Introduction: Opening Monologue
1. “How Journalists See Journalists in 2004: Views on Profits, Performance and Politics,” Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, May 2004, https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/legacy-pdf/214.pdf; Lars Willnat and David H. Weaver, “The American Journalist in the Digital Age: Key Findings,” Indiana University School of Journalism, 2014, http://archive.news.indiana.edu/releases/iu/2014/05/2013-american-journalist-key-findings.pdf.
2. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, September 1, 2019, https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1168174613827899393.
3. Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Briefing on Hurricane Dorian,” White House, September 1, 2019, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-briefing-hurricane-dorian/.
4. “DORIAN Graphics Archive: 5-day Forecast Track, Initial Wind Field and Watch/Warning Graphic,” National Hurricane Center and Central Pacific Hurricane Center, https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2019/DORIAN_graphics.php?product=5day_cone_with_line_and_wind.
5. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, September 4, 2019, https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1169375550806351872.
6. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, September 5, 2019, https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1169705282123046913.
7. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), video, September 6, 2019, https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1170089069105340416.
8. Andrew Freedman and Jason Samenow, “An Absence of Meteorologists at Trump’s Hurricane Dorian Briefings May Have Helped Lead to the Alabama Tweet Fiasco,” Washington Post, September 17, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/09/17/an-absence-meteorologists-trumps-hurricane-dorian-briefings-may-have-helped-lead-alabama-tweet-fiasco/.
9. “Statement from NOAA,” National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, September 6, 2019, https://www.noaa.gov/news/statement-from-noaa.
10. Peter Baker, Lisa Friedman, and Christopher Flavelle, “Trump Pressed Top Aide to Have Weather Service ‘Clarify’ Forecast That Contradicted Trump,” New York Times, September 11, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/11/us/politics/trump-alabama-noaa.html.
11. Jim Swift (@JimSwiftDC), “Salena Zito is beyond fucking parody,” tweet, September 6, 2019, https://twitter.com/JimSwiftDC/status/1170178035196338177.
12. Kevin Schaul and Kevin Urhmacher, “The Complete List of GOP Lawmakers Reacting to Trump’s ‘Go Back’ Tweet,” Washington Post, July 20, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/politics/trump-go-back-gop-reactions-list/.
Chapter 1: The Lies
1. Sean Spicer, “Statement by Press Secretary Sean Spicer,” White House, January 21, 2017, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-press-secretary-sean-spicer/.
2. “Full Text: Trump, Pence Remarks at CIA Headquarters,” Politico, January 2, 2017. https://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/full-text-trump-pence-remarks-cia-headquarters-233978
3. Tim Wallace, Karen Yourish, and Troy Griggs, “Trump’s Inauguration vs. Obama’s: Comparing the Crowds,” New York Times, January 20, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/01/20/us/politics/trump-inauguration-crowd.html.
4. Spicer, “Statement by Press Secretary Sean Spicer.”
5. Ibid.
6. Lisa Desjardins (@LisaDNews), tweet, January 20, 2017, https://twitter.com/LisaDNews/status/822485418482483201; Gillian Brockell (@gbrockell), tweet, January 20, 2017, https://twitter.com/gbrockell/status/822474693361987584.
7. Metro (@wmata), tweet, January 20, 2017, https://twitter.com/wmata/status/822482330346487810.
8. “Meet the Press 01/22/17,” NBC News, January 22, 2017, https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meet-press-01-22-17-n710491.
9. Spicer, “Statement by Press Secretary Sean Spicer.”
10. Ibid.
11. http://www.trumptwitterarchive.com/archive/fake%20news%20%7C%7C%20fakenews%20%7C%7C%20fake%20media/ttff/1-19-2017.
12. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, November 27, 2016, https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/802972944532209664.
13. Cristina Tardáguila, “Trump’s 9/11 Memories Aren’t Fact-Based—and Fact-Checkers Wrote About Them Again This Year,” Poynter, September 13, 2019, https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2019/trumps-9-11-memories-arent-fact-based-and-fact-checkers-wrote-about-them-again-this-year/.
