Kevin Manahan

1 week ago | nj.com | Kevin Manahan

Let’s start with the facts: Regardless of what any doctor or court document wants to tell the American people, Donald Trump is not 6-foot-3 and 215 pounds. Certainly not if he puts both feet on the scale. And a guy who believes that a McDonald’s Happy Meal is any quarter pounder and fries delivered to him, is not “healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency” — no matter what an alleged and disgraced White House pill-pusher might insist.

2 weeks ago | nj.com | Kevin Manahan

Comedy Central host Jon Stewart hit Donald Trump where it hurts — insisting the president no longer has the ability to slap a sticky and humiliating nickname on political adversaries. Stewart, on Monday’s The Daily Show, ridiculed the president’s latest attempt — calling anyone who is panicking over the economic collapse sparked by Trump’s globally derided tariffs a “Panican (A new party based on Weak and Stupid people!)”.

2 weeks ago | nj.com | Kevin Manahan

As the markets crash, and leading economists now say it’s more likely than not that the United States will suffer a recession — because of Donald Trump’s "dumbest, most economically illiterate" tariff policy; as the bodies of four American soldiers, killed in a training exercise in Lithuania, are returned to their families; as a federal judge chastises Trump for deporting immigrants who are in the country legally; as an island of penguins discovers it’s been hit with tariffs; as thousands...

2 weeks ago | nj.com | Kevin Manahan

Former Republican strategist Sarah Longwell jumped ship immediately when Donald Trump entered the political arena in 2015, siding with traditional Republicans against him while launching an array of anti-Trump efforts over the past nine years — Defending Democracy Together, Republican Accountability PAC, Republican Voters Against Trump and Republicans for the Rule of Law. She is also the Publisher of The Bulwark and host of The Focus Group Podcast.

2 weeks ago | nj.com | Kevin Manahan

Trump apologists are trying to convince themselves (and the MAGA army) that this will all work out in the end, but they don’t really believe it. How could they? Every respected economist says Donald Trump’s tariff war is a game of Russian Roulette pointed at America’s temple, but with bullets in every chamber.