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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Best Thing I’ve Read Today
Scott Bateman's chart: What Trump Lied About At The Debate Monday Night.
As I Tweeted
Surprise! I thought everything on Twitter today would be experts predicting what will happen at tonight's debate, but it's only 9 out of 10. Looking forward to tomorrow, when all those experts apologize publicly for their predictions turning out to be wrong and accept...
Best Thing I’ve Read Today
An essay by nearly-one-hundred-year-old Kirk Douglas on the rise of Trump.