In the middle of an 100-year pandemic in which Donald Trump’s fatal failures have been magnified, it’s easy to forget that the president proved himself an unethical, unprincipled, unstable, juvenile,...

In 2016, Jeb Bush called Donald Trump the “chaos candidate.” Trump promised to hire only “the best people.” Bush was right.

Shakespeare’s Richard, Duke of Gloucester, opened a play lamenting “the winter of our discontent…made glorious summer by this son of York.” For most Americans, this is the summer of our discontent,...

A few days after trying on a more sober tone when talking about the coronavirus, Donald Trump retweeted to his 84.3 million followers a small group of doctors calling hydroxychloroquine “a cure for...

In a rare moment of introspection last week, Donald Trump admitted that “too often” he regrets something he’s tweeted out. We’re certain that yesterday morning’s speculation about potentially...

Sure, incoming presidents deflect responsibility for certain problems to predecessors. But doing so nearly four years later? It’s sixth in our running reasons Donald Trump doesn’t deserve re-election.

Last week, the Trump administration seemingly resumed the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. That was for show. In fact, it openly defied last month’s Supreme Court ruling...

The tic is so routine, the nation rarely notices anymore. “Fake news,” the president snipes when asked a question he dislikes. The media is the “enemy of the people,” he shouts on Twitter morning,...

Wielding a rigorous scalpel that would make David Frost envious, Axios reporter Jonathan Swan eviscerated President Trump in an interview that aired Monday. While Trump offered jaw-dropping responses...

There is little coherence to Donald Trump’s economic policies. What links them together is their petty, transactional, almost mercenary character. And that’s the 11th resounding reason to fire this...

This week, President Trump declared, “We’re going to be introducing a tremendous health care plan sometime hopefully prior to end of the month.” He was responding to a question about a promise made...

One year ago, Americans were waking up to agonizing news for the umpteenth time.

Three years ago today, President Trump, irked that North Korea‘s totalitarian dictator had hurled bellicose rhetoric at America, promised that “any more threats” “will be met with fire and fury like...

Yes, Donald Trump actually said it. After repeating the ridiculous lie that Joe Biden wants to “take away your guns, destroy your Second Amendment,” Trump spouted an even more desperate canard: “no...

Perhaps Donald Trump’s biggest lie came while still running for president, proclaiming that, as a self-anointed master dealmaker, he could succeed where ordinary politicians couldn’t (“I alone can...

President Trump’s executive action Saturday unilaterally extending enhanced weekly unemployment benefits to jobless Americans — while putting states drowning in deficits on the hook for a quarter of...

Three years ago, white supremacists descended on Charlottesville, Va., for a rally they called Unite the Right. Its promotional poster was emblazoned with Confederate flags and Third Reich imagery;...

Long before his 2016 election, Donald Trump displayed vicious contempt for women, particularly powerful women who dared to challenge or criticize him.

Without free and fair elections, the United States of America isn’t the United States of America. And this year, as a highly contagious virus rages, that means ensuring the Postal Service can get a...

The quintessentially craven, un-American character of the American president revealed itself again Thursday evening as Donald Trump deviously raised doubts about Joe Biden’s choice for vice preside...

President Trump is the ultimate corrupter, subsuming the national interest to whatever benefits him personally or politically. That doesn’t stop at the water’s edge and is one more reason to fire...

Kamala Harris isn’t just the first Black woman on major-party presidential ticket; she’s the child of immigrants, an economist dad from Jamaica and a cancer-researcher mom from India. The pedigree...

Once upon a time, Republicans proudly defended the environment — from old-school conservationist Teddy Roosevelt to Clean Air Act signer Richard Nixon. Not Donald Trump. His determination to unravel...

A major reason Donald Trump doesn’t deserve re-election: The suspected original sin of this presidency — cheating to win with Russian collusion — has mostly proven true.

As we’ve detailed over the past several weeks, Donald Trump is a disaster in multiple ways — from poorly thought out policy ideas to bargain-basement ethics to his racism and sexism and divisiveness....

In one respect, Donald Trump ought to learn to be a little more Nixonian. In 1973, asked about whether he paid his fair share in taxes, Nixon said, “People have got to know whether or not their...

As the people of Belarus flood the streets to demand a dictator of more than two dozen years who just rigged another election yield power, as Europe escalates its pressure on Alexander Lukashenko,...

