“Before #Trump began talking, the historian #MichaelBeschloss noted that the #GettysburgAddress was only two hundred and seventy-two words; the President’s #speech on Tuesday night clocked in at more than ten thousand.” www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

Donald Trump’s State of the Un...
Donald Trump’s State of the Union Was Long and Wrong

Susan B. Glasser writes about Donald Trump’s 2026 State of the Union Message.

The New Yorker
As presidential historian Michael Beschloss put it, "Suddenly, in 2016, Donald Trump ties up the nomination. What was the first thing he asked the Republican convention to do? He said change your platform so that we no longer support the protection of Ukraine from Soviet aggression. Said Trump and his campaign manager Paul Manafort, who is one of the biggest Russia/Ukraine lobbyists in the US."
https://youtu.be/PYUzFHpBffU?t=119
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Manafort

#ukraine #russia #GOP #MichaelBeschloss
Republicans are ‘under the thumb’ of Trump, Putin on Ukraine aid: Presidential historian

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Via #MichaelBeschloss, Presidential Historian

#JeffersonDavis wants you to know that he had nothing to do with trying to destroy the #United States -- he says it should all be blamed on his wife.

#Alito #J6 #Coup #Insurrection #Fascist #Fascism #Nazism #History

#Presidential #Historian: #Trump Actually Doing 'Us All A Favor' With #Fascist #Rhetoric.

#MichaelBeschloss also spelled out in the gravest terms why the 2024 #election will be like no other.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/michael-beschloss-donald-trump-favor_n_65f957c3e4b0cb9583b18484

Presidential Historian: Trump Actually Doing 'Us All A Favor' With Fascist Rhetoric

Michael Beschloss also spelled out in the gravest terms why the 2024 election will be like no other.

HuffPost
#MichaelBeschloss tweeted this morning on X: “Was nice of #Pence to use #JimmyCarter's 1976 slogan and book title ("A Government as Good as its People") in the debate (the young Pence actually voted for Carter over Reagan), but would have been nicer if Pence had bothered to mention the slogan came from Carter, not himself:

#JonMeacham year in review:
“You think about this administration, it began in era of disease, distrust & insurrection in January of 2021, & besides that Mrs. Lincoln how was the play? Right?”

- Best use of this phrase ever.

Stephanie @sruhle Michael @beschlossdc @11thhour @msnbc
@jmeacham

#StephanieRuhle #MichaelBeschloss #11thHour #msnbc

"Warnock’s victory underscores that Biden has enjoyed strongest first-term midterm Congressional showing of any President in eighty-eight years, with exception of JFK after Missile Crisis and W. Bush after 9/11."

-Presidential Historian #MichaelBeschloss

If you still have access to Twitter, presidential #historian #MichaelBeschloss (@BeschlossDC) is walking us through #JFK’s last day on this earth. Poignant for those of us who remember.

#KennedyAssassination.
#November1963