Lucian K. Truscott Iv

In the context of calling Liz Cheney a “war hawk,” Trump says she should be given “a rifle” and face what amounts to a firing squad of “nine barrels.”

It didn't start out so great. In fact, a case could be made that the United States was born a mistake, and our life as a people has been one of struggle to get it right.

We got hit bad on Tuesday night, but we're Democrats. We get up. We stand up. We move forward. I want you to remember that we did it before.

The Pentagon sits there across from Washington D.C. on the Potomac River like…well, I’m something of a master of metaphor, and I can’t think of a single thing that it’s like. Its design is said to have been influenced by the location President Roosevelt initially picked for its site. The site was ch...

What is Donald Trump so afraid of? I ask the question because in the military, it has long been known that only frightened, little men – it has always been men – appoint toadying loyalists to positions under their command. If a frightened little man wants his orders carried out, even when his orders are likely to cause deaths of his compatriots by their idiocy and cravenness, then he must appoint people who will follow his orders unquestioningly. Fellow frightened little men fit that requirement to a T.

The vote was 235 to 174, not even close to the two-thirds majority necessary under the special provision under which Speaker MIKE Johnson had brought the bill to the House floor. Dozens of Republicans joined Democrats in rejecting the bill, most of them because the bill included a two-year suspension of the debt ceiling Trump had demanded for his support.

Since Donald Trump won the presidency on November 5, we have begun to see what Elon Musk's $277 million investment in Trump has gotten him.

How do you deal with a nomination like the odious Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense? I'm not going to take the time and space to run through the many reasons he is the wrong person for the job. They are manifest and obvious every time he shows his face or opens his mouth.

There is no metaphor for what is about to happen in Washington, D.C If we erased every threat, every lie, every theft, every crime, every con, even the inexplicably self-satisfied look on his face as he bopped awkwardly to “YMCA” at that town hall with Kristi Noem last fall, nothing, and I mean nothing, could have prepared us for the gigantic national ignominy of having a felon and rapist take the oath of office under the dome of the Capitol he had his hordes trash four years ago nearly to the day in his attempted coup.

We begin today with Trump's scum-spray of executive orders, because they are not only in the news but indicative of everything he and his followers get so wrong about this country.