Tag: Donald Trump
I Write Fiction About Border Crime, But Unlike Trump I Tell the Truth.
For our weeklong series on crime fiction, we asked two writers to reflect on the ethics of depicting violent crimes in their novels. Below, Don Winslow, whose Cartel trilogy concludes next month with the publication of The Border, dis…
Not Even the Razzie Awards Are Safe From Donald Trump
The day before we celebrate 2018’s most remarkable accomplishments in cinema, the least we can do is also channel some of that energy into the year’s raging gasoline dumpster fires. It’s only fair! Per tradition, the annual Razzie Awa…
Fast Food Deserves Better Than Donald Trump
While he’s perhaps best known for his work as a writer-producer on The Simpsons — including being the mastermind behind “steamed hams” — Bill Oakley is also a comedy writer who has worked on Mission Hill, Portlandia, and most recently…
Stephen Colbert Is Begging History to Repeat Itself With This Trump—Nixon Coincidence
Of all the things that could’ve linked former president Richard Nixon to current president Donald Trump in our “political climate,” their drawl and penchant for scandalous activities are taking a temporary back-seat in favor of some F…
Megan Mullally Has Seen Trump’s Green Acres Tweet and She Is Going Into a Hole
To mark the signing of the Agriculture Improvement Act, a.k.a. the “Farm Bill,” today, the president of the United States decided to tweet a clip from the 2006 Emmys wherein he sang the Green Acres theme song alongside a visibly reluc…
These Are Michelle Obama’s Last Words for the White House and Its New Occupant
Our FLOTUS is back on her book tour, back in our hearts, and back with more zingers. Michelle Obama stopped by the Tonight Show on Tuesday to jump out of gift boxes for Jimmy Fallon’s amusement, talk about how Barack was “trifling” fo…
The 10 Biggest Late-Night Sagas of 2018
All of art is supposed to hold a mirror up to society, but late-night television might be the most mirrorlike art form there is. If you want to understand an era, watch its late night. We are living in a disaster movie, and as is the …
Donald Trump Is Back on His SNL ********
It’s been awhile since our POTUS fired up ye olde Twitter and flung some insults to his old stomping grounds at SNL, but it’s December, he’s probably feeling a bit mushy, so what do we have to parse through this afternoon, readers? [P…
SNL Gives Us the Gift of a President Trump-Less World
Happy holidays from the maestros at SNL, who, for a glorious eight minutes and 55 seconds, put something under the tree we actually wanted: The fleeting feeling that Donald Trump never became President. And what a glorious parallel un…
Stephen Colbert Knows Who’s Royally ****** About Trump Canceling His Press Christmas Party
Donald Trump decided to exercise his executive power and cancel the White House’s Christmas party for the press this year, which, yeah, what did we honestly expect, but it’s a shame for our party-loving New York Magazine political bre…