There once was a lout called Trump,In fact a president but such a lump.He fancied he came across as strong,But everything about him was just wrong.  He was as pretentious as they come,While in fact he was a total bum,And all together dumb, so dumb! He slapped his name on the Kennedy Center,A temple to the arts he was  unfit to enter.

One day last week as I was driving on Constitution Avenue in downtown D.C., the word "Trump" flashed by in my peripheral vision. I whipped my head around for a better look and saw the name on the front of an imposing public building, but because the traffic was moving quickly, I could discern no further detail. But as far as I knew, Trump's name was not on any public building in the capital.

When the executive branch of the U.S. government publicly turns its power against an individual, that person will need to marshal enormous personal courage and committed legal representation if he is to slip the many snares and stratagems that can be deployed against him. A Salvadoran national by the name of Kilmar Armando Ábrego García can attest to this. Ábrego García, who is about 30 years old, entered the United States illegally at about age 16 and lived in this country without authorization until a pivotal arrest by federal agents in Maryland on March 12, 2025.

The Resident Evil at the White House desires most earnestly that we citizens of this country pay no attention to his machinations and excesses. And, sadly, some people are indeed blind or indifferent to what the president is doing as he endangers our democracy at home and soils our national name before the world. Trump has made the United States a laughing stock, but he cares not, because, while the world laughs at us and the leader that has afflicted us, that man has been laughing all the way to the cryptocurrency bank.

A rupture has occurred in the space-farce continuum. MAGA majorette Marjorie Taylor Greene is now a MAGA castoff. She came into Congress like a lion and is leaving like lamb kabob, well-done. After a dramatic breakup with President Donald Trump in the past week-plus, MTG announced that she would resign from Congress in January instead of seeking reelection next year as she had intended.

It's the Butcher of Riyad. Tomorrow — Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025 — Donald Trump will commit one of his most audacious assaults on decency when he breaks bread at the White House with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, a man I like to call the Butcher of Riyad. Trump commits an assault on decency simply by rising from his slumber each morning, but his insult against the moral universe tomorrow evening will be particularly egregious.

On a street in Washington, D.C., on the night of Sunday, Aug. 10, a man threw a wrapped submarine sandwich directly at a Customs and Border Protection officer, striking said officer on the ballistic vest covering his chest. The sandwich fell to the ground, and the sandwich thrower turned and took off running at what seems in video to be a rather relaxed pace.

Congress is a co-equal branch of the U.S. government and is designed in the Constitution to be a check on the power of the executive branch, the president's part of the government. But Congress under the control of the Republican Party has shamefully abdicated its sacred duty to defend the Constitution, instead cravenly prostrating itself at the feet of a president who is unbound by norms, decency and a respect for the Constitution and statute.

This is from Donald Trump on Truth Social tonight: The Ronald Reagan Foundation has just announced that Canada has fraudulently used an advertisement, which is FAKE, featuring Ronald Reagan speaking negatively about Tariffs. The ad was for $75,000. They only did this to interfere with the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, and other courts. TARIFFS ARE VERY IMPORTANT TO THE NATIONAL SECURITY, AND ECONOMY, OF THE U.S.A. Based on their egregious behavior, ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE HEREBY TERMINATED. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DJT

President Trump's constant self-reversals on the war in Ukraine must be a great comfort to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who can see clearly that although Trump occasionally talks tough about punishing Putin for the war that he voluntarily started in Ukraine, the U.S. president's heart is just not in the business of opposing the Russian. Trump's record speaks for itself.

President Trump is justly celebrating the apparent end of the war in the Gaza Strip in a peace agreement that his administration brokered. Just over a week past the second anniversary of the horrific attack from Gaza into Israel that triggered this war, Hamas and its allied fighting groups in that part of Palestine have largely been defeated — although not yet eliminated — by the Israeli military.

No, you and I need not be psychiatrists to recognize mental illness. We know it when we see it. If you are out of doors in your town and encounter a man in the street shouting about his enormous imagined competencies and accomplishments while complaining about always being persecuted, do you hail him as a most excellent soul and invite into your life to manage your important affairs?

As of midnight, we have been in a partial shutdown of the federal government because of an impasse in the U.S Senate over a continuing resolution to fund the government until Nov. 21. The measure cleared the Republican-controlled House on Sept. 19 on a vote of 217 to 212. In the Senate, under that chamber's special rules, the measure needed 60 votes to pass, but competing Republican and Democratic versions failed in the final hours before the shutdown deadline of midnight on Sept.

A visit to the temporary, expanded White House perimeter fence on H Street NW in Washington, D.C., on Monday, Sept. 29, 2025, during the visit of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to President Donald Trump.

The leaders of Turkey and Pakistan also were expected to visit One of the joys of living in my particular spot in Washington, D.C., is that a leisurely walk of under 30 minutes can deliver me to the White House or to any number of other important sites in the city. On the afternoon of Thursday, Sept. 25, I strolled over to the White House expecting to see a large demonstration against that day's expected visit by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to his pal Donald Trump.

I applaud the Walt Disney Company's decision to reinstate "Jimmy Kimmel Live!," starting on Tuesday, after Disney-0wned ABC suspended it indefinitely last week because of uncharitable remarks that Kimmel made about the Sept. 10 assassination of the conservative lightning rod Charlie Kirk. Disney had issued the suspension in response to a conservative backlash that included ABC-affiliated Sinclair and Nexstar declaring that they would no longer carry Kimmel's show on their many stations around the country.

These two videos, which contain loud profanity, were recorded on the pedestrian plaza north of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, Sept. 20, 2025.

Most of the images in this gallery depict the scene at the north fence of the White House on Saturday, Sept. 20, 2025. A layer of barrier had been opened, allowing tourists and protesters to get very close to the fence. Photos by Gilbert Dunkley

The assassination of Charlie Kirk is a dreadful crime, and the killer is likely to be executed for what he has done. But no one who opposes President Donald Trump for his anti-democratic excesses should ease up for even a moment in the campaign to spotlight and denounce those transgressions. If you are pointing out dangerous actions and behaviors in reasonable words and are not encouraging the use of violence, you should consider yourself to be in the clear and should press on with speaking truth to this corrupt power.

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A nation that was born as a rebuke to genocide is now guilty of committing genocide to preserve its own existence. That is a broad-strokes painting of where Israel finds itself today. But between today and the end of World War II — during which Nazi Germany tried to extirpate Europe's Jews — lies a tormented and bloodstained narrative of colonial highhandedness, ineptitude and bankrupt assumptions; betrayals; usurpations; religious and secular warfare; deep hatreds; land grabs; displacements; massacres; terroristic murder; apartheid; and so much else, all for control of what the American author Aaron David Miller has called "