The experiment that almost fooled everyone
Sometimes all it takes is a well-made image, a few invented lines and the right timing - and suddenly a complete social media wave takes off that no one can catch again ...
The eagle who understood what a country would only grasp years later …
It was just a moment in Trump Tower, captured for Time Magazine, but in truth a warning. A bald eagle, the proud national emblem of the United States, sits next to Donald Trump, watches him, spreads its wings,
The AfD deceives itself - and its voters along with it - 700,000 Ukrainians are to be deported
Tino Chrupalla once again tried to present himself as someone who wants to keep distance from the most radical voices in his own party. But he cannot do it, and that shows how radical this party ...
Weidel's 12-Point Show: A Program That Does Not Strengthen Germany but Turns It Into a Patient
Alice Weidel presented her twelve-point plan today - and sells it as a major turning point. Anyone who listens closely quickly realizes: It is less a plan than political nonsense ...
The Day Trump Finally Lost All Boundaries
There are appearances where even seasoned observers are no longer sure whether they are following a political speech or watching the free fall of a man who has long since lost all contact ...
Maduro Sings “Imagine” by John Lennon – and Reality Stays Outside
Nicolás Maduro knows how to build a backdrop. On Saturday he stood on a stage, surrounded by supporters in red shirts, cameras of state television close to his face - and grabbed ...
Scent, Diplomacy - and the Sentence ‘How Many Wives Do You Have?’: A Moment That Says Everything
It was one of those moments when the Oval Office seemed to develop its own gravity. No heavy speech, no orchestrated protocol, but a scene that felt disturbing, revealing, and almost intimate all at once ...
Disinformation about the “U.S. Soldiers at the Food Bank”
It sounded like a grotesque twist amid the American budget dispute: “U.S. Army refers its soldiers in Germany to the food bank.” Several German and British media outlets, as well as MSN News ...
Standstill in the Sky - Total Chaos in the Clouds and on the Ground
Washington - The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has announced that beginning Friday morning, it will reduce air traffic across 40 major markets in the country by ten percent. Officially, it says this is about safety. In truth, ...
The Skeleton Man Before the Minister - How Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Was Haunted by Reality on Halloween
Once upon a time there was a well-kept front yard in a wealthy neighborhood of Washington, a few withering pumpkins, a porch with an American flag - and in the middle of it all a skeleton sitting in a garden chair ...
"Miller Hunts Families" – The New Wall of Protection and How Trump's Inner Circle Is Fleeing to Military Neighborhoods
Washington – In a city already under high tension, this is a signal of weight. More and more senior officials of the Trump administration are retreating to military housing complexes – places ...
Architecture of Corruption – Trump Fires the Entire Arts Commission and Plans a New Versailles in the White House
It was a blow against any form of independent oversight: The White House has dismissed all six members of the Commission of Fine Arts, the long-standing federal commission that for ...
Trump, Tech, and the Ballroom - How a President Finances His Sun King Dream with Corporate Money
What began as an architectural whim has long since become a political scandal with explosive potential. Behind the demolition of the historic East Wing of the White House lies no harmless renovation, but a massive construct of ...
"He Just Wants to Dance" – Trump's 300 Million Dollar Ballroom and the Architecture of Megalomania
Washington has seen a lot under Trump: burning documents, falling stars, the invention of stolen elections, bizarre things. Why? "The president wants to dance." But what unfolded today on the grounds of ...
Donald Discovers the High-Security Stairlift, or: “The Toy Set for Small Dictators”
There are days when history doesn’t begin with a bang but with a step – more precisely, with thirteen small ones. On Sunday, Donald Trump boarded Air Force One in ...
The Governor and the Crown - How Greg Abbott Turns Protest into a Threat
Austin is facing a weekend that says more about American democracy than any speech in the Capitol. The nationwide "No Kings" demonstration is scheduled for Saturday - a symbolic protest against abuse ...
Pentagon Pete and the War on Waistlines
When Donald Trump’s Secretary of War Pete Hegseth talks about “standards,” it now sounds like a declaration of war on his own body mass. On Monday, the self-proclaimed fitness warrior proudly boasted that several members of the Texas National Guard ...
