Scariest Thing I’ve Read Today

Newsweek’s Kurt Eichenwald, who has done terrific work reporting on Trump — and also suffers from epilepsy — on How Donald Trump Supporters Attack Journalists: After my article about how Trump’s business interests would create a conflict of unprecedented proportions, I received a tweet from someone with the twitter handle “Mike’s Deplorable AF.” Like many […]

Best Thing I’ve Read Today

While doing promotion for his new National Geographic series, David Letterman talked with Dave Itzkoff of the NY Times about how he would have handled Donald Trump a little differently than Jimmy Fallon did: If I had a show, I would have gone right after him. I would have said something like, “Hey, nice to […]

It’s Not A Movement

I’ve seen several articles over the course of the presidential campaign referring to “Donald Trump’s movement.” Unless they’re referring to his bowels and the crap he spews verbally every day, they couldn’t be more wrong. There is no movement. If there were a movement, we’d see others following his path into office, but Trump is […]

Trump’s Taxes

Trump’s Taxes

“SNL” got big numbers with its season premiere, which featured Kate McKinnon’s Hillary Clinton debating Alec Baldwin’s Donald Trump. McKinnon was great, as always, and Baldwin was fine, but I’m surprised Lorne Michaels made the decision not to have Darrell Hammond do the debate when he already has one of the best Trump imitations on […]

Best Thing I’ve Read Today

Frank Bruni: Go ahead and laugh at Donald Trump’s claims that he was foiled by a finicky microphone on Monday night, but I can relate. When I write a bad column, it’s all my keyboard’s fault. The other columnists have reliable keyboards. I’m not saying it’s a conspiracy, but they do. Reach your own conclusions. […]