Once upon a time, U.S. presidents believed in the free market. For Republicans especially, it was an article of faith. Now, a peripatetic chief executive routinely seized by fits of pique uses the...

That sound you hear in the background is the unconventional Republican National Convention trying to make Americans forget about the ravages of coronavirus and pledge allegiance to Donald Trump.

Donald Trump’s defects of character have already filled several books. As we catalog 99 reasons why he must be denied a second term, his policy failures loom every bit as large, because they have...

President Trump, avatar of superficiality and nihilism, doesn’t really care that the country he leads, the richest nation on Earth, leads the world in COVID-19 cases, with 5.8 million confirmed, or...

As Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell withhold aid coronavirus-throttled states and cities like New York need to avoid mass layoffs, huge service cuts and a steep downward...

The repeated images of the Statue of Liberty during the Republican National Convention (we lost count, there were so many) weren’t just tourism promos for Donald Trump’s hometown, which he inaccura...

Despite what we often suggest, Donald Trump actually isn’t the biggest threat to the future of humankind and neither, we hope, is the coronavirus. Likely the largest long-term looming danger is a...

Among the 99 reasons why Donald Trump should not be re-elected, the confounded, bizarre and mysterious relationship between him and Russia’s Vladimir Putin has already occupied a few entries and will...

Remember just a couple weeks ago when the Republican-run Senate Intelligence Committee confirmed what everyone already knew — that Russia was actively involved in trying to help Donald Trump win in...

Every president takes advantage of new technology to communicate to the American people. No president has abused an emerging platform more than President Trump has wielded Twitter to poison the...

It probably wasn’t candidate Donald Trump’s first big lie, but it was his most repeated: He would “build the wall” along the U.S.-Mexico border, and “make Mexico pay for it.”

In 1994, when Republican Rudy Giuliani was mayor of New York, Donald Trump was a resident and the city was on pace to suffer 1,561 homicides, then-Sen. Joe Biden was lead congressional author of what...

Donald Trump’s attacks on Mayor de Blasio and Gov. Cuomo may be obnoxious, but they’re hardly disqualifying. What’s disqualifying is that, in the midst of coronavirus, the president is rigging the...

The Atlantic magazine reports that, “according to four people with firsthand knowledge of the discussion,” Donald Trump skipped visiting the historic Belleau Wood cemetery in France, where thousands...

One of Donald Trump’s sadly successful cons was convincing blue-collar voters that he was their champion. That was rarely true before, but it is more than manifest since he’s been president — and not...

To the extent that Donald Trump owes his 2016 victory to policy promises, his pledge to rebalance the scales of international trade was a close second to his consistent vilification of undocumented...

Donald Trump’s appeal to the “forgotten man and woman” helped win him the presidency in 2016. Ever since, he’s dismantled consumer protection rules with about as much finesse as his wrecking balls...

From late winter on, Donald Trump shrugged off the enormity of a deadly pandemic.

This is the 19th anniversary of an attack that took 2,977 American lives, 2,753 in New York City. Fifteen of the 19 terrorists who committed that mass murder were Saudi nationals. Since, presidents...

“We have to be calm. We don’t want to be crazed lunatics,” said the president of the United States when asked why he lied to the American people about the coronavirus, telling Bob Woodward in...

President Trump doesn’t have time to read his Presidential Daily Briefing on threats to the nation. We now have a pretty good hold on why: He’s too busy watching TV. The president shared his viewing...

Distinguishing himself from his Republican primary rivals, candidate Donald Trump in 2016 promised he wouldn’t cut a penny from Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid. As president, he’s made mischief...

Having crossed the point of no return in our list of 99 reasons why Donald Trump must be defeated, we reach number 51: Unlike every president or nominee since Nixon, Trump has refused to disclose his...

Look to the south and see Americans in Gulf Coast states preparing for Hurricane Sally. Look further north and see glaciers melting. Look west and see wildfires raging across multiple states,...

Michael Caputo, a top Trump communications aide, raised the specter of post-election violence if there’s any unrest in the street: “The drills that you’ve seen are nothing. If you carry guns, buy...

As we once said regarding Bill Cosby, while it can be tricky to decisively determine the truth in “he said, she said” cases, the same cannot be said when an allegation is “he said, she said, she...

A president who doesn’t understand that he represents all Americans doesn’t deserve re-election.