Six key takeaways from Trump's speech to the nation, including 'transgender for everybody'
Donald Trump's address to the nation Wednesday night was brief, full of falsehoods, and included one of his favorite phrases.
December 17, 2025
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Donald Trump's address to the nation Wednesday night was brief, full of falsehoods, and included one of his favorite phrases.
Opinion: The bluster about a third term is more of a Trump-created distraction that seeks to promote strength in the face of the creeping inevitability of aging, writes John Casey.
With Trump's destruction of the White House East Wing to build a ballroom, "his priorities couldn’t be any more out of whack," Pocan said Friday on CNN.
Opinion: Trump voters, are you happy about paying billions for a ballroom, bailout, vanity parade, and luxury airplane, and compensating your aggrieved president with hundreds of millions of dollars? .No? Then fix it, writes John Casey.
“It’s a unique unit of one,” the Apple CEO said at the White House, adding, “designed by a U.S. Marine Corps corporal.”
Tim Cook is set to announce $100 billion for Trump's manufacturing program at a White House press conference on Wednesday.
Visiting three of the richest countries on Earth, Trump will be greeted lavishly by fellow billionaires, who seek only to enrich him, writes John Casey.
Opinion: It’s a metaphorical middle finger to the "cake-eating" lower and middle class who struggle to pay the bills 35,000 feet below, writes John Casey.
Opinion: A wanna-be authoritarian leader like Trump cannot tolerate dissident artists, which inevitably means he can’t tolerate his citizens either, writes John Casey.
Opinion: He's ruining Christmas, deporting American kids (one with cancer), endorsing conversion therapy and more discipline in schools, threatening Sesame Street, and eliminating a youth suicide hotline, writes John Casey.
Opinion:The upcoming sight of Trump at the Vatican stirs thoughts so ruinous, I’d need months in the confessional to repent, writes John Casey.
Bessent's tenure has been defined by his compliance in dismantling government agencies and his unwillingness to recognize the impact of Trump's tariffs on Americans.
Opinion: The Trump sycophant Bessent uses his LGBTQ+ identity as a veneer, Buttigieg uses his to open doors for others, argues John Casey.
Opinion: By electing Trump, Americans proved they are inherently selfish — and impatient, writes John Casey.
Donald Trump has been convicted of more felonies than the number of trans athletes in the NCAA.
A 40-day boycott against Target is beginning today.