The country's top military official apologized on Thursday for taking part in President Trump's walk across Lafayette Square for a photo op after the authorities used tear gas and rubber bullets to clear the area of peaceful protesters. read more
Trump has finally gotten his wall. But it is not along the southern border. It has gone up around 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. It is hard to imagine a more apt metaphor for the Trump presidency than the transformation of the White House into a fortress. For all Trump's bluster about force and domination, the new multilayered black fencing around the executive mansion reveals the reality that he is operating not from strength but from fear. read more
Nothing could be more representative of the dangerous narcissism of a president in over his head, resorting to threats of violence against a country he ostensibly is supposed to lead. The deliberate instigation of violence for his own photo op tells Americans how deeply twisted and deformed his character is. read more
Trump has been a cheerleader for the drug hydroxychloroquine, pointing in a tweet and in person to a French study as evidence that one particular drug combination might be "one of the biggest game changers in the history of medicine." But now the medical society that published that French research has issued a statement saying the study "does not meet the Society's expected standard." read more
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has abruptly switched its guidance for use of a drug touted by President Donald Trump as a possible treatment for COVID-19, dropping its reference to anecdotal dosages to say simply that there are no approved drugs for dealing with the disease. The CDC's online advice for hydroxychloroquine was updated April 7, three days after Reuters reported that the CDC was offering what the news agency called "highly unusual guidance" for the drug's use based on "unattributed anecdotes rather than peer-reviewed science."
Walk into a middle school classroom (this is an exercise in imagination) and identify five of the more fidgety boys. (They're pretty damn squirrelly for starters at that age.). You will be hard put to find even one of them as emotionally immature as Bunker Baby.