Debra J. Saunders
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s ties to Nevada penetrate beyond the high-brow donor class. The latest moment showcasing his connections to the Silver State came during Thursday’s Cabinet meeting. A reporter asked Trump about the release of Russian–American ballerina Ksenia…
WASHINGTON — “A nuclear Iran isn’t just a threat, it’s the threat,” Mark Dubowitz of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies warned in the new podcast, “The Iran Breakdown.” Ahead of arms talks Saturday in Oman, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian…
WASHINGTON — “Don’t be a PANICAN,” President Donald Trump cautioned on social media. Critics have questioned the universal tariffs he unleashed last week, and Americans have had to steel themselves before checking the balance of their 401(k)s. The Trump tariffs…
WASHINGTON — Former President Joe Biden is a bitter man whose ambition outstripped his abilities, while Vice President Kamala Harris was unusually loyal. Those are two of my takeaways from the 2024 campaign autopsy book Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump likes to troll Canada. He has been threatening our neighbor to the north with additional tariffs, and he thinks it’s funny to dangle his dream of turning our longtime trading partner into America’s 51st state. (RELATED:…
WASHINGTON — It’s not what DOGE is doing; it’s how DOGE is doing it. That’s been the Beltway take on the dream child of Elon Musk and President Donald Trump, the Department of Government Efficiency. Or, “the so-called Department of…
WASHINGTON — Over the past 48 hours, President Donald Trump’s national security team has looked like a pack of amateurs. On Monday, the Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, reported that he somehow got plugged into a group text among President Donald…
WASHINGTON — After reading in Monday’s New York Times story about actor Mel Gibson’s failure to have his gun rights restored, I asked White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt at the press briefing that afternoon about the administration’s take on…
WASHINGTON — Last week, audience members loudly booed Vice President JD Vance and his wife, Usha, at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The crowd was telling the Second Couple: You don’t belong on our turf. Ah,…
