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.

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

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?

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.

Putin and Xi are having a great great week.

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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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.

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 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

Today’s news—Trump White House taking control of which journalists can cover the leader, a big step toward a Kremlin like press pool of handpicked media.

Susan Glasser @sbg1.bsky.social

Just as jarring as Trump's pro-Russia foreign policy pivot has been his embrace of Putin-like tactics at home, unfolding with a speed and ferocity far different than what Trump was able to pull off in his first term. Call it the Putinization of America. 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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...

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...

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.

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.

Just as jarring as Trump's pro-Russia foreign policy pivot has been his embrace of Putin-like tactics at home, unfolding with a speed and ferocity far different than what Trump was able to pull off in his first term. Call it the Putinization of America. 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.

Elon Musk’s Revolutionary Terror

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Elon Musk’s Revolutionary Terror

The evisceration of U.S.A.I.D. isn’t a policy fight—it’s an execution designed to strike fear in our own government.

Trump’s pivot to Putin recalled, for one former senior Pentagon official, Daniel Ellsberg’s quote about Vietnam: ‘It wasn’t that we were on the wrong side. It’s that we WERE the wrong side.’

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

Uncertainty Is Trump’s Brand. But What if He Already Told Us Exactly What He’s Going to Do?

“Tariff Man” is gonna tariff—and other lessons from the predictably unpredictable President’s return to power.

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