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3 days ago | 
plus.briantylercohen.com | Brian Tyler Cohen
Donald Trump is poised to accept a $400 million "gift" from Qatar in the form of a luxury Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet – a plane so opulent it's known as a "palace in the sky" - that will ultimately serve as Air Force One. Ownership will then be transferred to the Trump presidential library foundation before he leaves office. Simply put, a foreign government is giving the President of the United States a personal gift worth $400 million.
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1 week ago | 
plus.briantylercohen.com | Brian Tyler Cohen
In late February, Maine Governor Janet Mills made national headlines for standing up to Trump during a verbal altercation in the White House, during which the president threatened to withhold federal funding from the state if Mills didn’t comply with his February 5 executive order barring trans athletes from competing in sports that don’t comport with their gender at birth.
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3 weeks ago | 
plus.briantylercohen.com | Brian Tyler Cohen
Cue the widespread worry that Democrats are falling into a trap intentionally set by Trump as it relates to Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the immigrant who was illegally sent to a maximum security prison in El Salvador. From Axios:The second House Democrat who spoke anonymously, a centrist, called the deportation issue a "soup du jour," arguing Trump is "setting a trap for the Democrats, and like usual we're falling for it.""Rather than talking about the tariff policy and the economy ...
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1 month ago | 
plus.briantylercohen.com | Brian Tyler Cohen
Let’s do a thought experiment. I’m going to go out on a limb and do something I know I should never do: give Donald Trump the benefit of the doubt. Let’s assume that he was telling the truth when he said that the whole point of this trade war (and subsequent economic crash) was to take it to China and reshore American jobs and finally Make America Great Again.
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1 month ago | 
plus.briantylercohen.com | Brian Tyler Cohen
It’s clear by now that Trump’s imposition of tariffs has been a disaster. The market has crashed, wiping away all gains since he took office, companies are laying off employees by the hundreds, fears of a recession are reaching a fever pitch, and far from pressuring other countries into coming to the negotiating table, they’re going around the United States and entering into new trade agreements without us.
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1 month ago | 
plus.briantylercohen.com | Brian Tyler Cohen
I hope everyone is still riding the high of yesterday’s big win in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race where Susan Crawford defeated Brad Schimel 55 to 45— an election with massive implications not just for the state, but the entire country. Let me explain. First, it keeps intact the liberal bloc’s majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. That means that the fair maps that were finally signed into law last year will remain in place.
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1 month ago | 
plus.briantylercohen.com | Brian Tyler Cohen
There’s a decent chance that Trump is using the Greenland issue as a distraction. I understand that talking about it is a trap, but I’m going to take the bait. Here’s why:First of all, it’s worth taking into consideration that by threatening to annex a sovereign country, Trump is completely upending the world order responsible for the longest period of peace and prosperity in history.
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1 month ago | 
plus.briantylercohen.com | Brian Tyler Cohen
I know that we’ve begrudgingly come to accept the fact that nothing sticks to “Teflon Don.” But this latest scandal - wherein top White House officials accidentally and recklessly added a journalist into a group chat to discuss war plans on the unsecured Signal app - is different. And that is owed, in part, to the obstinance of this administration itself. The Trump mentality is that you never admit fault, no matter how egregious or how obvious.
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1 month ago | 
plus.briantylercohen.com | Brian Tyler Cohen
As Elon Musk continues to take a (literal) chainsaw to the federal government, continues to fire veterans, continues to endanger critical healthcare and food assistance programs, Tesla dealerships and cars have become targets for vandals looking to express their dissatisfaction. Which of course gives Elon Musk the opportunity to occupy a space that seems increasingly comfortable for the world’s wealthiest and most powerful men: victimhood. This Substack is reader-supported.
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1 month ago | 
plus.briantylercohen.com | Brian Tyler Cohen
There’s no sugarcoating it: the Democrats are in bad shape, owed almost entirely to our unwillingness to fight. When Democrats are in the majority, they’re not willing to fully exercise their power. And when Democrats are in the minority, even in the rare instances where they do have leverage, they’re not willing to use it. The simple question here becomes: why should people vote to give you power if you’re not going to wield it once you have it?