New novel: THE BREAKUP. Previous: Evil Geniuses, Fantasyland, Can’t Spell America, Heyday, Turn of the Century. Ex Studio 360, New York, SPY.
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My book is out today. Huzzah! penguinrandomhouse.com/books…
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He’s doing this more and more, raving about the physiques of congressmen and UFC fighters. Every time he does it, I wish @serafinowicz were still making his brilliant Sassy Trump videos. youtu.be/d76gCuIct4A?is=7ejL…
Trump is at it again with Jon Husted: “I’m studying his body… I looked at his ass. It’s like a pile of muscle. Then I looked at his legs and said, man, his feet are big.”
This is at least the fourth or fifth rally where he’s done this. He doesn’t even have to be in Ohio for Husted to be on his mind.
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The president and his allies’ support of Vladimir Putin will tarnish their legacies in infamy for generations. Vichy France has met its match.
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If this is true it's a level of evil that's really, really hard to imagine. It's not a good-faith question about how much we should fund Ukraine or what realistic endgame goals are. It's choosing to put innocent civilians in harm's way. I hope there are investigations.
The U.S. may have intentionally withheld early warnings this week of Russian strikes on Ukraine, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CBS News. cbsn.ws/4yNtwNv
Trump is unambiguously on Putin’s side in their war on Ukraine. The U.S. and Russia and North Korea are the new Axis, anti-democratic and anti-freedom.
Russia Russia Russia: he is now more unambiguously pro-evil-dictator than ever. Another issue where most Americans disagree with him—most want us to give Ukraine more arms, 67% say letting Russia keep seized territory is unacceptable and 75% don’t trust them to keep a peace deal.
“Number 12 Looks Just Like You” (Twilight Zone season 5, episode 17)
New press secretary Katie Zacharia, predecessor Karoline Leavitt, stalker Natalie Harp, Stormy Daniels, Ivanka.
There’s a certain look they all share, Musk and Kim and Mussolini — Central Casting, as Musk’s and Kim’s frenemy Trump would say.
"I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?" -- 2016
"I could say the stupidest things and you'd clap." -- 2026
He marveled at the devotion of his new cult then, revels even more now that they're all he's got left.
It’d be good if the perfect memorable meme term emerged for Trump & Trump-family & Trump-minion corruption. Like the Teapot Dome Scandal, which was so nothing in comparison to the scale & brazenness of the Trump graft & grift.
What an astoundingly stupid thing to say. The stupidest thing he’s ever said? The stupidest thing a vice-president ever said? The stupidest thing any Yale graduate ever said?
An unusually mad-king one.
And good! Because not even a single AI business will obey, humiliatingly confirming his impotence.
Anybody in or near NW Connecticut this Saturday, I'll be talking about my new novel The Breakup with Graydon Carter at House of Books in Kent. And signing copies. (We'll also chat about Spy, the magazine we co-founded.)
Join us! 4 pm 10/10. RSVP here: houseofbooksct.com/events/60…
Same as he ever was.
Today’s Spy At 40 installment on Substack, #3 in a series. Subscribe! substack.com/@spymagazine/no…
In New York City this year, 203 people have been murdered—the fewest ever. In the first 9 months of last year, 253 were murdered, also an all-time low.
Back in 1990 there were a million fewer people, of whom 1700 were murdered in the first 9 months.
I’ll never get over this..
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'It would take an hour and a half to learn everything there is about missiles..'
DJT in the 80s, DJT today...
Startling today — a daily Substack of the greatest Spy hits about the short-fingered vulgarian.
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