David Brooks: ‘This Is the Most Imperial Presidency in American History’
During his weekly appearance on PBS’s “NewsHour,” The Atlantic’s David Brooks declared President Donald Trump’s presidency the “most imperial presidency in American history.”
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The Atlantic’s Brooks: MN Residents Made Trump Admin. Choose Between Create ‘More Hostility or Lose Control of the Streets’
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” The Atlantic Staff Writer David Brooks said that the drawdown of immigration officers in Minnesota was partially because people in Minneapolis, “in a self-disciplined” way like the Civil Rights movement, “put the regime in an impossible
NYT’s Brooks: Protesters ‘Turning up the Tension’ on ICE Officers, That Will Work if Nonviolent
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that “protesters are turning up the tension on the ICE officers” in Minneapolis, but as long as it is nonviolent, “then Americans will see what is going on in
NYT’s Brooks: We Should Interrogate Drug Runners We Catch, Not Blow Up Evidence
On Friday’s broadcast of “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that the right way to deal with drugs coming into America would be to not blow up the evidence on boats and to capture and interrogate those who are
NYT’s Brooks: Trump Is Getting ‘Revenge’ for Being Politically Targeted for Prosecution
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that the indictment of New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) “is clearly a revenge prosecution.” He also stated President Donald Trump has a point that he faced politically
NYT’s Brooks: Media Outlets, Schools, Late-Night Comedy Are Biased to the Left
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that it seems as though “every media organization”, schools, and late-night comedy are slanted to the left and “as progressives have gotten control of various cultural institutions, they have
NYT’s Brooks on Venezuela Boat Strike: Gov’t Should ‘Be Careful About Assuming’ It Knows Things
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks commented on the American strike on a boat that the administration says had drug smugglers on it by stating that one tenet of conservatism is “government should be careful about
David Brooks: Trump-Backed Redistricting Is Using ‘Mustard Gas on Our Democracy’
Friday, during his weekly appearance on PBS’s “NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said President Donald Trump was using “mustard gas on our democracy” by advocating for redistricting in Texas.
NYT’s Brooks: Defunding of Left Conservatives Have Talked About for Decades Is Actually Happening
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that conservatives have a “basis in thinking that a lot of federal spending was going toward one ideological side more than the other. And so, that defund the left,
NYT’s Brooks: $32 Billion Tax Reduction on Tips ‘Peanuts’, Sounds Good ‘If You’re Not Paying Attention’
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that the tax reductions for tips in the reconciliation bill are “32 billion, which in this kind of bill is peanuts. But it’s theatrical, no taxes on tips. Sounds
NYT’s Brooks: SCOTUS Is Right on Injunctions, Dems and I Hated Them on Abortion Pills
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that he agrees with the Supreme Court decision on nationwide injunctions and “Democrats were rightly outraged” by nationwide injunctions against abortion medication. Brooks began by saying, “I think the patchwork argument
NYT’s Brooks: PBS Is ‘Good’ ‘in Relative Terms,’ Less Biased than CNN
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks reacted to President Donald Trump’s executive order revoking funding to NPR and PBS by saying that PBS is more down the middle than CNN and he defends PBS “because I
NYT’s Brooks: Helping People Escape Feds ‘Heroic’, ‘A Lot of’ Civil Disobedience May Be Needed
On Friday’s broadcast of “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks commented on the Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan case by stating that “if federal enforcement agencies come to your courtroom and you help a guy escape, that
NYT’s Brooks: Columbia Should Have Made the Fixes Trump Wanted Years Ago, But Trump’s an ‘Extortionist’
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that the Trump administration’s conditions for Columbia University to keep their federal funding “are kind of reasonable, and Columbia should have done all of this stuff five or ten
NYT’s Brooks on Trump, AP: Under Biden There ‘Was Almost No Press Access’
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that he isn’t super harsh on the Trump White House for barring the Associated Press from the Oval Office and Air Force One because “I lived through the end
NYT’s Brooks: Not Sure Harris Would Have Done Housing Deregulation She Promised, Trump Did It
On Friday’s broadcast of “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks praised the Trump administration’s NEPA regulatory reform and stated that “Kamala Harris said she was going to deregulate. I’m not sure she could have been able to do
NYT’s Brooks: Trump Gave Distrustful Americans ‘Concrete’ Policies
During PBS’s Inauguration coverage on Monday, New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that “Americans are distrustful” and so President Donald Trump “giving them concrete things that they can applaud at” in his Inaugural Address is likely the right move. Brooks said,
NYT’s Brooks: Trump’s Pressure ‘Sealed’ Ceasefire Deal, ‘Israel Had to Swallow a Lot’
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that pressure from President-Elect Donald Trump was what “really sealed” the ceasefire and hostage release deal “because Israel had to swallow a lot for this deal. They’re trading away
NYT’s Brooks: Biden’s Right About Oligarchy, But There’s a Dem Oligarchy in Hollywood, N.Y., San Francisco
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that President Joe Biden’s warning about oligarchy in his Farewell Address is accurate, but “there is a Democratic oligarchy and a Republican oligarchy. And so, to say it’s all
David Brooks: ‘I’m Thrilled by the Decline in Viewership for Political News’
Friday, during his weekly appearance on PBS’s “NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued the decline in viewership of political news was a positive.
