Trump

Opinion

Trump. “Trump and Sanders, the Disrupter Brothers.” By Karl Rove. [The noisy challengers won’t win, but they will complicate the campaign for their party rivals.] 7-9-15
Trump. “Donald Trump’s Appeal – and Its Limits.” By Peggy Noonan. [Sometimes an ill wind feels like a breath of fresh air.] 7-11-15
Trump. LTE. “Donald Trump Mucks Around in the Scrum and Fights.” 7-16-15
Trump. “Trump and His Apologists.” [The conservative media who applaud him are hurting the cause.] 7-20-15
Trump. “Avoiding the Trump Trap on Immigration.” By Fred Barnes. [The GOP needs to win over Hispanic voters in 2016. Here’s how to do it.] 7-21-15
Trump. “The Phenomenal Trump.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [His admirers think he’s the guy who ‘gets things done,’ but he hasn’t been that Donald in years.” 7-22-15
Trump. LTE. “Trump May Be a Loud Mouth, but He Tells It Like It Is.” 7-23-15
Trump. “What Voters See in Donald Trump.” By Peggy Noonan. [His rise is not due to anger at government. It is a gesture of contempt for government.] 8-1-15
Elections. “Thank you, Super PACs.” [Trump agrees with liberals who want to regulate politics.] 8-4-15
Trump. “Which Donald Trump Will Debate?” by Karl Rove. [He has been on so many sides of so many issues that Thursday’s stage is a multiple-choice test.] 8-6-15
Trump. LTE. “Donald Trump Is No Professor Henry Hill in River City.” 8-6-15
Trump. “Trump: A Mismatch for the GOP.” By Kimberley A. Strassel. 8-7-15
Trump. LTE. “A Trojan Horse Was the End of Troy.” 8-8-15
Trump. “Donald Trump, the Kingmaker.” By Daniel Henninger. [Trump has enabled the next U.S. President. But it won’t be him.] 8-13-15
Trump. “Trump’s Defective Economics.” By Mary Anastasia O’Grady. 8-17-15
Trump. LTE. “Behind the Bluster, Mr. Trump Is Subtle on Many Issues.” 8-17-15
Trump. “The Deportation Party.” [Trump proposes to stop even most legal immigration.] 8-18-15
Trump. “Trump’s Worst Argument.” [Is it better to represent the agenda of one rich guy or 1,000 rich guys?”] 8-24-15
Trump. “America Is So in Play.” By Peggy Noonan. [Donald Trump’s staying power in the polls reflects a change in the electorate only now coming into focus.] 8-29-15
Trump. “The Donald vs. The Jed (Clampett)” by Gregg Opelka. [Donald Trump…be well advised to get a heapin’ helpin’ of humility from another rich, but far wiser, tycoon…] 8-31-15
Trump. “The Donald and the Demagogues.” By Bret Stephens. [Democracies that trade substance for charisma don’t last. Trump is America’s answer to Hugo Chavez.] 9-1-15
Trump. LTE. “Trump’s Independent Wealth Is a Plus for Many Voters.” 9-1-15
Trump. “The No-Growth Campaign.” [Clinton and Trump are offering nothing to improve the economy.] 9-2-15
Trump. LTE. “The ‘Vulgarians’ Point Out Why They Support Trump.” 9-9-15
Trump. “The Undercard and the Mane Event.” By Peggy Noonan. [Donald Trump’s rivals try to give him a haircut, but he ends up trimming himself.] 9-19-15
Trump. LTE. “Trump’s Content-Free Bromides – Whatever.” 9-22-15
Trump. Taxes. “Tax Reform for Security and Prosperity.” By Donald J. Trump. [Four tax brackets: 0%, 10%, 20% and 25%. No marriage penalty, no alternative minimum tax.] 9-29-15
Trump. “Wall Street Mulls an ‘Outsider.’” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Carl Icahn provides the first semi-credible endorsement of Donald Trump.] 9-30-15
Trump. “Trump: Off Man Out.” By Daniel Henninger. [The famous Trump base has hit a ceiling. The Donald should retire, and enjoy.] 10-1-15
Trump. “A Trumpian Tax Reform.” [Bush’s plan is better for growth, and more politically achievable.] 10-1-15
Trump. “Shows of Strength From Trump and Putin.” By Peggy Noonan. [The GOP front-runner hasn’t started fading, and the Russian president seems in command.] 10-10-15
Trump. “Trump’s 9/11 Truthing.” [Does he know anything about the history of al Qaeda?] 10-20-15
Trump. “Trump and 9/11.” By Daniel Henninger. [ Reducing 9/11 to a Trump campaign prop was beyond the pale of acceptable politics.] 10-22-15
Trump. “The Donald’s Missing Details.” By Karl Rove. [Who would be elegible for TrumpCare? What will the border wall cost? He doesn’t say.] 10-22-15
Trump. LTE “Donald Trump and the Responsibility for 9/11.” 10-23-15
Trump. “Donald Trump, Meet Herbert Hoover.” By George Melloan. [Today’s ardent foe of free trade has a soul mate in the president who signed Smoot-Hawley into law.] 11-4-15
Trump. “The Donald On ‘SNL’: Equal Time Isn’t Needed.” By Babette Boliek and Derek T. Muller. [The FCC rule was meant to foster debate, but today is more likely to chill it.] 11-5-15
Trump. “Ending China’s Currency Manipulation.” By Donald J. Trump. [China’s de facto tariff on imported goods has cost the U.S. billions of dollars and millions of jobs.] 11-10-15
Trump. “A Good Debate, but Not for Trump.” By Karl Rove. [He was the night’s biggest loser: full of contradiction and without depth.] 11-12-15
Trump. “Donald Trump is Upset.” [The candidate says we were unfair to him on trade.] 11-13-15
Trump. LTE. “Trump’s Right on Hacking, Wrong on Yuan.” 11-16-15
Trump. “The Presidency as the Art of the Deal.” By Joseph Rago, “The Weekend Interview with Donald Trump.” [The billionaire GOP front-runner talks trade, taxes and his special fitness for the White House.] 11-21-15 [On Hillary Clinton: ‘I think she’s easier than beating some of these guys that I have to beat right now.’]
Trump. “Donald Trump’s Secret Weapon.” […In Government We Mistrust: graph: Share of the public that trusts the federal government to do what is right and just about always or most of the time.] 11-24-15
Trump. LTE. “This Is Why We Must Vet You, Mr. Trump.” 11-27-15
Trump. LTE. “Can Trump Unite the Angry Left and Right?” 12-1-15
Trump. Democrats. “Trump Is the Democrats’ Dream Nominee.” By Karl Rove. [He could win the primaries but would get creamed in the presidential election.] 12-10-15
Trump. “Trump and the Goodfellas.” [He says he didn’t know he was doing business with the mob.] 12-12-15
Trump. “A Rash Leader in a Grave Time.” By Peggy Noonan. [Trump could bridge the divide between the elites and GOP voters. Instead, he’s deepening it.] 12-12-15
Trump. LTE. “Trump’s Temporary Ban on Muslim Visitors.” 12-16-15
Trump. LTE. “Trump, Everyone Else, Used Mafia Concrete in the ‘80s.” 12-18-15
Trump. “Trump’s Ceiling Is His Wallet.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Running for president is about to become a lot more expensive, and his business interests are vulnerable.] 12-19-15
Trump. “Another Time, Another Trump.” By Dave Shiflett. [I was hired to write his first ‘campaign book,’ when he was out on a lark. Here’s what I learned about him.” 12-22-15
Trump. “What Trump Doesn’t Know About Mexicans.” By Mary Anastasia O’Grady. [For years, more have been leaving the U.S. than arriving.] 12-28-15
Trump. Hillary. “The Clinton War on Women.” [If Hillary plays the sexism card, then Bill’s behavior is fair game.] 12-30-15
Trump. LTE. “Circular Firing Squad Reloads, Takes Aim.” 12-30-15
Trump. “Donald Trump’s Apprenticeship.” By Daniel Henninger. 12-31-15
Trump. “Will the New Year’s Tumult Trump the Old? By Peggy Noonan. [The biggest question for 2016 is whether the Republican Party splits apart.] 1-2-16
Trump. “How Trump-Style Politics Turned California Into a Blue State.” By Jason L. Riley. [In 1984, 45% of the state’s Hispanics voted for Reagan. Then Pete Wilson drove them into Democrats’ arms.] 1-6-16
Trump. Elections. “Revolt of the Politically Incorrect.” By Daniel Henninger. [Donald Trump and Ben Carson popped the valves on decades of pent-up pressure.] 1-7-16
Trump. “Does Donald Want to Be President?” by Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [“…But we continue to doubt whether Mr. Trump is seriously seeking the presidency.”] 1-9-16
Trump. “Trump and Cruz Have Trouble in the Middle.” By David W. Brady. [Independents will decide the general election, and they’re far from sold on the Republican front-runners.] 1-11-16
Trump. “Trump’s New York Advantage.” [Disdain for half the country won’t create a conservative majority.] 1-16-16
Trump. “Palin and the GOP’s Uncertain Trumpeters.” By Peggy Noonan. [What Donald Trump needs is an injection of seriousness. The same is true of his opponents.] 1-23-16
Trump. “Why Vote for Trump?” by Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Part of the electorate thinks it has nothing to lose. Most of us do.] 1-27-16
Trump. “Trump Ducks an Iowa Opportunity.” By Karl Rove. [The Donald’s refusal to debate could blow his lead. How can he take on Hillary?] 1-28-16
Trump. “The Leap of Trump.” [As the GOP nominee or President, he would be a political ‘black swan.’] [“…black swan…an outlier event that few anticipated and whose impact is impossible to predict….] 1-28-16
Trump. “Trump and the Obama Power Temptation.” By Kmberley A. Strassel. [A history of using lawsuits or government to silence critics and rivals raises the question: How would he behave in office?”] 2-1-16
Trump. “How Trump Blew an Easy Win.” By Karl Rove. [He acted like the traditional rules didn’t apply. This race could go to the convention.] 2-4-16
Trump. “Trump Among the Canaries.” By Daniel Henninger. [Trump owns persona. His opponents have to go after him on policy and substance.] 2-11-16
Trump. “Trump’s Eminent Disdain.” [Donald is wrong about the Keystone Pipeline and property rights.] 2-11-16
Trump. “Trump Didn’t Oppose the Iraq War.” By Karl Rove. [There’s no record of his clear opposition before March 2003, despite his claims. 2-18-16
Trump. “The Pope and the Presbyterian.” [Pope Francis belly flops into the U.S. presidential campaign.] 2-19-16
Trump. LTE. “Trump Must Start to Provide Specific Plans.” 2-19-16
Trump. “Trump’s Tax Obligation.” [He needs to release his tax returns now, so GOP voters can see them.] 2-20-16
Trump. LTE. “’Trump’s America’ Has Long Been Building.” 2-20-16
Trump. “America’s Moment of Trump.” [He’s now the clear favorite for the GOP nomination.] 2-22-16
Trump. “The Trumpkins’ Lament.” By Bret Stephens. [Where was Mark Levin when Trump was still a big bubble waiting to be popped?] 2-23-16
Trump. “Trump’s Tax Return Dodge.” [He shoots the messenger – us – for asking to see his ‘beautiful’ returns.] 2-23-16
Trump. LTE. “What the Pope Really Said About Presbyterian Trump.” 2-24-16
Trump. “Trump is Killing Cruz.” By Daniel Henninger. [Ted Cruz’s election strategy was plausible until Trump stole it.] 2-25-16
Trump. “The Donald Doesn’t Have a Lock – Yet.” [There is still time for a non-Trump majority to coalesce around a single candidate.] 2-25-16
Trump. “‘Winning, Winning, Winning.’” [Trump piles up victories as the GOP also-rans give him a pass.] 2-25-16
Trump. “Trump Is the Ultimate Insider.” By Kimberley A. Strassel. [The Donald’s rivals have given him a pass on his greatest vulnerabilities.] 2-26-16
Trump. “Harry Reid’s Trump Tax Defense.” [Democrats are waiting until after he has the nomination.] 2-26-16
Trump. “Trump and Political Circuses Are Nothing New.” By Robert S.J. Garland and Caroline F. Keating. [Roman politicians whipped up crowds, warned about ‘outsiders’ and insulted their rivals.] 2-26-16
Trump. “Trump Agonistes.” [His competitors try to expose his weaknesses for the first time.] 2-27-16.
Trump. “Trump and the Rise of the Unprotected.” By Peggy Noonan. [Why political professionals are struggling to make sense of the world they created.] 2-27-16.
Trump. “The Donald, and His Wallet, Are Untested.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Trump’s supporters need to see whether he can fight and survive the coming ‘air war.’] 2-27-16.
Trump. “Trump Voters Need a Mirror.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [The blaming of elites has gone too far. The U.S. voter is behind this own disappointments.] 3-2-16
Trump. LTE. “No Mystery Why Donald Trump Is Winning.” 3-2-16
Trump. “Trump’s Pottery Barn GOP.” [Even as he wins, GOP resistance to his nomination builds.] 3-3-16.
Trump. “Trump a ‘Unifier’? Not Quite. By Kimberley A. Strassel. [His favorable rating even within the Republican Party keeps dropping.] 3-4-16
Trump. “Trump on Ford and Nabisco.” [The real reasons the companies left the U.S. for Mexico.] 3-4-16
Trump. LTE. “Insider or Outsider, They Like Donald Trump.” 3-4-16
Trump. “President Obama Created Donald Trump.” By Bobbie Jindal. [After the cool, weak, and endlessly nuanced Obama, no wonder voters are going for a strong, blunt leader.] 3-4-16
Trump. LTE “The ‘Unprotected’ Flock to Donald Trump.” 3-5-16
Trump. “The Republican Party Is Shattering.” By Peggy Noonan. [Stop Trump? Unite behind him? No matter the outcome, nothing will ever be the same.] 3-5-16
Trump. “Donald Trump’s Latin Role Models.” By Mary Anastasia O’Grady. [Far from respecting the Constitution, the candidate promises to out-Obama Obama.] 3-7-16
Trump. “Trump, Voters and the GOP Convention.” [Party rules say you need a majority of delegates, not a plurality.] 3-8-16
Trump. “The GOP’s Trump Divide.” [Two more wins for the frontrunner disliked by half of his own party.] 3-9-16
Trump. “Donald Trump’s Mexican Imports.” [The businessman favors the importation of foreign-made drugs.] 3-9-16
Trump. LTE. “We Don’t Need a Mirror, We Need a Leader.” 3-9-16
Trump. “What his Believers See in Donald Trump.” By Allysia Finley. [In Orlando, the yearning for American greatness seemed real – and fervent.] 3-9-16
Trump. “Democratic Fictions About the GOP and Trump.” By Jason Riley. [Liberals are savoring his rise, pretending that Republicans invited it and blithely ignoring history.] 3-9-16
Trump. “The Polls Trump Hasn’t Won.” By Karl Rove. [He says that he will beat Hillary, yet guess who is the only GOP contender trailing her.] 3-10-16
Trump. LTE. “Donald Trump Has Lowered Level of Political Discourse.” 3-10-16
Trump. “Suffering From Trumphobia? Get Over It.” By Edward N. Luttwak. [Before the 1980 election, Reagan’s opponents said he would ignite a nuclear holocaust. Didn’t happen.] 3-10-16
Trump. “A Trade Tutorial for Trump.” [A few facts beyond that misleading Komatsu-Caterpillar anecdote.] 3-11-16
Trump. “Misreading the Trump-Evangelicals Link.” By Ralph Reed. [Ignorant of election history, the chattering class is abuzz about the supposed hypocrisy of evangelicals.] 3-11-16
Trump. “Donald Trump, Meet Your Customers.” By Joseph Rago. [Trump say (sic) he’s the tribune of the common man. I read 26,000 online reviews to find out what the common man thinks of his products. 3-12-16
Trump. “The Donald and The Barak.” [Obama is Trump’s more sophisticated, articulate liberal antecedent.] 3-12-16
Trump. LTE. “No Wonder Trump Does So Well With the Poor.” 3-12-16
Trump. “Donald Trump, Celebrity Politician.” By L. Gordon Crovitz. [Daniel Boorstin’s 1961 book about ‘pseudo-events’ helps explain the New Yorker’s rise.] 3-14-16
Trump. “Trump and the Protesters.” [He can’t win by adopting the tactics of progressive censors.] 3-14-16
Trump. LTE. “Obama Was Shrewd if He Created Mr. Trump.” 3-14-16
Trump. LTE “Trump May Be a Reagan, but It Isn’t Likely.” 3-15-16
Trump. LTE. “Mr. Trump Misunderstands Trade-Deficit Economics.” 3-16-16
Trump. “Trump’s Unification Tour.” [No debates, a threat of riots, and a one-man foreign-policy team.] 3-17-16
Trump. LTE. “Dancing With the Stars: Rating Brand Trump.” 3-17-16
Trump. “How Trump Can Raise His Game.” By Karl Rove. [A few bits of advice for The Donald: study up, change your tone and focus on Hillary.] 3-17-16
Trump. “A Trump Reality Check.” [He is the least commanding GOP front-runner since Ford.] 3-18-16
Trump. “Trump’s Accusers May See Him in Court Soon.” By Morgan Cloud and George Shepherd. [The candidate says any trial over allegations about fraud at Trump University is years off. That’s not what the record suggests.] 3-18-16
Trump. “Trumpism, the Economic Wrecking Ball.” By Alan S. Blinder. [Exploding deficits, high tariffs and the deportation of millions of workers would spark a global depression.] 3-22-16. [“Mr. Blinder, a professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton University and former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve, is an informal policy adviser to the Hillary Clinton campaign.]
Trump. “Trump’s Useless Revolution. “ by Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Belgian terror attacks show why the U.S. needs to be more dynamic, not less.] 3-23-16
Trump. “Don’t Coddle Donald Trump.” By Karl Rove. [A nominee needs a majority. Abraham Lincoln played by that rule – so can Trump.] 3-24-16
Trump. “Paul Ryan and the Trump Squeeze Play.” [A left-right crossfire aims at taking the House Speaker down.] 3-26-16
Trump. “Trump’s Abortion Gaffe.” 3-31-16
Trump. “Trump’s Wisconsin Waterloo?” by Kimberley A. Strassel. [The state’s political dynamics are hurting the GOP front-runner, and the polls show it.] 4-1-16
Trump. “Trump’s Nuclear World.” [The Pax Americana has prevented a darker nuclear age.] 4-1-16
Trump. “Trump’s Mess Has Become His Message.” By Peggy Noonan. [His supporters are getting embarrassed by his sheer dumb grossness.] 4-2-16
Trump. “Trump vs. Scott Walker.” [Wisconsin is doing well following conservative economic reforms.] 4-4-16
Trump. “Trump, We Knew Ye.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [The Donald was never serious about the presidency in the Hillary sense.] 4-6-16
Trump. “Wisconsin Trump Stop.” 4-6-16
Trump. LTE. “Consider Trump’s Abortion Words in Their Context.” 4-6-16
Trump. “The Not-Trump GOP Rises.” By Karl Rove. [The delegate math is getting hard, and New York may not be the lifeline Trump needs.] 4-7-16
Trump. LTE. “Trump Is Right, the Chinese Really Are Mercantilists.” 4-8-16
Trump. “Trump’s Crumbling Wall Plan.” By May Anastasia O’Grady. [If Mexico won’t pay, he has in mind an illegal, unworkable way to retaliate.] 4-11-16
Trump. “Trump’s Delegate Whine.” [Scalia’s lesson for candidates who gripe about party nominating rules: Get over it.] 4-12-16
Trump. “Trump’s Plan to Win Conservative Support.” By Fred Barnes. [Newt Gingrich calls it a ‘pivot’ – a series of policy speeches tailored to a vital bloc of GOP voters. But will Trump stick to the script?] 4-13-16
Trump. “Trump’s New York Values.” By Daniel Henninger. [Trump is running against two things that made New York City great again.] 4-14-16
Trump. “Vanity Will Be The Donald’s Undoing.” By Karl Rove. [Trump thinks he is so rich, famous and athletic that he can skip a real campaign.] 4-14-16
Trump. “Let Me Ask America a Question.” By Donald J. Trump. [How has the ‘system’ been working out for you and your family? No wonder voters demand change.] 4-15-16
Trump. “Trump Can’t Break the Republican Party.” By Michael Barone. [Republicans may be split temporarily, but there is no deep Trumpist movement to push permanent schism.] [Teddy Roosevelt, denied the 1912 GOP nomination, went rogue. But discord didn’t last the decade.] 4-16-16
Trump. “Trump’s Bully Pulpit.” [His threats to blow up the July convention are a sign of weakness.] 4-19-16
Trump. “Trump’s Emptiest Threat.” By Karl Rove. [The Donald can’t bolt the GOP to run as an independent – by June it will be too late.] 4-21-16
Trump. “Donald Trump’s Path.” [Cruz and Kasich have some major decisions to make.] 4-21-16
Trump. LTE. “Trump’s Colorado Complaint Holds No Water.” 4-21-16
Trump. “Donald Trump: Roles of a Lifetime.” [Changing political personas, mid-campaign, is harder than it used to be.] 4-23-16
Trump. “Trump’s Eastern Sweep.” [His opponents are running out of states to stop him.] 4-27-16
Trump. “A Trump-First Foreign Policy.” [The candidate critiques Obama but also shares some of his views.] 4-28-16
Trump. LTE. “Could Donald Trump Be the Teddy Roosevelt of 2016.” 4-28-16
Trump. “The Agony of a Trump Delegate.” By Kimberley A. Sassel. [Rules may say they’re bound to The Donald, but many are thinking through their options.]. 4-29-16
Trump. “Simple Patriotism Trumps ideology.” By Peggy Noonan. “After 16 years, Americans have grown tired of both conservative and liberal abstractions.” 5-1-16
Trump. “Trump Declares War on Mexico.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Arguably, he’s not an unsubtle politician but he would be nowhere without his wall.] 5-4-16
Trump. “Indiana Trump.” [The GOP’s presumptive nominee must now unify the party.] 5-4-16
Trump. “Charles Koch’s Warning.” By Daniel Henninger. [He could tell Donald Trump how to avoid being remembered as a fringe candidate.] 5-5-16
Trump. “What Donald Trump Needs Now.” by Karl Rove. [To stand a chance, he must tone it down, hire a fact-checker and open his wallet.] 5-5-16
Trump. “The Trump Reality.” [He may be the highest variable nominee in American history.] 5-5-16
Trump. “Minimum Trump.” [The primary is over, and the Republican is changing his mind.] 5-6-16
Trump. “Trump Voters: Not So Irrational.” (The Weekend Interview with Samuel L. Popkin) [The political scientist who applies the ‘rational choice” theory of economics to voters says there was a method to the GOP’s primary madness.] 5-7-16