Kindergarten of Power - How Two U.S. Senators Faced Closed Doors and a Fence That May No Longer Stand
In Broadview, an unassuming suburb of Chicago, more was revealed in a single day about the political climate of the United States than in weeks of parliamentary debate. In front of an unremarkable building ...
Hearing Turns Into a Comedy Show - Judge Puzzled by Beard Incident and Government Tactics
What began as a serious legal dispute quickly turned into a farce in a Chicago courtroom, more reminiscent of a political slapstick show than a hearing on the legality of a military ...
Pam Bondi’s Open Folder – A Glimpse Into the Shadow Direction of the Justice Department
There are moments when power unintentionally exposes itself. One of those moments occurred during the October 7, 2025 hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, when Reuters photographer Jonathan ...
Portland: ICE so bored that they are arresting hardliner MAGA journalists 😆🤣😂
It is perhaps the most absurd scene of the evening: police officers standing in front of an ICE building under cover of night, the whole day without migrants to pick up, no big brawls, ...
Bed of Lies - Trump's Flirt With the Miracle-Healing Conspiracy
Donald Trump once again maneuvered himself into a corner with a bizarre video. In the night from Saturday to Sunday, he posted a clip on his platform Truth Social generated ...
The Canonization in Silver – Republicans Want to Immortalize Charlie Kirk on the US Dollar
It sounds like a parody, but it is reality: Two Republican members of Congress, Abe Hamadeh from Arizona and August Pfluger from Texas, have introduced legislation in Congress that calls for the minting ...
Friendship Cast in Bronze - A Monument That Haunts Trump
Washington awoke this Tuesday morning with a grotesque surprise: In the middle of the National Mall since sunrise stands a twelve-foot-high monument showing Donald Trump and the late sex offender ...
Horses, Babies and a President in Rabies Mode
Donald Trump has done it again: He has turned the stage of world politics into a traveling circus arena - this time with a performance somewhere between a horse stable, a children’s ward and a YouTube conspiracy forum ...
The Golden Sellout - Welcome to Trump’s Duty-Free of Democracy
Once upon a time there was a country that prided itself on being the cradle of freedom. At some point it decided that the solution to all problems did not lie in education, social justice, or a functioning health care system
Epstein haunts the castle - Trump's England visit starts with a projection in the face
Donald Trump's visit to England did not begin with the expected splendor but with an image that cast a shadow over his arrival. Hardly had the presidential plane touched British soil ...
The Madness Continues - The Vice President Hosts Charlie Kirk’s Megaphone of Hate
One would think the lowest point had been reached - and yet the country keeps sinking further. Now the vice president of the United States himself will step in as substitute host of the talk show of a man ...
Healing Through Hating - Trump’s Recipe for Unity
Donald Trump has once again extended his hand for reconciliation - and at the same time swung a baseball bat. "I’d like to see the nation heal," he cooed into the cameras ...
Restaurant debut in D.C. - Trump called "Hitler"
Washington - Donald Trump went only a few hundred yards out the door to project strength - and landed in the middle of dissent. The president left the White House ...
Trump Fails in Appeals Court - $83 Million Judgment to E. Jean Carroll Upheld
Donald Trump has failed once again. A federal appeals court in Manhattan has upheld the verdict requiring the president to pay $83.3 million to author E. Jean Carroll ...
Department of War – Trump’s Return to 1789
You rub your eyes, but the president is serious. Donald J. Trump, 79 years old, wants to rename the Pentagon. The Department of Defense is to become the Ministry of War again ...
Trump’s “Back-to-School Week”: A Timetable of Humiliations
If you believe Donald Trump, the first week of September was the start of a new political school year - with himself as the top of the class, putting America back on the right ...
Gavin Newsom Sends Karoline Leavitt Into the "Hunger Games" - and the Internet Cheers
When California Governor Gavin Newsom strikes, he strikes hard - and this time it was Karoline Leavitt who got hit. Over Labor Day weekend, his press office dropped a meme depicting the 28-year-old White House ...