NYT’s Brooks: I Agree More with Musk, Vivek, But You Have to Secure Border First
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that while he sides more with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy in the debate over immigration, “you’ve got to secure the border if you want the American people to
NYT’s Brooks: Dems Didn’t Reform Government, Trump Has Some Good Instincts There
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that Democrats “missed the chance when they were in office to reform government.” And “Donald Trump has some right instincts about immigration, about reforming government, but he does not
NYT’s Brooks: ‘Passive-Aggressive’ Bureaucracy Might Keep Patel, Others from Doing Things
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that he believes Kash Patel will be confirmed by the Senate to be the FBI director, but he wonders how effective Patel and others will be because “the bureaucracies
NYT’s Brooks: Smith Was Right to Drop Case, It’s More Dangerous if We ‘Use Trials as Political Weapons’ Going Forward
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that he thinks Special Counsel Jack Smith was correct to dismiss the case against President-Elect Donald Trump and said that “the greater danger is that we use trials as
NYT’s Brooks: Most Trump Picks Won’t ‘Want to Be Liked’ or Be ‘Responsible’
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that “there are not going to be a lot of the Trump appointees like Jim Mattis, who want to be liked, who want to do a responsible job for
NYT’s Brooks: Dems, Media Shouldn’t React to Every Trump ‘Outrage du Jour’, ‘That Didn’t Work’
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that Democrats should not respond to everything President-Elect Donald Trump does during his tenure “And if they think, oh, all we have to do is hit him on the
NYT’s Brooks: Biden ‘Got No Credit’ for Doing What ‘He Was Assigned to’ Due to Inflation
During PBS’s election coverage on Tuesday, New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that President Joe Biden “did what he was assigned to do by the country” and that was to give money to people who are high school graduates, but “he
NYT’s Brooks: Bibi Has ‘Been Absolutely Right’ Ignoring U.S., World Opinion in Past Month, He Knows Better on Hamas
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that while he’s not a huge fan of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “over the last month, he’s gone against world opinion and American opinion on a whole range
Brooks: Harris’ ‘Illiteracy’ on Prices ‘Surprising in a Responsible’ Candidate Whose Administration Helped Cause Inflation
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris’ “gouging” proposal “expresses a level of economic illiteracy which is kind of surprising in a responsible Democratic candidate.” And that
Brooks: GOP ‘Prone’ to Be ‘Racial’ on Border, But Their Position Is Helping with Hispanic Voters on Border
During the “PBS NewsHour” coverage of day two of the Republican National Convention on Tuesday, New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that Republicans are “prone” to “go with a little racial intonation” while talking about the border but the party’s stance on
Brooks: Biden Is ‘Mentally Slow’ ‘with Sound Judgments’ Person We Saw at NATO Presser
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that the President Joe Biden we saw at the NATO press conference on Thursday “is the Biden that is there, which is a little mentally slow, a little cumbersome
Brooks: Biden ‘Adequate’, ‘His Staff Would Do the Things He Needed to Do’, But He Has ‘Worrisome’ ‘Decline’
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that the President Joe Biden we saw at Thursday’s the NATO press conference “is an adequate President. He would make the right judgments, his staff would do the things
Brooks: Biden Tried to Use ‘Fiscal Stimulus’ to Get Himself Re-Elected
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that President Joe Biden had a strategy to win the 2024 race of “use fiscal stimulus to really turbocharge the election, you get these working-class voters coming to your
Brooks: Trump’s Green Cards for Diplomas Proposal Was to Make ‘Rich Guys’ ‘Happy’
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that 2024 Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump’s proposal to give green cards to foreign nationals who graduate from American colleges makes sense and Trump is “a politician,
Brooks: UChicago Is ‘Pretty Tame’ Compared to Many Schools, and It’s Still Bad Here
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that even though the University of Chicago has been “pretty tame here compared to a lot of the other places” things are bad enough there the school is sending
Brooks: Hamas Has Strategy of Getting Civilians Killed to Put Pressure on Israel, I’m Glad Biden Pressured Israel
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that Hamas’ “chief strategy is to generate as many civilian deaths as they can to get world pressure to force Israel to desist.” But there’s “a growing callousness toward
Brooks: We Need More Trump Supporters in Media, But McDaniel Didn’t Have ‘Primary Commitment to the Truth’
On Friday’s broadcast of “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that “there are a lot of people out there who would fit both bills, who are good journalists and support Donald Trump.” And there need to be more
Brooks: By Opposing Rafah Invasion, Biden’s Supporting Letting Hamas Win
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that the Biden administration’s opposition to Israel invading Rafah is support for an approach that allows Hamas to emerge “surviving, competent, and, frankly, victorious.” And thus would kill any possibility of
Brooks: I Agree with Schumer, But He and Biden Are Helping Hamas’ Strategy of Getting Palestinians Killed
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that while he agrees with Senate Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) comments about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he shouldn’t have said them because the Hamas strategy “is
Brooks: Biden Should Act on Border, He’s Taken Expensive Action Before on Loans
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that President Joe Biden should act on the border and noted that Biden undid a lot of former President Donald Trump’s border policies and Biden hasn’t been shy about
