Trump and the conservative media ecosystem have done a ton of work to recast the Biden years as a Hoover/Carter disaster that Trump rescued us from. I do think that gets harder every month
Trump and the conservative media ecosystem have done a ton of work to recast the Biden years as a Hoover/Carter disaster that Trump rescued us from. I do think that gets harder every month
At the time, I hadn't yet joined the TRMS staff, and as you'd imagine, I was delighted to see Rachel and the team take a regular interest in my monthly jobs chart (which resembled a bikini for about a year).
You have a good memory, @craigipedia.bsky.social, especially since it's been roughly 16 years!
But for the record, while I generated the chart, I think it was Rachel who coined the phrase.
Trump vowed to turn the economy around, and in a way, he kept his promise.
Unfortunately, as the woeful job numbers prove, that meant turning around a healthy economy and delivering an unhealthy one.
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Trump’s “I guess” answer about possible Iranian reprisals on U.S. soil and the White House’s action-movie montage are pieces of the same puzzle:
These guys want to have some fun with the war, without being bothered by killjoys with concerns about consequences.
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Remember last week, when Trump emphasized gas prices in his State of the Union address and suggested Americans should judge him on this issue?
That wasn’t smart.
Yesterday, however, he managed to make things worse with false claims about “stabilizing” prices.
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Job growth over 14 months of Trump’s second term: 150,000 jobs
The previous 14 months: 1.74 million jobs
Under Biden: 0 months of job losses
Trump’s second term: losses in two of the last three months, three of the last five months, and five of the last nine months.
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As Kristi Noem exits DHS, many of her critics see this as the first step, not the last.
The list of Democrats eyeing post-DHS “accountability” for the hapless secretary is not short.
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In the recent past, Republican leaders believed members who had extramarital affairs with staffers needed to resign.
As the Tony Gonzales scandal intensifies, the question for Speaker Mike Johnson is simple: Why does the GOP embrace lower and weaker standards now?
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There’s obviously a lot going on, but the fact that federal prosecutors tried to build a criminal case against Joe Biden — based on no evidence, because Trump barked unjust orders — is quite insane.
The collapse of the case doesn’t negate the underlying abuse.
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Trump keeps insisting that his endorsements automatically dictate the results of elections, especially in Republican primaries.
And reality keeps telling a very different story.
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On Iran, Markwayne Mullin keeps rushing to appear in front of cameras and microphones, causing fresh problems for himself and his party.
Here’s a radical idea: Maybe Republicans should try relying on someone else?
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Number of state legislative seats Dems have flipped since Trump's second term began: 9
Number of state legislative seats Republicans have flipped over the same period: 0
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Remember when Dan Crenshaw arrived on Capitol Hill and was seen as a “rising star”?
Seven years later, the Texas Republican lost his primary — not because he failed to vote with his party, but because he just wasn’t MAGA enough.
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Trump’s “worst case scenario” in Iran — awful leaders in Tehran might be replaced by similarly awful leaders — reflects a woeful lack of imagination.
The fact that he doesn’t understand this makes a terrifying situation that much worse.
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And to paraphrase Rumsfeld, I'm equally sure they're in the area around Tehran and east, west, south, and north somewhat.
When the question is, “Is the United States currently at war?” and the answer is, “It depends on whom you ask,” there’s a problem.
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According to JD Vance, Trump launched a war because Iran was “committed to getting on that brink of a nuclear weapon.”
Read that sentence again and realize that this was the best he could come up with after thinking about the administration’s policy for three days.
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As this week got underway, and Pete Hegseth led a Pentagon briefing against a backdrop of war, what the nation needed to see was a capable defense secretary.
What Americans saw instead was a flailing former Fox News personality.
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Thanks for the support, @missmudd.bsky.social !
It seems to me we can draw a (relatively) straight line from Trump abandoning the Iran nuclear deal nine years ago to Trump launching a war in Iran.
The law firms that fought back against Trump’s unprecedented offensive prevailed — the DOJ is now dropping its appeals — while the firms that tried appeasement have struggled.
Seems like firms from the latter group should join the firms in the former?
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Wars are not supposed to be riddles.
The fact that the White House has initiated an international guessing game — about the war’s rationale, its goals, its scope, etc. — is itself a scandal for the ages. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
*Of course* the initial round of polling shows weak public support for the offensive in Iran:
The public didn’t want another war, and Trump never even tried to make the case. The results were inevitable. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
The fact that a question like this even has to be asked is itself remarkable:
The White House has communicated so little about the offensive in Iran — its rationale, its goals, its scope, etc. — that there’s ambiguity about whether the United States is currently at war.
In September 2013, amid concerns about a possible U.S. confrontation with Iran, Donald Trump published a tweet that read, “Remember what I previously said — Obama will someday attack Iran in order to show how tough he is.” The Republican added, two months later, “Remember that I predicted a long time ago that President Obama will attack Iran because of his inability to negotiate properly — not skilled!” A year earlier, the then-television personality wrote, “Now that Obama’s poll numbers are in tailspin — watch for him to launch a strike in Libya or Iran. He is desperate.”
Sometimes, the "there's always a tweet" meme lands a little differently.
I made the case a few days ago that Republican officials’ rhetoric about beef was getting weirder: www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
Little did I know at the time….
Thanks so much, Christopher, I really appreciate that
Remember, Trump has a tell: Every time he uses the word “exonerated,” he’s brazenly lying.
That’s especially true when it comes to Epstein:
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The unanswered question for Team Trump on the Gabbard/whistleblower story:
If the intercepted messages re: Kushner really were just “gossip,” and what the foreign nationals were saying wasn’t true, why assert executive privilege to keep the relevant details from Congress?
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