The Truscott Chronicles

Trump hasn’t had much trouble bullying the Congress, firing federal workers, closing DEI offices, and signing executive orders. But deals with other countries have been a little hard to come by.

Donald Trump is deluded about many things, but perhaps his most profound delusion is that he can bend or even break our democracy with rule by fear.

As grim as prospects seem on this second day of the Trump presidency, do not despair. There is much to be done, and with the lawsuits against Trump’s attempt to amend the Constitution by fiat, we have already begun to fight.

We are accustomed to listening to Trump make pronouncements as if the words coming out of his mouth are actions. Good luck him and to his minions getting his "promises" actually accomplished.

Angry at a military establishment he sees as insubordinate to his sense of self as Supreme Ruler Over All, Trump just decided to take a well-coiffed Fox News yapper and blow the whole thing up and see what happens.

Dylan had always had a way of distilling being young and living in New York City. His songs piled up images, metaphors, hints about his life. Trying to read into them, we could also read who we were.

Remember how Trump burned through cabinet secretary scandals in the opening months and years of his first term? Buckle your seatbelts. The crew he has nominated this time are a whole new category of horror-story.

There are many ways to view the Grinchy fact that our president-elect and his new owner are aiming to ruin the holidays for hundreds of thousands. But this poetic adaptation is probably the best.

Donald Trump and Elon Musk are essentially ordering the Congress of the United States to suspend the Constitution and obey them.

Let us not forget that this man who has been credibly accused of having sex with an underage girl, paying for sex with women he flew to the Bahamas, and using drugs with prostitutes was nominated by Trump to be the chief law enforcement officer in the land.

What Donald Trump will do with the situation he inherits in the Middle East is not known, although he has made no secret of his willingness, even eagerness, to hit Iran’s nuclear facilities.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. does not suffer from polio or hepatitis, but he sure wants to bring back these diseases for us by getting rid of the vaccines that prevent them.

In the election of Donald Trump to a second term in the White House, we have reached a point where snark and ridicule, while fun, are reaching their limits.

Wray’s resignation sets a distressing precedent for any future investigations of federal crimes committed by senior government officials or powerful and wealthy public figures.

Do you want to know who was sitting back with a big shit-eating grin on his face as Assad’s private jet left for Moscow? Bibi Netanyahu.

Low-cost made-on-the-fly weapons systems like drones have completely upended warfare as we have known it, and we haven’t even seen the introduction of Artificial Intelligence systems into this new weapons landscape yet.