Trump. “The Ryan-Trump Divide.” [The election is about more than the GOP presidential nominee.] 5-7-16
Trump. “Trump Was a Spark, Not the Fire.” By Peggy Noonan. [The establishments, both media and conservative, failed to anticipate how they’d be consumed.] 5-7-16
Trump. “Trumpism Equals Arbitrary Government.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Gridlock in spades has its appeal; in the long run, however, the country needs institutional reform.] 5-7-16
Trump. “Trump and the Obama Effect.” By L. Gordon Crovitz. [The administration’s cynical manipulations have lowered the bar for what voters expect.] 5-9-16
Trump. “Could Donald Trump Implode?” [Trying to purge GOP doubters might doom his candidacy.] 5-9-16
Trump. “I’m Voting Trump, Warts and All.” By Bobby Jindal. [I stand by all my criticisms of the New Yorker, but the stakes for the country are too great to elect Clinton.] 5-9-16
Trump. “Trump Needs Ryan More Than He Knows.” By Fred Barnes. [To have any shot this fall, the New Yorker must pull conservatives to his camp. Speaker Ryan is the key.] 5-10-16
Trump. “The Ryan – Trump Summit.” By Daniel Henninger. [This could be the beginning of a useful, if not beautiful relationship.] 5-12-16
Trump. LTE. “Nominee Trump – Who’d Have Thought It?” 5-12-16
Trump. “Trump’s Money Games.” By Kimberley A. Strassel. [First he was going to self-fund. Now he isn’t. Meanwhile, Clinton raises $213 million.] 5-13-16
Trump. “A Trump-Ryan Modus Vivendi.” [An armistice is in the interests of both men, and the country.] 5-13-16
Trump. “…And Donald Trump’s Taxes.” [Democrats will keep pounding him until he releases his returns.] 5-14-16
Trump. “Mr. Trump Goes to Washington.” By Peggy Noonan. [The voters have rebuked professional Republicans and conservatives. What’s next for the GOP? 5-14-16
Trump. “Donald Trump’s Amazon Adventure.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Does he really want to be president — or is his attack on entrepreneur Jeff Bezos a cry for help?] 5-14-16
Trump. “The Entrepreneur’s Case for Trump.” By Anthony Scaramucci. [What elitists misinterpret as uneven principles is really adaptability — and, by the way, he can win.] 5-16-16
Trump. LTE. “The Trump-Ryan Summit: Who Needs Whom?” 5-18-16
Trump. “Trump and Bernie: Less Is More.” By Daniel Henninger. [The two ‘outsiders’ are offering political minimalism because it works in our culture.] 5-19-16
Trump. “Donald Trump’s Day in Court.” [He offers an impressive list of replacements for Antonin Scalia.] 5-20-16
Trump. “Trump For Blow-Upper in Chief?” by Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [The Obama rule-making frenzy is one reason Americans are angered by a lack of jobs and raises.] 5-21-16
Trump. “Sex, Bill Clinton and Trump.” By William McGurn. [In the 1990s, Bill Clinton taught us that only bluenoses worry about a pol’s treatment of women.] 5-24-16
Trump. “Trump Rakes the Clinton Muck.” By Kimberley A. Strassel. [The Clintons have never run into a foe willing to go where this one goes – gleefully.] 5-27-16
Trump. “Trump Makes Sense on Energy.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [From the mouth of The Donald comes wisdom on America’s climate dissonance.] 6-1-16
Trump. “Trump’s Politics of Grievance.” [When it comes to criticism, he’s more Nixon than Reagan.] 6-1-16
Trump. “Trump’s MAD.” By Daniel Henninger. [Donald Trump may be turning into a captive of his very familiar public persona.] 6-2-16
Trump. “Trump’s Commander-in-Chief Test.” [He needs more than insults to rebut Clinton on national security.] 6-4-16
Trump. LTE. “Is Romney’s Criticism of Trump on target? 6-4-16
Trump. “Trump and the ‘Mexican’ Judge.” [Why equating ethnicity with judicial bias is so offensive.] 6-6-16
Trump. LTE. “Reflections on the Revolution in Washington.” 6-7-16
Trump. “Why Trump, the ‘King of Debt.,’ Hates Dodd-Frank.” By Alan S. Binder. 6-7-16
Trump. “Trump U Redefines the ‘Brand.’” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [The Donald left his natural sphere and proves unable to rise to the occasion.] 6-8-16
Trump. “High Trump Anxiety.” [Republicans are worried about more than his comments on a judge.] 6-8-16
Trump. “Trump Can’t Wing It Forever.” By Kimberley A. Strassel. [He needs a campaign – to raise cash, cut ads and keep him focused on Clinton.] 6-10-16
Trump. LTE. “Donald Trump Exploits Progressive Morality.” 6-10-16
Trump. “Trump, the Judiciary and Identity Politics.” By Michael B. Mukasey. [Making an issue of Judge Curiel’s ethnicity was squalid – and the other side of a coin that liberals have played for years.] 6-10-16
Trump. “Why Turmpkins Want Their country Back.” By Joseph Epstein. [Dismissing Trump’s fans as racists and thugs is too self-congratulatory, too easy. There’s something deeper rumbling.’” 6-11-16
Trump. “LTE. Trump, the ‘Mexican’ Judge and Wise Latinas.” 6-13-16
Trump. “Trump Plays the Radical Islam Card.” By Wm McGurn. [The GOP candidate forces Hillary Clinton to address language she has avoided.] 6-14-16
Trump. “Obama and ‘Radical Islam.” [The President gives Donald Trump his best talking point.] 6-15-16
Trump. “The Presidency Isn’t a Real-Estate Deal.” By Alan J. Pomerantz. [The skills required to flourish as a property mogul aren’t what you need in the Oval Office.] 6-15-16
Trump. “Trump Can’t Win From a TV Studio.” By Karl Rove. [The Donald says free publicity is enough – but wait till Clinton unloads negative ads.] 6-16-16
Trump. LTE. “Those Trumpkins Want Their Country Back.” 6-17-16
Trump. LTE. “Does Business Beat Community Organizing.” By Bill Douglas. 6-20-16 (See Trump #199, 6-15-16 here)
Trump. “Trump’s Pro-Growth Path to Victory.” By Donald L. Luskin. [After 16 years of malaise, voters are responding to his call to make America competitive again.] 6-21-16
Trump. “The Trump Disorganization.” [He needs more than a new campaign manager to save his candidacy.] 6-21-16
Trump. “Clinton, Obama, Trump and the Abuse of Power.” By James Freeman. [The media effort to label Donald Trump as an authoritarian is absurd.] 6-22-16
Trump. “A Trump-Ryan Condominium.” By Daniel Henninger. [These two sovereigns can hang together or they surely are going to hang separately.] 6-23-16
Trump. “Trump by Those Who Know Him Best.” By Joseph Rago. [I’ve read the books by and about him, and they reveal a lot about how he thinks. Two lessons: He manages in the moment and doesn’t sweat details.] 6-25-16
Trump. “Donald Trump Is No Ronald Reagan.” By Peggy Noonan. [His supporters ought to stop saying he is, which comes off as desperate and historically illiterate.] 6-25-16
Trump. “Trump and the Ghost of Barry Goldwater.” By Fred Barnes. [The GOP candidate in 1964 didn’t try to unify the party and paid the price. A 2016 course correction is needed.] 6-27-16
Trump. “Donald Trump’s Tariff Party.” [His trade agenda would hurt American workers and companies.] 6-30-16
Trump. “Trump’s Would Be No Ordinary Defeat.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [How would Donald behave if he decides he can’t win and won’t throw good money after bad?] 7-2-16
Trump. LTE. “Trump didn’t Win on a Pro-Growth Agenda.” 7-5-16
Trump. “The Trumpen Proletariat.” By Daniel Henninger. [Obama’s presidency of moral contempt for opponents has produced a backlash.] 7-7-16
Trump. “Clinton Casino Royale.” [She says Donald Trump killed Atlantic City. Here’s the real story.] 7-7-16
Trump. “The Off-stage Battle to Sign Up Voters.” By Karl Rove. [The GOP is gaining in key states. But with Trump atop the ticket, will that be enough?] 7-7-16
Trump. LTE. “We’re Waiting for a Hero to Save the World.” 7-8-16
Trump. “Trump and the broad Street Bullies.” By Ken Dryden. [Intimidation works, as the flyers proved in the 1970s. The way to beat it is with a better, more worthy game.] 7-8-16
Trump. “Comedy Wears Better Than Cynicism.” By Peggy Noonan. [The contrast in theatrics is starting to make Trump look sympathetic.] 7-9-16
Trump. “Trump and the Delegates.” [A court ruling gives an impetus to unbinding GOP convention-goers.] 7-12-16
Trump. LTE. “Anyone But Trump? Who \Is That Anyone?” 7-13-16
Trump. “Can Trump Win Ohio.” By Daniel Henninger. [No Republican has won the presidency without winning the Buckeye State.] 7-14-16
Trump. “What Trump Needs for a Cleveland Bounce.” By Karl Rove. [The underdog needs a good, unifying show to be competitive again.] 7-14-16
Trump. “The convention Revolt Begins.” By Kimberley A. Strassel. [Anti-Trump forces are moving to unbind the delegates. What if Donald just agreed.?] 7-15-16
Trump. “Trump’s Pence Selection.” [The Indiana Governor will reassure some wary Republicans.] 7-15-16
Trump. “A Trump Economy Beats Clinton’s” by Andy Puzder and Stephen Moore. [His plans that would get the U.S. back on track include the biggest pro-growth tax cut since 1981 and repeal of Obamacare.] 7-15-16
Trump. “The Case for Donald Trump.” By Wm. McGurn. [The alternative is President Hillary Rodham Clinton.] 7-19-16
Trump. “Cleveland Fight Club.” [The Trump campaign comes out swinging – against Republicans.] 7-19-16
Trump. “Trump’s Best Path to Victory.” By John Brabender. [To hit 270 electoral votes, the Republican must light a national movement and pick up the Rust Belt.] 7-19-16
Trump. “Trump’s Mum Supporters.” By Holman w. Jenkins, Jr. [As long as you don’t admit voting for him, a Donald presidency might be OK.] 7-20-16
Trump. (Cruz) “A Coy Cruz Awaits his Podium Moment.” [Will he endorse Trump or open his 2020 bid?] 7-20-16
Trump. “Don’t Waste Your Time, Donald.” By Karl Rove. [If Trump campaigns in California and New York, as he says he will, then it’s all over.] 7-21-16
Trump. “The Sidetracked Convention.” By Kimberley A. Strassel. [Cleveland was an opportunity for Trump, but he let himself get derailed]. 7-22-16
Trump. “The Art of the Presidential Deal.” [Trump operates more on emotion and instinct than analysis.] 7-22-16
Trump. “Ted Cruz’s Guilty ‘Conscience.’” [Far from standing up to Trump, he was Donald’s leading enabler.] 7-22-16
Trump. “The Dark Knight.” [Trump portrays an America in crisis and offers himself as the cure.] 7-23-16
Trump. “Trump and the Unknowable Moment.” By Peggy Noonan. [His speech was neither eloquent nor lofty, but it was powerful.] 7-23-16
Trump. “Why Peter Thiel Really Supports Trump.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Trup expands the boundaries of the sayable. His existence lights a fuse under the status quo.] 7-23-16
Trump. “Trump’s bi Data Gamble.” By L. Gordon Crovitz. [While he tweets to the masses, Hillary will be precisely targeting persuadable voters.] 7-25-16
Trump. “Wharton Grad Trump Fails Economics.” By Mary Anastasia O’Grady. [Technology not free trade, explains the loss of most middle-class jobs.] 7-25-16
Trump. “Trump’s – and FDR’s – Forgotten Man.” By Amity Shlaes. [Franklin Roosevelt’s forgotten man carried him to victory iin 1932. Will it be the same in 2016?] 7-26-16
Trump. “Trump’s Putin Illusions.” [Remember who mocked Mitt Romney for calling Russia a U.S. foe?] 7-28-16
Trump. “Why Donald Trump Is No Gentlemen.” By Harvey C. Mansfield. [like Machiavelli he makes clear that winning dishonorably is better than losing honorably.] 7-30-16
Trump. LTE “Trump, Trade, Technology and American Jobs.” 8-1-16 (See Mary Anastasia O’Grady’s “Wharton Grad Trump…:7-25-16 # 239 here.)
Trump. (Notable & quotable: Black on Bloomberg [on Trump]) [Conrad Black on Michael Bloomberg attacking Trump]. 8-1-16
Republicans. “To the Go-Along Republicans.” By Bret Stephens. [Memo to Paul Ryan: Trump’s problem is his character, not his ‘ideas.’”] 8-2-16
Trump. “Trump on Offense.” By Wm. McGurn. [The Republican nominee is the Kevin Kelley of politics: he never punts.] 8-2-16
Trump. “The Donald J. Trump Referendum.” [Democrats figure they can bait the Republican into blowing himself up.] 8-2-16
Trump. LTE. “Trump Has No Putin Illusions on Email Hacks.” 8-2-16
Trump. “On the Trump Meltdown.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [His campaign needs a second front, using paid TV to send out a better image.] 8-3-16
Trump. “Trump and the Khans: More to the Story.” By James Taranto. 8-3-16
Trump. “Why Trump Shouldn’t Write Off the Black Vote.” By Jason L. Riley. [His success in business could help him explain how liberal policies have hurt African-Americans.] 8-3-16
Trump. “I Am Your Voice.” By Daniel Henninger. [That Trump line may stand for the candidate’s sellout of his faithful supporters.] 8-4-16
Trump. “Victory is Slipping Away for Trump.” By Karl Rove [He can still win – but only if he quits being self-destructive and chooses discipline.] 8-4-16
Trump. “The Trumpian Purge.” [The assault on Ryan is part of a broader conservative divide.] 8-4-16
Trump. LTE “’Lady” and ‘Gentleman’ Need Not Apply in ‘16” 8-6-16
Trump. “The Week They Decided He Was Crazy.” By Peggy Noonan. [Trump inflicts one wound after another on his campaign.] 8-6-16
Trump. LTE. “Trump Is Right About the Suboptimal Debate Schedule.” 8-8-16
Trump. “Trump Gets It Wrong: Trade Is a Winner for Americans.” By Robert B. Zoellick. [Lower taxes on imports from trade deals save the average U.S. household about $10,000 a year.] 8-8-16
Trump. “Trump on the Economy.” [Progress on regulation and taxes but his trade policy is a jobs killer.] 8-9-16
Trump. LTE. “It Makes Sense for Trump to Court Black Voters.” 8-9-16
Trump. “Trump Runs Against Both Parties.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [He’s not a nuclear madman – and he’s not back inside the GOP tent either.] 8-10-16
Trump. “It’s Clinton’s Election to Lose.” By Wm. Gaston. [Trump has divided Republicans while Democrats are united behind Hillary.] 8-10-16
Trump. “Trump and Taxes: Don’t Look Behind the curtain.” By Alan S. Blinder. [The GOP nominee refuses to release his tax returns while his new tax plan is a gift to the super-rich.] 8-10-16
Trump. “The Clinton Default Mistake.” By Daniel Henninger. [Her presidency will use enforcement agencies to entrench political correctness.] 8-11-16
Trump. “Trump’s Contribution to Sound Money.” By Judy Shelton. [The source of trade anxiety is a broken global monetary system that distorts price signals with sharp currency moves.] 8-11-16
Trump. “Trump’s Self-Reckoning.” [The GOP nominee and his supporters face a moment of truth.] 8-15-16
Trump. LTE. “Mr. Trump Makes Some Good Points on trade.” 8-15-16
Trump. “About those Loser ‘Trumpkins.’” By Wm. McGurn. [What is it that the much-vilified Trump voters are trying to tell us.?] 8-16-16
Trump. “Trump’s Anti-Terror Strategy.” [This is a debate the American public deserves to hear.] 8-16-16
Trump. LTE. “Trump Can’t Be Any Worse Than What We’ve Had.” 8-16-16
Trump. “Trump Misses the Point on Tech Visas.” By Jason L. Riley. [Employers hire high-skill immigrants for the same reason they hire low-skill ones: out of necessity.] 8-17-16
Trump. “Notable and Quotable: The GOP Fundamentals: From “Forecasting the 2016 Preidential Election: Will Time for Change Mean Time for Trump?” by Alan Abramowitz on Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball website, Aug. 11.” 8-17-16
Trump. “Law and Order: Trump Unit. By Daniel Henninger. [For global and domestic disorder, Trump’s answer looks better than hers.] 8-18-16
Trump. “Shuffling Deck Chairs on the USS Trump. By Karl Rove. [A new campaign team can help Donald only if he decides to stay out of petty feuds.] 8-18-16
Trump. “Trump Will Be Trump.” [The nominee says he wants to run as The Donald undiluted.] 8-18-16
Trump LTE. “The Trump Effect on the Republican Party.” 8-19-16
Trump. LTE. “Wilbur Ross Is Wrong About the Trade Deficit.” 8-19-16 (See 8-15-16 #267)
Trump. (The Weekend Interview with Scott Adams. By James Taranto) “Dilbert Explains Donald Trump.” [The cartoonist figured out the Republican’s persuasion skill before the pundits did. And he still thinks Trump can win.] 8-20-16
Trump. LTE. “Trump Appeals to Voters Who Feel Unheard.” 8-20-16
Trump. “A Trump Deportation Reversal?” [Hints emerge that he is rethinking one of his worst policies.]. 8-22-16
Trump. “What Trump’s Foreign Policy Gets Right.” By John Bolton. [The GOP nominee’s speech last week was a serious contribution, in sharp contrast with Clinton and Obama’s nonstrategy.] 8-22-16
Trump. “The College Republicans Divide Over Trump.” By Zachary Young. [For the GOP, campus is occupied territory. But this year it’s hard to see where the battle lines are drawn.] 8-22-16
Trump. “Trump Wins Even If he Loses.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [He wants the presidency but the free media exposure will pay off regardless.] 8-24-16
Trump. “Trump Turned Down the NAACP’s Invitation, Smart Move.” By Jason L. Riley. [The civil-rights group wants a freeze on charter schools, while two-thirds of blacks favor them.] 8-24-16
Trump. “Old Trump, New Tricks.” By Fred Barnes. [He said he wouldn’t change – but then he did. The question is how long it can last.] 8-25-16
Trump. “Trump Faces Immigration Reality.” [He appears to be moving to something like the Bush-Rubio policy.] 8-26-16
Trump. LTE. “Rude Trump Is Still the Best Hope for Change.” 8-30-16
Trump. “Black Lives Matter to Donald Trump.” By Heather Mac Donald. [The Republican says every child – in Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore – should be able to walk to school safely. For that, he’s called racist.] 8-30-16
Trump. “Trump’s Tax Withholding Is a Signal.” By Joshua D. Blank. [Candidates’ tax returns aren’t all that revealing. But refusing to release them says a lot.] 8-30-16
Trump. “Trump’s Immigration Shift Is a Winner.” By Jason L. Riley. [The older whites cheering for walls and deportation don’t represent most of the GOP, let alone the country.] 8-31-16
Trump. “The Limits of Trumpism.” [Candidates who run on his agenda are losing in Republican primaries.] 9-1-16
Trump. “Trump’s Fortress America.” [The Republican misses a chance to broaden his coalition.] 9-2-16 (Includes chart: “The Shrinking GOP Coalition: Percentage of national vote for president by voting group and candidate.”)
Trump. LTE. “Wyden Defends His Tax-Form Disclosure Act.” 9-2-16
Trump. “Dems Fume at Trump’s Outreach to Blacks.” By Jason L. Riley. 9-7-16
Trump. LTE. “MacDonald Is Right About Rise in Murders of Blacks.” 9-7-16
Trump. “President Trump Isn’t Farfetched.” By Douglas E. Schoen. [Pundits treat Clinton like a shoo-in, but polls tell a different story. Victory is well within Trump’s reach.] 9-7-16
Trump. “The Way Trump Talks.” By Daniel Henninger. [Clinton’s reliable political language may lose to the new Trumpian rhetoric.] 9-8-16
Trump. “Donald Has 60 Days to Close the Deal.” By Karl Rove. [He acted presidential in Mexico and Detroit. Can he keep it up?] 9-8-16
Trump. “The Trump Blitz Begins.” By Kimberley A. Strassel. [The GOP nominee is finally — relentlessly – arguing that Clinton is unfit for office. ] 9-9-16
Trump. LTE. “Fortress America Garrisoned by the Idle Army.” 9-10-16 (See # 292, here)
Trump. “Some Big Holes in Trump’s Wall.” By Stuart Anderson. 9-12-16
Trump. “The Trump Plan will Help Working Mothers.” By Ivanka Trump. [My father wants to empower both working and stay-at-home parents and give families freedom of choice in child care.] 9-14-16
Trump. “Trump and the Art of Growth.” [He sets a clear contrast with Clinton on taxes, regulation and energy.] 9-16-16
Trump. “Trump and the Translators.” [A chance to prove his policy is not anti-Muslim but anti-jihad.] 9-17-16
Trump. “Trump’s School-Choice Fight.” [His plan to let money follow the child is a moral and political winner.] 9-19-16
Trump. LTE. “Dummies’ Reply to ‘Never Trump for Dummies.’” 9-20-16
Trump. LTE. “Robert Gates Is Mistaken About Donald Trump.” 9-22-16
Trump. “Party Loyalty Can’t Make Me vote for Clinton.” By Andrew Stein. [A lifelong Democrat, I’m backing Trump because he can shake up our politics and revive the economy.] 9-22-16
Trump. “Trump Debate Dos and Don’ts.” By Kimberley A. Strassel. [Voters know he’s a scapper. But he must show an optimistic vision for America.] 9-23-16
Trump. “Trump’s $1.5 Trillion Tax Detail.” [The good news is that Congress would rewrite his reform plan.] 9-23-16
Trump. “If Not Trump, Who Will Cure the Rot.” By Homan W. Jenkins, Jr. [A Chicago murder wave and New York graft scandal are manifestations of political decay.] 9-24-16
Trump. “Fast-Checking Lester Holt.” [Here’s the legal back story on that stop-and-frisk ruling.] 9-28-16
Trump. “Trump’s Losing Debate Strategy.” By Jason L. Riley. [If he had a plan to win the debate against Clinton, it remains as secret as his plan to defeat ISIS.] 9-28-16
Trump. “Trump Is Right About ‘Stop and Frisk.’” By Rudolph W. Giuliani. [It’s constitutional, as the Republican correctly described. Lester Hold should apologize.] 9-28-2016
Trump. “The Trump Mosh Pit.” By Daniel Henninger. [Only one debater is still in sync with the American electorate’s restless mood.] 9-29-16
