On May 1, barely six months after the midterm elections,
Donald Trump appears to have abandoned the White House and abdicated his role as president. He
issued no formal statement, though four White House aides — who spoke on the condition of anonymity
— claim they found a napkin on the president’s desk in the Oval Office on the evening of April 30,
scrawled in red ink with the following message: "Blame Crooked Hillary & Hfior & the Fake
News Media."
"Finally!" say women
From #MeToo to ‘You’re Fired’
Donald Trump would have done well to read some history —
after all, the 1789 women’s march on Versailles helped to spark the French Revolution, and the 1917
International Women’s Day March helped bring about the abdication of Russian Tsar Nicholas II.
Pres. Pence begins ‘clipped duck’ term
“I suspect that 50 years from now Mike Pence will be
regarded primarily as the answer to a trivia question,” said Josephine Ellis, the Pulitzer
Prize-winning presidential biographer. “And it will seem an unfairly obscure question, at that.”
The actions that turned the tide
When one elected official was asked to comment on
whether the protests had influenced her decision first to support the Bundle and then to
participate in the filibusters that paralyzed Senate proceedings during much of April, she
replied, on condition of anonymity, “Duh.”