14. Jon Greenberg, “Donald Trump’s Ridiculous Link Between Cancer, Wind Turbines,” PolitiFact, April 8, 2019, https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2019/apr/08/donald-trump/republicans-dismiss-trumps-windmill-and-cancer-cla/.
15. Glenn Kessler and Joe Fox, “The False Claims that Trump Keeps Repeating,” Washington Post, October 9, 2019. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/fact-checker-most-repeated-disinformation/.
16. Donald J. Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Joint Address to Congress,” White House, February 28, 2017, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-joint-address-congress/.
17. Executive Order 13780: Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States: Initial Section 11 Report, US Department of Justice, January 2018, https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1026436/download.
18. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, January 16, 2018, https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/953406553083777029.
19. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5674047-DOJ-Response-Re-Reconsideration-122118.html.
20. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, September 15, 2019, https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1173371482812162048.
21. Jake Tapper (@jaketapper), “.VP Pence to me on @CNNSotu in June,” Tweet, September 16, 2019. https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1173628093052964871?lang=en.
22. “America’s Newsroom with Bill Hemmer and Sandra Smith,” Archive, August 28, 2019. https://archive.org/details/FOXNEWSW_20190828_130000_Americas_Newsroom_With_Bill_Hemmer_and_Sandra_Smith/start/6120/end/6180.
23. James s. Brady Press Briefing Room, “Press Briefing by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin,” White House Press Briefings, September 10, 2019. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/press-briefing-secretary-state-mike-pompeo-secretary-treasury-steven-mnuchin/.
24. Ibid.
25. “Remarks by President Trump and Prime Minister Conte of Italy in Joint Press Conference,” White House Remarks, July 30, 2018. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-prime-minister-conte-italy-joint-press-conference/, Meet the Press (@MeetThePress), “WATCH: Trump tells Chuck Todd that he wants to talk with Iran,” Tweet, June 23, 2019. https://twitter.com/MeetThePress/status/1142820376734523393.
Chapter 2: The Constitution Breaker
1. Joel Beall, “10 Astonishing Claims from the Book Detailing President Trump’s Cheating at Golf,” Golf Digest, April 4, 2019, https://www.golfdigest.com/story/10-astonishing-claims-from-the-book-detailing-president-trumps-cheating-at-golf.
2. Donald J. Trump, “Remarks by President Trump at Turning Point USA’s Teen Student Action Summit 2019,” White House, July 23, 2019, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-turning-point-usas-teen-student-action-summit-2019/.
3. “Trump’s 2,000 Conflicts of Interest (and Counting),” Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, https://www.citizensforethics.org/2000-trump-conflicts-of-interest-counting/.
4. Megan Cassidy, “Arpaio Found Guilty of Criminal Contempt,” The Republic, July 31, 2017, https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2017/07/31/maricopa-county-sheriff-joe-arpaio-found-guilty-criminal-contempt-court/486278001/.
5. “Pardons Granted by President Trump,” United States Department of Justice, https://www.justice.gov/pardon/pardons-granted-president-donald-trump.
6. John Dickerson, “A Phony Murder Plot Against Joe Arpaio Winds Up Costing Taxpayers $1.1 Million,” Phoenix New Times, October 28, 2008, https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/a-phony-murder-plot-against-joe-arpaio-winds-up-costing-taxpayers-11-million-6629798.
7. Shaun Attwood, “Sheriff Joe Arpaio Brags His Tent City Jail Is a Concentration Camp,” YouTube, December 7, 2010, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7reZOp2Qco.
8. Robert S. Mueller, “Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election,” vol. 1, US Department of Justice, March 2019, https://www.justice.gov/storage/report.pdf, 131.
9. Ibid., 134.
10. Maggie Haberman, Annie Karni, and Eric Schmitt, “Trump Urged Homeland Security Official to Close Border Despite an Earlier Promise of a Delay,” New York Times, April 12, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/12/us/politics/trump-border.html.
