened to annihilate a nation of over 90...

07.04.2026 1

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David Rothkopf

We Found the Secret Woke Mole Hiding in Trump’s Inner Circle

We Found the Secret Woke Mole Hiding in Trump’s Inner Circle

There is no delicate way to put this: Usha Vance’s new YouTube show—“Storytime with the Second Lady”—is some real woke s--t. Only three...

06.04.2026 4

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Nell Scovell

Trump’s Easter Message Isn’t Just Wrong—It’s Blasphemous

Trump’s Easter Message Isn’t Just Wrong—It’s Blasphemous

On hearing that President Donald Trump was compared to Jesus Christ at a White House Easter luncheon, a New York priest beloved by everybody from...

04.04.2026 4

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Michael Daly

All the Reasons Pete Hegseth Needs to Be Fired Right Now

Pete Hegseth wants us to call him the Secretary of War. One problem with that idea is that it’s not up to him. The name of the Department he is...

03.04.2026 6

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David Rothkopf

Trump’s War Address Proves He Has No Clue What He’s Doing

Donald Trump had the opportunity to end the Iran War on Wednesday night. He could have declared victory, and we would almost have believed him. The...

01.04.2026 2

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David Gardner

This Is the Scary Reason Trump Unleashed His Torrent of Lies

If you comb the stockyards of Chicago and search all the cattlelands of America’s great prairies, if you go from the hillsides on which attentive...

01.04.2026 5

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David Rothkopf

An Exclusive Look at Trump’s New Address to the Nation

Four weeks ago, our brave military launched—on my orders—Operation Epic Fury. How incredible is that name? Epic Fury. Sounds like a Mad Max movie....

01.04.2026 2

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Michael Ian Black

ICE Barbie’s Big Balloon Boob-Loving Husband Is Fair Game

This column is being republished with permission from its original home on Substack. For more from Michael Ian Black, subscribe here. Anxious liberals...

01.04.2026 2

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Michael Ian Black

This Is the Cynical Truth About Trump and Citizenship

Even as the Supreme Court hears the Trump administration’s oral argument to end birthright citizenship on Wednesday, our president will shamelessly...

01.04.2026 6

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Michael Daly

How Trump Just Revealed His Dumbest Doctrine of All

For a man with the emotional maturity of a three-year-old and the foresight of a newt, Donald Trump is nonetheless a pretty terrible president. He...

31.03.2026 5

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David Rothkopf

How Hegseth’s School Attack Proves He Is Deeply Un-American

When Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks with such un-American glee about delivering “death and destruction from above” in Iran, he boasted...

31.03.2026 20

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Michael Daly

‘No Kings’ May Be the Turning Point We Desperately Need

Just when you think we have lost the plot, we get a glimmer of hope that we have not. The estimated 9 million people who took to the streets in more...

28.03.2026 6

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David Rothkopf

Trump Loves Money So Much He Wants His Name on All of It

Reality TV’s power to warp reality became manifest when somebody in a crowd of gawkers handed Donald Trump a single dollar bill on the steps of the...

28.03.2026 10

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Michael Daly

The True Cost of Trump’s Vulgar Branding Spree

Donald Trump’s two favorite things are himself and money. Now he has decided to combine the two. Indeed, for the first time in history, the sitting...

28.03.2026 10

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Windsor Mann

Of Course Trump Has No Room for Treaties

The White House Treaty Room has a deep history. Presidents Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, and William McKinley used it as their Cabinet...

27.03.2026 10

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John Casey

Trump, 79, Launches Wildly Repetitive Rant in Marathon Bore

There was no danger of Donald Trump, 79, taking a snooze at Thursday’s Cabinet meeting—because the president loves the sound of his own voice. In...

26.03.2026 10

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David Gardner

The Blue Tsunami Hit Mar-a-Lago. Surely Trump Is Sunk?

The commies have taken West Palm. This week, the tony South Florida enclave and home to Mar-a-Lago held a special election for a vacant state House...

26.03.2026 10

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Michael Ian Black

Let’s Hope Trump’s ICE Goons Are Enjoying Their Spring Break

As those foolhardy American travelers still willing to wait in four-hour security lines for a slim possibility of taking to the skies embark on spring...

25.03.2026 20

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Seamus Clair

Trump Puts War on Back Burner to Visit Tacky Tourist Spot

Wise men say, only fools rush in... By all accounts, Donald Trump had all the intelligence he needed to make a wise decision about whether or not to...

24.03.2026 10

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David Gardner

Every Time You Think Trump Can't Get Worse, He Does

President Trump sank lower than low, even by his standards, after he learned on Saturday that former special prosecutor Robert Mueller had died....

22.03.2026 20

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Michael Daly

Trump’s War in the Hands of a Man Who Dare Not Face Demons

There are no new stories of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth becoming so drunk that he has to be carried out of social events, as when he led the...

