Anthony Zurcher
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BBC North America correspondent. A Texan who explains US politics to Brits, UK politics to Americans & Canadian politics to everyone. Views expressed ≠ BBC's
Trump is president of the board that just voted to add Trump's name to the Kennedy Center.
BREAKING
The Kennedy Center board of directors has renamed the center to the “Trump Kennedy Center”
The Kennedy Center board of directors has renamed the center to the “Trump Kennedy Center”
December 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Trump is president of the board that just voted to add Trump's name to the Kennedy Center.
Whoever wins the Republican nomination in 2028 will have been given a winning coalition – if they can keep it. www.bbc.com/news/article...
What the divides within the Maga base mean for Trump
The next presidential election may seem a long way off, but current frictions within Trump’s coalition suggest the jockeying to succeed Trump is well under way
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December 17, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Whoever wins the Republican nomination in 2028 will have been given a winning coalition – if they can keep it. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Arguing that the economy is better than Americans think didn't help Joe Biden. And encouraging American frugality was hardly a winning message for Jimmy Carter. So yeah, good luck with that.
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Trump veers off-script and does little to calm Republican nerves
The president escalates his immigration rhetoric in a speech his advisers, and party, had expected to focus on the economy.
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December 10, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Arguing that the economy is better than Americans think didn't help Joe Biden. And encouraging American frugality was hardly a winning message for Jimmy Carter. So yeah, good luck with that.
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Donald Trump now has his Fifa Peace Prize on display on the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office.
December 6, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Donald Trump now has his Fifa Peace Prize on display on the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office.
I'm not so sure about this Jeopardy reboot.
December 5, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I'm not so sure about this Jeopardy reboot.
Politics is complicating Friday’s World Cup event (but I’m still sporting my U.S. jersey). www.bbc.com/news/videos/...
Awkward tensions test US, Mexico and Canada ahead of Fifa World Cup
The three host nation leaders are expected to meet in Washington DC on Friday for the tournament's final draw.
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December 5, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Politics is complicating Friday’s World Cup event (but I’m still sporting my U.S. jersey). www.bbc.com/news/videos/...
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Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
There are 777 college football teams. All presumably have field goal kickers. Of that number, only 32 end up on an NFL team at any one time. This is one of them.
Younghoe Koo completely missed the ball and kicked the turf, Jaxson Dart can't believe it
December 2, 2025 at 2:25 AM
There are 777 college football teams. All presumably have field goal kickers. Of that number, only 32 end up on an NFL team at any one time. This is one of them.
Democrats - whether through strategy or political self-preservation in the face of Trump attacks - are claiming the mantle of patriotism. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Fallout from 'illegal orders' video escalates battle with Democrats over US patriotism
A video by six Democratic lawmakers has set off an acrimonious partisan debate over what constitutes treason.
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November 27, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Democrats - whether through strategy or political self-preservation in the face of Trump attacks - are claiming the mantle of patriotism. www.bbc.com/news/article...
A Democratic win in conservative Tennessee could force Republicans to grapple more fully with the costs of sticking with Trump when he is not on the ballot. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The looming election Trump can't afford to lose
In a Tennessee district the president won by 22% last year, a Democratic upset could prompt Republican panic.
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November 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
A Democratic win in conservative Tennessee could force Republicans to grapple more fully with the costs of sticking with Trump when he is not on the ballot. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Hey, let’s give our massive AI project the same name as the device in a Star Trek movie that was created for altruistic purposes but in the hands of a madman became a weapon for global genocide and galactic terror.
November 25, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Hey, let’s give our massive AI project the same name as the device in a Star Trek movie that was created for altruistic purposes but in the hands of a madman became a weapon for global genocide and galactic terror.
Like Saturn, the revolution devours its children. www.bbc.com/news/article...
How Marjorie Taylor Greene went from Trump ally to quitting Congress
Greene's tenure in Congress may be ending, but her involvement in US political life may not be over.
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November 23, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Like Saturn, the revolution devours its children. www.bbc.com/news/article...
The shutdown is over, Trump is spiking the football and Democrats are wondering what went wrong. But fortunes change quickly in politics... www.bbc.com/news/article...
Democrats left bruised after historic shutdown yields little
Trump emerges from the shutdown having made little in the way of substantive concessions to Democrats in Congress.
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November 13, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The shutdown is over, Trump is spiking the football and Democrats are wondering what went wrong. But fortunes change quickly in politics... www.bbc.com/news/article...