11. Nick Miroff and Josh Dawsey, “ ‘Take the Land’: President Trump Wants a Border Wall. He Wants It Black. And He Wants It by Election Day,” Washington Post, August 27, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/take-the-land-president-trump-wants-a-border-wall-he-wants-it-black-and-he-wants-it-by-election-day/2019/08/27/37b80018-c821-11e9-a4f3-c081a126de70_story.html.
12. “Excerpts from the Times’s Interview with Trump,” New York Times, July 19, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/19/us/politics/trump-interview-transcript.html.
13. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, July 25, 2017, https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/889790429398528000.
14. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, July 26, 2017, https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/890207082926022656; tweet, July 26, 2017, https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/890208319566229504.
15. Jordain Carney, “GOP Senator: Cuccinelli Couldn’t Win Senate Confirmation,” The Hill, June 10, 2019, https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/447779-gop-senator-cuccinelli-couldnt-win-senate-confirmation.
16. “Transcript: President Trump on ‘Face the Nation,’ ” February 3, 2019, CBS News, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/transcript-president-trump-on-face-the-nation-february-3-2019/.
17. Tim Alberta, American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump (New York: Harper, 2019), 347.
18. “Presidential Proclamation on Declaring a National Emergency Concerning the Southern Border of the United States,” White House, February 15, 2019, https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/presidential-proclamation-declaring-national-emergency-concerning-southern-border-united-states/.
19. Miroff and Dawsey, “ ‘Take the Land.’ ”
Chapter 3: The Constitution Breaker, Part Two
1. “Freedom of Expression,” ACLU. https://www.aclu.org/other/freedom-expression.
2. “Fake News,” Trump Twitter Archive, http://www.trumptwitterarchive.com/archive/fake%20news/ftff/1-20-2017_9-21-2019. “enemy of the people,” Trump Twitter Archive, http://www.trumptwitterarchive.com/archive/enemy%20of%20the%20people/ftff/1-20-2017_9-21-2019. Michael M. Grynbaum, “Trump Renews Pledge to ‘Take a Strong Look’ at Libel Laws,” New York Times, January 10, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/10/business/media/trump-libel-laws.html. Margaret Harding McGill and Daniel Lippman, “White House Drafting Executive Order to Tackle Silicon Valley’s Alleged Anti-conservative Bias,” Politico, August 7, 2019, https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/07/white-house-tech-censorship-1639051. Corinne Ramey, “President Trump Can’t Block Twitter Users, Federal Appeals Court Rules,” Wall Street Journal, July 9, 2019, https://www.wsj.com/articles/president-trump-cant-block-twitter-users-federal-appeals-court-rules-11562685206. Mathew Ingram, “White House Revokes Press Passes for Dozens of Journalists,” Columbia Journalism Review, May 9, 2019, https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/white-house-press-passes.php. Mike Calia, “Trump Calls for a Boycott of AT&T to Force ‘Big Changes’ at CNN,” CNBC, June 3, 2019, https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/03/trump-calls-for-a-boycott-of-att-to-force-big-changes-at-cnn.html.
3. Jon Allsop, “A Circus, and What Matters,” Columbia Journalism Review, July 12, 2019, https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/trump-social-media-summit.php.
4. Donald J. Trump, “Remarks by President Trump at the Presidential Social Media Summit,” White House, July 11, 2019, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-presidential-social-media-summit/.
5. Howard Kurtz, Michael Dobbs, and James V. Grimaldi, “In Rush to Air, CBS Quashed Memo Worries,” Washington Post, September 19, 2004, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31727-2004Sep18.html.
6. Howard Witt, “True or False: Blogs Always Tell It Straight,” Chicago Tribune, September 19, 2004, https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2004-09-19-0409190265-story.html.
7. “United States District Court, Southern District of New York,” PEN AMERICAN CENTER, INC., v. Donald J. Trump, February 6, 2019, https://pen.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/PEN-America-v-Trump-Amended-Complaint-2.6.19.pdf, 6.
8. Michael M. Grynbaum and Elizabeth Williamson, “Trump Administration Uses Misleading Video to Justify Barring of CNN’s Jim Acosta,” New York Times, November 8, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/08/business/media/infowars-white-house-jim-acosta-cnn.html.