Trump. “Trump Tees Up a Necessary Debate of the Fed.” By Ruchir Sharma. [Sixty percent of stock gains since the 2008 panic have occurred on days when the Fed makes policy decisions.] 9-29-16
Trump. “Can Trump Unlock the Keystone State?” by Joseph Rago. [If Doanld Trump can win in Pennsylvania, he could take residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.] 9-30-16
Trump. “Trump’s NAFTA Mistakes Are Huge.” By Mary Anastasia O’Grady. [Thanks to free trade, the U.S. auto industry has become globally competitive again.] 10-3-16
Trump. “Progressives for Trump Tax Reform.” [The media are shocked that business losses reduce tax liability.” 10-3-16
Trump. “The Apology of Donald J. Trump.” By Bret Stephens. [To those who don’t get why Clinton isn’t ahead by 50 points – here’s the answer.] 10-4-16
Trump. LTE. “Trump Plans to Beat China at Its Own Game.” 10-4-16
Trump. “The Trump Tax Set-up.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [The means being used to defeat him are the best argument for his candidacy.] 10-5-16
Trump. “Trump Sorely Needs a Debate Win.” By Karl Rove. [He has to revive GOP enthusiasm to offset the Democrat’s strong turnout operation.] 10-6-16
Trump. LTE. “Bipartisan Election Derangement Syndrome.” 10-6-16 [See Hillary, 9-30-16]
Trump. “Trump’s ObamaCare Silence.” By Kimberley A. Strassel. [The failing health law should be his best weapon, but he seems unable to wield it.] 10-7-16
Trump. “Trump’s Last Stand.” [If his campaign melts down, the goal has to be t save a GOP Congress.] 10-10-15
Trump. LTE. “Trump’s Taxes and Tax Loss Carry-Forwards.” 10-11-16
Trump. “Kompromat Takes Down Trump.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [His gross foibels are an easy target, but isn’t the election about more?] 10-12-16
Trump. LTE “Trump’s Right: NAFTA Has Been Loser for U.S.” 10-14-16
Trump. “Trump and the Emasculated Voter.” By David Gelernter. [There’s only one way to protect the nation from Hillary Clinton, and that is to vote for Donald Trump.] 10-15-16
Trump. LTE. “The Varieties of Views on Donald J. Trump.” 10-17-16
Trump. “The Cheap Moralizing of Never Trump.” By Wm. McGurn. [Trump voters get that the elite contempt for their man is a proxy contempt for them.] 10-18-16
Trump. “Trump’s Rigged Election.” [Donald is wrong, but where do you think he got the idea?] 10-18-16
Trump. LTE. “Emasculated Voters Get What They Deserve.” 10-20-16
Trump. “Where Trump Fell Short.” By Kimberley A. Strassel. [He made a compelling case against Clinton but failed to reach out beyond his base.] 10-21-16
Trump. “A Lincoln Lesson for Donald Trump.” By Harold Holzer. 10-21-16
Trump. “The Media Do Scarlett.” [Trump’s election threat is dumb, but the outrage is over the top.] 10-21-16
Trump. “Imagine a Sane Donald Trump.” By Peggy Noonan. [You know he’s a nut. What if he weren’t? He’d have won in a landslide.] 10-22-16
Trump. “A vote for Trump Is a Vote for Growth.” By Wilbur Ross and Peter Navarro. [The Republican’s policies will create 25 million new jobs, boost incomes and generate trillions in additional tax revenues.] 10-25-16
Trump. “Accountability for ObamaCare.” [Democrats should pay a political price for this historic failure.] 10-26-16
Trump. LTE. “Mr. Trump Is Right on Clinton and Catholics.” 10-26-16
Trump. “Trump Bets on the ‘Missing Five Million.’ By Karl Rove. [Some say Republicans can win by turning out disaffected whites – but is it working?] 10-27-16
Trump. LTE. “That 3:00 AM Call and the Nuclear Trigger.” 10-28-16
Trump. “Bexit Trump and a Whole Lot of No.” [Our politics will be in a holding pattern until laders sstart asking voters to say Yes to something for a change.] 10-28-16
Trump. “The Gamble of Trump.” [The hope of better policies comes with his manifest personal flaws.] 11-5-16
Trump. “2016’s Big Reveal. “ by Bret Stephens. [Donald Trump is a demagogue. Period. The right’s failure to see it is a disgrace.] 11-8-16
Trump. “The Trump Opportunity.” By Daniel Henninger. [Sit down with Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan and ambassador to Congress Mike Pence.] 11-10-16
Trump. “President-Elect Trump.” [He will now need to pick smart advisers and show generosity in victory.] 11-10-16
Trump. “America Elects the Candidate of Change.” By Karl Rove [Voters found Clinton more trustworthy and likable, but Trump still won the election.] 11-10-16
Trump. “How Trump Filled the Dignity Deficit.” By Arthur C. Brooks. [Over the past half century, the percentage of working-age men outside the workforce doubled.] 11-10-16
Trump. “Which Trump will Americians Get?” by Donald Luskin. [The economy depends on whether the protectionist or the tax-cutter shows up.] 11-10-16
Trump. “Trump’s Secret Weapon: Obama.” By Kimberley A. Strassel. [Not to take away from the GOP victory, but this was a rejection of Obama’s governing.] 11-11-16
Trump. “Trump and the Democrats.” [The lesson: Progressive government can’t be imposed from the hip.] 11-11-16
Trump. “What comes After the Uprising.” By Peggy Noonan. [President-elect Trump needs to reassure the country, including those who opposed him.] 11-12-16
Trump. “Meet Pro-Growth Trump.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Just pray there’s no financial crisis that causes him to unlimber his anti-trade instincts.] 11-12-16
Trump. “Who is Steve Bannon?” [The left erupts over the Trump aide who called himself a ‘Leninist.’] 11-16-16
Trump. “The New Trump Democrats” by Daniel Henninger. [Trump voters have become journalism’s biggest archaeological excavation site.] (“…in 2018, Democrats must defend 10 senate seats in states Donald Trump won. If I were one of these 10, I’d give the Democrats 2017 to reboot their persona. If not, I’d go over to the other side.”) 11-17-16
Trump. “Trump Won Because Clinton Flopped.” By Karl Rove. [About 3.5 million Obama voters in 2012 didn’t cast ballots for Hillary this time.] 11-17-16
Trump. “The Trump Family Political Business.” [The left is already teeing this up as a daily target. Answer: liquidate.] 11-18-16
Trump. “Steve Bannon on Politics as War.” (The Weekend Interview with Stephen K. Bannon by Kimberley A. Strassel) [The Trump adviser talks about the winning campaign and says the political attacks against him are ‘just nonsense.’] 11-19-16
Trump. “The Emerging Trump Cabinet.” [The first three picks go to loyalists amid signs of political outreach.] 11-19-16
Trump. “What to Tell Your Children About Trump.” By Peggy Noonan. [We are the world’s oldest democracy, we are good people, and we’ve been through shocks before.] 11-19-16
Trump. “Trump’s Neo-Nationalists.” By Bret Stephens. [‘America first’ is not a policy or a motto. It’s an implicit accusation of disloyalty.] 11-22-16
Trump. “Anti-Trumpers Channel Their Inner Donald.” By Wm. McGurn. [Many who decried Trump now exhibit the worst traits he was accused of.] 11-22-16
Trump. “Living With Trump’s Conflicts.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [He can’t annul his ‘brand.’ And, anyway, voters knew whom they were electing.] 11-23-16
Trump. Trump’s State of Transition. [Petraeus and Bolton would be strong, experienced diplomats.] 11-26-16
Trump. “No More Business as Usual, Mr. Trump.” By Peggy Noonan. [He has to abandon his company in order to deal on the country’s behalf.] 11-26-16
Trump. “Trump vs. the White House Press Corps.” By Ari Fleischer. [The briefing room contains 49 seats. Most go to the MSM with barely any to the dot-com world.] 11-28-16
Trump. “Trump Rally vs. Bannonomics” by Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [President Trump won’t get the mileage out of protectionism that Reagan did.] 11-30-16
Trump. “Trump’s A-Team.” By Daniel Henninger. [The president-elect is assembling a who’s who of conservatives for his cabinet.] 12-1-16
Trump. “Trump’s $1 Trillion Promise vs. Congress.’ By Karl Rove. [Republicans won’t thrill to throwing money ‘against the wall’ to see if it sticks.] 12-1-16
Trump. “Trump’s Money Men.” [An underwhelming pair of nominees to lead Commerce and Treasury.] 12-1-16
Trump. “Trump’s Carrier Shakedown.” [Workers don’t prosper when politicians force companies to make noneconomic decisions.] 12-2-16
Trump. “Trump’s Charm of Not Being Obama.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [The new White House won’t fail to embrace the jobs that fracking and pipelines can bring.] 12-3-16
Trump. “Trump’s Carrier Coup and a lesson From JFK.” By Peggy Noonan. [Kennedy took on U.S. Steel and won. But economic nationalism can lead to abuse of power.] 12-3-16
Trump. “Trump as Lady Gaga.” By Daniel Henninger. [He is a political performance artist, challenging what we think as normal.] 12-8-16
Trump. “Trump’s Chinese Currency Manipulation.” [His tweets are driving the yuan down against the dollar.] 12-8-16
Trump. “What’s in a Name? For Trump’s Businesses, Everything.” by Edwin D. Williamson. [Liquidating his stake in the Trump Organization through an IPO or buyout presents myriad problems.] 12-10-16
Trump. “Despotism and Donald Trump.” By Wm. McGurn. [Decrying Trump while ignoring the tyranny of the administrative state.] 12-13-16
Trump. “Trump’s Russian Reset Reset.” By Holman w. Jenkins, Jr. [This time, the aim should be to hold Putin’s hand until he gives up power.] 12-14-16
Trump. “Trump’s Blank Goldman Slates.” [His top economic advisers have few known policy views.] 12-14-16
Trump. “What Purple America Wants From Trump.” By Paul c. Light. [Swing voters would hold Washington to account but also protect programs they see as essential.] 12-14-16
Trump. “The Media Still Don’t Get Trump.” By Jason L. Riley. [The public doesn’t care about what obsesses pundits – and the president-elect knows it.] 12-14-16
Trump. “The Luck of the Donald.” By Wm. McGurn. [Ironically, Trump’s opponents have set him up for some major successes.] 1-3-17
Trump. “What Does Trump Know About Russia?” by Bret Stephens. [The president-elect has his doubts about Russian hacking. What are his motives?] 1-3-17
Trump. “A Lincoln Lesson for Donald Trump.” By Jay Winik. [The president-elect will soon learn how little control he has over his agenda.] 1-3-17
Trump. “Can Politicians and Singers Make Beautiful Music together?” by Dave Shiflett. [Recording artists shun the inauguration but hope Trump will look out for their interests.] 1-5-17
Trump. “A Useful Trump Intelligence Shakeup.” [The White House intel shop can be shrunk and its staff improved.] 1-6-17
Trump. “Meryl Streep Upstages Obama.” By Wm. McGurn. [Her Trump-thumping will be a hard act for the departing president to follow.] 1-10-17
Trump. “The Trump Russia Files.” By Daniel Henninger. [The president-elect’s interregnum turns into a media circus damaging everyone.] 1-12-17
Trump. “So, You Got a Job at the White House.” By Karl Rove. [Advice for Trump’s new staff from a dozen former aides, reaching back to LBJ.] 1-12-17
Trump. “De-Trumping the Trump Organization.” [He takes important steps but leaves some political vulnerability.] 1-12-17
Trump. “Tillerson for State.” [Trump and his nominee show more realism on Russia.] 1-12-17
Trump. “Trump May Herald a New Political Order.” By John Steele Gordon. [Seldom does a presidential election mark a permanent shift. The last time it happened was 1932.] 1-14-17
Trump. “If Russia Has Info on Trump Does It Make a Difference?’ by Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [We live in a MAD world – mutual assured destruction – with respect to leadership secrets.] 1-14-17
Trump. “Trump’s bonfire of Pieties.” By Bret Stephens. [Will his nasty rhetoric shake things up or crack their already shaky foundations?] 1-17-17
Trump. “The ‘Blind Trust’ snake Oil.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [American voters have bigger things to worry about than Trump’s business interests.] 1-18-17
Trump. “The Biggest Trump Question.” By Daniel Henninger. [Will his presidency produce a new order or merely more disorder?] 1-19-17
Trump. “A Perfect Sign-Off for @RealDonaldTrump.” By Karl Rove. [Now that he’s taking office, he should finally give up his twitter account.] 1-19-17
Trump. “an Inaugural Speech Like No Other?” by Thomas V. DeBacco. 1-19-17
Trump. “Don’t Make Any Sudden Moves, Mr. Trump.” By Richard Haass. [Heedless action – tearing up the Iran deal or moving the US. Embassy in Israel – may make things worse.] 1-19-17
Trump. “Coming Out – This Time for Trump.” By Mitchell Lee Marks. [Hiding my support for him felt the same way as keeping my sexual orientation secret.] 1-20-17
Trump. “The Audacity of Trump.” [The public dislikes his temperament but still believes he can deliver policy success.] 1-20-17
Trump. “The Promise of President Trump.” By Andrew Ferguson / Heather R. Higgins / Shelby Steele / Charles Kesler / Ben Sasse / Amity Shlaes / Jim Webb / Charles Koch. [We asked leading thinkers this question: ‘What is your hope and your expectation for the Trump presidency?’] 1-20-17
Trump. “Trump’s Populist Manifesto.” By Joe Connor. [A call to reform government, but perhaps not limit it.] 1-21-17
Trump. “Trump’s Good First Move.” [The new team reverses a late Obama payoff to the housing lobby.] 1-21-17
Trump. “President Trump Declares Independence.” By Peggy Noonan. [His message to America: Remember those things I said in the campaign? I meant them. I meant it all.] 1-21-17
Trump “Trump Can Correct a Bush Error.” By fred Barnes. [The conviction of ‘Scooter’ Libby was an injustice. He deserves a pardon.] 1-23-17
Trump. “Trump’s Intel Reform Is a Good First Step.” By Jane Harman and Peter Hoekstra. 1-23-17
Trump. “Trump at the CIA.” [Mr. President, the election is over.] 1-23-17
Trump. “Trump: The Reader’s Guide.” By Bret Stephens. [To understand Kellyanne Conway’s ‘alternative facts,’ pick up Hannah Arendt.] 1-24-17
Trump. “’America first’ Takes On a New Meaning.” By Wm McGurn. [The 1941 movement vilified Churchill. Trump restores him to a place of honor.] 1-24-17
Trump. “Trump Foes Egged Me On to Support Him.” By Barbara A. Smith. [While walking to an inaugural ball, I heard shouts – and felt yolk run down my hair.] 1-24-17
Trump. “Trump’s Pacific Trade Retreat.” [The failure is a strategic win for China and a defeat for Japan’s Shinzo Abe.] 1-24-17
Trump. “Trump, the Press and the Dictatorship of the Trolletariat.” By Barton Swaim. [The president pursues a canny strategy of sending journalists on wild-goose ‘fact-checks.’] 1-24-17
Trump. “Corporate America Taken Hostage.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Business is charged with creating jobs to keep Donald Trump off his trade warhorse.] 1-25-17
Trump. “The Emoluments Clause for Dummies.” By Brian C. Kalt. [Everyone’s an expert, but the truth here is that majority rules.] 1-25-17
Trump. “The Trump Kaleidoscope.” By Daniel Henninger. [It’s time for doubtful and hopeful Trumpers to stop obsessing over Trump Himself.] 1-26-17
Trump. “Trump Tries to Build a ‘Different Party.’” By Peggy Noonan. [The Democrats have no playbook for dealing with a Republican who’s a populist.] 1-28-17
Trump. “The Wrong Kind of Crazy.” By Bret Stephens. [What Trump could learn from Nixon about keeping enemies off balance.] 1-31-17
Trump. “Trumpian Shock and Awe.” By Daniel Henninger. [Too many political forces are coming to life against the young presidency’] 2-2-17
Trump. “Amateur Hour at the White House.” By Karl Rove. [Trump mismanaged the travel ban rollout. The next crisis could be more serious.] 2-2-17
Trump. “Trump and American ‘Self Confidence’.” [Obama ignored David Petraeus’s advice. Will the new President?] 2-2-17
Trump. “Travis Kalanick Drives Away.” [The Uber CEO drops out of a meeting with Donald Trump, alas.] 2-3-17
Trump. Trump could Be the First Silicon Valley President.” By Andy Kessler. [He is as disruptive as Amazon, Uber and Napster – and also as risky as any high-tech startup.] 2-3-17
Trump. “In Trump’s Washington, Nothing Feels Stable.” By Peggy Noonan. [He has overloaded all circuits. Everything is too charged, with sparks and small shocks all over.] 2-4-17
Trump. “The Thomas Hobbes Presidency.” By Bret Stephens. [Conservatives were outraged by Obama’s apologies. What about Trump’s slander?] 2-7-17
Trump. “Who’s ‘Normalizing’ Donald Trump Now?” by Wm McGurn. [The vulgarity and violence of the anti-Trump left may be helping the president.] 2-7-17
Trump. “Trump, Putin and Republicans.” [The GOP will have to provide a check on the President’s bromance.] 2-7-17
Trump. “Trump Gives a Boost to Putin’s Propaganda.” By David Satter. [The president’s line that the U.S. also has ‘killers’ will be used to justify still more Russian murders.] 2-7-17
Trump. “At the Trump Trauma Center, Nobody Comes for Treatment.” [A sickness that makes sufferers feel terribly good about themselves.] 2-8-17
Trump. “The Method in Trump’s Tumult.” By Christopher De Muth. [ A raucous cabinet can be an asset. Some fo the best presidents, including Washington, wielded disagreement as a tool.] 2-11-17
Trump. “Trump’s judicial Debacle.” [The botched order has given judges a chance to restrict executive power over national security.] 2-11-17
Trump. “Trump’s ‘So-Called’ Judgment.” By Sai Prakash and John Yoo. [It’s legitimate to criticize the judiciary, but unwise to do it so injudiciously.] 2-13-17
Trump. “Donald Trump’s Abolitionist Cabinet.” By Wm. McGurn. [Hurrah for cabinet secretaries skeptical about the agencies they will lead.] 2-14-17
Trump. “The Reality-Television President.” By Adam O’Neal. [“…If Mr. Trump wants a successful presidency…he’ll have to scrutinize the implementation of his ideas much more carefully than he crafts his tweets.] 2-14-17
Trump. “Andy Puzder’s Grilling.” [Will the White House let bogus charges beat its Labor nominee?] 2-14-17
Trump. “White House Disruption.” [Trump should give his chief of staff the power to act like one.] 2-14-17
Trump. “Eavesdropping on Michael Flynn.” [Did U.S. spooks have a court order to listen to his conversations? Why?] 2-14-17
Trump. “The Michael Flynn Fallout.” [Congress should include the leaked transcripts in its Russia probes.] 2-15-17
Trump. “Is this Trump’s Watergate?” by Daniel Henninger. [Unless his team gets back to the basics of the 2016 election, 1974 could return.] 2-16-17
Trump. “Don’t Believe the Progressive Hype.” By Karl Rove. [Trump’s missteps have energized the left, but tea-party comparisons are overwrought.] 2-16-17
Trump. “A ‘Shadow Cabinet’ to Restrain Trump.” By David Roberts. [Sharp critiques of extreme policies from eminent ex-officials.] 2-16-17
Trump. “Another Trump Casualty.” [Immigration foes and unions take down Labor nominee Andy Puzder.] 2-16-17
Trump. “The Bully Trumpet.” [Some good news amid the presidential stream of consciousness.] 2-17-17
Trump. “Trump’s Labor Mulligan.” [Alex Acosta is a conservative whom liberals can support.] 2-17-17
Trump. “The White House Needs an Injection of Calm.” By Peggy Noonan. [Trump is an unusual character. He’d benefit if his staff included some conventional ones.] 2-18-17
Trump. “Missing the Meaning of Trump.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Liberals desperately pretend his rise is a message from Russia, not voters.] 2-22-17
Congress. “A Real Fix for Trump’s Conflicts of Interest.” By George M. Cohen. [Congress should establish a public trust to oversee his company.] 2-23-17
Trump. “Trump vs. Trump.” By Daniel Henninger. [The dangers of a presidency that gets trapped inside the thrills of a campaign.] 2-23-17
Trump. “When the President Speaks, Who’ll Listen.” By Karl Rove. [Trump’s congressional address should aim at voters who oppose him but are persuadable.] 2-23-17
Trump. “Trump’s Reality Test.” [Bannonism gets the headlines but can’t deliver votes in Congress.] 2-28-17
Trump. “A Surprising Show of Confidence.” By Peggy Noonan. [Trump’s speech was clear, plain, even warm at times. Could we be seeing a capacity to grow?] 3-4-17
Trump. “The Vertigo Presidency.” By Bret Stephens. [A belly-flop into the cloudy pond of Mr. Trump’s psyche won’t Make America Great.] 3-7-17
Trump. “Trump and Russia: A clash of Conspiracy Theories.” By Michael Doran. [Who’s telling the truth, the president or James Clapper? It’s possible both of them are.] 3-7-17
Trump. “Trump’s Revealing Budget.” [So much political drama over such a small part of the federal fisc.] 3-17-17
Trump. “’Clearly the President Was Wrong.’” 3-17-17 [Re: Obama and Trump Tower wiretapping during the 2016 campaign]
Trump. “A President’s Credibility.” [Trump’s falsehoods are eroding public trust at home and abroad.] 3-22-17
Trump. “Major Trump to Ground Control.” [The President’ good idea for improving U.S air traffic.] 3-23-17
Trump. “Reach for the Stars, Mr. Trump.” By Taylor Dinerman. [The International Space Station is the ultimate real-estate deal.] 3-24-17
Trump. “So Much for Donald Mussolini.” [Remember when Trump was going to roll over U.S. checks and balances?”] 3-28-17
Trump. “Mistakes, He’s Made a Few Too Many.” By Peggy Noonan. [Crisis will inevitably strike, so America needs stability and strength. Will Trump be ready?] 4-1-17
