Kurt Andersen

New novel: THE BREAKUP. Previous: Evil Geniuses, Fantasyland, Can’t Spell America, Heyday, Turn of the Century. Ex Studio 360, New York, SPY.

[Kurt Andersen @KBAndersen]

My book is out today. Huzzah! https://t.co/eev04DFlXV
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[Anderson Cooper 360° @AC360]

Anderson Cooper takes a look at President Trump's history of commenting on men's bodies after his recent remarks on a senator's body.

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ICMI, the United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby’s wise, sensible remarks about fairly taxing the rich in a @nytimes interview. And the @wsj Editorial Board’s sneering ridicule of the “flight of left-wing fancy” by this class traitor who donates to moderate candidates of both parties.

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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. https://t.co/veHAUpJ35D

[Kacee Allen @KaceeRAllen]

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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He got 12% of the LGBT vote in 2024.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Trump: You know it's called the gay national anthem? I got the highest gay vote of any Republican in history. I think it’s because of the song.

[Joe Scarborough @ScarboroughNow]

The president and his allies’ support of Vladimir Putin will tarnish their legacies in infamy for generations. Vichy France has met its match.

[Jesse Singal @jessesingal]

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.

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@brookqueensnyc You, anonymous person with 107 followers, are in the cult. Or a bot. Bye!

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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.

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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.

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#8 in a daily Substack series. Subscribe: https://t.co/G0I1rEa1mf

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“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.

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@AliceFromQueens Your conviction about Ossoff’s unrivaled strength as a 2028 presidential candidate strikes me as a bit extreme at this point in the cycle. But only a bit.

And he’s got plenty of time and space to tweak and pivot ideologically and rhetorically as necessary.

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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.

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"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.

[CSPAN @cspan]

President Trump: "I could say the stupidest things and you'd clap."

[CSPAN @cspan]

President Trump: "I could say the stupidest things and you'd clap."

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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.

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The three most recent high-quality polls on Trump. Only the hard core are with him now.

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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?

[Bulwark Clips @BulwarkClips]

Q: “How do you define socialism personally?”

Vance: “I think in reality, what it actually means in the American context is that you want to replace American workers with foreign workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports.”

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An unusually mad-king one.

And good! Because not even a single AI business will obey, humiliatingly confirming his impotence.

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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: https://t.co/ZcmaDDY4yk