Jackie Calmes
Columnist at Los Angeles Times
Nat'l columnist, LATimes. Ex-NYT & WSJ in DC, author of "Dissent: The Radicalization of the Republican Party & Its Capture of the Court"...On Threads: jkcalmes
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1 week ago |
latimes.com | Jackie Calmes
You’d think a president who’d endured two assassination attempts would be especially sensitive to the potential threats that other public officials face. Not Donald Trump. Worse, he stokes threats against others. So it was that, just after 7 a.m. on Monday, Memorial Day, the commander in chief thumbed out 174 words on his cellphone, not one of which paid tribute to Americans who lost their lives in service to the nation.
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2 weeks ago |
businessandamerica.com | Jackie Calmes
We’ve seen false advertising in naming laws before – the Democrats’ 2022 Inflation Reduction Act jumps to mind. Yet no legislation has been as misbranded as the Republican tax and spending cuts that President Trump, the branding aficionado himself, is pushing along a tortuous path in Congress. Source link
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2 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Jackie Calmes
The "One Big Beautiful Bill” is one big, ugly mess. We’ve seen false advertising in naming laws before — the Democrats’ 2022 Inflation Reduction Act jumps to mind. Yet no legislation has been as misbranded as the Republican tax and spending cuts that President Trump, the branding aficionado himself, is pushing along a tortuous path in Congress.
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2 weeks ago |
newstribune.com | Jackie Calmes
The real value of President Donald Trump's acceptance of a $400 million "palace in the sky" -- a super luxe Boeing 747-8 grift, er, gift, from the oil-rich Qatari royal family -- could be in what it reveals to his fellow Americans about his unprecedented, global grab for wealth and its trappings. After all, most Americans struggle to grasp the Trump family's open leveraging of presidential clout, especially when it comes to the complex world of cryptocurrency.
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3 weeks ago |
thebrunswicknews.com | Jackie Calmes
The real value of President Donald Trump's acceptance of a $400 million " palace in the sky" - a super luxe Boeing 747-8 grift, er, gift, from the oil-rich Qatari royal family - could be in what it reveals to his fellow Americans about his unprecedented, global grab for wealth and its trappings. After all, most Americans struggle to grasp the Trump family's open leveraging of presidential clout, especially when it comes to the complex world of cryptocurrency.
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