9. Dana Milbank, “The White House Revoked My Press Pass. It’s Not Just Me—It’s Curtailing Access for All Journalists,” Washington Post, May 8, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-white-house-has-revoked-my-press-pass-its-not-just-me—its-curtailing-access-for-all-journalists/2019/05/08/bb9794b4-71c0-11e9-8be0-ca575670e91c_story.html.
10. David Jackson, “Donald Trump Says He May Revoke Press Credentials for Other Reporters, Not Just CNN’s Jim Acosta,” USA Today, November 9, 2018, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/11/09/donald-trump-threatens-other-reporters-white-house-press-passes/1942013002/.
11. Milbank, “The White House Revoked My Press Pass. It’s Not Just Me—It’s Curtailing Access for All Journalists.”
12. Byron Tau, “Judge Grants CNN’s Motion to Restore Jim Acosta’s White House Press Pass,” Wall Street Journal, November 16, 2018, https://www.wsj.com/articles/judge-grants-cnns-motion-to-restore-jim-acostas-white-house-press-pass-1542381937.
13. “Gorka to Karem: ‘You’re Not a Journalist, You’re a Punk,’ ” Washington Post, July 11, 2019, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRogWTuS5HI.
14. Josh Gerstein, “Judge Tells White House to Reinstate Reporter’s Pass,” Politico, September 3, 2019, https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/03/judge-press-pass-brian-karem-1479990.
15. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, January 24, 2017, https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/824078417213747200.
16. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, July 1, 2017, https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/881273362454118400.
17. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, December 9, 2017, https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/939485131693322240.
18. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, June 2, 2018, https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1002954515941941249.
19. Amy B. Wang, “Trump Retweets Image Depicting ‘CNN Squashed Beneath His Shoe,’ ” Washington Post, December 24, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/12/24/trump-retweets-image-depicting-cnn-squashed-beneath-his-shoe/.
20. “Trump Retweets, Deletes Questionable Posts,” CNN, August 15, 2017, https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2017/08/15/donald-trump-twitter-train-cnn-logo-delete.cnn.
21. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, July 2, 2017, https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/881503147168071680.
22. Jon Allsop, “A Deadly Year for Mexico’s Journalists,” Columbia Journalism Review, August 27, 2019, https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/mexico_journalist_murders.php; Carolina de Assis, “Brazilian Journalists Receive Death Threats After Publishing Reports Critical of the Armed Forces,” Journalism in the Americas, April 11, 2019, https://knightcenter.utexas.edu/blog/00-20719-brazilian-journalists-receive-death-threats-after-publishing-reports-critical-armed-fo.
23. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, June 3, 2019, https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1135499002626154496.
24. Sean Spicer, “Statement by Press Secretary Sean Spicer,” White House, January 21, 2017, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-press-secretary-sean-spicer/.
25. Brian Stelter, “Donald Trump Rips into Possible Warner Deal,” CNN, October 22, 2016, https://money.cnn.com/2016/10/22/media/donald-trump-att-time-warner/.
26. Brent Kendall and Drew FitzGerald, “Justice Department Files Lawsuit Challenging AT&T–Time Warner Deal,” Wall Street Journal, November 20, 2017, https://www.wsj.com/articles/justice-department-expected-to-file-lawsuit-challenging-at-t-time-warner-deal-1511210955.
27. Jane Mayer, “The Making of the Fox News White House,” The New Yorker, March 11, 2019, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/11/the-making-of-the-fox-news-white-house.
28. Ibid.
29. David Shepardson, “White House Will Not Turn Over Documents on AT&T–Time Warner Merger,” Reuters, April 16, 2019, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-time-warner-at-t-congress/white-house-will-not-turn-over-documents-on-att-time-warner-merger-idUSKCN1RS28R.
30. Jan Wolfe, “Trump Threatens to Sue CNN, Seeks ‘Substantial’ Payment over Damages: Letter,” Reuters, October 18, 2019, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-cnn/trump-threatens-to-sue-cnn-seeks-substantial-payment-over-damages-letter-idUSKBN1WX2B1.
31. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, June 9, 2019, https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1137702218835136517.
32. “Former Sheriff David Clarke Temporarily Blocked from Tweeting Due to His Caustic Threats,” Wisconsin Gazette, January 5, 2018, https://www.wisconsingazette.com/news/political/former-sheriff-david-clarke-temporarily-blocked-from-tweeting/article_3c4d0c2a-f1b0-11e7-be93-63a875edfe99.html.
33. Ryan Mac and Blake Montgomery, “Twitter Suspended Proud Boys’ and Founder Gavin McInnes’ Accounts Ahead of the ‘Unite the Right’ Rally,” BuzzFeed News, August 11, 2018, https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/twitter-suspends-proud-boys-and-founder-gavin-mcinnes.
34. Amy Forliti, “Actor James Woods Bashes Twitter After Getting Locked Out,” Associated Press, September 23, 2018, https://apnews.com/2909e6d34b1c4d18bfac5cd186a54095.
35. Linda Givetash, “Laura Loomer Banned from Twitter After Criticizing Ilhan Omar,” NBC, November 22, 2018, https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/laura-loomer-banned-twitter-after-criticizing-ilhan-omar-n939256.
36. Gus Garcia-Roberts, “Twitter Bans Trump-Supporting Hoaxter After USA TODAY Exposé,” USA Today, February 26, 2019, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2019/02/26/jacob-wohl-spread-lies-mueller-rbg-twitter-just-banned-him/2995037002/.
37. Brian Fung, “White House Proposal Would Have FCC and FTC Police Alleged Social Media Censorship,” CNN Business, August 10, 2019, https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/09/tech/white-house-social-media-executive-order-fcc-ftc/index.html.
38. McGill and Lippman, “White House Drafting Executive Order to Tackle Silicon Valley’s Alleged Anti-conservative Bias.”
39. Jeffrey Gottfried, Galen Stocking, and Elizabeth Grieco, “Appendix B: Political Party Detailed Tables (2016–2018),” Pew Research Center, September 25, 2018, https://www.journalism.org/2018/09/25/news-media-attitudes-appendix-b-political-party-detailed-tables/.
40. Sam Stein, “New Poll: 43% of Republicans Want to Give Trump the Power to Shut Down Media,” The Daily Beast, August 8, 2018, https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-poll-43-of-republicans-want-to-give-trump-the-power-to-shut-down-media.
41. Bryant-Jon Anteola, “Fresno State Professor Stirs Outrage, Calls Barbara Bush an ‘Amazing Racist,’ ” Fresno Bee, April 17, 2018, https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article209197719.html.
42. Patrick Hofstetter, “Remove Randa Jarrar from Fresno State University for Racist Comments,” Change.org, 2018. https://www.change.org/p/california-state-university-remove-randa-jarrar-from-fresno-state-university-for-racist-comments.
43. Ben Shapiro, “Here’s Why That Nasty Fresno State Professor Shouldn’t Be Fired for Her Gross Barbara Bush Tweet,” The Daily Wire, April 19, 2018, https://www.dailywire.com/news/29616/heres-why-nasty-fresno-state-professor-shouldnt-be-ben-shapiro.
Chapter 4: The Enemy of Democracy
1. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, August 2, 2019, https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1157306452228366336.
2. Robert Mueller, “Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election,” vol. 2, US Department of Justice, March 2019, https://www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Muelller-Report-Redacted-Vol-II-Released-04.18.2019-Word-Searchable.-Reduced-Size.pdf, 3, 44.
3. Ibid., 85, 86, 88.
4. Ibid., 114, 115–16, 118.
5. such as like Quinta Jurecic, the managing editor of Lawfare, deserve a lot of credit for isolating these incidents from the report and explaining them to the public; see Jurecic, “Obstruction of Justice in the Mueller Report: A Heat Map,” Lawfare, April 21, 2019. https://www.lawfareblog.com/obstruction-justice-mueller-report-heat-map.
