“The UFC at the White House last night was incredible,” Donald Trump posted on Truth Social in the early hours of Monday morning, calling it […]
Author: Sophia Tesfaye
Why MAGA can’t hear the Trump boos
The most revealing moment of Donald Trump’s week was not the boos that rained down on him at Madison Square Garden on Monday night. It […]
Right-wing media melts down as Spencer Pratt sinks in vote count
Spencer Pratt was never going to be the mayor of Los Angeles. That is not necessarily a humiliation for the longtime reality TV star. But […]
Trump’s intelligence pick sparks rare MAGA media revolt
When Tulsi Gabbard resigned as director of national intelligence in May, it was hard to imagine her replacement could be so much more unqualified. Gabbard […]
Bari Weiss brings Trumpism to “60 Minutes”
Bari Weiss is running the Trump playbook at “60 Minutes.” It goes like this: Take an institution that still commands public trust, install loyalists with […]
Democrats’ mean tweets trigger Fox News
For nearly a decade, Democrats have been trapped in a paralyzing cycle of rhetorical hand-wringing. Ever since Donald Trump first upended the political landscape in […]
Stephen Colbert gets the last laugh on CBS
Donald Trump prematurely took a victory lap to celebrate Stephen Colbert’s ouster from CBS. On Friday, the president posted an artificial intelligence-generated video from the […]
Hunter Biden, Candace Owens and the power of “the Epstein class”
In her new interview with Hunter Biden, the right-wing influencer Candace Owens explains the revelation that made her want to sit down with former president […]
Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire goes woke with Rosa Parks revisionism
Earlier this month, the Supreme Court further hollowed out the Voting Rights Act, continuing a decades-long project of dismantling the legal infrastructure that protected Black […]
Return to reality TV is a bad sign for MAGA
More than a decade into his political ascent, it’s remarkable how thoroughly the lesson of Donald Trump has been internalized by the apparatus around him. […]