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- Death in the Time of Trump
Here’s yet another indication that Washington has been turned upside down in recent years: I saw Rachel Maddow at Dick Cheney’s funeral and didn’t give it a second thought. She was sitting with Anthony Fauci, in the same row as James Carville.Such is life—and death—in the Trump years. You never know who will show up to pay respects at gatherings of this sort, or what odd alliances and strange bedfellows will reveal themselves. Who gets invited and who doesn’t? Whose attendance will Donald Trump take as an act of disloyalty, or treason? Wait, didn’t that one die during the Obama years?This was one of those pre-Trump Washington-reunion scenes: Cheney, the not-unpolarizing 46th vice president of the United States, was memorialized yesterday before processions of power mourners at the National Cathedral. Guests included former Presidents George W. Bush and Joe Biden, former speakers of the House (John Boehner, Nancy Pelosi), Senate… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.5 days ago - The Ghislaine Maxwell EmailsThe emails that Ghislaine Maxwell has been sending over the past several months from a minimum-security prison near Houston are stamped Sensitive But Unclassified. Maxwell once cavorted with presidents and royals; now she’s serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking, convicted of recruiting underage girls for Jeffrey Epstein. Her trajectory is not a happy one.But the tone of the emails is cheerful. She revels in the privileges she’s been granted since being transferred to a new facility by Donald Trump’s Justice Department, and she expresses optimism about one day freeing herself. While telling family of her improved conditions, she remarks that Croatia is one of her favorite vacation destinations. Among the ebullient expressions that appear in the disgraced British socialite’s messages, mostly to her siblings and one of her lawyers: “Yippe skipee” (about her brother’s upcoming visit), “I hear you are a media star!” (in reference to another sibling… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.5 days ago
- The Rise of the ‘Sex and the City Conservative’
One night at a party in an East Village speakeasy, a pair of 20-somethings—high on youth and rail liquor—made their way to the bar’s single-occupancy bathroom, and proceeded to go at it. I know this because as I waited outside, the exuberant young man inside began to film the encounter. The bright light of his phone had reversed the effects of the bathroom’s one-way mirror to reveal a pantsless youth with a deeply unfortunate broccoli haircut, and a young woman in a MAKE AMERICA HOT AGAIN cap. When I mentioned the encounter to the event’s organizer, Raquel Debono, she clapped her hands and squealed, “I told you people find love at my parties!”Debono’s path to party planning happened, in her telling, because she was bored. The MAGA gatherings she’d attended were stuffy. So last year, she started throwing parties under the auspices of a new movement—“Make America Hot Again”—to attract… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.6 days ago - The Green MachineThe Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino posted a video over the weekend showing a pep talk he’d given in Chicago to agents operating far from their usual stations along the Mexico border. Set to a rock anthem by the band Chicago, it was the kind of swaggering, trollish clip that has made him the star of the Trump administration’s mass-deportation campaign.“This is our fucking country,” Bovino told the agents, gathered around him in a parking lot. “Nobody tells us where to go, when to go, how to go in our fucking country.” That same weekend, they hit the streets of Charlotte, North Carolina, raiding Home Depot parking lots and notching 130 arrests. Bovino called the operation “Charlotte’s Web,” quoting the classic children's book to say his agents “take to the breeze, we go as we please.”When President Donald Trump ran for office in 2024, his campaign wanted voters to tie… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.6 days ago
- The Trump Steamroller Is BrokenPresident Donald Trump’s administration has been embroiled in scandal and sloppiness. His own party has defied his political pressure. His senior staff has been beset by infighting. He has sparred with reporters and offered over-the-top praise to an authoritarian with a dire human-rights record. A signature hard-line immigration policy has polled poorly. And Republicans have begun to brace themselves for a disastrous midterm election.That was 2017. But it’s also 2025.Ten months into the president’s second term, Trump 2.0 is for the first time starting to resemble the chaotic original. And that new sense of political weakness in the president has not just emboldened Democrats who have been despondent for much of the past year. It’s also begun to give Republicans a permission structure for pushing back against Trump and jockeying for power with an eye to the elections ahead.This was not the plan. Trump and his inner circle used their… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.6 days ago
- Trump’s Nearly $2 Billion Postelection WindfallOn the morning after he won a second term as president, Donald Trump placed an unexpected call to his top fundraiser, Meredith O’Rourke. The night before, he’d told a ballroom of supporters in West Palm Beach, Florida, that he had held his last political rally—“Can you believe it?”—and was ready to focus on governing. But his message to O’Rourke after the break of dawn was different. “I want you to keep going,” he told her.Within weeks, that message had gone out to his Republican donors, as well as to Fortune 500 companies and billionaire investors who typically avoided electoral politics. Their first opportunity was his second inauguration committee, which would eventually raise $241 million, about $90 million more than organizers needed to fund the events—and nearly four times as much as Joe Biden had raised for his own inauguration, in 2021. But that was just the beginning.Trump wanted money for… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.1 week ago
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