Trump could get his intel from the government — instead, he gets it from Fox News. Is Donald Trump even in charge of this government? More and more, his own aides decide they can just ignore the president. Why Trump advisers stay, even when he flouts their advice. The unmonitored president: Trump is the first president who, rather than striding forward and speaking, just gets up and talks. Rattled or frustrated, Trump is lashing out all over. Looking back at Andrew Johnson — the president most like Trump. The moral ledger: Andy Smarick on the pitfalls of weighing Trump’s actions one at a time and hoping thereby to arrive at a judicious assessment. Four reasons we’ve reached a tipping point on Trump.
“Don’t believe the crap you see from these people, the fake news. Just remember, what you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening”: Trump’s latest demand is straight out of the pages of 1984. Mike Allen and Jonathan Swan on a case study in Trump’s GOP mind control. As the GOP increasingly comes to resemble a personality cult, is there any red line — video tapes? DNA evidence? a war with Germany — President Trump could cross and lose party support? “Very doubtful”, say a dozen GOP members of Congress stuck hard behind the MAGA eight ball. Christine Todd Whitman: “Calling my fellow Republicans: Trump is clearly unfit to remain in office”.
