Corruption is the Iceberg That Will Sink Trump
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The Super Bowl FCC Complaints are in… And boy are they depressing.
The Sound He Thought Was a Tank Was a Skateboard… A Japanese Photographer’s Ukraine. (United24Media)
A new kind of van life: $180 to camp for seven months – and a real taste of freedom (The Guardian).
Philip Caputo, RIP. Our former colleague Marc Caputo remembers his one-of-a-kind father.
The Devil Wears MAGA… Twenty years later, we’ve changed -- and not for the better, argues Matt Labash.
A back of the napkin analysis… Of the policies in the movie The American President, courtesy of Ben Dreyfuss.
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I beg to differ. NOTHING will "sink Trump." I read with great delight (and sadness) David French's column this week, "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/opinion/trump-iran-ukraine-true-believers.html " "Joining with Trump doesn’t just mean that you gain access to the room where it happens, to use Lin-Manuel Miranda’s memorable phrase. For a substantial number of supporters, it means access to a degree of autonomy and impunity that’s virtually unknown in modern American politics." Autonomy and impunity. The GOP has to be voted out like addressing a virus: stop the transmission and vaccinate for herd immunity.
I am hoping you are right but so far I dont see a lot of evidence the economy is sinking. Could be my circle. Gas prices have to be hurting and food prices certainly are not dropping. My family members who support Trump say yes he is corrupt but no worst then the Dems. So, so far they are ok with it. Wouldnt it be nice if we said ‘no’ to corruption.