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Strongman Trump’s ‘Forever Wars’ All Come Back to Epstein

Strongman Trump’s ‘Forever Wars’ All Come Back to Epstein

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...

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David Rothkopf

Why Trump’s 80th Birthday Gift to Himself is Truly Shameful

Why Trump’s 80th Birthday Gift to Himself is Truly Shameful

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...

14.06.2026 6

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David Rothkopf

How MMA Don Trump Rules America With ‘Monster Energy’

How MMA Don Trump Rules America With ‘Monster Energy’

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...

11.06.2026 10

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David Rothkopf

The One War Trump Is Winning Is the One Against Us

Why did four million Albanians take to the streets to protest a corrupt land deal engineered by President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka and her...

07.06.2026 7

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

Trump Reveals His Cringetastic Birthday Present for America

It is now clear. It can now be revealed. Donald Trump has prepared a special 250th birthday gift for the United States of America. Trump has boldly...

01.06.2026 10

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

The First Step to Unrigging the System Starts With Trump

This column is being republished with permission from its original home on Substack. For more from David Rothkopf, subscribe here. Let us start with...

20.05.2026 10

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David Rothkopf

Trump’s Golden Age Has Arrived—It’s a Golden Age of Grift

The golden age our president promised us has arrived. Never in the long history of our country have we seen a period of such innovation, boldness, and...

18.05.2026 10

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How Trump’s Trip to China Proves He’s Truly Broken America

Flying back to the U.S. from Beijing, Donald Trump made it clear that he knew his state visit to China was a flop. He was in a lousy mood. In his...

15.05.2026 30

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Trump is No Longer the Most Powerful Man in the World

This week, from the 13th to the 15th of May, the two men who have arguably done the most during this century to make China the world’s most powerful...

11.05.2026 20

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The Scandal That Should Be the End for Fratboy Pete Hegseth

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...

06.05.2026 20

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Trump's Mad Plan to Make Us Fall in Love With His Ballroom

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...

28.04.2026 20

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David Rothkopf

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...

13.04.2026 20

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David Rothkopf

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...

12.04.2026 30

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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 20

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David Rothkopf

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 30

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David Rothkopf

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 30

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David Rothkopf

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 20

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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 20

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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 20

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‘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 30

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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 40

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How Unfit Trump’s War Could Be Most Dangerous One of All

I remember sitting in a hospital room following the birth of my younger daughter watching reports of the early days of the first Gulf War. The U.S....

28.02.2026 40

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David Rothkopf

Trump’s SOTU Speech Was Bad. The State of Our Union is Worse

If you took every true thing President Donald Trump said during Tuesday’s State of the Union address and tattooed it onto the genitalia of a flea,...

25.02.2026 40

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The World Is Learning to Say ‘No’ to Donald Trump

Donald Trump on Friday attacked the Supreme Court majority that ruled against him in a landmark decision on tariffs with a venom and ferocity he has...

21.02.2026 1500

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The Dems Warming Up for 2028—and Who’s Ahead Racing Already

Spoiler alert: No one has the slightest idea who the Democratic candidate for president will be in 2028. Including me. But that doesn’t mean it’s...

20.02.2026 70

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The Only Upside to Mad King Trump’s Monuments

07.02.2026 60

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Our President is Truly the Ugliest American

03.02.2026 90

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There Can Be No More Doubt. Trump Wants to Kill Free Speech

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It’s Clear Punch Drunk Trump, 79, Is On the Ropes

30.01.2026 50

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Trump’s Goons Are the Terrorists. Here’s What We Must Do Now

25.01.2026 150

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Time to Admit It, America: He’s a Dangerous, Lunatic Moron

21.01.2026 650

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Trump’s MAGA Agenda Means Gutting America’s Truly Great Past

14.01.2026 40

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Donald Trump’s America Is Acting Like a Mafia State

06.01.2026 60

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Why Trump’s War Is Dumb, Brazen—and Of Course, All About Oil

04.01.2026 30

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Trump’s War Has Most Sinister Inspiration You Can Imagine

04.01.2026 90

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Time to Kick Trump Out of Office—and Into a Padded Cell

19.12.2025 100

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Trump Is Sending America to War With a Truth Social Rant

18.12.2025 70

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Trump Is Triggering His Very Own MAGApocalypse

13.12.2025 70

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Trump’s New Global Vision Amounts to a National In-Security Strategy

08.12.2025 20

New Republic

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Why Blowhard Pentagon Pete Put Himself in the Crosshairs

02.12.2025 20

The Daily Beast

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How Trump’s Four Ugly Words Reveal the Worst Is Yet to Come

23.11.2025 20

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We’re All Stuck in Trump’s Swamp of Bad Billionaire F--kery

19.11.2025 30

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It’s About Time For Republicans to Dump Donald Trump

14.11.2025 30

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Why These Vichy Dems and Their Spineless Boss Need to Go Now

11.11.2025 20

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Why Dem Triumph Is Only Act One of Trump’s Year From Hell

07.11.2025 30

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Is Trump the Fuse Who Will Detonate ‘A House of Dynamite’?

29.10.2025 40

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Why One Name Should Go On That Ballroom—And It’s Not Epstein

25.10.2025 20

The Daily Beast

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This Trump Stunt Makes Louvre Heist Look Like Chump Change

23.10.2025 20

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It’s No Nobel, But Trump’s Gaza Deal Is a Glimmer of Hope

10.10.2025 30

The Daily Beast

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This Is the Real Reason Trump's a Disaster Merchant

No, our commander-in-chief is not a hysterical little girl who sees monsters hiding under her bed or in the back of every closet she passes....

08.10.2025 20

The Daily Beast

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