Trump. “Trump and the Plutocrat’s Hubris.” By Joseph Epstein. [It’s now obvious that financial success does not easily transfer into other realms.] 4-3-17
Trump. “Susan Rice Unmasked.” [Obama’s security adviser sought the name of a Trump official in intelligence reports.] 4-4-17
Trump. “Mr. Trump Meets Mr. Xi.” [China’s strongman will be taking the measure of the new President.] 4-5-17
Trump. “The Trump Tweets.” By Daniel Henninger. [Twitter helped him win the White House. Now, Twitter may cause him to lose it.] 4-6-17
Trump. “A Presidential Honeymoon From Hell.” By Karl Rove. [The should be a time to notch early wins. But, Trump is stalled and distracted.] 4-6-17
Trump. “Trump’s Syria Opportunity.” [The world’s thugs are watching how the new President responds.] 4-7-17
Trump. “Trump’s Putin Pushback.” [He invites Montenegro to join NATO and keeps up the Syria pressure.] 4-12-17
Trump. “The Trump Presidency Begins.” By Daniel Henninger. [It was almost too much fun but has now taken a clear turn for the serious.] 4-13-17
Trump. “A New Slogan for Trump: ‘You’re Hired.’” By Karl Rove. [Leaving jobs vacant only empowers career bureaucrats, without saving much money.] 4-13-17
Trump. “Labor Department Mutiny. [Obama’s holdovers refuse to follow Trump’s directive.] 4-13-17
Trump. President. “Did George Washington Take ‘Emoluments’? by Eugene Kontorovich. [He asked a British official to help find renters for his land.] 4-14-17
Trump. “How Trump Is Like Early Giuliani.” (The Weekend Interview with Lawrence J. Mone by James Taranto.) [The Manhattan Institute’s president says the former mayor was no policy wonk either, at least at the start.] 4-15-17
Trump. “Trump Is Easy to Typecast. Why Is Hollywood Having Such Trouble?” by Rod Pennington. [Villain? Diva? Bumbler? Entertainers and other Democrats can’t seem to make up their minds.] 4-18-17
Trump. “Rating a Semi-Accidental President.” By Homan W. Jenkins, Jr. [If he does nothing, America will be better off. If he delivers tax reform, he’ll be great.] 4-26-17
Trump. “The First Day of the Rest of the Presidency.” By Karl Rove. [As the media obsesses over a fake milestone, Trump should take a minute to recalibrate.] 4-27-17
Trump. “Trump’s Finest Moment (So Far).” by Kimberley A. Strassel. [His tax-reform plan is smart policy, but even better politics: It’s a challenge to Congress.] 4-28-17
Trump. “Trump Has Been Lucky in His Enemies.” By Peggy Noonan. [Cursing pols, screeching students and intolerant abortion advocates have become the face of the left.] 4-29-17
Trump. “Watergate Lessons For Trump.” By Seth Lipsky. [If Comey was investigating the president, it would be cause for dismissal. That’s the duty of the House.] 5-12-17
Trump. “A Week in Trump’s Washington.” [What we’ve learned in the Comey-White House maelstrom.] 5-13-17
Trump. Blacks. “The Outsiders Who Were Behind the Booing of Betsy DeVos.” By Jason L. Riley. [Trump hosted black college presidents in the Oval Office, something Barack Obama never got around to.] 5-17-17
Trump. “Loose Lips Sink Presidencies.” [The Russian intel story shows the price of Trump’s lost credibility.] 5-17-17
Trump. “Let Trump Be Trump.” By Daniel Henninger. [The president should cut the middlemen and be his own messenger in chief. ] 5-18-17Trump. “The Trump Tumult Is Too Much.” By Karl Rove. [There’s no obstruction of justice here, but eh president is throwing away his agenda.] 5-18-17
Trump. FBI. “The Special Counsel Mistake.” [Rosenstein bends to political pressure, and here we go again.] 5-18-17
President. “The 25^th Amendment? Forget It. [Impeachment would be a picnic by comparison with Trump opponents’ latest brainstorm.] 5-19-17
Trump. “Democracy Is Not Your Plaything.” By Peggy Noonan. [When the circus comes to Washington, it consumers everything, absorbs all energy.] (“…whether Donald Trump has demonstrated in his first four months, that he is unfit for the presidency…) 5-20-17
Trump. “The Trump-GOP Bargain May Be Unraveling.” By Alan S. Blinder. [How, amid the chaos, will the House and especially the Senate find time to agree on legislation?] 5-22-17 (Mr. Blinder is a professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton University…)
Trump. “Anti-Trump Democrats Invite Chaos.” By Ted Van Dyk. [If they succeed in bouncing the president from office, they may find that what comes next is even worse.] 5-22-17
Trump. “The Pontiff and the President.” By Wm. McGurn. [Donald Trump and Pope Francis may be more alike than anyone realizes.] 5-23-17
Trump. “Trump’s Bob Kerrey Budget.” [Without entitlement reform, everything else gets squeezed.] 5-24-17
Trump. “Trump Is More Optimistic than Reagan, and That’s Not Good.” By Jason Furman. [His budget assumes 3% growth and includes a basic math error.] 5-24-17
Trump. “From 9/11 to Manchester.” By Daniel Henninger. [Trump found out something about the presidency and the world on this trip.] 5-25-2017
Trump. “The President Is Home, but Not Home Free.” By Karl Rove. [Trump stayed on message during his trip abroad. Now if only he can keep it up.] 6-1-17
Trump. “Trump Bids Paris Adieu.” [Growth and innovation are better forms of climate insurance.] 6-2-17
Trump. Israel. “The Trump Jerusalem Waiver.” [The President made the embassy move a test of U.S. credibility.] 6-2-17
Trump. “Can Trump Govern?” BY Daniel Henninger. [The White House has arrived at a binary choice: Choose chaos or choose success.] 6-8-17
Trump. “Political Death by 1,000 Tweets.” By Karl Rove. [Trump has mastered the medium but not the substance. His agenda is at stake.] 6-8-17
Trump. “Trump as a Democracy Promoter.” [His responses to abuse in Syria and Venezuela suggest he cares about freedom and human rights.] 6-8-17
Trump. “Why Trump Wins.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Will Robert Mueller investigate intelligence agencies for playing in domestic politics?] 6-10-17
Trump. “Comey Closes the Case – Almost.” By Peter J. Wallison. [The president’s insistence on disputing the former director’s testimony was a needless complication.] 6-12-17
Trump. “What Trump Has to Fear From Mueller.” By Karl Rove. [Special counsels can run amok. One went after me once for the crime of forgetfulness.] 6-15-17
Trump. “Congress Steps Up on Russia.” [Trump will have to earn more discretion on foreign policy.” 6-16-17
Trump. Special Prosecutor. “Robert Mueller’s Mission” [The special counsel needs to rise above his Comey loyalties.] 6-17-17
Trump. “Anatomy of a Witch Hunt.” By Holman w. Jenkins, Jr. [The Trump-Russia scare comes from the same playbook as fake cancer scares.] 6-21-17
Trump. “Trump’s ‘Tapes’ Trick.” [His Twitter bluff led to the special counsel appointment.] 6-26-17
Trump. “Trump, Mueller and Arthur Andersen.” By Michael R. Mukasey. [Did the president act ‘corruptly’? Not from what we know — but then neither did the accounting firm.] 6-26-17
Trump. “Should Trump Abandon the GOP?” by Daniel Henninger. [The president may separate himself from a party disabled by a blocking minority.] 6-29-17
Trump. “Trump Takes Flak From a PR School.” By Mary Beth West. [The USC Annenberg survey uses faulty methodology.] 6-29-17
Trump. “Trump’s Putin Test.” [The Russian will interpret concessions as a sign of weakness.] 7-6-17
Trump. “Washington’s Leak Mob.” By Kimberley A. Strassel. [Trying to topple Trump, current and ex-officials damage national security.] 7-7-17
Trump. “Trump’s Defining Speech.” [In Poland, he asks the West to defend its values of faith and freedom.] 7-7-17
Trump. “Trump Must Stand Strong Against Putin.” By David Satter. [The president needs to show that the U.S. is prepared to deter Russian aggression.] 7-7-17
Trump. “When Donald Met Vlad.” [We’ll learn what Putin thinks of Trump by what he tries to get away with.] 7-8-17
Trump. “A Pope and a President in Poland.” By Peggy Noonan. [In a good Warsaw speech, Trump invokes one of Pope John Paul II’s great 1979 orations.] 7-8-17
Trump. “Trump Agonistes.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Surprise, he didn’t run his campaign any smarter than his government.] 7-12-17
Trump. “Keystone Kops Collusion.” [Did Don Jr., a Russian pop star and a lawyer steal the 2016 election?] 7-12-17
Trump. “Trump’s Sessions Abuse.” [His demand that his AG prosecute Clinton crosses a red line.] 7-26-17
Trump. “Pardons Aren’t Only For the Guilty.” By Brian C. Kalt. [The Supreme Court’s 1915 ‘imputation of guilt’ doesn’t mean what Trump foes think it does.] 7-26-17
Trump. “How Long Can the Trump Tumult Go On?” by Karl Rove. [This has been a wild week, even for him. It also ought to be a wake-up call.] 7-27-17
Trump. “Trump’s Unused Bully Pulpit.” By Wm. McGurn. [As Reagan proved, there’s nothing as powerful as an Oval Office address.] 8-1-17
Trump. “Trump Loses Corporate America.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [There is no point in taking brickbats for a president who does no deliver.] 8-16-17
Trump. “Trump and the CEOs.” [A GOP President who loses the business class has a big problem.] 8-16-17
Trump. “Trump Can’t Win the Blame Game.” By Karl Rove. [Like any president, he’ll be judged by results. So far, he’s failed to deliver much.] 8-17-17
Trump. “Beating His Own Head Against the Wall.” [Trump threatens to do exactly what Chuck Schumer wants.] 8-24-17
Trump. “Trump Divorces the GOP Congress.” [Republicans need to think of Trump as a political independent.] 8-25-17
Trump. “When the Truth is Crazy.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Trump is diagnosed with a severe case of conformity-resistance syndrome.] 9-2-17
Trump. “Trump, Taxes and the Democrats.” [Young immigrant adults aren’t the only ‘Dreamers’ in D.C.] 9-12-17
Trump. “Trump Goes Nuclear.” By Daniel Henninger. [ Critics of Trumpian rhetoric live outside the range of Kim’s missiles – for now.] 9-21-17
Trump. “Trump Gets Blunt at the United Nations.” By Peggy Noonan. [Will bracing clarity make things better or worse? We’ll know soon enough. But he said things the world needed to hear.] 9-23-17
Trump. “The Never-Trump Triumvirate.” By Kimberley A. Strassel. [What do Rand Paul, Susan Collins and John McCain have in common? Very Little.] 9-29-17
Trump. “Scalias All the way down.” By Kimberley a. Strassel. [While the press goes wild over tweets, Trump is remaking the federal judiciary.] 10-13-17
Trump. “The Power of the Presidential Tweet.” By Scott Adams. [Trump’s online missives make his supporters laugh and even his opponents think past the sale.] 10-23-17
Trump. “Begging Your Pardon, Mr. President.” By David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey. [How Trump can shut down the special counsel probe and leave the Russia investigations to Congress.] 10-30-17
Trump. “Trump and the ‘Russia Racket.’” By Homan W. Jenkins, Jr. [How a rival power became the American political class’s land of opportunism.] 11-1-17
Trump. “Tweet Less, Smile More.” By Karl Rove. [If President Trump could control himself, people might notice his accomplishments.] 11-2-17
Trump. “Mr. Trump Trolls Mrs. May.” [The President spreads fake news and damages an important ally.] 12-1-17
Trump. “The Long War on Donald Trump.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. 12-9-17
Trump. “Can a President Obstruct Justice?” by David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey. [Yes, but not by doing any of the things we know Trump to have done.] 12-11-17
Trump. “A New Trumpet for Democracy.” By Judy Shelton. [Contrary to his isolationist reputation, the president echoes Reagan in affirming America’s founding values.] 12-21-17
Trump. “The ‘Stupidity’ of Donald Trump. By Wm. McGurn. [He’s had far more success than Arnold Schwarzenegger or Jesse Ventura.] 12-26-17
Trump. “Understanding the Trump Show.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [After tax reform, we might have to rethink how America gets things done.] 12-27-17
Trump. “Two Presidencies in One Year.” By Daniel Henninger. [We have spent 2017 with Trump of Twitter and Trump of accomplishments.] 12-28-17
Trump. “Too Many Flags in Trump’s First Quarter.” By Ari Fleischer. [The president advanced the ball far downfield, but thanks to penalties, he kept losing yardage.] 12-28-17
Trump. “About That Trump ‘Autocracy.’” [Remember all those progressive predictions of looming fascism?] 1-2-18
Trump. “Trifling With the Nuclear Button.” [Why Trump’s approval is so low despite his first-year successes.] 1-4-18
Trump. “The Hour of the Wolff.” (Bookshelf by Barton Swaim.) “Fire and Fury” by Michael Wolff. [The author writes as if he were the omniscient narrator of a novel, offering up assertions that are provocative but often conjectural.] 1-8-18
Trump. “Davos In, Bannon Out.” [Steve Bannon loses his head, while Trump goes to Switzerland.] 1-10-18
Trump. “Trump Proves He’s Sane.” By Daniel Henninger. [The president may have to invite Michael Wolff to attend the second inauguration.] 1-11-18
Trump. “Psychiatrists With Press Passes.” By Karl Rove. [A dubious new book starts a long national dialogue on whether Trump is crazy.] 1-11-18
Trump. “Trump’s Russian Money.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [The big carrot in U.S. relations has been access to Western banks and real estate.] 1-24-18
Trump. “The Mystery of Trump’s Lousy Polls.” By Scott Adams. [If he’s so persuasive, why is his approval so low? Well, Michael Jordan missed a lot of baskets.] 1-31-2018
Trump. “A Good Speech, but That’s Only a Start.” By Karl Rove. [Trump presents his agenda. Delivering it requires discipline he hasn’t so far shown.] 2-1-18
Trump. “Trump Manages to Unify My Country.” By Rondi Adamson. [Almost every fellow Canadian I know can’t stand the man.] 2-2-18
Trump. “The Left’s Rage and Trump’s Peril.” By Peggy Noonan. [The democratic base is even worse-tempered than the president. But Mueller could still harpoon him.] 2-3-18
Trump. “Trump’s Style Is His Substance.” By Bobby Jindal. [Primary voters chose him because he promised to fight. Party leaders need to learn to be less timid.] 2-15-18
Trump. “Trump Wastes Another Weekend.” By Karl Rove. [The indictment was a perfect time to pivot. Instead he amplified the media noise.] 2-22-18
Trump. “The Only Good Thing About Donald Trump Is All His Policies.” By Joseph Epstein. [A U.S. president who is a boor presents a problem. The presidency, after all, has a symbolic aspect.] 2-27-18
Trump. “Yes, Shut Down Mueller.” By Daniel Henninger. [Donald Trump is right about the special counsel, but for the wrong reason.] 3-22-18
Trump. “32 Questions for Trump and His Critics.” By Karl Rove. [Why not act innocent? Where’s the collusion? Was Hillary right? Can we go on this way?] 3-22-18
Trump. “The Tale of Stormy Donald.” [His willful self-indulgence catches up to President Trump.] 3-27-18
Trump. “Trump Targets Amazon.” [The President’s tweets make any regulatory action seem political.] 3-30-18
Trump. “Manhood in the Age of Trump.” (The Weekend Interview with Harvey Mansfield) [The author of ‘Manliness’ suggests the president’s vulgar appeal may be the beginning of the end of the push for gender-neutrality.) 3-31-18
Trump. “Trump Keeps His Predecessors’ Promises.” By Bobby Jindal. [He’s not the first to argue for tariffs, border security and an embassy move – only the first to deliver.] 4-4-18
Trump. “Trump, Cohen and Attorney-Client Privilege.” By Michael B. Mukasey. [The protection has its limits, but is it worth testing them over a possible campaign-finance offense?] 4-18-18
Trump. “We’ve All Got Too Much Trump on Our Minds.” By Joseph Epstein. [The president is easily the hottest show in town. But does he have to be the only show in town?] 4-19-18
Trump. “The Post Office and Trump’s Culture War.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [His attack on Amazon’s package-delivery deal is about a lot more than packages.] 4-21-18
Trump. “The Elitists’ Trump Excuse.” By Wm. McGurn. [His critics may be more corrupting to democracy and decency than he is.] 4-24-18
Trump. “Trump and Kim’s Low-Stakes Summit.” By Walter Russell Mead. [If the leaders meet, they’re likelier to reframe the standoff than to resolve it.] 4-24-18
Trump. “Trump at the Supreme Court.” [His travel ban may be unnecessary but it is clearly constitutional.] 4-24-18
Trump. “Protect Mueller, but Not Like This.” By Orrin Hatch. [I’m voting against the Senate bill to constrain the president, because it is clearly unconstitutional.] 4-25-18
Trump. “How Trump Takes On Obstruction.” By Kimberley A. Strassel. [Focus on the threat to the powers of the presidency, not the president personally.] 4-27-18
Trump. “A Vicious Wolf Gives Trump the Last Laugh.” By Peter Funt. [‘She had some great one-liners,’ Douglas Brinkley said on CNN. He changed his mind.] 4-30-18
Trump. “The Wolf Who Came as a Wolf.” [The anti-Trump comic gave the media what she thought they wanted.] 4-30-18
Trump. “Trump Lets ZTE Off the Hook.” [An arbitrary intervention hurts U.S. sanctions policy.] 5-15-18
Trump. “Kasich Could Be Trump’s Best Hope.” By Bobby Jindal. [An independent candidacy could split voters who Dislike the Democrats but can’t abide the president.] 5-17-18
Trump. “Was Trump’s Campaign ‘Set Up’? by Kimberly A. Strassel. [At some point, the Russia Investigation became political. How early was it?] 5-18-18
Trump. “Impeach Trump? History Counsels Against it.” By Allen C. Guelzo. [Many members of Congress in 1868 hoped to remove a president they merely disliked. It didn’t go well.] 5-26-18
Trump. “The Benefits and Risks of Trump’s Dazzle.” By Walther Russell Mead. [‘The Art of the Deal’ proves he’s far from erratic. Still, he could turn down the heat.] 5-29-18
Trump. “Pardon Me, Said the president to Himself.” By Richard A. Epstein [Trump is right about what he could do – though he shouldn’t.] 6-6-18
Trump. “Trump 7, Eagles 0.” By Daniel Henninger. [Voters beaten down by the politicizing of everything opted for the guy who mocks it.] 6-7-18
Trump. “Disruption Isn’t Enough.” [Trump has dismantled Obama’s legacy, but can he build his own?] 6-11-18.
Trump. “When Do We Start Winning?” by Daniel Henninger. [Trump is in nonstop motion on North Korea, Iran and trade. What comes Next?] 6-14-18
Trump. “The Press’s Cult of Trump.” By Patrik Muller. [He thrives on media obsession. We’ve seen it in Switzerland.] 6-19-18
Trump. Elections. “How to Re-Elect Trump.” [You’re so deplorable you can’t eat in their restaurants.] 6-25-18
Trump. “Teeing Off on Trump.” By Daniel Henninger. [When voters have to choose between left and right incivility. Democrats will lose.] 6-28-18
Trump. “An Ally Sizes Up Donald Trump.” By Tony Abbott. [When he says something consistently, it will happen. And his message is that America will remain a reliable partner, but don’t expect too much.] 7-14-18
Trump. “Putin’s Aggression Is the Issue in Helsinki.” By David Satter. [Trump shouldn’t make a deal on Syria or Ukraine, or keep silent on Russia’s crimes against the West.] 7-16-18
Trump. “Is Helsinki Trump’s Iran Deal?” by Walter Russell Mead. [The president may be indulging Russia as his predecessor did the Islamic Republic.] 7-17-18
Trump. “The Speech Trump Should Give.” By Wm. McGurn. [‘I order declassified all FBI and Justice material Congress has subpoenaed.’] 7-17-18
Trump. “The President Turns the Tables on China.” By Jeff Moon. [He imitates Beijing’s mercurial approach to negotiation.] 7-17-18
Trump. “The Trump First Doctrine.” [Putin respects strength but Trump showed weakness.] 7-17-18
Trump. “Trump delivers on Russia.” By Holman W Jenkins, Jr. [His Helsinki outing was tone-deaf but his policy is cribbed from Bush and Obama.] 7-18-18
Trump. “This is the Art of the Deal?” by Daniel Henninger. [Trump Tweeted, ‘Big results will come!’ Putin already has the results he wanted.] 7-19-18
Trump. “Trump Fans, Acknowledge His Failings.” [The president has pursued bad trade policies and fouled relations with allies. His supporters are silent.] 7-19-18
Trump. “Donald Trump, Meet Bill Browder.” [Putin wants Trump to help silence the man who was also targeted by Fusion GPS.] 7-20-18
Trump. “Failure to Communicate.” By Kimberley A. Strassel. [Trump has a solid record, but he’s too busy making noise to tout it.] 8-3-18
Trump. “The Empty Brennan Gesture.” [Trump would do better to declassify the info Congress is demanding.] 8-16-18
Trump. “Trump, McGahn and Iran-Contra’s Lessons.” By Peter J. Wallison. [I was White House counsel in 1986-87. I cooperated with investigators because Reagan was innocent.] 8-21-18
Trump. “Manafort, Cohen and Trump.” [A guilty plea and verdict raise the political stakes for the President.] 8-22-18
Trump. “Why Republicans Stick With Trump.” By Bobby Jindal. [It’s all the things he hasn’t done. On key issues, the president has come around to conservative positions.] 8-31-18
Trump. “The Anonymous Resistance.” [The writer who dares not speak his own name is no hero.] 9-7-18
