Michael Kruse

Davidson

Senior Staff Writer at POLITICO

Senior staff writer, @POLITICO and @POLITICOMag. At work on a @twelvebooks book. @DavidsonCollege alum. St. Pete Times grad. Love Lauren and the girls.

Articles

Trump’s Most Important Relationship Is Ending. And the Break-Up Isn’t Pretty.

6 days ago | politico.com | Michael Kruse

For a half-century Trump and the mainstream media have mutually benefited from a stormy symbiosis. Why is he trying to kill the institution that made him? Illustrations by Joseph Rogers for POLITICO Michael Kruse is a senior staff writer at POLITICO and POLITICO Magazine. In late 1999, in New York in a van in the speeding, sirens-blaring motorcade of President Bill Clinton, Associated Press White House reporter Ron Fournier got an unexpected call.
Trump’s Most Important Relationship Is Ending. And the Break-Up Isn’t Pretty.

6 days ago | flipboard.com | Michael Kruse

1 day agoTrump administration seeks criminal prosecution of New York attorney generalDonald Trump's administration is accusing New York Attorney General Letitia James of mortgage fraud, and has made a criminal referral to the the justice department seeking federal prosecution.
Trump’s Most Important Relationship Is Ending. And the Break-Up Isn’t Pretty.

6 days ago | yahoo.com | Michael Kruse

In late 1999, in New York in a van in the speeding, sirens-blaring motorcade of President Bill Clinton, Associated Press White House reporter Ron Fournier got an unexpected call. The voice on the other end of his phone was vaguely familiar. “This is Donald Trump.”Fournier, like most of the rest of his colleagues, was focused on the last year-plus of Clinton’s scandal-scarred second term and the pair of party primaries taking shape.
Ohne Ziel stimmt jede Richtung, oder: die Energiepolitik vom Schwarz-Rot

3 weeks ago | thepioneer.de | Michael Kruse

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The Testing of John Thune

1 month ago | politico.com | Michael Kruse

The low-drama South Dakotan has arrived at the apex of power in the Senate just as Donald Trump is exerting his own executive authority. Will Thune draw a line? Senate Majority Leader John Thune talks to the media outside the Senate chamber before a vote at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on March 3, 2025. | Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images Michael Kruse is a senior staff writer at POLITICO and POLITICO Magazine. John Thune was going to miss his brother’s funeral.
Does John Thune Have a Red Line When It Comes to Trump?

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Michael Kruse

John Thune was going to miss his brother’s funeral. Late on the last Thursday of January, the Senate schedule was crammed — a logjam of unorthodox nominees that needed to be confirmed to fill President Donald Trump’s cabinet, Democrats stalling and countering in the limited ways they could, the new president’s most vocal Republican supporters agitating for outright fealty and all but impossible speed.
The 199 Most Elon Musk Things Elon Musk Has Ever Said

Jan 24, 2025 | politico.com | Michael Kruse

The world’s richest man has some unusual thoughts about life, death and your government. A profile of the world’s richest man told through his own words. Illustrations and design by Jade Cuevas for POLITICO (source images via AP, Getty Images, and iStock) Michael Kruse is a senior staff writer at POLITICO and POLITICO Magazine. There’s never been anybody like Elon Musk on Donald Trump’s team — because there’s never been anybody like Elon Musk.
Trump Needs Something Even an Inauguration Can’t Provide

Jan 19, 2025 | politico.com | Michael Kruse
Trump Needs Something Even an Inauguration Can’t Provide

Jan 19, 2025 | yahoo.com | Michael Kruse

A presidential inauguration — a second presidential inauguration! — was never going to be enough for Donald Trump. So on Sunday, in the run-up to the actual inaugural, Trump is having a rally. Better than 20,000 people will cram into Capital One Arena downtown to soak up a sort of primal, animal energy experience they wouldn’t get even if they somehow scored one of the select few seats in the Capitol Rotunda on Monday at noon.
20 Years Before Jan. 6, Al Gore Stood Up to His Own Party. Mike Pence Was Watching.

Jan 5, 2025 | politico.com | Michael Kruse

Last summer, in a private moment at the memorial service for ex-senator Joe Lieberman at the Washington Hebrew Congregation, two former vice presidents had a conversation. Al Gore thanked Mike Pence, according to people close to both men, in an interaction that’s never been reported, for his actions at the Capitol the day it was attacked by a mob. Pence, on the opposite side of the political aisle but in the same set of pews, said something surprising in response.