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Blame a windmill—you know Trump wants to. But all it took was a single gust, in all its fury, to expose the 80-year-old president’s gaping,...
Has it really come to this? A scared old man and his Pentagon bully cowering in a catering truck, knowing they could be sending friends and colleagues...
President Trump’s decision to nominate Dennis Kirk to serve as Inspector General of the Department of the Interior is a profound mistake. His...
Doug Burgum, the Secretary of the Interior, is not simply a member of Donald Trump’s Red State, defined by resentment, prejudice, and Fox News....
Every era has its great conundrums that great minds struggle with. Centuries ago, there was serious debate about how many angels could fit on the head...
With another octogenarian president once again spending his time yelling at people to get off his proverbial lawn–which is fair, given that it’s...
The Vultures Are Circling CNN: Wolff The fate of CNN, undoubtedly the world’s most famous name in news, hangs in the balance. Donald Trump, as much...
“I once asked, ‘If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?’ Now I know the answer to that question. When your family, your...
The closest I’ve ever come to being a lawyer was playing the bowling alley manager for a bowling-alley-owning lawyer on the TV show Ed, so I may not...
Flailing politicians sometimes try to rationalize their way around the polls, believing they have some finer gut understanding. Trump is way beyond...
The White House ballroom. The Triumphal Arch. The relined Reflecting Pool. The new 747. Together, they cost a small fraction of just one of the...
Another D.C. institution in the culture war crosshairs. The Smithsonian has been a target of the Trump administration for over a year now, since an...
Oscar Wilde famously said that “with age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.” Whether we get wiser as we age is open to argument, but the...
He’s a b-tchy little queen. Such a b-tchy little queen. The make-up, the cattiness, the whining, and, especially, the resentment of successful...
Former star NFL running back Ahman Green, 49, revealed that he has been living with early-onset Parkinson’s for the past year and a half. The...
For more from Michael Wolff, subscribe to HOWL on Substack and gain access to exclusive daily commentary, analysis, and insider knowledge. I once...
I have covered Donald Trump’s second term since the day he was inaugurated, and each day, my faith in him and his administration has dwindled a...
Three hours after he saluted the arriving coffins of four service members killed in his unpopular war of choice in Iran, President Donald Trump...
This is getting ridiculous. Six weeks ago, the former Senate Majority Leader was wheeled into a hospital. Since then, aside from a single smiling...
What Trump’s Election Denial Speech Is Really About: Wolff President Donald Trump’s Thursday night speech represented the intersection of mental...
There was a time when, if a president delivered a speech that was so packed with lies that it was instantly, and conclusively, contradicted into...
At the approach of President Trump’s prime time address to the nation on Thursday, former senior FBI and intelligence officials told the Daily Beast...
A seemingly frenzied wild boar left four people hospitalized after ravaging through the Japanese city of Toyota, charging workers at a factory before...
The tweeting of birds on a summer morning in Biddeford, Maine was interrupted by sound of Trump’s America: Four gunshots fired by an ICE agent. A...
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, a bona fide monster, hailed Senator Lindsey Graham as a beacon of “moral clarity.” Donald...
Vice President JD Vance is no longer claiming Haitian immigrants eat cats. But he remains truth-challenged when it comes to a different topic: babies,...
“America, get your boy. He’s broken. He has lost his mind. He needs to be under a doctor’s care back home.” Looking into the eyes of NATO...
He is now, as I have seen repeated online, Schrodinger’s Turtle. A man both alive and dead because nobody of integrity has yet peered inside the...
It is tempting to think that just because Donald Trump is by far the most corrupt public official in the history of the United States, and his...
This column is being republished with permission from its original home on Substack. For more from Michael Ian Black, subscribe here. I’m not sure...
Though our country’s 250th birthday is now fast approaching, plenty of Americans aren’t feeling particularly celebratory. But as a historian of...
Do you remember the uproar when President Barack Obama accepted a shiny $50,000 gold coin from the Sultan of Brunei? Critics said he was “selling...
Happy 250th Birthday, America. How is your president, the living symbol of our democracy, our nation’s leader and face unto the world marking the...
On Saturday night, Donald Trump will take over the National Mall to turn the nation’s 250th birthday party into a celebration of himself. “We are...
For the record, I agree with Vice President Vance: If the right-wing media empire that exists today had been in place in the seventies, President...
A 110-foot Ferris wheel is the centerpiece of the Great American State Fair currently come to town in our nation’s capital, which is not a state the...
As we approach July 4th, the President of the United States has just one thing on his mind: Ending free and fair elections in the United States....
Give algae the Nobel Peace Prize! Algae did not pay me to write this column but after I’m finished, I think you’ll agree that algae owes me some...
Kermit the Frog said it best: It’s not easy being green. And now the Reflecting Pool, sickly green with algae, is D.C.’s top tourist attraction, a...
A problem with politics is obviously that it allowed Donald Trump to become president. But it is hard not to conclude, too, that the problem with...
Everybody loves Nate Bargatze. Hell, I love Nate Bargatze. The clean-cut comic has built an empire on his dumb, everyman persona. He’s currently the...
Once, we had wars of choice. Today, we have wars of distraction. Call the catastrophically misguided war in Iran and the blink-and-you-missed-it war...
Donald Trump Is Doing Everything Possible to Destroy Himself Donald Trump’s end is going to happen. We’re seeing it now. Below the surface of his...
Donald Trump deserves exactly as much credit for the “deal” with Iran that he has announced as a spouse abuser does for announcing he will stop...
Only a man like Donald Trump would respond to the widespread criticism of his demolition of the East Wing by thinking to himself (inasmuch as Trump...
The day President Donald Trump becomes an octogenarian, mixed martial arts fighters are slated to stride from the Oval Office to punch, kick, and...
In case you haven’t been paying attention, there’s now a big sign over the White House proclaiming its “Monster Energy.” In the images, the...
I can’t believe I’m writing these words, but it now appears that the only Trump administration figure who acted with anything resembling a...
This column is being republished with permission from its original home on Substack. For more from Michael Ian Black, subscribe here. This is how dumb...
I spent my birthday in Italy for the 1990 World Cup, and I was unable to buy an alcoholic drink. It wasn’t that I was too young to order one, but...
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