CCTV captured this (completely fake) conversation between President Donald Trump and a grocery store clerk yesterday. CLERK: That’ll be $286.47, Mr. President. TRUMP: Did you swipe my customer rewards card? I thought the Twinkies were half off. CLERK: Yes, I did, but we’re doing ...

White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles says she has a plan for keeping Congress in Republican hands in next year’s midterm elections. In an interview with the online show “The Mom View,” Wiles said she hasn’t informed the president about her plan, but said it involves putting him on the ...

President Trump likes putting his name on things, so maybe it was inevitable he’d get his own corollary to the Monroe Doctrine. Truth be told, what the president’s just-released national security strategy sets out as a new proposition is really a restatement of the Lodge Corollary, ...

Nothing bothers the European elite as much as American conservatives praising the European foundations of their shared, but threatened, Western civilization. Europeans especially resent having their social-welfare state system critiqued by upstart, crass Americans. Their pique only ...

The United States is confronting an existential threat — but not the kind defined by ships on the horizon or missiles in the air. The danger instead stems from a waning sense of national purpose and a growing doubt about America’s global role. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the ...

More than two years ago my wife, Lynnda, got the news. “You have breast cancer.” Not the news we wanted to hear. The doctor added, “We caught it early thanks to your breast exam.” They called it “stage zero.” Lynnda was given options. She chose a lumpectomy. After surgery we ...