Summer 1987 – Trump’s First Trip to Russia with Ivana and the Beginning of an Obsession
In the summer of 1987, Donald Trump embarked on a conspicuous trip to the Soviet Union with his then-wife Ivana – embedded in a European tour that first took him to Paris and then on ...
Washington’s Power Games: When the President Wants to Storm His Own Central Bank
The cabinet meeting has already dragged on for more than two hours when Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy makes a joke that unintentionally hits the core of the Trump administration: “I don’t think Pete or Bobby ...
From Fanaticism to Bewilderment - Trisha Hope’s Break with Trump
Trisha Hope was never a fringe figure. In the world of Trumpism she belonged to the loud ones: self-proclaimed national delegate from Texas, permanent activist, chronicler and cheerleader all in one. Her book series “Just the Tweets” ...
A Country in the Crosshairs - Jeanine Pirro, Trump and the End of Reason in Washington
There are moments when one wonders whether Washington is still a capital or already a badly written Netflix series. Donald Trump has once again proven that he does not just blur the ...
America in the Mirror of Its Own Distortion - How Trump, Texas and a Political Dance of Death Turn into a Farce
There are moments that, in their simultaneity, seem almost surreal. In Washington Donald Trump leads European heads of state and government through the West Wing and proudly ...
Trump Calls Oslo - And Shames the Nobel Peace Prize to Death
Donald Trump has reached a new low point in his political self-promotion - and that says something for a man who already sells Bibles with his name on them. The President of the United States ...
JD: "Welcome to the Empire - please leave your credibility at the garden gate"
The Cotswolds - that English stretch of countryside that looks as if someone had soaked Rosamunde Pilcher in lavender and pressed her onto watercolor paper ...
Kim Davis before the Supreme Court – The new campaign against marriage equality
Ten years after the historic ruling of the United States Supreme Court that guaranteed same-sex couples in all states the right to marry, the fight over this fundamental right is flaring up again - ...
Taco, now it’s getting ridiculous – Trump’s most loyal suddenly in the crosshairs
Sometimes a single sentence is enough to feel the nervousness building in the background. For Donald Trump, that moment has now come - and the fear level is rising ...
Between Tear Gas and Trump Loyalty – The Bizarre Untouchability of Cory Mills
There are investigations that make you want to put your head in your hands. Cory Mills is one of them. In a republic that once prided itself on moral leadership,
The Masks Fall - Why We Invested 300 Hours in the Analysis of the AfD Strategy Paper
Bonjour Paris - There are moments when investigative work is not just a journalistic assignment but a democratic obligation. When we learned at the beginning of July ...
"It’s Those Lips" – Donald Trump, 79, discovers the machine-gun lips of his press secretary
It was one of those moments when American politics effortlessly slips into a grotesque. Donald Trump, 79 years old and unshakably convinced of himself, sat in the Newsmax studio and spoke about what excites him ...
The Double Standard - How MAGA Celebrates Conspiracies and Downplays Trump's Epstein Connection
For years, parts of the Republican base under Donald Trump have retreated into their own universe of rumors, exaggerations, and conspiracy myths. In that world, absurd stories like Pizzagate, alleged mass abortions after birth, ...
"Welcome to Scotland, Donald" – How the Scots Are Greeting the President They Never Wanted
On the morning of July 28, 2025, a black delivery van rolled through the granite streets of Aberdeen – inconspicuous in its form, provocative in its message. On the large LED screen ...
Colliding Conspiracies - How Trump Is Undermining Himself in the Capital
Donald Trump hat Washington wieder einmal in einen Strudel aus Spekulationen, Verdächtigungen und bizarren Verschwörungstheorien gestürzt – doch diesmal scheinen ihn die Geister, die er selbst rief, einzuholen.
Miss Moscow, Marco, and the Maneuver – How Rubio Defused Trump’s Most Delicate Episode
It is one of those footnotes in history that ought to make a loud bang – but hardly anyone heard it. Buried in a congressional report, overseen by none other than Senator Marco Rubio, ...
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