Lucian K. Truscott IV

JD Vance is probably already working on a Smithsonian statue on the Mall for General Elon Musk, the Robert E. Lee of the Second Civil War.

Everything to Trump is like selling a condo. That's why he doesn't believe in keeping secrets. How can you sell a condo if you don't put it on the market? It's the opposite of secrecy. It's advertising, it's publicity, it's fame.

Trump is working to have the entire legal profession and judiciary intimidated into falling in line. This is the way fascism starts, with the few not the many, but the many are next.

Trump and his people are as dangerous as a cornered wolverine, but smart wolverines don’t allow themselves to get backed into corners of courthouses by people wearing long black robes.

Without taxpayer dollars, all those trucks carrying Bezos’ profits would be bumping along dirt roads getting stuck in the mud and skidding into ditches.

Apparently, Chief Justice Roberts thought that the norms and traditions that have been respected by every other president in the history of this country would be respected by Donald Trump as well.

In an authoritarian state, contempt for the law comes down from the top, and that is exactly where we find ourselves today.

Trump and Musk have been applying their chainsaw not only to our intelligence agencies but to the far-flung networks used to cultivate and gather information. Who could possibly benefit from that?

A DOJ lawyer was tasked to defend a blatantly discriminatory, idiotic policy that will gut our military and deprive patriotic people of their right to honorably serve their country. It did not go well.

Trump has been attracted to the power of the pardon from the early days of his first term in office because that power, granted by the Constitution, is absolute and cannot be interfered with by either the Congress or the Courts.

Putin, who went after Ukraine with bullets but no words, will probably agree to words with no bullets for a while, and then as he has before, will go back to bullets and no words. Putin knows he can get away with this. The question is, what does Donald Trump know?

Expertise and experience and the wisdom that comes with both is being thrown out with the trash every day by Elon Musk and Donald Trump and the rest of these fools who apparently think they will never need help in their own lives.

There's nothing but upside for Trump trolling us every chance he gets. His base loves it, we hate it, and there's no good way for us to complain about it without looking like elitist snobs, which is exactly the way he wants us to look.

Trump and Hegseth and their obsession with DEI is disgusting enough by itself. Their attempt to erase the history of black and brown and female and gay soldiers who have served their country honorably should be beneath the contempt of all Americans.

Unless and until the spineless Republicans in Congress decide to uphold their oaths and do their jobs, the coup will continue to erode our representative democracy and turn this country into an authoritarian dictatorship.

Psst! Wanna buy some access to the president? A dinner of burnt steaks or rubber chicken with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago digs can be yours for a measly $1 million a seat.