6. “Former Republican Federal Prosecutors Speak Out Against President Trump’s Obstruction of Justice,” Republicans for the Rule of Law, May 30, 2019, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwnMpneFR34.
7. Ibid.
8. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, July 9, 2019, https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1148559443845668864.
9. Canadian Press, “ ‘I Can’t Kill These People,’ Trump Says of Canadian Government as NAFTA Deadline Looms,” iHeart Radio, August 31, 2018, https://www.iheartradio.ca/cjad/news/i-can-t-kill-these-people-trump-says-of-canadian-government-as-nafta-deadline-looms-1.7075888.
10. “Top Trading Partners—December 2018,” United States Census Bureau, August 29, 2019, https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/statistics/highlights/top/top1812yr.html.
11. Jim Gomez, “Rights Group Calls Duterte’s Drug War Crime Against Humanity,” Associated Press, July 8, 2019, https://www.apnews.com/e54b1bede70846dca1b3ba269563eba2.
12. Uri Friedman, “Turkey’s Referendum: How Democracies Decline,” The Atlantic, April 17, 2017, https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/04/turkey-referendum-democracy/523257/.
13. Susan B. Glasser, “How Trump Made War on Angela Merkel and Europe,” The New Yorker, December 17, 2018, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/24/how-trump-made-war-on-angela-merkel-and-europe.
14. Julian E. Barnes and Helene Cooper, “Trump Discussed Pulling U.S. from NATO, Aides Say amid New Concerns over Russia,” New York Times, January 14, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/us/politics/nato-president-trump.html.
15. “North Korea Profile,” Freedom in the World 2018, Freedom House, https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2018/north-korea.
16. “Report of the Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea,” Human Rights Council, United Nations, https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G14/108/66/PDF/G1410866.pdf?OpenElement, 12.
17. Tammy Auber, “Trump Explains Kim Jong Un’s Murderous Brutality: ‘He’s Tough,’ ” Mediaite, June 13, 2018, https://www.mediaite.com/tv/trump-dodges-when-confronted-on-kims-brutality-a-lot-of-other-people-have-done-bad-things-too/.
18. F. Brinley Bruton, “Trump on Otto Warmbier’s Death: Kim Jong Un Wasn’t to Blame,” NBC News, February 28, 2019, https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/trump-otto-warmbier-death-kim-jong-un-wasn-t-blame-n977516.
19. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, May 25, 2019, https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1132459370816708608.
20. “Trump: Trump on Kim: Tough Talk . . . ‘and Then We Fell in Love,’ ” Associated Press, September 30, 2019, https://www.apnews.com/4d56f6e8f99d4eefb2f22b7a6dd072d0.
21. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, August 2, 2019, https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1157306452228366336.
22. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, October 1, 2019, https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1178986524630802432.
23. Nectar Gan, “Want to Escape Poverty? Replace Pictures of Jesus with Xi Jinping, Christian Villagers Urged,” South China Morning Post, November 14, 2017, https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2119699/praise-xi-jinping-not-jesus-escape-poverty-christian.
24. Christopher Bodeen, “Group: Officials Destroying Crosses, Burning Bibles in China,” Associated Press, September 10, 2018, https://www.apnews.com/c09b2ee4b71540c8a7fd6178820c5970; Chris Buckley, “China’s Prisons Swell After Deluge of Arrests Engulfs Muslims,” New York Times, August 31, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/31/world/asia/xinjiang-china-uighurs-prisons.html.
25. Congressional-Executive Commission on China—Annual Report 2018, Congressional-Executive Commission on China, October 10, 2018, https://www.cecc.gov/sites/chinacommission.house.gov/files/documents/Annual%20Report%202018_2.pdf, 2.
26. “China’s Xi Allowed to Remain ‘President for Life’ as Term Limits Removed,” BBC, March 11, 2018, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-43361276.
27. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, August 14, 2019, https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1161774305895694336.