20.03.2026 10

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Michael Daly

Trump Is Replaying LBJ’s Losing Battle With ‘Fake News’

In the 1960s, President Lyndon Johnson had three large TV sets bolted into the walls of the Oval Office, one tuned to each network—there were only...

20.03.2026 20

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John Casey

There’s Only One Thing U.S. Allies Should Thank Trump for

I have two daughters living in the United Kingdom. Both of them are United States citizens, and they love this country. But they are certainly not...

19.03.2026 10

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David Gardner

Trump’s Most Dangerous War Isn’t in Iran. It’s in MAGA-land

Mom, the white supremacists are fighting again! This week’s MAGA temper tantrum began with the abrupt resignation of Joe Kent—a former Green...

19.03.2026 20

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Michael Ian Black

Trump’s War Is Just the Tip of His Iceberg of Catastrophe

Trump’s Iran war is a fiasco. Undertaken without adequate planning by a president deaf to the advice of experts, there is no meaningful measure by...

19.03.2026 20

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David Rothkopf

Trump’s War Is a Pivotal ‘FAFO’ Failure on the World Stage

President Trump says the war in Iran was won in the first hour, but we haven’t won enough, and we don’t want to leave early as the country’s...

19.03.2026 20

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Eleanor Clift

Spooked Trump Lets Slip Realization That His War Is Doomed

President Donald Trump has finally realized that he launched a political grenade at his own party when he declared war on Iran—and that he has no...

19.03.2026 20

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Janna Brancolini

This Is My Jeffrey Epstein Story: Michael Wolff

Spring breakers are facing travel carnage as airports across the country descended into chaos Thursday amid security delays due to the ongoing...

19.03.2026 20

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Michael Wolff

28 Million Reasons This Is Trump’s Craziest Plan Yet

President Donald Trump seemed deranged enough when he responded online to Venezuela’s 3-2 victory over the United States in the World Baseball...

18.03.2026 20

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Michael Daly

Does Melania Trump Even Have Any Real Friends?

Politics as theatre. Celebrity as currency. Wellness as religion. And power as the only real language in the room. Subscribe to PRIMAL SCREAM with...

15.03.2026 20

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Joanna Coles

The Big Speech Melania Trump Has Planned For Oscars Night

An already-tense White House was plunged further into chaos during an emergency meeting Friday morning, reports an anonymous source who overheard the...

14.03.2026 20

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Seamus Clair

This is The Truth About Pentagon Pete’s Fixation on ‘Death’

As he rhapsodizes in his Iran war briefings about maximum violent death and destruction “without mercy,” Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth could...

12.03.2026 10

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Michael Daly

Joe Rogan and the Podcast Bros Are Having Second Thoughts

We’re starting to see a few miserly mea culpas emerging from the loose-knit collection of podcast influencers who went to bat for Trump in 2024: Joe...

12.03.2026 20

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Michael Ian Black

Pentagon Pete Should Get to Spend Millions More on Crabs

The problem isn’t the $124,000 Pete Hegseth’s Department of Defense spent on ice cream machines last September. Or the $15.1 million they spent on...

12.03.2026 20

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Michael Ian Black

This Is the Frightening Truth Trump Can’t See About His War

Donald Trump is being drawn into the kind of proxy war with Russia that his predecessors have been trying to avoid since the Bay of Pigs. Vladimir...

11.03.2026 20

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David Gardner

Trump Is Trying To Run the World Like a Pyramid Scheme

Trump seems to believe the presidency comes with C-Suite access for the planet as a whole: he can interview foreign leaders for job openings, dissolve...

10.03.2026 20

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Holly Hudson

ICE Barbie’s ‘Shield’ Superheroes Are Here to Save the Day

As the face of the new “Shield of the Americas” franchise, Kristi “ICE Barbie” Noem joins beloved figures like Mighty Lil’ Marco, The...

09.03.2026 10

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Seamus Clair

The Brutal Price Americans Will Pay for Trump’s War

When Donald Trump was asked by Time magazine if he was worried the war could come to America’s backyard, he replied, “I guess.” Like the San...

09.03.2026 20

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David Gardner

I Nearly Endorsed Trump. Now I’m One of His Top Critics

It was January 2013, and the Lincoln Dinner was just a few months away. Oakland County, Michigan has one of the largest and oldest Lincoln...

08.03.2026 20

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David Trott

Trump Fired ICE Barbie—But She Still Broke Barriers

Politics as theatre. Celebrity as currency. Wellness as religion. And power as the only real language in the room. Subscribe to PRIMAL SCREAM with...

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Joanna Coles

Why Trump’s Iran War is Just Another Family Business

For more insight and commentary from Michael Wolff, subscribe to HOWL on Substack and gain access to exclusive daily content. We’re in the middle of...

07.03.2026 20

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Michael Wolff