Trump. “Trump, Mrs. Wilson and that ‘Senior Official.” By Lance Morrow. [An attempt via op-ed effectively to inflict a stroke and a twilight on the 45^th president.] 9-7-18
Trump. “Dogs Bite Men and Trumps Duck Taxes.” By Holman w. Jenkins, Jr. [Nobody hands over 55% of his life’s work to the IRS. The real revelation is dad’s role in the Trump myth.] 10-6-18
Trump. “A Long Way From the Arsenal of Democracy.” By Peggy Noonan. [From Saudi arms sales to ‘Horseface,’ the weirdness of the Trump presidency never seems to let up.] (“…He’s lucky the mainstream media hate him so much, and in showing that hatred stiffen his supporters’ loyalty.) 10-20
Trump. “America Has Yet to Make Sense of Trump.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.. [Why one liberal professor says the world needs an investigative reporter like Seymour Hersh.] 10-20-18
Trump. “The Real Reason They Hate Trump.” By David Gelernter. [He’s the average American in exaggerated form – blunt, simple, willing to fight, mistrustful of intellectuals.] 10-22-18
Trump. “Trump Is No ‘Isolationist.’“ by Walter Russell Mead. [He’s overseeing a risky but ambitious effort to contain global adversaries.] 10-23-18
Trump. “The Curious Parallels Between Trump and Kaiser Wilhelm II.” By Joseph Epstein. [The German leader might have been ‘bombastic and impetuous,’ but at least he didn’t have Twitter.] 10-23-18
Trump. “Trump’s Republican Populism.” by Wm McGurn. [Why he succeeds where Govs. Arnold Schwarenegger and Jesse Ventura failed.] 11-6-18
Trump. “Among Black Voters, Trump’s Popularity Inches Upward.” By Jason L. Riley. [The president has a tin ear when it comes to race, but African-Americans are better off than before.] 11-7-18
Trump. “Trump 2.0 Begins.” By Daniel Henninger. [He’ll have trouble reassembling his 2016 coalition unless his behavior changes.] 11-8-18
Trump. “Trump’s Minority Coalition.” [Unlike Nixon or Reagan, he hasn’t expanded his 2016 support.] 11-8-18
Trump. Culture War. “Trump’s Chaos Theory.” By Lance Morrow. [His combative style may force a truce between the country’s ‘two nations.’ But not any time soon.] 11-16-18
Trump. “Americans Turned Trump to Roll Back the Progressive Tide.” By Joseph Epstein. [To understand his appeal, look at the excesses of liberals in recent years. He’s a wall against the wave.] 11-20-18
Trump. “Don’t Let Mueller’s Report Go Unanswered.” By Alan M. Dershowitz. [Because it is a prosecutor’s product it will inevitably be one-sided. Trump ought to be allowed to respond.] 12-3-18
Trump. “What if Trump Really Wanted to Make America Great Again?” by Alan s. Blinder. [He’d strengthen labor unions, fortify pensions, raise estate taxes and reduce income equality.] 12-4-18 (Blinder was an adviser to Al Gore and John Kerry during their respective presidential campaigns in 2000 and 2004)
Trump. “Thank You, John Kelly.” [Why take a chief-of-staff job that Trump thinks he can do himself?” ] 12-11-18
Trump. “Interpreting the Trump Meteor.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [His survival fight may at least buy time for a few important lessons to sink in.] 12-19-18
Trump. “The Lamest Lame Duck.” [Trump’s shutdown folly has cost the GOP any last-ditch victories.] 12-20-18 Trump. “The Trump Volatility Risks.” [The President indulges his worst impulses and loses a defense chief.] 12-21-18
Trump. “The Trump ‘Ethics’ Resistance.” by Kimberley A. Strassel. [An army of nonprofits may be a foe more formidable than the Democratic House.] 12-28-18
Trump. “Trump May Be the True Liberal.” By F. H. Buckley. [Today’s progressives have embraced illiberalism, from speech codes to identity politics.] 1-2-19
Trump. “Trump at the Turn.” By Daniel Henninger. [We have entered a Trumpian Twilight Zone and the path forward isn’t clear.] 1-3-19
Trump. “Romney’s Reproach.” [Attacking Trump’s character is easy. How about defending trade.?] 1-3-19
Trump. “Impeachment Pretense.” [Rep. Tlaib offends fellow Democrats by telling the truth in public.] 1-7-19
Trump. “Trump Can’t Afford to Lose.” By Wm. McGurn. [The cost of defeat would be higher for President Trump than for Speaker Pelosi.] 1-8-19
Trump. “What Trump Means by ‘America First.’” By Dennis Ross. [His historical antecedent/ Not Lindbergh but the ‘belligerent isolationism’ of Sen. William Borah.] 1-9-19
Trump. “Trump’s New Shutdown World.” By Kimberley A. Strassel. [In 2013, Obama tried to maximize the difficulty. OMB is taking another tack.] 1-11-19
Trump. “Trump’s Presidential Emergency.” [He probably has the legal authority, but it’s still a bad precedent.] 1-11-19
Trump. “End This Stupid Shutdown.” By Peggy Noonan. [Trump is unserious, but so are Schumer and Pelosi. Two decades of cynical game-playing are enough.] 1-12-19
Trump. “After the Shutdown Fiasco.” [Trump lost round one, but we’ll now see if Pelosi wants any deal.] 1-26-19
Trump. “The State of the Union Is Missing.” By Peggy Noonan. [America loses something worthwhile as Trump and Pelosi cast aside another traditional norm.] 1-26-19
Trump. “The State of Trump’s Union.” By Daniel Henninger. [Here’s how to make sure Nancy Pelosi rises to applaud the president’s speech.] 1-31-19
Trump. “The State of the Union Without Artificial Sweeteners.” By Joseph E[stein. [Trump will boast and brag. What if a president were appropriately grumpy?] 2-1-19
Trump. “Trump’s Re-Election Challenge.” [Down in the polls, he needs a strong economy to have any chance to win a second term.] 2-5-19
Trump. “The Longest Day for Trump’s Adversaries.” By Lance Morrow. [His State of the Union address dramatically advanced his case for re-election in 2020.] 2-7-19
Trump. “Trump’s ‘Endless Wars’ and Peace.’” [U.S. troops abroad are needed to deter war and bad actors.] 2-8-19
Trump. “Declaring Border Victory.” [The bipartisan deal is his only good way out of this budget box canyon.] 2-13-19
Trump. “Trump’s Wall Crumbles Under the Law of Diminishing Returns.” By Jason Riley. [The president needs to avoid the sunk-cost fallacy and take what he can get on border security.] 2-13-19
Trump. “Make Trump Popular Again.” By Karl Rove. “While he strikes a tone of unity, his opponents seek ideological purity.] 2-14-19
Trump. “Trump’s Political Emergency.” “This border order will divide Republicans and may be stopped in court.] 2-15-19
Trump. “Stop the Impeachment Fishing Expedition.” By David B. Rivkin Jr. and Elizabeth Price Foley. [Congress has no business investigating the president for conduct that occurred before he took office.] 2-15-19
Trump. “Presidents and Guardrails.” [Obama’s abuses are no justification for Trump’s emergency order.] 2-16-19
Trump. “A Nobel Prize for Trump.” By Wm. McGurn. [Alas, the Norwegians don’t reward leaders who see a had deal and walk away.] 2-26-19
Trump. “Trump’s Pyongyang Pivot.” By Michael Auslin. [Accepting the idea of a nuclear North Korea, he seems more focused now on reducing the risk of war.] 2-27-19
Trump. Immigration. “Trump Base Wants Immigration Compromise.” By Tim Kane. [His backers are the likeliest to support a wall-for-DACA deal.] 2-18-19
Trump. “Cohen in the Colosseum.” [The legal fixer unloads on his former boss, with little new information.] 2-18-19
Trump. “Trump Walks on Kim.” [Give him credit for refusing to accept less than denuclearization.] 3-1-19
Trump. “Declare Victory, Not Emergency.” By Ari Fleischer. [ Congress gave Trump $1.4 billion for his wall. He wouldn’t take yes for an answer.] 3-1-19
Trump. “Trump vs. a Republican Senate.” [The national emergency vote could hurt GOP incumbents in 2020.] 3-2-19
Trump. “Michael Cohen Makes History.” By Peggy Noonan. [There’s no precedent for such an attack on the essential nature of an American president.] 3-2-19
Trump. “Mr. Chaos vs. The Swamp.” By Holman W Jenkins, Jr. [Without Russia collusion, Democrats have only hatred of Donald Trump.] 3-6-19
Trump. “Nadler’s ‘Obstruction’ Quest.” [The examples he cites as crimes are legal presidential actions.] 3-6-19
Trump. “Trump’s Pentagon Budget War.” [Tax revenues are expected to rise but spending will rise faster.] 3-12-19
Trump. “Trump and Jared’s Clearance.” By Reuel Mac Gerecht. [Conservatives gain a healthy skepticism about intel agencies, but liberals lose it.] 3-15-19
Trump. “Trump Loses the Senate.” [A dozen Republicans send a message about the power to spend.] 3-15-19
Trump. “Move On From Mueller, Mr. President.” By Karl Rove. [Obsessing over the investigation’s origins isn’t the way to win over swing voters.] 3-28-19
Trump. “Escape From Collusion Hell.” By Daniel Henninger. [The bet that Mueller would nail Trump didn’t pay off. We’re left with the rubble.] 4-18-19
Trump. “Trump’s Yemen Principles.” [Congress reminds us why the War Powers Act was a bad idea.] 4-18-19
Trump. Corruption. “Mueller’s Report Speaks Volumes.” By Kimberley A. Strassel. [What’s in the special counsel’s finds is almost as revealing as what’s left out.] 4-19-19 (“…He was the wrong man to provide an honest assessment of the 2016 collusion dirty trick. And we’ve got a report to prove it.”)
Trump. Corruption. “Obstruction of Nothing.” [Mueller vindicates Trump on collusion and plays Hamlet on obstruction.] 4-19-19
Trump. Corruption. “Mueller Shouldn’t Have Taken the Job.” By Victoria Toensing. [Special counsels are meant to investigate particular crimes, not go fishing for counterintelligence.] 4-19-19
Trump. “Why Should Congress See Trump’s Tax Returns?” by Jay Starkman. [Congressional-committee disclosure goes back almost a century and was never so politicized before.] 4-22-19
Trump. “Thank You, Don McGahn.” [Like so many others, he saved Trump from a major political blunder.] 4-24-19
Trump. “Trump Is ‘Unfit” to Govern?” By Daniel Henninger. [Exactly how fit to become president is Bernie Sanders of Elizabeth Warren?] 4-25-19
Trump. “Michael Cohen Was a Bluffer, Not a Fixer.” By George Sorial. 5-6-19
Trump. “Go Ahead, Impeach Trump.” By Wm. McGurn. [Let’s put every member of the House on record with a ‘yay’ or ‘nay’ vote.] 5-14-19
Trump. “A Pardon for Conrad Black.” [Trump makes amends for an unjust fraud prosecution.] 5-17-19
Trump. “Trump’s Trouble in the Farm Belt.” 5-24-19
Trump. “Mueller’s Exit and an Impeachment Alternative.” By Peggy Noonan. [Trying to overturn an election would be too divisive. Congress should censure Trump instead.] 6-1-19
Trump. “What Trump Can Learn From James Carville.” By Jason Riley. [The Clinton adviser’s 1992 mantra, “The economy, stupid,’ nicely sums up the president’s strength.] 6-12-19
Trump. “Trump’s ‘Sleepy Joe’ Problem.” By Daniel Henninger. [For voters disturbed by the daily rocking of political life, Biden is offering a timeout.] 6-20-19
Trump. “A Second Term for What?” [Trump can’t win by relitigating 2016 and playing only to his base.] 6-20-19
Trump. “With Talk of ‘Treason,’ Trump Crosses a Line.” By A.G. Sulzberger. [The founders considered it the gravest of crimes. Tossing the charge around is irresponsible and wrong.] 6-20-19
Trump. “Make America Even Greater.” By Kimberley A. Strassel. [To win re-election, Trump needs a bold second-term agenda. Here are some ideas.] 6-21-19
Trump. “Trump’s Finest Hour.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Even his supporters appreciate that the he’s not a president for all seasons.] 6-26-19
Trump. “Yankee Doodle Donald.” By Wm. McGurn. [Trump wraps himself in the flag, and his opponents are oddly eager to help.] 7-9-19
Trump. “Media Should Pay Trump to Tweet.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [He delights in making us dance to tunes he wantonly types out in the wee hours.] 7-17-19
Trump. “Trump Has Regrets.” [The ‘send her back’ chant at his rally was an ugly political moment.] 7-19-19
Trump. “Trump’s Hesitant Embrace of Human Rights.” By Walter Russell Mead. [Highlighting China’s religious persecution is good politics, at home and abroad.] 7-23-19
Trump. “Prove the Tweets Were Racist.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [The media undertakes Mission Impossible in trying to categorize Trump statements.] 7-24-19
Trump. “I Changed My Mind About Trump.” By Gordon G. Chang. [The president defends not only U.S. sovereignty but the entire world order.] 7-25-19
Trump. “Celebrating American democracy.” [The President pays tribute to the triumph of Jamestown.] 7-31-19
Trump. “The Trump-Cummings Brawl.” By Daniel Henninger. [Decades after the Civil Rights Act, racism is passing into political abstraction.] 8-1-19
Trump. “California Bans Trump.” [The state passes a law to bar him from the primary ballot.] 8-1-19
Trump. “On Two Wheels, the Trump Train Rolls Into the Black Hills.” By Faith Bottum. [Love for the president among the ‘patriots,’ “rebels’ and ‘crazies’ at the Sturgis motorcycle Rally.] 8-10-19
Trump. “The New Birthers.” By Barton Swaim. [If Trump’s enemies can prove he’s a ‘racist,’ he has to go away and never come back. Right?] 8-13-19
Trump. “Trump Obsession, North of the Border.” By Michael Taube. [Sick of hearing about the president? Don’t move to Canada.] 8-28-19
Trump. “Trump’s Ukraine Call.” [Sorting bad judgment from the histrionics and double standards.] 9-23-19
Trump. “Trump Stands Up for Religious Freedom.” By Kelsey Zorzi. [He champions the issue at the U.N. more vigorously than any of his predecessors.] 9-24-18
Trump. “Releasing the Ukraine Transcript.” [The call will leak eventually, so Trump might as well get it out.] 9-24-18
Trump. “Trump and the ‘Globalists.’” By Daniel Henninger. [The governing crisis in many democratic nations could help authoritarian China.] 9-26-19
Trump. “The Ukraine Transcript Fizzle.” [The phone call evidence isn’t enough to annul a presidential election.] 9-26-19
Trump. “Trump and Ukraine: What We Know.” By Scott Adams. [As Americans watch two different movies, here’s a way to discern what’s happening off the screen.] 10-6-19
Trump. “Trump’s Reckless Rush to Withdraw.” By Peggy Noonan. [The Syria pullout boosts the impression that he’s all impulse, blithely operating out of his depth.] 10-12-19
Trump. “The Turk and the President.” [The Syrian retreat is all too typical of Trump’s decision-making.] 10-12-19
Trump. “Trump Wins Every Democratic Debate.” By Bobby Jindal. [Lots of voters dislike the president but will be convinced to vote for him by seeing his opponents.] 10-14-19
Trump. “Kurds 354, Trump 60.” [The President’s retreat takes a bipartisan drubbing in Congress..] 10-17-19
Trump “Capra Could Cast Jimmy Stewart as Trump.” By Gregg Opelka. [Mr. Smith went to Washington 80 years ago and encountered familiar obstacles.] 10-18-19
Trump. “The G-7 Needs a Different Hotel.” [Hosting the summit at a Trump resort is, at best, poor political judgment.] 10-19-19
Trump. “Donald Trump’s ‘Lynching.’” [The President keeps asking friends to defend the indefensible.] 10-23-19
Trump. “Winning Was Trump’s High Crime and Misdemeanor.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [His conflict with his staff over Ukraine was nothing compared with Obama’s decision to leave Iraq.” 11-23-19
Trump. “As the Trump World Turns.” [Progress, or not, on Hong Kong, North Korea and Afghanistan] 11-30-19
Trump. “Trump Wins the Populist Patriots.” By Bobby Jindal. [They see him defending their cultural beliefs from the left and their economic interests from the right.] 12-3-19
Trump. “Why Trump’s Protection Leaves Jews Confused.” By Ruth R. Wisse. [He vigorously opposes anti-Semitism yet gets accused of it himself.] 12-23-19
Trump. “Trump’s Legal Authority.” 1-4-20
Trump. “Tuesday Night Trump.” By Wm. McGurn. [In between personal insults, a relentlessly optimistic’ State of the Union.] 2-4-20
Trump. “Trump Impeachment Agonistes.” [He addresses Congress on the eve of acquittal as his approval rating rises.” 2-5-20
Trump. “President Donald J. MacGuffin.” By Andy Kessler. [His wild persona is a device that baits enemies and clears space for his agenda.] 2-10-20
Trump. “Donald Trump, Mastermind.” 2-15-20
Trump. “The Michael Milken Pardon.” [Trump’s act of clemency recalls an era rife with the politics of envy.] 2-19-20
Trump. Anti-Trump. “The Federal Judges’ Mystery Meeting.” [A judicial group should set the record straight about its emergency.”] 2-26-20
Trump. “The World’s Hardest Job.” [“…Mr. Trump’s handling of his leading aides…”] 3-10-20
Trump. “Trump’s Leadership.” By Daniel Henninger. [Rallying the U.S. in the coronavirus crisis can give the president a path to greatness.] 3-26-20
Trump. “The Virus May Make Trump Stronger.” By Walter Russell Mead. [Gallup finds 60% of voters approve of his handling of the crisis. As usual, the establishment is clueless.] 3-26-20
Trump. “Trump’s Best Re-Election Bet: Run Against Beijing.” By Walter Russell Mead. [The public increasingly sees a threat, and he can argue the establishment was wrong for decades.] 4-23-20
Trump. “What Trump Has in Common With Napoleon.” By Walter Russell Mead. [A brash outsider who knew his terrain like nobody else, he succeeded until he faced a new kind of enemy.] 5-7-20
Trump. “A Disruptive President in a Storm of Crisis.” By Walter Russell Mead. [Trump thrives on conflict but may pay a price for alienating America’s allies.] 5-26-20
Trump. “A Presidential Smear.” [Trump imitates the Steele dossier in attacks on Joe Scarborough.] 5-27-20
Trump. “The Revenge of Jim Mattis.” [Trump’s ill treatment of former advisers is coming back to haunt.] 6-5-20
Trump. “MAGA – for All.” By Kimberley A. Strassel. [Trump needs to give voters a reason to support him. He’s working on it.] 6-19-20
Trump. “The Confessions of John Bolton.” [It’s quaint, we know, but whatever happened to honor in public service?] 6-19-20
Trump. “The Imperial Presidency Will Outlast Trump.” By Walter Russell Mead. [The president will have to assert more control domestically to do so abroad.] 6-23-20
Trump. “The Trump Referendum.” [He still has no second term message beyond his own grievances.] 6-26-20
Trump. “The Week It Went South for Trump.” By Peggy Noonan. [He hasn’t been equal to the crises. He never makes anything better. And everyone kind of knows.] 6-27-20
Trump. “Trump at Mount Rushmore.” [Progressives deride his defense of America’s founding principles.] 7-6-20
Trump. “An Old-Fashioned Fourth in the Black Hills.” By Faith Bottum. [Most came to Mount Rushmore for picnics and fireworks, not protest.] 7-6-20
Trump. “Trump’s Executive Orders” [He escapes Pelosi’s trap but uses Obama’s ‘pen’ and ‘phone’ method.] 8-10-20
Trump. “Will the Manhattan District Attorney Be the New Robert Mueller?” by Ankush Khardori. [Trump detractors are hyping Cy Vance’s investigation into the president’s finances.] 8-18-20
Trump. “The Oracle of Trump.” [The President endorses a Tik Tok purchase by one of his corporate supporters.] 8-21-20
Trump. “All the President’s Norms.” By Wm. McGurn. [Trump haters wage a war on standards and use his bad behavior as an excuse.] 9-8-20
Trump. “Woodward’s Non-Revelation.” [There’s no need for the tell-all books. Trump tells us every day.] 9-11-20
Trump. “Trump’s Unhappy Returns.” [We advised in 2016 that he release his taxes. Now others will do it for him.] 9-29-20
Trump. “Trump’s Misguided Swipe at Bill Barr.” [The AG isn’t helped by public badgering from the Oval Office.] 10-12-20
Trump. “Trump’s White House at the End of the Line.” By Lane Morrow. [Looking out at a troubled and divided country from inside a resigned and fading administration.] 11-13-20
Trump. “Trump Remade His Party and the World.” By Wm. A. Galston. [He transformed both the Republican coalition and the way other countries see America. His legacy will be with us for generations.] 11-14-20
Trump. “Donald Trump, the President His Detractors Loved to Hate.” By Joseph Epstein. [A friend reported that I disappointed his wife with the insufficient intensity of my dislike.] 11-14-20
Trump. “Last Chance for the 2016 Truth?” by Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Declassify the Horowitz report so history can properly judge James Comey and the Russians.] 11-14-20
Trump. “Justice for Michael Flynn.” By Kimberley A. Strassel. [Trump’s pardon for is onetime national security adviser rights a grievous wrong.] 11-27-20
Trump. “A Pardon for General Flynn.” 11-27-20
Trump. “How to Understand Trump’s Democrats.” By Jason L. Riley. [A new book examines the phenomenon that still has political pros and the press scratching their heads.] 12-2-20
Trump. “Trump’s Bad Exit.” 12-21-20
Trump. “Trump’s Trumpian Final Days.” By Daniel Henninger. [Amid the electoral College challenge, the president is putting his legacy at risk.] 1-7-21
Trump. “The Disgrace on Capital Hill.” [Republicans objecting to electors should stop and certify by acclamation.] [“…As for Mr. Trump, to steal some famous words deployed in 1940 against Neville Chamberlain: ‘In the name of God, go.’ “] 1-7-21
Trump. “Trump Loses the Senate.” [His post-election tantrums hand the government to the left.] 1-7-21
