Susan Glasser

Trump just blamed Ukraine outright for Russia’s invasion. ‘You shoulda never started it,’ he said. What a lie, a Russian lie—from the President of the US.

Putin and Xi are having a great great week.

Whatever happens next, the fall of the Assad regime means the end of a horrible tyranny. Thinking tonight of its many many victims.

When civil society institutions — big law firms, Ivy League institutions — cave to Trump rather than fight what appear to be illegal demands, do they expect him to be satisfied and stop? Do they believe others should step in and fight where they have not?

Didn't take long to get to this...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

Trump: "A lot of people are saying maybe we'd like a dictator."

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AP is banned by Trump from WH pool, while this is happening:

The most shocking display by Trump and Vance in the Oval Office against Zelensky. It had the look of an ambush.

Trump's awful post about Alex Pretti am confirms this point -- he's not sorry, he's not pivoting, and he'll use the same playbook as ever to survive yet another scandal that would have destroyed any other politician

my new column: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

Operation Trump Rehab

After a wave of public revulsion over the President’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota, he offers a familiar playbook: distraction, disinformation, denial, delay.

The mugging of the only Black foreign leader to visit the Oval Office so far this year was the tell: Donald Trump does have a few human rights lectures in him, after all, but only on behalf of those with the right color skin.

my new column:
www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

Donald Trump Stages an Oval Office Mugging

Race-baiting South Africa’s visiting leader was a perfect summation of Trump’s racially charged second term.

Congrats to great colleague/fellow podcaster @eosnos.bsky.social on his new book out today with the best title, ‘The Haves and the Have-Yachts,’ a summer must read for these oligarchic times

Trump, after Kirk’s awful murder, calls not for reconciliation, but for vengeance…

My column:https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/did-trump-just-declare-war-on-the-american-left

Did Trump Just Declare War on the American Left?

After Charlie Kirk’s tragic killing, the President speaks not of ending political violence but of seeking political vengeance.

The Epstein scandal is now a chronic disease of the Trump presidency.

My new column: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

The Epstein Scandal Is Now a Chronic Disease of the Trump Presidency

Read the e-mails—this isn’t going away anytime soon.

Jeff Bezos yukking it up with Trump’s Cabinet at the Rotunda right now… what a look for the owner of the Washington Post.

Donald Trump’s Putinization of America

My new column: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

Donald Trump’s Putinization of America

It’s not just in foreign policy that the President is turning Russia’s way.

At least maybe this puts an end to all those hopeful Republican-Senate-might-just-stand-up-to-Trump-when-it's-really-crazy takes of the old days of three weeks ago...

Literally repeating Russian talking points.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

Witkoff: "The war didn't need to happen. It was provoked. It doesn't necessarily mean it was provoked by the Russians. There were all kinds of conversations back then about Ukraine joining NATO. That didn't need to happen. It basically became a threat to the Russians."

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Did you listen to Trump blather on about the ‘rigged election,’ and Biden, and tariffs, and mail-in ballots? Even he knew he bombed with Putin…

My new column on POTUS’s self-own summit: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

Donald Trump’s Self-Own Summit with Vladimir Putin

Even the puffery-prone President couldn’t alchemize his non-deal with Russia into Trumpian gold.

It’s not enough for Trump to win by getting Wray to resign. He has to absurdly insist that Kash Patel is the ‘most qualified Nominee’ for FBI director in history. He loves humiliating his own team so much, forcing GOP senators not only to vote for such a person but to wallow in his untruths…

Trump’s losing-est week?

My new column on federal judges pushing back, from tariffs to immigration to Harvard and the National Guard: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

How Many Court Cases Can Trump Lose in a Single Week?

From tariffs and immigration to the National Guard, federal judges are rejecting Trump’s ridiculous cover stories.

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Has Vladimir Putin ever had a better week in Washington?

My new column on Trump’s selling out of Ukraine: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

It Took Trump Only Twenty-four Days to Sell Out Ukraine

Amid the chaos in Washington, the President’s phone call with Putin has Moscow filled with glee.

Donald Trump, poet laureate of self-aggrandizement, reprises his "American Carnage" Inaugural Address with a heavy dose of me, me, me vindication.

my column is up @newyorker.com: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

Donald Trump’s Inaugural Day of Vindication

The reëlected President reprised his “American Carnage” address, with repeated jabs at America’s “decline” under Joe Biden, but his central theme, as always, was himself.

Where are the Pinocchios when we need them???

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

Trump: "Vladimir Putin said something- one of the most interesting things. He said 'your election was rigged because you have mail in voting. It's impossible to have mail in voting & have honest elections.' He said that to me because we talked about 2020. He said, 'you won that election by so much'"

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This quote might be the most perfect distillation of where elected Republican officials are right now. Wow.

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social

Thom Tillis says Trump and Musk can have a little bit of unconstitutional behavior, as a treat www.notus.org/congress/tru...