Trump’s Christmas Offensive
Trump spent the whole month on a relentless crusade to remind everyone "Season's Greetings" was somehow sacrilegious. But did anyone care?
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Watch Nancy Burson’s Latest GIF Morphing Trump with “Rocket Man”
The GIF and the picture are about Trump's identification with nemeses, and about scaling the Mt. Olympus for autocrats.
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Trump Is Disturbed, But We Always Look Past It
He’s been acting even crazier and more deluded, the silence and enabling only amplifying the danger.
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Throwing Russian Flags at Trump
Maybe the Trump flag attack would have been more effective six months ago when the Russia story still dominated the news. Otherwise, all it hit was teflon.
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Looking at Trump and Kelly at Arlington Cemetery
Why the New York Times published the photo it did of Trump and Kelly visiting the General's son's grave.
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Phoenix Jesus: On Scott Mahaskey’s Trump Rally Protest Photo
M. Scott Mahaskey's photo taken outside Trump's rally in Phoenix on Tuesday night is as audacious, and biblical, as the times.
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On that Creepy Don Jr. Elevator Photo
The photo can be seen as a premonition. It mirrors the surreptitiousness of the Russia meeting and the fact Don Jr. isn't so swaggery anymore.
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On the Failed Rubio – Ivanka Bot Hug
Given her meticulously-constructed public image and the way she is constantly composed, Ivanka just doesn't have awkward moments.
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Comey as Metaphor: Our Social Media Roundup of the Week
Looking at the most striking pictures from the last five days, greater light and clarity seems to be the theme.
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London and a Fake Suicide Vest
The biggest threat of this attack was the potential to create outsized effects on the cheap. A fake vest or a real one is part of sorting the difference.
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Trump the Forlorn: On an Unusual Arlington Portrait
Maybe this is Trump showing the full effect of almost six months bearing the presidential mantle. Maybe he’s about done in.
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Love to Damocles: Our Trump First Foreign Trip Grand Tour
If Trump's first foreign trip was successful in any way, it was only in its Groucho notes and the respite from the Russian tornado back home.
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Trump Jumps Shark: Our Weekly Social Media Roundup
Looking back at our Twitter feed this week, we were drawn to Trump's reality gap and the photographic embrace of every "not normal" telegraph.
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Trump, The Leak and What I Missed in the Russian White House Photos the First Time
Surprised Trump leaked secrets to the Russians? Well, in the photos that circulated most widely last week, it is hard to tell they had a meeting.
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Russian Oval Office Pix: Team Trump Done in by “Dual Hatter”
Absurdly, the White House never saw a threat in the Russian Oval Office photos.
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Trump, King and What’s in an Overcoat?
Too often, it's that simple thing right in front of your eyes that gets completely overlooked, even if it has plenty to say.
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Ivanka and the Settling Mess: Our Social Media Roundup
What with the 100 day milestone and his manic push to put anything on his resume, this was another week of wall-to-wall Trump. Still, I wonder if the tone is shifting.
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North Korean Border Photos That Challenge Today’s War Hysteria
What these lighter North Korea photos get at is how much the president, gung-ho politicians and TV talking heads would have us cowering.
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