Trump. “Donald Trump Turned Georgia Blue.” By Michael Barone. [His relentless attacks on the state’s election apparatus likely depressed Republican turnout.] 1-7-21
Trump. “Trump Erases His Legacy.” By Kimberley A Strassel. [He also destroyed any chance of a political future, all on a single Wednesday afternoon.] 1-8-21
Trump. “Donald Trump’s Final Days.” [The best outcome would be for him to resign to spare the U.S. another impeachment fight.] 1-8-21
Trump. “Once Trump Leaves, Who’s Left to Blame?” by Andy Kessler. [People of all political stripes can’t help but project every problem onto evil politicians.] 1-11-21
Trump. “Trump Has One Thing Left to Do.” By Karl Rove. [He’s wrong to skip the inauguration, but he can still discourage any further violence.] 1-14-21
Trump. “The Seven-Day Impeachment.” [The best outcome now is to make this the end with no Senate trail.] 1-14-21
Trump. “Thank you, Pat Cipollone.” [The White House counsel has the hardest job in America.] 1-14-21
Trump. “Trump’s Pardons – Good, Bad, and Ugly.” 1-21-21
Trump. “No, You Can’t Try an Impeached Former President.” By Alan M Dershowitz. [The Senate erroneously asserted jurisdiction once, but dissenting members forced an acquittal.] 1-21-21
Trump. “Trump and the Failure of the Expert Class.” By Barton Swaim. [They were right about his character, but his defects were obvious to almost everyone. They were wrong about virtually all else.] 1-23-21
Trump. “Trying Mr. Trump, Private Citizen.” [Democrats want to punish the ex-President but may revive him.] 1-26-21
Trump. “Constitution Doesn’t Bar Trump’s Trial.” By Chuck Cooper. [Removal from office is best understood as akin to a ‘mandatory minimum’ sentence for a crime.] 2-8-21 (Mr. Cooper is a founding member and chairman of Cooper and Kirk PLLC.)
Trump. “The Trump Impeachment Evidence.” [He might be acquitted, but he won’t live down his disgraceful conduct.] 2-11-21
Trump. “Trump’s Non-Vindication.” [He may run again, but he won’t win another national election.] 2-16-21
Trump. “Acquittal Vindicated the Constitution, Not Trump.” By Mitch McConnell. [House managers wanted us to rush through a sham trial. Instead we did our duty to the rule of law.] 2-16-21
Trump. “Peril and Opportunity for Trump at CPAC.” By Karl Rove. [Will he double down on grievance or begin the arduous process of re-creating his image?] 2-25-21
Trump. “If Nice Guys Finish Last How Could Trump Have lost?” by Joseph Epstein. [At the very least, outright nastiness seems to be a strike against a politician.] 2-27-21
Trump. “The Grievances of Trump Past.” [If he was so great for the GOP, why is the party now out of power?] 3-2-21
Trump. “Trumpism According to Trump.” by David Henninger. [Many of the ideas described in the CPAC speech came from Ronald Reagan.] 3-4-21
Trump. “Trump’s Appeal Rings Hollow at CPAC.” By Karl Rove. [Only 68% of a crowd of his fervent backers want him to seek another term in 2024.] 3-4-21
Trump. “Donald Trump’s Georgia Rewrite.” [The former President is unhappy with us for recognizing reality.] 3-5-21
Trump. “All Trump’s Codependents.” By Wm. McGurn. [Some of the former president’s biggest critics are finding it hard to quit him.” 3-30-21
Trump. “Indicting the Trump Organization.” [Years of investigation and prosecutors come up with a small tax case.] 7-3-21
Trump. “Who Gets Prosecuted Is Always Political, in Pat.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [When settlement talks begin, you can expect Mr. Trump’s political pull to be on the table too. ] 7-3-21
Trump. “Is Trump Finished?” by Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Admit it: You don’t want him to run again yet his absence hasn’t solved any problem.] 9-8-21
Trump. “Trump Loses Arizona – Again.” [He still cries ‘fraud’ even after the audit he demanded found none.] 9-27-21
Trump. “Donald Trump’s Hostage Politics.” [He says Republicans must agree the 2020 election was stolen or he’ll aid the Democrats.] 10-15-21
Trump. “Trump Is a Democrat: How’s That for a Conspiracy Theory?” by Gerard Baker. [It may be insane, but it would explain why he keeps saving them from self-destruction.] 10-19-21
Trump. “Will Trump’s Startup Pay Off?” by Holman W Jenkins, Jr. [It could if he can find a way to tap some of the wealth he creates for MSNBC.] 10-27-21
Trump. “The Facts of Trump’s Fraud Letter.” 10-29-21
Trump. “Trump’s Georgia Vendetta. [He stokes a GOP primary fight that may elect Stacy Abrams.] 12-8-21
Trump. “Complete and Total Trump Campaign!” by Karl Rove. [His obsession with the 2020 election may lead to GOP losses in the next two.] 12-23-21
Trump. “Donald Trump Can Never Lose.” [But his refusal to accept defeat has cost many supporters a great deal.] 1-7-22
Trump. “Trump Really Was Spied On.” [Durham says techies linked to the Clinton campaign had access to white House and Trump Tower internet data.] 2-15-22
Trump. “A Strange Defense of Spying on Trump.” [A tech executive’s response to Durham raises more questions.] 2-16-22
Trump. “AG Confidential.” (Bookshelf by Fred Barnes.) [“One Damn thing After Another.” By William P. Barr. [Attorney General Barr was Trump’s most helpful and influential ally. The president should have listened to him more often.] 3-8-22
Trump. “Donald Trump and His Elusive Base. “ by Peggy Noonan. [Something is shifting. Many who backed him don’t follow his lead or want him to run in 2024,] 5-21-22
Trump. “Why Trump Is the Loser in a Georgia Rematch.” By Barton Swaim. [The former president managed to alienate Peach State Republicans by making common cause with Stacey Abrams against Gov. Brian Kemp.] 6-4-22
Trump. “More Testimony on Trump’s Jan. 6 Tirade.” [Republicans can’t afford to look away from evidence of is conduct.] 6-29-22
Trump. “Trump Needs an Apprentice.” By Gregg Opelka. [For his own sake and that of the Republican Party, he’s much better off as kingmaker than candidate.] 6-29-22
Trump. “The Trump 2024 Test Runs.” By Karl Rove. [Can nominees who endorse his baseless claims about 2020 win in November?] 6-30-22
Trump. “Democrats for Trumpians.” [“…while Democrats try to disqualify Donald Trump via the Jan. 6 hearings, they are helping to nominate his allies to run against in November…”] 6-30-22
Trump. “Democrats Campaign for the Trump Guy.” [They’re still helping 2020 election challengers win GOP primaries.] 7-27-22
Trump. “Where Do Trump’s Donations Go?” by Karl Rove. [He can’t spend his PACs’ millions on 2024 and isn’t using much in midterms.] 7-28-22
Trump. “Trump Can’t Be ‘disqualified’ Over Documents.” By David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey. [The law on presidential records is complicated, but the constitutional issues are simple.] 8-11-22
Trump. “Let Voters Decide Trump’s Future.” By Daniel Henninger. [The U.S. doesn’t need a replay of the endless investigations during his presidency.] 8-18-22
Trump. “Unseal the Mar-a-Lago Affidavit.” 8-18-22
Trump. “Trump’s Supporters and Detractors Are Mirror Images.” By Katharine C. Epstein. [The Mar-a-Lago search reveals both camps are loath to take responsibility for the choices they made.] 8-22-22
Trump. “The Trump Warrant Had No Legal Basis.” By David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A Casey. [A former president’s rights under the Presidential Records Act trump the statutes the FBI cited.] 8-23-22
Trump. “Washington’s Prosecution by Leaks.” [Justice wants the search affidavit secret while details spill to the press.] 8-24-22
Trump. “Is That All There Is?” [The Mar-a-Lago search affidavit reveals nothing new or nefarious.] 8-27-22
Trump. “Trump’s Vendetta Politics.” [He smears elaine Chao because her family is ethic Chinese.] 9-1-22
Trump. “Letitia James vs. the Trump Family.” [New York’s AG found her defendants first, then looked for evidence.] 9-23-22
Trump. “Trump’s ‘Death Wish’ Rhetoric.” [His latest tirade against Mitch McConnell courts potential violence.] 10-3-22
Trump. “Trump Rallies for … Trump.” [Even before the midterms, he’s mocking DeSantis and Pence.] 11-7-22
Trump. “Trump Fires and Misses DeSantis.” By Wm. McGurn. [Is the former president losing his touch for catchy nicknames for rivals?} 11-8-22
Trump. “The Trump Liability.” By Daniel Henninger. [If the ex-president announces he’s running again, the 2024 election is over.] 11-10-22
Trump. “Trump Is the GOP’s Biggest Loser.” [He has now flopped in 2018, 2020, 2021 and 2022.] 11-10-22
Trump. “My Last Days With Donald Trump.” By Mike Pence. [I supported legitimate challenges to the 2020 vote counts I also recognized that the Constitution didn’t give me authority to override the voters.] 11-12-22
Trump. “A Donald Trump Preview of 2024.” By Wm. McGurn. [The bitterest pill for him isn’t that Oz lost but that DeSantis won resoundingly.] 11-15-22
Trump. “To Beat Trump, Embrace Trumpism.” By F.H. Buckley. [The GOP should employ his successful 2016 playbook.] 11-15-22
Trump. “Donald Trump’s Presidential Rerun.” [Will the GOP nominate the man Democrats know they can beat?] 11-15-22
Trump. “Sunset for Trump and His Foes.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Bernie Sanders, the New York Times and democratic donors will be sad if he goes.] 11-16-22
Trump. “Can Trump Change His Stripes?” by Daniel Henninger. [The ‘rigged election’ was out, replaced by an agenda of real issues. Will it work?] 11-17-22
Trump. “Oh, Trump Believes in Yesterday.” By Karl Rove. [He applauds himself and promises more of the same. But voters want something new.] 11-17-22
Trump. “Covid Lockdowns Disqualify Trump.” By Justin Hart. [Fifteen days to stop the spread’ turned into an eternity.] 11-17-22
Trump. “John Eastman’s Sorry Excuse for Jan. 6.” [He claims he didn’t tell Pence to reject electors. Here are receipts.] 11-21-22
Trump. “What Donald Trump and Sam Bankman-Fried Have in Common.” By Allysia Finley. [Both men cast themselves as saviors. Yet both deceived and exploited their supporters.] 11-21-22
Trump. “Donald Trump’s Bad Dinner Guests.” [He still hasn’t apologized for hosting Nick Fuentes.] 11-28-22
Trump. “Dinner at Hate for Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago.” By Gerard Baker. [Its plausible he didn’t know who Nick Fuentes was. But he does like to test political boundaries.] 11-29-22
Trump. “Trump Strikes Out before His Judges.” [Guess whose e appointees keep putting the law above political loyalty? 12-3-22
Trump. “Donald Trump Is…the Terminator.” 12-6-22
Trump. “Only the Voters Can Crush Donald Trump.” By Peggy Noonan. [Party professionals and elders have a role to play in making it easier. The first step: Narrow the field.] 12-10-22
Trump. “How Congress Cut Trump’s Taxes.” By Jay Starkman. [He has benefited from every loophole that lawmakers provided to real-estate businesses.] 12-29-22
Trump. “The Trump Tax Returns Precedent.” [Democrats shatter the privacy norm for no public benefit.] 12-31-22
Trump. “The Koch Network Dumps Trump.” By Wm. A. Galston. [Americans for Prosperity won’t back him in 2024, ending an awkward a marriage.] 2-8-23
Trump. “The Trump Grand Jury Media Tour.” 2-23-23
Trump. “The Trump Grand Jury and the Age of Unseriousness.” By Gerard Baker. [Foreperson Emily Kohrs is basking in the attention and airtime, just as the former president did.] 2-28-23
Trump. “Trump, Buttigieg and East Palestine.” [Townspeople become props for politicians fanning anxiety.] 2-23-23
Trump. “Trump’s Indictment Won’t Win Him Votes.” By Karl Rove. [Some Republicans may rally around him, but the appeal of his antics is wearing thin.] 3-23-23
Trump. “The Wrong Indictment Against Trump.” By Peggy Noonan. [Stormy Daniels wasn’t an offense against America. Focus on Georgia and the Jan. 6 riots instead.] 3-25-23
Trump. “The Case Against Trump Is Far From Open and Shut.” By Ethan Greenberg and Sam Braverman. [But its main weaknesses are factual, not legal, and courts won’t object to it as selective prosecution.] 3-31-23
Trump. “Trump Indictment Is a Perversion of Campaign-Finance Law.” By Bradley A. Smith. [If a candidate has to pay for his own clothes, surely hush money is likewise a personal expense.] 4-1-23
Trump. “The Devil and Alvin Bragg.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [The Trump indictment brings the country another step closer to a 2024 race it doesn’t need or want.] 4-1-23
Trump. “What’s Missing in the Trump Indictment.” [For this to be a felony, Bragg needs a second crime. What is it?] 4-5-23
Trump. “How Do You Plead, Mr. Trump?” by Mene Ukueberuwa. [Prosecutors mull a gag order, but the judge seems sympathetic to the former president’s right to speak.] 4-5-23
Trump. “Where Political Prosecution Is Routine.” By Daniel Raisbeck. [Those cheering the Trump indictment should look to Latin America for a cautionary example.] 4-5-23
Trump. “The Targeting of Donald Trump.” By Daniel Henninger. [Forget the legal niceties. The Bragg indictment makes sense for Democrats.] 4-6-23
Trump. “The Indictment Is Trouble for Both Parties.” By Karl Rove. [And for Trump, too. It’s unclear if it helps in the primaries but it won’t in November.] 4-6-23
Trump. “The President Can Pardon Trump.” By Vivik Ramaswamy. [There’s ample case law suggesting a state can’t penalize a defendant for a forgiven federal crime.] 4-6-23
Trump. “Trump Indictment Accelerates America’s Race to the Bottom.” By Mark Penn and Andrew Stein. [From the IRS scandal to the Jan. 6, 2021, riots, partisans on both sides tear down national norms.] 4-6-23
Trump. “Is Bragg’s Case Against Trump Constitutional?” by David B. Rivkin Jr. and Kristin A. Shapiro. [Biden – and all future presidents – should hope that it is judged to violate the Supremacy Clause.] 4-18-23
Trump. “Donald Trump Sides With Disney.” [The former President goes for woke to trash Ron DeSantis.] 4-19-23
Trump. “Bill Barr’s Warning on Trump.” [The former AG says his one-time boss won’t deliver on his policies.] 5-8-23
Trump. “Law-and-Order Trump Has an Evil Twin.” By Karl Rove. [He once stood strong against ‘anarchy,’ then turned to praising the Jan. 6, 2021, rioters.] 5-11-23
Trump. “CNN Brings Donald Trump Back.” By Peggy Noonan. [What a disaster. But maybe he can be defeated in a big, needed brawl for the GOP nomination.] 5-13-23
Trump. “Unanswered Questions About Trump and Russia.” By Peggy Noonan. [I have no reason to doubt the Durham report, but it’s still curious that Trump treated Putin so gently.] 5-20-23
Trump. “Somebody Needs to ‘Bug’ Donald Trump.” By Joseph Epstein. [Lessons in the art of the insult from my high-school buddies.] 6-9-23
Trump. “A Destructive Trump Indictment.” [Do prosecutors understand the forces they are unleashing?”] 6-10-23
Trump. “A Strong Indictment – but Is It Strong Enough?” by Alan M. Dershowitz. [The evidence is powerful, but the jurors aren’t the only ones who will need convincing.] 6-12-23
Trump. “Trump’s Indictment May Pull Us Back From the Brink.” by Gerard Baker. [But if we’re stuck with a rematch between him and Biden, the losing side is sure to call it illegitimate.] 6-13-23
Trump. “Trump Is Normal on Secrets.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [He gets no credit for originating D.C.’s cavalier stance on intelligence handling.] 6-14-23
Trump. “The Self-Destructive Donald Trump.” [The indictment is misguided, but he made it easier for his enemies, as he always does.] 6-14-23
Trump. “Clinton’s Sock Drawer and Trump’s boxes.” By Michael Bekesha. [A president chooses what records to return or keep and the National Archives can’t do anything about it.] 6-14-23
Trump. “The Recuseniks Come for the Trump Judge.” [Judge Aileen Cannon gets the document case, and why not?] 6-15-23
Trump. “Trump Invited This Indictment.” By Karl Rove. [His childish defiance of the law comes at a high cost to him – and to the country.] 6-15-23
Trump. “The Indictment Can Only Hurt Trump.” By Peggy Noonan. [Even his loyal supporters will understand that his mishandling of documents endangered U.S. security.] 6-17-23
Trump. “Trump Is Only a Co-Star in America’s Unreality Show.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [His voters see no reason to disown a dishonorable champion against dishonorable opponents.] 6-17-23
Trump. “Trump Goes on Fox and Shows His Weakness.” By Karl Rove. “His plan for winning back the voters he lost in 2020? Insisting that he actually won.] 6-22-23
Trump. “May Trump Soon Reach His Waterloo.” By Peggy Noonan. [The former president isn’t Napoleon, but there are similarities in the cults around both men.] 7-8-23
Trump. “Trump Is Charged With a Coverup.” [The evidence, if true, undercuts his defense in the documents case.] 7-29-23
Trump. “Another Trump Indictment.” [Jack Smith brings charges related to the 2020 election.] 8-2-23
Trump. “Trump Campaign Looks Like a Defense Fund.” By Karl Rove. [He says his goal is election, but his spending reports suggest it’s acquittal.] 8-3-23
Trump. “This Trump Indictment Imperils the Presidency.” By David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey. [This conduct is hard to defend, but a conviction for fraud would set a dangerous precedent.] 8-3-23
Trump. “The Unprecedented Jack Smith.” By Kimberley a. Strassel. [If lying politicians can be prosecuted for ‘fraud.’ We’ll need a lot of new prisons.] 8-4-23
Trump. “Democrats and the Trump Spectacle.” [They want the election to be all about the former President, all the time.] 8-4-23
Trump. “Prosecuting the Political Case Against Trump.” (The Weekend Interview with Chris Christie by Kyle Peterson.) [He ‘can’t win,’ the former governor says. ‘He will probably be out on bail in four different jurisdictions.’] 8-5-23
Trump. “Trump’s Jan. 6 Trial: We Owe It to History.” By Peggy Noonan. [Meanwhile, Hunter Biden’s legal problems become newly substantial to voters in the American idle.] 8-5-23
Trump. “What Was Donald Trump Thinking? By Allysia Finley. [Good luck finding out. But psychology can help us grasp why he, like so many Democrats, cling to lies.] 8-7-23
Trump. “Donald Trump’s Last Hurrah.” By Wm. McGurn. [James Michael Curley shows that a federal prison sentence is no bar to elective office.] 8-8-23
Trump. “Impeaching a Trump Impeachment.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [New Hunter Biden details justify the infamous 2019 Ukraine phone call.] 8-9-23
Trump. “Indictment Four: Trump as Racketeer.” [Alleging a RICO conspiracy makes the case less credible.] 8-16-23
Trump. “The Trump Indictments’ Price.” By Daniel Henninger. [The prosecutions ensure bitterness for years and payback against Democrats.] 8-17-23
Trump. “Trump and Election Denial.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [The collusion hoax, FBI meddling and ‘stop the steal’ are all the same sickness.] 8-23-23
Trump. “Trump the Opera – III.” By Daniel Henninger. [Scene I: A bathroom inside the Indicted One’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.] 8-24-23
Trump. “Trump Looks Beatable in Early States.” By Karl Rove. [Majorities in Iowa and New Hampshire don’t back him. More defections may come.] 8-24-23
Trump. “Trump Courts a Global Trade War.” [He promises a new 10% border tax on anything made abroad.] 8-24-23
Trump. “Trump’s Super Tuesday Trial Date.” [He might be buoyed to the GOP nomination, only to lose to Biden.] 8-29-23
Trump. “The Case for Trumpless Thursdays.” By Joseph Epstein. [If Americans could give up meat once a week for the soldiers, we can do this for the sake of our sanity.] 8-31-23
Trump. “The 14^th Amendment Trump Panic.” [Banning Trump from the ballot would harm U.S. law and democracy.] 9-5-23
Trump. “Trump’s Real Trade Record.” [His tariffs haven’t cut the trade deficit; they’ve merely shifted it.] 9-7-23
Trump. “I Can’t Keep Trump Off the Ballot.” By Brad Raffensperger. [Voters should decide elections: that’s the simple lesson of Georgia in 2018 and 2020.] 9-7-23
Trump. “Was Trump ‘an Officer of the United States’?” by Micharl B. Mukasey. [A careful look at the 14^th Amendment’s Insurrection Clause shows that it doesn’t apply to him.] 9-8-23
Trump. “A Reminder From Donald Trump.” [Here’s what voters can look forward to if he’s nominated again.] 9-27-23
Trump. “Trump on Trial in New York.” [Is this a case about inflated asset values or partisan politics? Yes.] 10-3-23
Trump. “Donald Trump’s Israeli War Insight.” [He attacks Netanyahu in a crisis because of old personal grudges.] 10-13-23
Trump. “Judge Chutkan Gags Donald Trump.” [How can he be ordered not to talk about Mike Pence’s role on Jan. 6?] 10-17-23
Trump. “The Trumpian Tragedy of Jenna Ellis.” [Trump’s stolen election claims keep hurting everyone but himself.] 10-25-23
Trump. “The First Amendment Threat in the Trump Civil Case.” By Philip Hamburger. [New York’s Executive Law threatens to suppress scientific and political as well as commercial speech.] 11-2-23
Trump. “Will Trump Be Indicted Into Office?” [TV ads focused on his legal troubles backfired, so they never aired.] 11-7-23
Trump. “’Stop the Steal’ Is Working.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Trump’s votrs might not seek his return if they had been treated honestly the first time.] 11-8-23
