Klein: 'The White House is the Crisis'

Sunday, February 01, 2026

Ezra Klein: The Trump administration is overwhelmed -- by its own violence, its own cruelty, its own lies, its own chaos. There is nothing unusual about a presidency being overwhelmed by crises. What is unusual about the Trump administration is that it has created those crises itself.

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We are watching an administration that is not only retreating in key areas -- dropping its demand for all of Greenland, sending Greg Bovino back to Border Patrol's El Centro region, meekly backing off its trade war with China -- but finding itself cornered by its own cruelty and lies.

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Severe mental illness coupled with sick greed will cause things like this.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2026-02-01 02:14 PM | Reply

It's own incompetence... it's own evil, mostly.

But these are also lies; they say they are restraining ICE, but ICE just got more Warrant-free arrest authority.

#2 | Posted by Corky at 2026-02-01 02:22 PM | Reply

On Tuesday 5 November 2024, another day that will live in infamy, 76,535,898 imbeciles delivered us America's Godzilla.

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-02-01 02:58 PM | Reply

More and more it seems Musk manipulated the vote to hand Trump the win.

#4 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-02-01 03:01 PM | Reply

I still think a law needs to be passed that

A. If you voted for Trump more than once

B. Voted for him in 2024

You shouldn't be allowed to vote ever again because you clearly lack the judgement and or intelligence to be trusted with such a right.

#5 | Posted by jpw at 2026-02-01 03:07 PM | Reply

"76,535,898 imbeciles delivered us America's Godzilla."

Actually I think it is more accurate to portray him as America's King Ghidorah. A truly global threat.

#6 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2026-02-01 03:16 PM | Reply

"You shouldn't be allowed to vote ever again because you clearly lack the judgement and or intelligence to be trusted with such a right."

Actually, that's more of an indictment of America's 250 year-old system of democracy then you might care to admit.

#7 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2026-02-01 03:21 PM | Reply

"In this moment of crisis, America needs patriots now more than ever."

www.youtube.com

less than a min, James Talarico

#8 | Posted by Corky at 2026-02-01 03:22 PM | Reply

"76,535,898 imbeciles delivered us America's Godzilla."
Actually I think it is more accurate to portray him as America's King Ghidorah. A truly global threat.

#6 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2026-02-01 03:16 PM | Reply

Kaiju fans will know Monster Zero, but mainstream Americans might not.

BTW: I coined the term "America's Godzilla" on my own website a few weeks before a more prominent author used that sobriquet for Russian asset/Israeli agent Dummkopf Trumpf.

That will be my singular claim to fame on the Day of Reckoning.

"Was that you that wrote that first?" pbs.twimg.com

#9 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-02-01 03:52 PM | Reply