Kevin Manahan, NJ.com Journalist Profile

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Another economic sign Trump is failing with cost of living

1 week ago | nj.com | Kevin Manahan

Seems Americans are still waiting for Day One. That’s when Donald Trump promised to end Russia’s war against Ukraine, which still rages today as Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin mock Trump’s order to “Stop!” while it sends hundreds of drones to drop hundreds of bombs in the third year of the aggression. And Day One was when Trump pledged to start bringing down prices.
New poll says Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has 63% job approval rating

1 week ago | nj.com | Kevin Manahan

Oh, how the Democrats squealed when they saw Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer hanging out in the Oval Office while asking President Donald Trump for a favor. The moment was so politically volatile that Whitmer shielded her face from cameras like a parent playing, “You can’t see me” with a toddler. And that was nothing compared to the outrage that targeted her when she hugged Trump — She hugged him! There are photos! — when he visited Michigan last month.
Trump just admitted he’s a Russian tool (no, really, he did)

1 week ago | nj.com | Kevin Manahan

The Russian election conspiracy of 2015 is a hoax, Donald Trump has told Americans and the rest of the world for a decade. Nonetheless, he and Russian President Vladimir Putin are best buddies, and Putin, that rascal intent on world domination, would do whatever Trump asks on the sheer force of Trump’s personality.
Trump pardons son of despicable (but probably generous) mom who targeted Biden family

1 week ago | nj.com | Kevin Manahan

To show they love their sons, most moms give them hugs and encouragement — and impart life lessons designed to keep them out of prison. But what’s a mom to do when her parenting fails, and her son is a convicted tax cheat headed for 18 months in prison and a $4.4 million fine? Tell the kid that if he does the crime, he must do the time — especially if he’s swindling his own employees to pay for a decadent lifestyle? Silly rabbit. Of course, not.
N.Y. Times roasted for sanewashing ‘lunatic’ Trump: Is ‘Karoline Leavitt moonlighting’ as headline writer?

1 week ago | nj.com | Kevin Manahan

The New York Times — that media bastion of balance and fairness that demanded that Joe Biden withdraw from the presidential race before declaring that convicted felon, adjudicated rapist and coup plotter Donald Trump is unfit for the office — is determined to make sanewashing the American pastime.
Trump takes credit (with God) for events that would’ve happened anyway

1 week ago | nj.com | Kevin Manahan

Tomorrow morning, when the sun comes up, as it will for the next five billion years, be sure to give Donald Trump credit. And when it sets, as it has since the Earth’s creation, be sure to acknowledge the president’s greatness in making that occur, too. Who made Christmas happen? Trump. Thanksgiving? Trump. Next month’s strawberry moon? Trump. Solar eclipses? Trump.
MAGA looks silly as Trump loyalist Joe Rogan is proven wrong again

1 week ago | nj.com | Kevin Manahan

On Sunday, the Patriot Front — a “white nationalist hate group,” according to the Southern Poverty Law Center — protested in front of the National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, further extinguishing yet another fevered conspiracy theory pushed by MAGA leaders. For years, MAGA has insisted the Patriot Front was a false flag operation run by the FBI, and would immediately disband as soon as Donald Trump loyalist Kash Patel — now head of the bureau — took control of the Deep State.
Ex-Canada MP scorches Trump in epic rant: ‘No means no’ means nothing to a sexual predator

1 week ago | nj.com | Kevin Manahan

On Friday, a delegation of U.S. senators — wearing lapel pins of the American and Canadian flags and red and white friendship bracelets — met with Prime Minister Mark Carney and senior Canadian officials in an attempt to apologize for the crazy man in the White House who is torching America’s strongest alliance. The healing has begun, the Americans proclaimed after the visit. Charlie Angus, a former member of Parliament who served for 21 years, sent a message back to Trump: GTFOH.
Trump to 2.9M of his desperate voters: You’re on your own

2 weeks ago | nj.com | Kevin Manahan

In the presidential election, Donald Trump won North Carolina’s 16 electoral votes thanks to 2,898,423 voters who pulled the lever for him — with many believing that he would deliver billions of dollars of federal aid to help them recover from devastating Tropical Storm Helene.
‘Unbelievable bullsh-tter’ JD Vance exposed in lazy N.Y. Times interview

2 weeks ago | nj.com | Kevin Manahan

Bulwark writer and former Republican adviser Tim Miller did what many would not — slog through an hourlong interview by long-winded New York Times columnist Ross Douthat of pompous, arrogant and condescending Vice President JD Vance and provide an annotation.