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Trump (from Jan. 2026)

                                                                                                                                                                                       

  1. Trump.  “Donald Trump, Not Unchained.” [His reversal on Greenland shows the limits of his power.]   1-23-26
  2. Trump.  “Trump Can’t Tolerate Peace and Quiet.” By Peggy Nonnan. [Afraid of boredom, he compulsively creates drama and hopes his luck-and-ours will hold out.]   1-24-26
  3. Trump.  “America Doesn’t Do Fascism.” By Barton Swaim. [Trump is far more interesting than the dictator living in the liberal imagination.]   1-29-26
  4. Trump.  “Trump’s Cowbell Moment.” By Kimberley A. Strassel. [His accomplishments on the economy are drowned out by the Minnesota drumbeat.]  1-30-26
  5. Trump.  “Jimmy Lai and Trump’s Nobel Peace Prize.”  By William McGurn. [The president will deserve the award if he gets the publisher freed from prison.]   2  -17-26
  6. Trump.  “The State of the Union Is Belligerent.” By Karl Rove. [Trump made a great use of guests, but gave the most partisan such address in history.]   2-26-26
  7. Trump.  “The State of Trump’s Agenda.”  [The main news is that the GOP Congress won’t do much this year.]   2-26-26
  8. Trump.  “Trump and the Stakes in Iran.” [He needs to hear from the chief of Central Command, Adm. Cooper.]   2-26-26
  9. Trump.  “The Oprah State of the Union.” By Peggy Noonan. [It had everything—tears, cheers, spectacle,  awards. Democrats still haven’t figured Trump out.]   2-28-26
  10. Trump.  “If Donald Trump Were a Democrat.” By William McGurn. [The president insists on consequences while Democrats rely on talking points.] 3-3-26
  11. Trump.  “Trump’s Weird Iran War.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [It contains messages for Democrats who would impeach him and for Putin and Xi.]   3-4-26
  12. Trump.  “Trump’s Lone Ranger Approach to Iran.”  By William A. Galston. [Going to war without congressional or public consent makes a risky decision even more so.]   3-4-26
  13. Trump.  “A Tyrant Slayer Who Looks Like a Tyrant.” By Joseph Epstein. [Love him or loathe him, Trump is a world-historical figure.] 3-6-26
  14. Trump.  “The Trump Revolution Faces an Iran Test.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Time for the professionals if the U.S. foreign policy redirection is to become a lasting legacy.]  3-7-26
  15. Trump.  “A Different Trump? Antisemites Will Believe Anything.” By Bernard-Henri Levy. [The notion that Benjamin Netanyahu is pulling the president’s strings is particularly absurd.]   3-11-26
  16. Trump.  “Trump’s Nixon Moment May Be Coming.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Unnoticed, the language of nuclear intimidation is again a currency in international conflict.]   3-14-26
  17. Trump.  “The Profane President Trump.” By William McGurn.  [We would all benefit from a dose of good form, even if it makes us hypocrites.]   3-24-26
  18. Trump.   “Trump Was Always a Wild Card.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [It’s a fundamental democratic question :  Does he represent voters or himself?]   3-25-26
  19. Trump.  “Trump Loses the Home Front.” By William A. Galston. [Lesson of Iran: Don’t go to war without first selling the effort to American voters.]   3-25-26
  20. Iran.  “Trump and Bismark in the Same Sentence.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [With his Iran war, the U.S. president is creating chaos for the world and wider options for himself.]   4-4-26
  21. Trump.  “In Gut We Trust?” By Peggy Noonan. [I think Trump shocked his followers with his vulgar, threatening social-media posts about the Iran war.] 4-11-26
  22. Trump.  “Trump Needs a More Ambitious Ballroom.” By Kyle Dugdale. [The new White House addition should speak to the nation’s past and its aspirations for the future.] 4-11-26
  23. Trump.  “What Would Bill Buckley Do?” By William McGurn. [Trump faces rancor on the right reminiscent of decades-old battles over conservatism.]   4-14-26
  24. Trump.  “Trump Meets His Match in Pope Leo.”  By Peggy Noonan.  [As Bishop Sheen said to Melton Berle, the vicar of Rome has better writers and a better sponsor.]   4-18-26
  25. Trump.  “From the 2019 Impeachment to Iran.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Trump the disrupter is hurrying the world along to where it needed to go anyway.]   4-22-26
  26. Trump.   “Trump Stands Tall Under Fire,” By Faith Bottum. [Another apparent assassination attempt brings out his most presidential qualities.]   4-27-26
  27. “Trump Trashes His Own Trade Pact.” By Mary Anastasia O’Grady. [His tariffs on Canada and Mexico make a mockery of the 2020 USMCA agreement.]   4-27-26
  28. Trump.  “A ‘Friendly Federal Assassin.’ “ [Trump hits the right notes after the third attempt to kill him.]  4-27-26
  29. Trump.  “Donald Trump, Foreign-Policy Traditionalist.”  By Michael Mandelbaum. [His sanctions, efforts to broker peace and war in Iran are all consistent with American history.] 4-27-26
  30. Trump.  “Trump’s War With the Pope.” By William McGurn. [Marco Rubio’s visit to Rome Thursday is an effort to repair U.S.-Vatican relations.]   5-5-26
  31. Trump.  “What Happened to the Pragmatic Trump of the First Term?” By Gerard Baker. [It’s bad enough that he got serious about tariffs. How in the world did he end up embracing regime change?]   5-5-26
  32. Trump.  “Trump Halts the Blockade of U.S. Ports.]   5-6-26
  33. Trump.  “Where Is Trump Going in the Gulf?” By Holman W. Jemkins, Jr. [The president is better at buying time than he is at figuring out how to use it.]   5-6-26