Jackie Calmes

The president has humiliated himself by sacrificing the U.S. economy and U.S. military readiness, handing victories to our geopolitical rival.

Wannabe federal judges are going along with the president's delusions for the sake of their careers. That should be disqualifying for a judge.

A growing majority of Americans see Trump as a cartoonish caricature of himself. And that includes some of his own voters.

People who once stood behind the president's most favored conspiracy theories (birtherism) are now promoting theories in which he is the deceiver (Butler assassination attempt).

President Trump said he would balance the federal budget "overnight." In reality, debt is now approaching the highest level in U.S. history.

America has a president who lately has piled on the evidence that he is mentally unstable, unfit for the office.

In a nation founded on ideals, after throwing off a king, the idea of a people's house that's not palatial is one worth protecting.

He gutted counterterrorism in the U.S. government and then started a war with Iran, a notorious state sponsor of terrorism.

There is no Trump doctrine because this president is highly suggestible by authoritarians such as Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu.

Even just days after his own conservative Supreme Court reprimanded him for trying to take over lawmakers' role, the president was unashamed of his power grabs.

Presidents who could speak truth to power are so constrained by their devotion to norms that they won't confront a president who's shattering the norms of this democracy daily.