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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...
President Donald Trump was octagon-side at a bloody Ultimate Fighting Championship in Miami even as Vice President JD Vance was announcing in Pakistan...
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...
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...
For decades, conservative Catholics and the religious right have prayed for a “red”-blooded American pope. Someone who would place the Vatican’s...
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...
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...
As he declared a “decisive military victory” over Iran on Wednesday, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth repeated his favorite self-arousing...
We will never be able to unsee the monster Trump revealed on Tuesday morning with his genocidal threat to destroy Iran’s “civilization.” The...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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Even as the Supreme Court hears the Trump administration’s oral argument to end birthright citizenship on Wednesday, our president will shamelessly...
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...
When Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks with such un-American glee about delivering “death and destruction from above” in Iran, he boasted...
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...
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...
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...
The White House Treaty Room has a deep history. Presidents Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, and William McKinley used it as their Cabinet...
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...
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...
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...
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...
President Trump sank lower than low, even by his standards, after he learned on Saturday that former special prosecutor Robert Mueller had died....
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...
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...
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...
Mom, the white supremacists are fighting again! This week’s MAGA temper tantrum began with the abrupt resignation of Joe Kent—a former Green...
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...
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...
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...
Spring breakers are facing travel carnage as airports across the country descended into chaos Thursday amid security delays due to the ongoing...
President Donald Trump seemed deranged enough when he responded online to Venezuela’s 3-2 victory over the United States in the World Baseball...
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An already-tense White House was plunged further into chaos during an emergency meeting Friday morning, reports an anonymous source who overheard the...
As he rhapsodizes in his Iran war briefings about maximum violent death and destruction “without mercy,” Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth could...
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...
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...
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...
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...
As the face of the new “Shield of the Americas” franchise, Kristi “ICE Barbie” Noem joins beloved figures like Mighty Lil’ Marco, The...
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...
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...
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