Jacob Heilbrunn

Washington, D.C.

Editor of the @TheNatlInterest. Nonresident senior fellow at @ACEurasia. Columnist for @TheSpectator and senior writer for @TAS_magazine

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Why Trump won't fire Pete Hegseth - yet

1 day ago | spectator.co.uk | Jacob Heilbrunn

On Monday, the liberal outlet National Public Radio reported that Donald Trump’s administration was looking for a replacement for Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth. This report may in fact have helped shield Hegseth from being sacked for having arranged a second Signal chat group about impending war plans for Yemen that apparently included his wife, Jennifer, his brother, Phil and personal lawyer, Tim Parlatore.
How much hope did Trump offer Meloni?

6 days ago | thespectator.com | Jacob Heilbrunn

In early March Donald Trump said Elon Musk was doing “an amazing job.” Last week he said Governor Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan was doing an “excellent job.” On Thursday it was the turn of Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni during her meeting at the White House. Trump declared that she was “doing a fantastic job.” What Trump found so fantastic was never specified, but he tossed a variety of bouquets in Meloni’s direction.
How much hope did Trump offer Meloni?

6 days ago | spectator.com.au | Jacob Heilbrunn

In early March Donald Trump said Elon Musk was doing “an amazing job.” Last week he said Governor Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan was doing an “excellent job.” On Thursday it was the turn of Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni during her meeting at the White House. Trump declared that she was “doing a fantastic job.
Stillpoints ESS Ultra Equipment Stand

1 week ago | theabsolutesound.com | Jacob Heilbrunn

Contrary to the Beach Boys, there are no good vibrations, at least when it comes to an audio system. Whether it’s a turntable or a CD player, preamplifier or amplifier, vibrations can exert a deleterious effect upon the reproduction of music.
Trump’s choice on a replacement UN ambassador is complex

2 weeks ago | thespectator.com | Jacob Heilbrunn

Maybe the surprising thing isn’t that Donald Trump yanked Elise Stefanik’s nomination to become ambassador to the United Nations. It’s that he hasn’t pulled America out of the organization. But perhaps that outcome is in the offing as Trump ponders whether he should select anyone to succeed her abortive nomination. Trump decided to leave Stefanik in Congress because of the slender Republican majority in the House – 218-213, plus four vacancies.
Trump is starting to face tariff blowback

3 weeks ago | spectator.com.au | Jacob Heilbrunn

Liberation Day? Pshaw. President Trump may be gloating about imposing sweeping tariffs on America’s allies and adversaries abroad, but he is beginning to face blowback at home for his strange farrago of policies that are upending the federal government and threatening to plunge America into a self-induced recession.
Trump is starting to face tariff blowback

3 weeks ago | spectator.co.uk | Jacob Heilbrunn

Liberation Day? Pshaw. President Trump may be gloating about imposing sweeping tariffs on America’s allies and adversaries abroad, but he is facing beginning to face blowback at home for his strange farrago of policies that are upending the federal government and threatening to plunge America into a self-induced recession.
Roman Holiday- The Glorious Sound of the Thrax Spartacus Amplifier and Libra Preamplifier

3 weeks ago | trackingangle.com | Jacob Heilbrunn

Founder and chief designer Rumen Artarski has one foot in pro, and the other in high performance consumer audioMaximinus Thrax, a Roman emperor from the third century before Christ, was supposedly eight feet tall and possessed of superhuman strength. It was a bold move for Rumen Artarski, the head of Thrax audio, to name his company after this legendary emperor, but he and it have more than lived up to the challenge.
‘Signalgate’ is another nothing burger

3 weeks ago | thespectator.com | Roger Kimball |Jacob Heilbrunn |Kate Andrews |Freddy Gray

I predict that by the time you read this, the press-fabricated entertainment known as “Signalgate” will be but a memory – a fond memory for those addicted to round-the-clock media frenzy, department of anti-Trump shenanigans. For the more responsible members of the populace, it will seem like an overheard squabble among angry children in some forlorn government-funded schoolyard. What, after all, was “Signalgate”?
DC mayor booed by Nats and Phillies fans

3 weeks ago | thespectator.com | Freddy Gray |Max Jeffery |Ben Domenech |Jacob Heilbrunn

Cockburn wishes farewell to karaoke mainstay and watches baseball fans fightDC is evolving. Cockburn honored the memory of Hill Country Barbecue Karaoke on Wednesday night, ahead of the downtown hotspot closing its doors for good today. No tickets were available at the door and the line snaked throughout the restaurant as Hill staffers, hacks and college students pored in for one last singalong. Mischief, mayhem and Washington gossip from The Spectator’s intrepid beat reporter.