Donald Trump
Where Things Stand: Preemptive Plans To Memorialize Our Dead
We shouldn’t have to plan how to mourn this much loss.
Where Things Stand: Raging Against His Own Machine
This is your TPM early-afternoon briefing.
President Trump and many of his top officials all vote-by-mail.
But as we reported earlier this month, there’s a reason you would never know that.
We Can’t Let Him Get Away With It: Trump Chose Wall Street Over Main Street
The Trump administration played a central role in crafting the CARES Act, a piece of legislation that has bailed out Wall Street and not Main Street. The designers of the CARES Act must be held responsible for their actions.
Where Things Stand: Desperate Appeasement
This is your TPM early-afternoon briefing.
The World Health Organization just unanimously agreed it would conduct a “comprehensive evaluation” of its own response to the coronavirus pandemic that’s rocked the globe. The Associated Press reported that the vote was taken after a resolution was brought forward by European Union members and African nations. But you’d be remiss to assume that Trump’s latest Twitter tangent and funding threats didn’t have something to do with this decision.