Economists say there's not enough tariff revenue to pay Trump's $2,000 "subsidy" - and it might drive up prices. But after last week's electoral defeats, the president is looking for a way to address affordability concerns that he first called a "con job". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Fifty-year mortgages and $2,000 cheques: What's behind Trump's affordability drive?
The US president is increasingly focusing on affordability amid growing public pessimism on the economy.
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November 12, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Economists say there's not enough tariff revenue to pay Trump's $2,000 "subsidy" - and it might drive up prices. But after last week's electoral defeats, the president is looking for a way to address affordability concerns that he first called a "con job". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Trump golfed, Democrats blinked and this shutdown may be drawing to a close, But shutdown politics is here to stay. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Bipartisan US shutdown deal will sharpen divisions among Democrats
Key takeaways after a Senate breakthrough heralds a possible end in sight to the longest shutdown in US history.
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November 10, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Trump golfed, Democrats blinked and this shutdown may be drawing to a close, But shutdown politics is here to stay. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Always risky reading too much into Supreme Court oral arguments, but … Trump’s tariffs may be on shaky ground. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Supreme Court justices sharply question Trump tariffs in hearing
If the court rules against Trump's tariffs, it could force the US to refund some of the billions it has collected.
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November 6, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Always risky reading too much into Supreme Court oral arguments, but … Trump’s tariffs may be on shaky ground. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Dick Cheney championed an expansive presidential authority and built today's American security state. Trump is taking those tools and bending them to his will. www.bbc.com/news/article...
What Trump took from Dick Cheney's political playbook
There was no lost love between the two Republicans, but there are parallels in how both expanded presidential power.
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November 4, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Dick Cheney championed an expansive presidential authority and built today's American security state. Trump is taking those tools and bending them to his will. www.bbc.com/news/article...
The ecclesiastical way of subtweeting
October 31, 2025 at 11:14 PM
The ecclesiastical way of subtweeting
I was with Trump on his Asia swing - and I saw a lot of personal accommodations that bordered on the obsequious. But his face-to-face with Chinese leader Xi Jinping was all business, no fanfare. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Trump's Asia tour sees deals, knee-bending and a revealing Xi meeting
His five-day tour displayed the power of his presidency - but also, at times, that power's limitations.
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October 30, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I was with Trump on his Asia swing - and I saw a lot of personal accommodations that bordered on the obsequious. But his face-to-face with Chinese leader Xi Jinping was all business, no fanfare. www.bbc.com/news/article...
This is one policy option. Another is for tech giants to voluntarily contribute hundreds of millions to a massive government vanity project favored by the regime that is considering how to regulate them. www.politico.eu/article/fren...
French lawmakers vote to hike tax on American tech giants
President Donald Trump has warned he would retaliate against any move that targets U.S. companies.
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October 24, 2025 at 12:57 AM
This is one policy option. Another is for tech giants to voluntarily contribute hundreds of millions to a massive government vanity project favored by the regime that is considering how to regulate them. www.politico.eu/article/fren...
Meanwhile, at the White House... www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
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October 20, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Meanwhile, at the White House... www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Millions of Americans turned out for the No Kings rally this weekend. Can Democrats turn that energy into ballot box success? The first test comes next month. www.bbc.com/news/article...
'No Kings' protests: where does Democratic opposition go next?
Millions of Americans joined anti-Trump protests, but Democrats are less popular than the president and divided over how to fight back.
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October 20, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Millions of Americans turned out for the No Kings rally this weekend. Can Democrats turn that energy into ballot box success? The first test comes next month. www.bbc.com/news/article...
The Supreme Court weighs doing away with the requirement that states draw congressional districts to give black voters representation roughly equal to their population share. Doing so could let conservative southern states flip more than a dozen seats to the Republicans. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Supreme Court weighs 'earthquake' ruling on Voting Rights Act
The court's decision could lead to the redrawing of congressional districts across the US south.
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October 15, 2025 at 10:35 PM
The Supreme Court weighs doing away with the requirement that states draw congressional districts to give black voters representation roughly equal to their population share. Doing so could let conservative southern states flip more than a dozen seats to the Republicans. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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The subtext of this comment is that the Mayor of Boston is Asian-American, whereas the Mayor of Chicago (like almost everyone else that Trump refers to as “a low IQ person”) is Black.
Trump: "Boston had a bad mayor who at least is a reasonable IQ person. Most of them are low IQ. I mean, what's going on in Chicago ... "
October 15, 2025 at 8:29 PM
The subtext of this comment is that the Mayor of Boston is Asian-American, whereas the Mayor of Chicago (like almost everyone else that Trump refers to as “a low IQ person”) is Black.