Trump. “Trump University, Now With Tax Money.” [He plns to launch tuition-free online-only bachelor’s degree.] 11-13-23
Trump. “Donald Trump’s Insurrection Act Gambit.” By Wm. A. Galston. [In a second term, he could use the law’s overbroad language to curtail liberties.] 11-15-23
Trump. “’Fleece Vest’ and ‘MAGA Hat’ Discuss Trump.” By Gerad Baker. [Thoughtful conservatives are divided and struggling to understand each other ahead of the 2024 election.] 11-28-23
Trump. “Trump Singes the GOP as He Blazes Ahead.” By Karl Rove. [He looks strong for the nomination but seems determined to divide his own party.] 12-14-23
Trump. “Checks and Balances Won’t Stop Trump.” By Liz Cheney. [The Constitution’s protections won’t be able to block his abuses of executive power.] 12-14-23
Trump. “Jack Smith and the Supreme Court.” [The special counsel drags the justices into his trial timetable.] 12-16-23
Trump. “The Tragedy of Rudy Guiliani.” [He’s the latest to be brought low for having peddled Trump’s claims.] 12-18-23
Trump. “Trump vs. the Banana Republic of Colorado.” By Karl Rove. [The effort to remove him from the ballot is legally baseless and helps his campaign.] 12-21-23
Trump. “If Trump Is Disqualified, He Can Still Run.” By John C. Harrison and Saikrishna Prakash. [Colorado’s Supreme Court overlooks the 20^th Amendment.] 12-21-23
Trump. “National Unity and the Colorado Supreme Court.” By Peggy Noonan. [I sympathize with the decision’s spirit, but it was a dangerous move in a deeply divided country.] 12-23-23
Trump. “Against Immunity for Trump.” By Peter J. Wallison. [Attempting to interfere with the vote counting was re-election activity, not part of his official duties.] 12-28-23
Trump. “Realism About a Trump Presidency.” By Holman W. Jenkins, jr. [He would be a lame duck and so would Biden, when the world needs real leadership.] 1-24-24
Trump. “Trump Doesn’t Threaten Democracy – He Embodies It.” By John Hasmas. [His danger arises from his refusal to respect the institutions that serve to constrain popular rule.] 2-5-24
Trump. “Trump’s Russia Policy Is Appeasement.” By Casey Michel. [Like Chamberlain in the 1930s, he sees Ukraine as a faraway quarrel to avoid. This won’t bring peace.] 2-7-24
Trump. “Can the Media Get Trump Coverage Right?” by Peggy Noonan. [At first they enabled him to win ratings. Then they turned hostile. How about being factual and fair?] 2-10-24
Trump. “Trump and NATO Deterrence.” [His latest comments about the alliance will please Vladimir Putin.] 2-12-24
Trump. “Fani Willis Faces the Judge.” 2-15-24
Trump. “Fani Willis, Alvin Bragg and Donald Trump.” [The weakest case gets a trial date, as the Georgia DA Takes the Stand.] 2-16-24
Trump. “Trump’s $355 Million Civil Fraud Verdict.” [The judge found he inflated his assets, but this penalty is unreal.] 2-17-24
Trump. “Fani Willis Knows When a Trial Is a ‘Show Trial.’” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Credit the Georgia prosecutor with realizing no one will be hanging on fine points of the law.] 2-17-24
Trump. “Trump Owes Some Answers.” By Daniel Henninger. [Voters deserve to know if he intends an historic redefinition of the U.S. world role.] 2-22-24
Trump. “Donald Trump’s Divided GOP.” [He wins big in South Carolina but won’t beat Biden without Nikki Haley’s voters.] 2-26-24
Trump. “Who’s the RINO Now?” by Wm. McGurn. [Trump has redefined the term to mean someone who isn’t loyal enough to him.] 2-27-24
Trump. “Trump to the Rescue – of What?” by Daniel Henninger. [Republicans should enjoy the march to the nomination. It could be the high point.] 2-29-24
Trump. “The supreme Court Trumps Jack Smith.” [The Justices are right to rule on Trump’s immunity claim, even if it delays a trial.] 3-1-24
Trump. “Letitia James Sacrifices the Rule of Law to Get Trump.” By Allysia Finley. [Her dubious civil fraud suit is more damaging to the market’s integrity than his conduct is.] 3-4-24
Trump. “President Biden’s Fraying Coalition.” By Wm. A. Galston. [Young, suburban and Hispanic voters are deserting him, giving Trump a lead.] 3-6-24
Trump. “Trump and Ukraine.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Ignore the press. They don’t know what he’d do because they forget how politics works.] 3-13-24
Trump. “’An Odor of Mendacity’ in Georgia.” [Fani Willis gets a reprieve, but her case is ethically tainted.] 3-16-24
Trump. “Trump Agonistes, ‘Bloodbath’ Edition.” 3-18-24
Trump. “Reagan Would Never Vote for Trump.” By John Lehman. “He also didn’t care much for Biden. Like me he’d be looking for a strong third-party candidate to support.] 3-18-24
Trump. “Letitia James Turns the Screws on Trump.” [The $464 million bond to appeal effectively denies him due process.] 3-19-24
Trump. “Donald Trump Should Listen to Lara.” By John Tillman. [“…early voting…”] 3-22-24
Trump. “Trump’s Trials Are a Political Gift to His Campaign.” By Gerard Baker. [The Democrats’ lawfare strategy appears to be backfiring as swing voters turn against joe Biden.] 3-26-24
Trump. “Trump’s Truth Social Enablers.” [His media company’s IPO soars on hopes he’ll retake the White House.] 3-27-24
Trump. “Donald Trump, Come on Down.” By Andy Kessler. [Letitia James puts him in jeopardy with a twisted game of ’The Price Is Right.’] 4-1-24
Trump. “Trump Was Good for America’s Alliances.” By Alexander B. Gray. [He pushed NATO to spend more on defense, expanded the Quad ad facilitated the Abraham Accords.] 4-3-24
Trump. “Trump’s Dazzling SPAC.” By Daniel Henninger. [His social-media site lost millions. Then it made him $5 billion in a single day.] 4-4-24
Trump. “What Trump Did for the Faithful.” By Mick Mulvaney. [He allowed Mass and other services at the White House. Biden hasn’t done the same.] 4-4-24Trump. “Trump Blows Up Anti-Terror Surveillance.” [Republicans defect from a key national security vote at his command.] 4-11-24
Trump. “Trump’s New Way on Abortion.” By Kimberley A. Strassel. [He embraces states’ rights and aims to show that Democrats are the radical ones.] 4-12-24
Trump. “The Trump Trial Spectacle Begins.” [The Manhattan DA’s hush-money case is a legal stretch.] 4-13-24
Trump. “Trump Has a Plan For Ukraine: It’s Biden’s. by Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Whoever wins, Europe might get ready for a period of lackluster American leadership.] 4-13-24
Trump. “The Deep State Lies in Wait for Trump.” By Liz Truss. [His second term will be much like my time in office if he doesn’t confront the entrenched bureaucracy.] 4-16-24 (Ms. Truss served as Britain’s prime minister in 2022.)
Trump. “Is Jan. 6 the Political Winner Democrats Think It Is?” by Jason L. Riley. [A Supreme Court ruling against the government could shift the focus to prosecutorial overreach.] 4-17-24
Trump. “Bad Leadership Is a National-Security Threat.” By Peggy Noonan. [The American porn-star trial, the tawdry British memoirs – all signal weakness and decadence.] 4-20-24
Trump. “Donald Trump Tests His Gag Order.” [There’s a reason to protect the jury, but why shield Michael Cohen?] 4-23-24
Trump. “What’s at Stake in the Trump Immunity Case.” By David B. Rivkin Jr. and Elizabeth Price Foley. [Under Jack Smith’s theory, Lincoln, Truman, Clinton and Biden could all have ended up in the dock.] 4-25-24
Trump. “Jack Smith’s Bad Immunity Day.” 4-26-24
Trump. “Trump’s Best Lies Weren’t Trump’s.” by Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [The tangled web of journalistic self-deception is making MAGA great again.] 5-8-24
Trump. “The Stormy Daniels Sex Trial.” [Her salacious details were irrelevant to the charges against Trump.] 5-9-24
Trump. “Bragg Hasn’t Proved His Trump Case.” [The trial evidence shows why the charges should not have been brought.] 5-25-24
Trump. “A Guilty Verdict and Its Consequences.” [Alvin Bragg inaugurates a new and destabilizing era of American politics.] 5-31-24
Trump. “Donald Trump, the Devil and Thomas More.” By Harvey A. Silverglate. [Respect for precedent means treating like cases alike. Think what that means for democracy.] 6-3-24
Trump. “Trump Is a Target of Blind-Leading-the-Blind Justice.” By Gerad Baker. [The legal system was never purely impartial, but this case is also an assault on American democracy.] 6-4-24
Trump. “Trump’s Trial Violated Due Process.” By David B. Rivkin Jr and Elizabeth Price Foley. [He was denied notice of the charges, meaningful opportunity to respond, and proof of all elements.] 6-5-24
Trump. “Trump Verdict Makes Everyone Look Bad.” By Karl Rove. [It only further annoys the ‘double haters’ whom both sides need to win the election.] 6-6-24
Trump. “Dewey Defeats Biden.” By Peter Reinharz. [Under Alvin Bragg’s theory, FDR could have been tried for concealing his polio.] 6-7-24
Trump. “’Donald von S—In Pants.’” [Michael Cohen’s media tour is a good argument to lift Trump’s gag order.] 6-8-24
Trump. “Trump’s Plan to Expand Executive Power.” By Wm. A. Galston. [He has shared the specifics of his policy proposals in a series of campaign videos.] 6-12-24
Trump. “Taking Down Judge Aileen Cannon.” By Wm. McGurn. [Imagine the praise if she deferred to Jack Smith’s bid for a pre-election conviction.] 6-25-24
Trump. “Jack Smith Isn’t a Special Counsel ‘by law.’” By Michael B. Mukasey. [Federal prosecutors must be duly appointed and confirmed by the Senate. He Fails both tests.] 7-8-24
Trump. “Lessons of the Attack on Trump.” By Thomas Sowell. [The world sees a strong American leader even amid ominous division.] 7-16-24
Trump. “Jack Smith, You’re fired.” By Wm. McGurn. [Judge Aileen Cannon rejects the legitimacy of his appointment as special counsel.] 7-16-24
Trump. “Judge Cannon Cashiers Jack Smith.” [The judge says the special counsel was unlawfully appointed.] 7-16-24
Trump. “The Smearing of Judge Aileen Cannon.” By James Burnham and William Lebi. [Commentators on the left trash her thorough and scholarly decision in the classified -documents case.] 7-18-24
Trump. “Clueless at the Secret Service.” [Director Kimberly Cheatle can’t explain what happened or why.] 7-23-24
Trump. “Jack Smith Sniffs at the Supreme Court.” [The special counsel’s new Trump indictment largely brushes off the recent immunity ruling.] 8-29-24
Trump. “What Jack Smith Gets Wrong About Immunity.” By David B. Rivkin Jr. and Elizabeth Price Foley. [The special prosecutor focuses on then-President Trump’s motives – a critical legal error.] 10-15-24
Trump. “What Donald Trump Can Learn From Steve Jobs.” By Allysia Finley. [Simplicity and quality, irrespective of marketing, are the keys to advancing a prosperous enterprise.] 11-11-24
Trump. “Trump Might Have Won the First Postracial Election.” By Jason L. Riley. [Black and Hispanic voters defect from Democrats, who have long relied on identity-politics appeals.] 11-13-24
Trump Administration. “President Trump Can Save Europe.” By Liz Truss. [Taxes, regulation and ‘the blob’ caused Europe and the U.K. to stagnate. He shows us the way out.] 11-13-24
Trump. “The Contradictions of Donald Trump.” By Wm A. Galston. [The president-elect says he’ll lower prices, but his other promises would raise them.] 12-4-24
Trump. “Biden Gets Lost in Trumps Shadow.” By Peggy Noonan. [The president-elect acts as if he’s already in charge. There’s never been a transition like this before.] 12-14-24
Trump. “Optimism About Trump on the Left.” By Ted Rall. [His opposition to war and skepticism about markets make him appealing to some progressives.] 1-2-25
Trump. “Can Trump Bring Hope, and Biden Wisdom?” by Peggy Noonan. “America needs certain things from the impending farewell speech and inaugural address.] 1-11-25
Trump. “Disrupter in Chief Trump.” By Daniel Henninger. [He used to be accused of breaking norms. Now it’s ‘disruption.’ That’s progress.] 1-16-25
Trump. “How Trump Can Start His Term Off right.” By Karl Rove. [The president-elect has many challenges and opportunities to negotiate off the bat.] 1-16-25
Trump. “Jack Smith’s Half-True report.” By Alan M. Dershowitz and Andrew Stein. [Publishing it makes a mockery of America’s adversarial system of criminal justice.] 1-17-25
Trump. “MAGA Cashiers a Check on Gabbard.” [Speaker Johnso bows o Mar-a Lago in ousting Intel Chair Mike Turner.] 1-17-25
Trump. “Journal Writers Look Ahead to Trump 47.” 1-18-25
Trump. “Can Trump do Better the Second Time?” [He’s stronger now, but his brand of political disruption has limits.] 1-18-25
Trump. “Donald Trump, Act III.” By Wm. McGurn. [He overcame huge personal challenges. Now can he do the same for the country?] 1-21-25
Trump. “Trump’s Inaugural of Optimism.” [He begins his second term with a far better message than in 2017.] 1-21-25
Trump. “Trump’s Imperial Presidency?” by Daniel Henninger. [We may be heading to the outer limits of America’s system of checks and balances.] 1-23-25
Trump. “Trump Sets Out to break Burdensome rules.” By Karl Rove. [He hits the ground running as he targets costly and harmful federal regulations.] 1-23-25
Trump. “President Trump, Crypto Billionaire.” [His new family tokens are courting legal and political trouble.] 1-23-25
Trump. “Trump’s Shred Order Killing DEI.” 1-23-25
Trump Administration II. “The Elon-Musk-Is-a- Secret-Nazi Meme. [A kooky accusation goes from social media, tot eh press, to the Senate.] 1-23-25
Trump. “Trump Follows Biden’s Lead by Flouting the Law.” By Zachary s. Price. [The president has no power to delay the Tik Tok ban, imo und spending or suspend regulation.] 1-23-25
Trump. “The Secret Service and the President’s Life.” By Janet Napolitano and Frances Fragos Townsend. [Our investigation after the assassination attempt found deep systemic and cultural problems.] 1-23-25
Trump. “The White House ‘Wonder Horse.’” By Peggy Noonan. [Trump returns to office with a burst of energy and a flurry of actions, some sensible, some dangerous.] 1-25-25
Trump. “The Two Trump Problem.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [It isn’t 2017 anymore: His trade wars threaten to undo the benefits of his deregulation push.] 1-25-25
Trump. “Trump Gets McKinley Wrong.” By Karl Rove. [The 25^th president supported tariffs, but only as a means to trade reciprocity.] 2-6-25
Trump. “The Five Trials of Trump 47.” By Karl Rove. [He faces a series of hard legislative fights, and Congress needs his leadership.] 2-13-25
Trump. “Trump, Jackson and the Politics of Crisis.” By Peggy Noonan. “The 47^th president says he’ll comply with court decisions. The seventh didn’t always do so.] 2-15-25
Trump. “Trump Somehow Lowers the Temperature in Washington.” By Barton Swaim. [Democrats still attack him, but they’ve reverted from catastrophizing to ordinary partisan rhetoric.] 2-15-25
Trump. “Trump’s Echo of 1829.” By Karl Rove. [the 47^th president mirrors the seventh in many ways. How far will the parallel go?] 2-27-25
Trump. “How Trump Sees the World.” By Wm. A. Galston. [His Zelensky spat reveals his amoral, might-makes-right view of global affairs.] 3-5-25
Trump. “Trump’s Deft Victory Dance.” By Karl Rove. [Full of grand notions and vitriol, his speech caught Democrats flatfooted Tuesday.] 3-6-25
Trump. “How’s Trump Doing?” by Andy Kessler. [He’s transactional and trolling but so far only aspires to be transformational.] 3-10-25
Trump. “Trump, Perkins Coie and john Adams.” [The President breaks a bedrock legal principle by targeting the law firm.] 3-12-25
Trump. “Trump vs. the Vacuum.” By Holman w. Jenkins, Jr. [A weak president faces a dysfunctional opposition.] 4-2-25
Trump. “Trump’s Machiavellian Style Has Limits.” By Wm. A. Galston. [The president governs by fear, but what happens if people are no longer afraid?] 4-9-25
Trump. “Trump’s Lawfare Against Former Aides.” [His orders against Krebs and Taylor are what Democrats did to him.] 4-12-25
Trump. “Trump’s Climbdown for the Ages.” By Peggy Noonan. [The president has started scaring members of his base, and there’s life in the establishment yet.] 4-12-25
Trump. “Trump Wants to Be Impeached Again.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [It’s already in the cards thanks to his ill-founded trade war, no matter how that war plays out.] 4-12-25
Trump. “America Gets Trump Fatigue.” By Karl Rove. [His frenzied pace and lack of focus leave many voters worried and confused.] 4-17-25
Trump. “Chaos Is Embedded in Trump’s DNA.” By John Bolton. [His pinball-machine style hinges on his advisers’ personal fealty. This will mean more trouble ahead.] 5-2-25
Trump. “Is Donald Trump a ‘Man of Destiny’?” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [The discussion that started after Bulter, PA., is revived to make sense of his tariff actions.] 5-3-25
Trump. “How to Be Trump’s ‘Total Loser’.” By Karl Rove. [Something I said in a seven-minute TV segment got under the president’s skin.] 5-8-25
Trump. “The Trump Family Crypto Business.” [The Administration will regulate the tokens the Trumps are selling.] 5-12-25
Trump. “President Trump Isn’t a Tariff King.” [A sweeping trade court ruling puts the executive in his proper place.] 5-30-25
Trump. “Trump vs. Bruce Springsteen.” By Andy Kessler. The president and ‘The Boss’ play to the same frustrated working class crowd.] 6-2-25
Trump. “Trump Seeks Greatness as Mamdani Rises.” By Peggy Noonan. [The Iran strikes leave the president bolder than ever. Meanwhile, can New York survive a socialist mayor? ] 6-28-25
Trump. “Trump Is on a Roll, but He Shouldn’t Get Overconfident.” By Jason L. Riley. [He beat the Democrats with common sense on cultural issues. He has to deliver on the economy.] 7-9-25
Trump. “Now Trump Says Forget Jeffrey Epstein.” 7-14-25
Trump. “The Political Price of Conspiracy.” By Karl Rove. [MAGA is getting tired of waiting for Trump to make good on his wilder promises.] 7-24-25
Trump. “Trump Never Says ‘No’ to a Fight, Fight, Fight.” By Peggy Noonan. [He revels in the game of dominance and defeat. It’s what made him—and could do him in.] 7-26-25
Trump. “Napoleon’s Lessons for Trump.” By Walter Russell Mead. [The president grasps power dynamics but should learn from French emperor’s fall.] 8-12-25
Trump. “ How Russiagate Made Trump.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [The media might correct its false reporting, but that would mean recognizing its consequences.] 8-16-25
Trump. “Letitia James Gets Trumped on Appeal.” 8-22-25
Trump. “Speech Is Still Free, and Sometimes You Get What You Pay For.” By Gerald Baker. [Trump’s authoritarianism differs only in degree from his predecessors’, and he hasn’t silenced his foes.] 9-23-25
Trump. “The Trump Final Chapter.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [As he becomes a lame duck, the question is whether his opponents have learned anything.] 9-24-25
Trump. “The Comey-Trump Revenge Cycle.” [It’s a historic tragedy the President didn’t fire Comey in 2017.] 9-27-25
Trump. “The Trump-Kimmel Collusion.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.. [The president’s secret to political success: He turns opponents into dependents.] 10-1-25
Trump. “The Next Prosecution of Donald Trump.” By Eugene Kontorovich. [Plans are under way to try him in the International Criminal Court. This time he can strike first.] 10-6-25
Trump. “Trump’s Problem Is a Lack of Focus.” By Karl Rove. [He’s directing his energy at too many issues and needs to set some priorities.] 10-9-25
Congress, “Congress Can Rein In Executive Power.” By William A. Galston. [Trump isn’t the first to overreach, and there’s bipartisan support for reform.] 10-15-25
Trump. “Democracy, Thy Name Is Trump.” By Barton Swaim. [This president is the embodiment of rule by the people—in ways good and ill.] 10-16-25
Trump. “All the President’s Enemies.” By Barton Swaim. [Trump’s misguided indictments won’t help him, as the Founders foresaw.] 10-23-25
Trump. “Donald Trump and the Whole Wide World.” By Elliot Kaufman, Brenda Cronin, Mene Ukueberuwa, Jack Bulter, Joseph C. Sternberg, Faith Bottum, Kate B. Odell, Mary Julia Koch, Tunka Varadarajan, Jillian Kay Melchior, Mary Anastasia O’Grady. [Journal writers discuss the Iran strikes, the Russia-Ukraine war, tariffs, Middle East peace prospects and more.] 10-25-25
Trump. “Trump’s Pardons His Family’s Crypto Pal.” [Zhao applied for clemency after backing a Trump- linked stablecoin.] 10-25-25
Trump. “Trump Takes a Wrecking Ball to the People’s House.” By Collin Levy. [The White House isn’t private property. The demolition of the East Wing is unprecedented.] 10-27-25
Trump. “Donald Trump Is a Hockey Star.” By Andy Kessler. [We needed a smash-mouth in the White House, but will he be able to score goals?] 10-27-25
Trump. “Trump Accelerates Our Decline Into Moral Relativism.” By Gerald Baker. [As is often true, he wasn’t the first but is the worst to use others’ wrongs as an excuse for his own.] 10-28-25
Trump. “Trump’s New World Order.” By Walter Russell Mead. [ If you think he’s an isolationist, you’re wrong. He aims to reshape the globe.] 11-4-25

