Just because it’s old news that Donald Trump loves autocrats doesn’t mean it doesn’t deserve wall-to-wall coverage when he does things like this. Because it’s insane.
“Ich bin ein Berliner.”
—John F. Kennedy,
June 26, 1963
“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.”
—Ronald Reagan,
June 12, 1987
“I would encourage [the Russians] to do whatever the hell they want.”
—Donald Trump,
April 10, 2024
“It’s not that often that you get a unanimous 57-page decision on novel questions of law in 28 days. And you almost never get an opinion of this quality in such a short period of time. I’ve read thousands of judicial opinions in my four decades as a law student and lawyer. Few have been as good as this one.”