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Bad enough, President Trump lied during the State of the Union address to both houses of Congress. On Friday, Trump repeated the very same falsehood...
It’s 2026, and no one has just one job anymore. We’re all micro-influencers, personal assistants, self-caregivers, and rideshare drivers who...
Maine Senator Susan Collins’ re-election chances appear to be on shaky ground—the 73-year-old is trailing her Democratic opponent Graham Platner...
Not since Vietnam have we seen a more systematic effort by an administration to lie about the nature, costs, consequences, and results of a war than...
It started with a simple request, inasmuch as a simple request can upend constitutional principles and electoral freedoms across the country:...
On Monday, President Donald Trump threatened to blow Iran “off the face of the Earth” if it attacks a U.S. ship. And since Secretary of Defense...
Maybe we were a little premature on the whole “No Kings” thing. An actual monarch showed up in the US this week, and it went great? He gave a...
The national capital already has a bigger, more beautiful ballroom than the $400 million one that President Donald Trump is seeking to build at the...
Outside of the Washington Hilton in D.C. on March 30, 1981, Ronald Reagan was shot. It was a seminal moment in his presidency and in U.S. history....
America is in crisis. Indeed, the entire world is in a grave state. But stunningly, despite the constant flow of news that immerses us all daily, we...
It’s not quite on par with re-opening the Strait of Hormuz, but it’s what people in Washington are talking about: Will the White House...
Cole Tomas Allen’s failed attempt to storm the White House Correspondents’ Dinner did so much to boost President Trump’s political fortunes that...
This column is being republished with permission from its original home on Substack. For more from Michael Ian Black, subscribe here. Mea culpa, mea...
As loudly as President Donald Trump praised the security at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Saturday night, the truth is that...
In high school, a lithesome girl such as Alexis Wilkins would have walked past a loathsome guy like Kash Patel as if he were a wall locker. So it is...
Give Kash Patel a break. If you had to routinely trek over to the White House to kiss the president’s McDonald’s-encrusted a-- —and that’s...
Politics as theatre. Celebrity as currency. Wellness as religion. And power as the only real language in the room. Subscribe to PRIMAL SCREAM with...
The president’s latest vanity construction project—the “Arc de Trump,” as it has been dubbed online—is naturally attracting tons of...
Peter Thiel may or may not be the antichrist. The jury is out, the evidence is circumstantial, the lecture series is ongoing and the man himself is...
Politics as theatre. Celebrity as currency. Wellness as religion. And power as the only real language in the room. Subscribe to PRIMAL SCREAM with...
Just imagine if Joe Biden or, indeed, any past president had released $20 billion in frozen Iranian funds, alienated our oldest allies, handed Tehran...
If anybody suffers from a derangement linked to President Donald Trump, it is not the opponents who viscerally object to our current president’s...
During a bonkers press conference Thursday morning at the Pentagon, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth led the crowd in a game of “Bible Verse or Samuel...
The Daily Beast has sent me to Italy to cover the Trump vs. Pope fracas, so today I report from the shores of Lake Como, where the talk of the town is...
Donald Trump likes to think of himself as a funny man. He doesn’t have the talent for jokes like Ronald Reagan or the easy charm of Bill Clinton....
At the midnight hour, President Donald Trump was on Truth Social, attacking Pope Leo XIV. In the morning, he was once again calling former FBI...
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....
This column is being republished with permission from its original home on Substack. For more from Michael Ian Black, subscribe here. Anxious liberals...
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...
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