Issue Headlines

Election 2016 Drudgereport.com 8-28-15:

NOONAN: AMERICA IS SO IN PLAY…

Deepening estrangement between elites, non-elites…

Trump supporters bucking party — and everything connected to it…

http://www.wsj.com/articles/america-is-so-in-play-1440715262

Trump. Drudgereport.com 8-30-15 <<<<<

MAG: Nothing more terrifying to elite than embrace of nationalism…

http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/traitor-his-class_1020527.html#

Trump: Drudgereport.com 9-21-15: <<<<

Stephanopoulos Grills Trump: Why Can’t You Say That Obama Is Not Muslim?

FLASHBACK: Obama ‘My Muslim Faith’…

Trump. Drudgereport.com 11-29-15 >>>>>

SOLD OUT: Lines Form FIVE BLOCKS LONG to See Trump in Sarasota…

Thousands Cheer at Raucous Rally…

Trump. Drudgereport.com 2-24-16 >>>>

PAT ROBERTSON TELLS TRUMP ‘YOU INSPIRE US ALL’…

ROMNEY ATTACKS TRUMP…

Trump. Drudgereport.com 3-20-16 <<<

GOODWIN: Why it’s time for Trump revolution…

Electoral vote projection for Nov. 2016. Grim Election Map for Trump? Fox Analyst vs. RCP vs. Mish

Posted by mishgea | May 23, 2016 6:22:53 |

https://mishtalk.com/2016/05/23/grim-election-map-for-trump-fox-analyst-vs-rcp-vs-mish/

Trump Drudgereport.com 8-19-16 >>>

TRUMP TURNS PRESIDENT IN LOUISIANA AS OBAMA CHILLS…

Victim’s Tearful Thank You…

Trump. Drudgereport.com 9-16-16 >>>

Trump slams Clinton gun control policies: ‘Her bodyguards should drop all weapons’… Nation’s largest police union endorses Trump…

Trump. Drudgereport.com 10-2-16

Trump Campaign: Newspaper Illegally Obtained Tax Records…

Baquet said would risk jail…

The story that started it all…

Hillary Used Same Avoidance ‘Scheme’…

Trump. Drudgereport.com 10-2-16

Farage Tells Trump: Avoid Catfight with Hillary!

Trump. Drudgereport.com 10-8-16 >>>>

STAND BY ME! Supporters mob Trump Tower…

Trump. Drudgereport.com 10-13-16 >>>>

UPDATE: Women accuse Donald of groping, forcibly kissing them…

TRUMP HATE RAGES! RASMUSSEN: HE’S BACK IN LEAD MEDIA WAR!

RNC TV ad spending for Trump: $0

The national party breaks with tradition of spending millions on ads supporting its nominees.

By Kenneth P. Vogel and Alex Isenstadt

10/13/16 04:59 AM EDT

Trump. Drudgereport.com 10-25-16 >>>>>

TRUMP MORE BLACK SUPPORT THAN ANY REPUBLICAN SINCE 1960? EARLY VOTING: THISCLOSE…

Trump. Drudgereport.com 10-26-16 >>>>>

TRUMP’S BEST SPEECH? UNDER BUDGET, AHEAD OF SCHEDULE… Promises ‘new deal for Black America’…

Anti-Trump Violence Sweeps Country; Media Ignores… Walk Of Fame Star Destroyed By Vandals…

Trump. Drudgereport. 4-19-17

STUDY: 89% of Media Negative Towards President…

Trump. The Wall Street Journal. 4-21-17, P. C1

“The Burden of One-Party Government.”

Trump. Drudgereport.com 5-15-17

WASH POST: Trump revealed highly classified info to Russians…

WHITE HOUSE DENIES…

MORE LEAKS SMEAR PRESIDENT…

Trump. Drudgereport.com 5-16-17

8 DAYS THAT SHOOK WASHINGTON…

Reporters excused Obama for Giving Intel to Russia…

Trump. Drudgereport.com 5-16-17

NETWORKS PUSH ‘IMPEACHMENT’

Trump. Drudgereport.com 8-23-17

WSJ Editor Admonishes Reporters Over Trump Coverage…

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/23/business/media/wall-street-journal-editor-admonishes-reporters-over-trump-coverage.html

Trump Drudgereport.com 12-6-17

58 House Dems Vote To Impeach Trump…

Trump. Drudgereport.com 12-27-17

YEAR END POP: TRUMP STANDS AT 45% APPROVAL

Trump. Drudgereport.com 1-25-18

TRUMP ROCKSTAR WELCOME AT DAVOS!
POPS TO 45% APPROVAL…

HERITAGE FOUNDATION Rates Trump’s First Year Better Than Reagan…
USA Heads for 3% Growth Trifecta…
Tax Cuts Roaring Through Companies…
HOME DEPOT employees to receive $1,000 bonus…
PELOSI: Crumbs…

Trump. 4-5-18 Drudgereport.com

KAMALA CRACKS TRUMP DEATH JOKE…

Mueller Report 3-25-19 Drudgereport.com

SHAME OF THE NATION: 533,074 articles have been published about Russia and Trump… https://www.axios.com/robert-mueller-donald-trump-social-media-reach-0586790d-711f-42fe-b3e1-21acc54cdfa6.html
Networks Gave Whopping 2,284 Minutes to Probe…

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/rich-noyes/2019/03/24/fizzle-nets-gave-whopping-2284-minutes-russia-probe
CNN STILL sitting outside Mueller’s office… https://theweek.com/speedreads/831186/cnn-still-sitting-outside-muellers-office
LIST: FALSE BOMBSHELLS… https://dailycaller.com/2019/03/25/media-russia-collusion-mueller-report-fake-news/
Treason! Impeachment! Prison! https://news.grabien.com/story-flashback-dems-media-predict-mueller-probe-results-impeachme
TAIBBI: Russiagate is this generation’s WMD… https://taibbi.substack.com/p/russiagate-is-wmd-times-a-million
500 witnesses; 2800 subpoenas: No collusion… https://dailycaller.com/2019/03/24/justice-department-mueller-report-congress/
GOOGLE obscures news… https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/03/tech_tyrants_at_google_do_their_best_to_obscure_no_indictments_of_mueller_report.html
WIRE: Russia savors…
DEMS: PLAN B… https://news.yahoo.com/democrats-move-plan-b-mueller-080000243.html
Told-You-So Moment Rattles… https://news.yahoo.com/trump-apos-told-moment-rattles-102002900.html
New Day For White House… https://about.bgov.com/news/what-to-know-in-washington-new-day-for-trump-after-mueller-report/
Re-election weapon… https://www.apnews.com/0bab63fd501b4100bfc06491c2061cc5
GOODWIN: HILLARY’S BIG LIE… https://nypost.com/2019/03/24/we-should-all-be-celebrating-the-collapse-of-hillarys-big-lie/

Campaign Considerations

Trump. “Blue-Collar Vote Key for Trump Win.” Wall Street Journal, 3-7-16, p. A1.

Talking Points

Trump. 4-28-17 Drudgereport.com 4-28-17

LIST: Accomplishments…

HERE IT IS=> Complete List of President Trump’s Major Accomplishments in First 100 Days

Jim Hoft Apr 27th, 2017 10:59 pm

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/04/draft-complete-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-in-his-first-100-days/

Trump. Blacks. Drudgereport.com 1-15-18

FLASHBACK: Jesse Jackson praises and thanks Trump for lifetime of service to African Americans…

Opinion

Trump. “Accountability for ObamaCare.” [Democrats should pay a political price for this historic failure.] 10-26-16

Electoral vote projection for Nov. 2016. Grim Election Map for Trump? Fox Analyst vs. RCP vs. Mish

TRUMP TURNS PRESIDENT IN LOUISIANA AS OBAMA CHILLS…

HE HELPS THE FLOODED…

‘WE KNEW YOU’D BE HERE!’

Victim’s Tearful Thank You…

UPDATE: Women accuse Donald of groping, forcibly kissing them…

TRUMP HATE RAGES! RASMUSSEN: HE’S BACK IN LEAD MEDIA WAR!

RNC TV ad spending for Trump: $0

THE COMEY DIARIES

LEAKS TURN TO FLOOD

NETWORKS PUSH ‘IMPEACHMENT’

Campaign Considerations

Talking Points

HERE IT IS=> Complete List of President Trump’s Major Accomplishments in First 100 Days

Jim Hoft Apr 27th, 2017 10:59 pm

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