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Trump is the new insult

Rachel Weil on the two-bodied king of “Richard II” and its Trumpian delusion. Body double: Quinta Jurecic on what medieval executive theory tells us about Trump’s Twitter accounts. Six different ways of looking at a Trump tweet. Trump’s fake war on the fake news: The president puts on a big show of assaulting his “opposition” in the news media — but inside the White House, it’s a different story. Trump’s about-face on WikiLeaks sums up why he’s so untrustworthy. What Donald Trump's “joke” about Nikki Haley reveals about him. Trump is the new insult on playgrounds: Bizarrely Trump-themed play is popping up in schools for children as young as four years old. Achtung maybe: Robert Zaretsky on reverence in the age of Trump.