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Donald Trump

Reporting and commentary on the forty-fifth and forty-seventh President.

The Lede

The Trump Show Comes to the Kennedy Center

Can the fifty-four-year-old arts hub weather the next four years?
The Political Scene Podcast

Trump Finally Gets His Way on Tariffs

With a single act, the President has upended the entire global economic order.
The Lede

Has Trump’s Legal Strategy Backfired?

Federal judges do not take well to being lied to or treated, as one put it, like idiots.
Letter from Trump’s Washington

Donald Trump’s Ego Melts the Global Economy

On a chilly Wednesday afternoon, the President announced he would single-handedly blow up a century’s worth of globalization.
The Financial Page

The Truth About Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day”

The President’s one-man trade war was already hurting the economy. His expansive new tariffs will make things worse.
Q. & A.

How Donald Trump Is Teaching Christians to Abandon Empathy

The head of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary says that empathy is “used politically in ways that are very destructive and manipulative.”
Annals of Immigration

The Makeup Artist Donald Trump Deported Under the Alien Enemies Act

The President has invoked the law to send Venezuelans to prison in El Salvador without due process—and, in many cases, under false pretenses.
Cover Story

Barry Blitt’s “Left to Their Own Devices”

The Trump Administration’s not-so-classified group chat.
Letter from Trump’s Washington

Will Trump’s Gulf of America Power Trip Break the White House Press Corps?

The Associated Press had its day in court on Thursday, but free speech in this Presidency is already a big loser.
The Lede

How Donald Trump Throttled Big Law

The President has two goals: to seek revenge and to intimidate lawyers challenging his agenda. Is a top firm’s deal with him a necessary act of survival or a damaging blow to the entire profession?
Comment

The Greater Scandal of Signalgate

The spectacle of incompetence and the attempts to smear a reporter are a misery; even worse is the encroaching threat of autocracy that cannot be concealed or encrypted.
Infinite Scroll

Resisting Trump 2.0 with Brain-Rot Memes

We participate in political memes to express our anxiety that whatever is coming next might be even more chaotic than what is already happening.
Q. & A.

Is Turkey’s Declining Democracy a Model for Trump’s America?

After purging the judiciary, cracking down on the media, and jailing political opponents, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan faces protests on a scale not seen in a decade.
Deep State Diaries

The Government’s Rock Librarian

Her work was so quiet and fundamental—to academia and industry, all over the world—that she believed her job would be safe.
The Lede

Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Fight the Oligarchy

In Arizona, a crowd of thousands suggested that the left still has a pulse.
The Financial Page

Don’t Believe Trump’s Promises About Protecting the Social Safety Net

The Social Security Administration is shuttering offices, and the Republicans’ own math suggests that they are planning big cuts to Medicaid and SNAP.
The Political Scene Podcast

Will Judges Stick Together to Face Trump’s Defiance?

“If they don’t stand up to Trump right now on this kind of power grab, then the pretenses of what the courts are for will be really exposed,” Michael Waldman, the C.E.O. of the Brennan Center for Justice, says.
The Lede

Trump’s Vivisection of the Department of Education

The President cannot legally shut down a government agency, but his Administration could make it essentially impossible for the D.O.E. to function.
Letter from Trump’s Washington

Donald Trump, Producer-in-Chief

What does it mean to have a President who views his time in office as the biggest, bestest Andrew Lloyd Webber theatrical ever?
The Lede

The Trump Administration Nears Open Defiance of the Courts

In its conflict with a federal judge, the Justice Department claims to be complying with his orders while provoking a constitutional crisis.