On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks outlined the two theories of why President Donald Trump “tells things that are false” repeatedly, either he’s “an Orwellian figure” or a “5-year-old” and that he believes the latter. Brooks said, “[T]here
On Friday’s broadcast of “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated, “maybe Trump is riding something, and he will be able to marshal a left-right populist movement. That’s a possibility we should be open to, especially because the anti-populists, people
Attacks on Stephen K. Bannon, the former executive chairman of Breitbart, slated to become the top strategist in the Trump White House, are nothing new. Just since the election, Mother Jones magazine has called him “worse . . . than a racist,” Joy Behar labeled him “a fascist,” and former Vermont governor Howard Dean insisted, against all evidence, that he is “a Nazi.” You get the idea. Despite the many false labels, Bannon’s actual views can only be described as Trumpian, and he has held them for a long time. So of course the globalists hate him, too.
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that President-Elect Donald Trump will take a more establishment position on Russia because “I don’t think he has the expertise to actually run a foreign policy. And at the end of
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks reacted to Representative John Lewis (D-GA) saying that President-Elect Donald Trump isn’t “legitimate” by asking, “Whatever happened to when we — they go low, we go high?” Brooks said, “Whatever happened to
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” during a panel discussion about the alleged Russian hacking efforts intended to influence November’s presidential election, CNBC contributor Rick Santelli took on a panel led by show moderator Chuck Todd and consisting of New
On Friday’s broadcast of “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated President-Elect Donald Trump seems “to have no respect for the institutions that were created after World War II,” and doesn’t agree with US foreign policy “based on the
On Friday’s broadcast of “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that especially with Israel and Russia President-Elect Donald Trump is “siding with a foreign leader against the US president.” Brooks said, “What’s sort of remarkable is that, especially in
On Friday’s broadcast of “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that with the transition from President Obama to President-Elect Trump is “a complete bifurcation between two wrong Israel policies.” Brooks said the Obama administration’s position is “completely indefensible” and
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that “it’s quite likely we’ll see what we haven’t seen in the last eight years, and even in the last 12 or 16, of private financial enrichment in office, and scandals
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that he’s not sure if President-Elect Donald Trump’s words have “roots.” Brooks stated, “one of the things I think about with Donald Trump is, what are his words actually attached to?
On Friday’s broadcast of “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said he could paint a scenario where President-Elect Donald Trump is “authoritarian” and another where he doesn’t control the government, and “We could be seeing something entirely new, something entirely
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks commented on President-Elect Donald Trump’s Defense, Health and Human Services, Treasury, and Transportation Secretary picks by saying Trump is “exceeding expectations.” Brooks said, “I have to say, he’s exceeding expectations. Sometimes, during
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that the Carrier deal encourages companies making money off the government and is “an invitation to corruption.” Brooks stated, “I agree with Sarah Palin on this one. She wrote an op-ed
Friday on PBS’s “NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said presumptive Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was correct to show a willingness to work with President-elect Donald Trump initially, adding that it would be a better strategy than
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that he was bothered by the “intermingling of the business and the public service” with President-Elect Donald Trump’s family and its role in his administration, but “if the family members choose
On Friday’s broadcast of “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks reacted to President-Elect Donald Trump’s naming of Reince Priebus Stephen K. Bannon, Retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn, Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL), and Representative Mike Pompeo (R-KS) by stating, “if you
On Friday’s broadcast of “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued the electoral victory of Donald Trump is “certainly the political shock of our lives, at least my lifetime. It feels like almost the ’60s,” and “owe some respect to
In his Friday column, New York Times columnist David Brooks speculates about a new political dichotomy and writes that President-elect Donald Trump will “resign or be impeached within a year.”
On Friday’s broadcast of “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks characterized the 2016 presidential election as a “campaign of hate.” And one where “everyone’s dividing based on demographic categories. And, sometimes, you get the sense that the campaign barely matters.
On Friday’s broadcast of “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that “Having a reign of Clinton without a little — a lot of scandal bubbling around side” is something without historical precedent and “this election has descended into the
Friday on PBS’s “NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks dismissed the argument that conservatives should vote for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in order to ensure the balance on the Supreme Court is maintained. According to Brooks, voting for
On Friday’s broadcast of “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that the accusations of sexual misconduct against GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump aren’t dispositive, but are “kind of compelling.” And supporting Trump “is like supporting Joe McCarthy, and you
On Friday’s broadcast of “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that “there does seem to be some evidence of a Ferguson effect,” and “there’s clear bias in the way African-Americans are treated. On the other hand, I used to
On Friday’s broadcast of “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s statement on birtherism was “a reverse, Orwellian inversion of the truth” and “it’s interesting that an authoritarian personality type comes in at the same
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet The Press,” while discussing Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s Friday night, comments describing half of Republican nominee Donald Trump’s supporters as “deplorables” driven by “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic” beliefs, New York Times columnist David Brooks
On Friday’s broadcast of “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that during Wednesday’s Commander-in-Chief forum both candidates lost, “America lost. Humanity lost. A little piece of my soul died.” Brooks said of the forum, “I thought they both
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that while Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is playing “us vs. them politics” of “native whites against foreigners,” the substance of his immigration speech in Phoenix “was actually quietly almost moderate,”
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that “the Republican Party has not controlled the alt-right movement. … And it is a long-term problem for the party. It is a long-term problem that you are basically an all
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s “very crude pander” on immigration is “a sign that he has attention span problems, and that he has — he just wants to please whatever
On Friday’s broadcast of “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump “obviously displays extreme narcissism, but most of all, he displays a certain manic, hyperactive attention.” Brooks said Trump’s recent statements aren’t “a decision he
On Friday’s broadcast of “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s statements over the last week aren’t errors, they show an “incapacity for empathy” and “an incapacity to control his own attention, and to
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet The Press,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s campaign was “based on bigotry.” Brooks said, “One final point. this wasn’t just a comment about Mr. Khan. This is a campaign
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that the Democrats will do better if “you want to have people loving each other, compassionate, working together, being generous toward each other, being well-informed about the issues,” but if “you
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that at the end of both conventions “the Democrats looked more patriotic and more nationalist at the end of these two.” Brooks said, “Well, the Democrats had the better convention by
New York Times columnist David Brooks weighed in on both the Republican National Convention and the Democratic National Convention Friday on PBS “NewsHour,” saying that if a Martian watched the two, the Martian would say the Democratic party was more
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) had “a good convention,” and that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is “never going to be someone who’s normal or is on message or who is particularly
On Friday’s broadcast of “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that the way in which presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump’s campaign announced the VP selection of Indiana Governor Mike Pence (R) shows “this is not a real campaign.” Brooks
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that in the discussions after the shooting of police officers in Dallas, and the shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, “it doesn’t help that we have an American political debate with
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that while he’s pro-immigration, “we’ve asked a lot of people who are suffering in this economy to accept extremely, radically high immigration levels. And we’ve probably overflooded the system.” Brooks said, “Well,