28. ” ‘They Just Kill.’: Ongoing Extrajudicial Executions and Other Violations in the Philippines’ ‘War Against Drugs,’ ” Amnesty International, 2019, https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/ASA3505782019ENGLISH.PDF; Matthew Tostevin and Neil Jerome Morales, “War on Numbers: Philippines Targets Drug Killing Data,” Reuters, July 18, 2019, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-philippines-drugs/war-on-numbers-philippines-targets-drug-killing-data-idUSKCN1UD1CJ.
29. “Transcript of Call Between President Trump and Philippine President Duterte,” Washington Post, May 2, 2017, https://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/documents/politics/transcript-of-call-between-president-trump-and-philippine-president-duterte/2446/.
30. “Turkey Country Report,” Freedom in the World 2019, Freedom House, https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2019/turkey.
31. “Remarks by President Trump and President Erdoğan of Turkey Before Bilateral Meeting,” White House, September 21, 2017, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-president-erdogan-turkey-bilateral-meeting/.
32. “Remarks by President Trump and President Erdoğan of Turkey Before Bilateral Meeting—Osaka, Japan,” White House, June 29, 2019, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-president-erdogan-turkey-bilateral-meeting-osaka-japan.
33. Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom), tweet, July 16, 2018, https://twitter.com/WalshFreedom/status/1018886553278525440.
34. “Remarks by President Trump and President Putin of the Russian Federation in Joint Press Conference,” White House, July 16, 2018, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-president-putin-russian-federation-joint-press-conference/.
35. Kevin Liptak and Jeff Zeleny, “Trump, Facing Fury, Says He Misspoke with Putin,” CNN, July 18, 2018, https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/17/politics/white-house-mood-donald-trump-vladimir-putin-news-conference/index.html.
36. “Republican National Committee Resolution Supporting the Presidency of Donald J. Trump,” Republican National Committee, n.d., https://prod-cdn-static.gop.com/media/documents/RNC_Resolution_Supporting_the_Presidency_of_Donald_J._Trump_1549555495.pdf.
37. Zeke Miller and Steve Peoples, “Trump Campaign Takes Steps to Prevent a Challenge Within GOP,” Associated Press, February 4, 2019, https://www.apnews.com/33438efb7d794b5caf0b60f815192500.
38. Meg Kinnard, “Nevada, SC, Kansas GOP Drop Presidential Nomination Votes,” Associated Press, September 7, 2019, https://apnews.com/7e04964fc89a4312a6b410096f256add.
39. Kevin Stone, “Arizona GOP Won’t Hold 2020 Presidential Preference Election,” KTAR News, September 9, 2019, https://ktar.com/story/2734796/arizona-gop-wont-hold-2020-presidential-preference-election/.
40. James Gordon Meek and Anne Flaherty, “2nd Whistleblower Comes Forward After Speaking with IG: Attorney,” ABC News, October 6, 2019, https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/2nd-whistleblower-forward-speaking-ig-attorney/story?id=66092396&cid=clicksource_77_null_bsq_hed.
41. Rebecca Klar, “Georgia GOP Submits Only Trump’s Name for Primary,” The Hill, December 3, 2019. https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/472753-georgia-gop-submits-only-trumps-name-for-primary, Colin Campbell, “NC GOP Wants Its Primary Voters to Have Only One Choice: Trump,” The News & Observer, December 4, 2019. https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/election/article238050649.html.
Chapter 5: The Cultist
1. Paul Halsall, “Modern History Sourcebook: Hymn to Stalin,” August 1997, Fordham University, https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/stalin-worship.asp.
2. Reed Richardson, “Thanks Be to Donald: Lou Dobbs Wishes Viewers a Great Weekend, Praises Trump for ‘Making Such a Thing Possible for Us All,’ ” Mediaite, September 14, 2019, https://www.mediaite.com/tv/thanks-be-to-donald-lou-dobbs-wishes-viewers-a-great-weekend-praises-for-trump-making-such-a-thing-possible-for-us-all/.
3. Callum Borchers, “This White House Statement on Trump’s ‘Positive Energy’ Reads like a Parody,” Washington Post, May 30, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/05/30/this-white-house-statement-on-trumps-positive-energy-reads-like-a-parody/.
4. Dan Scavino Jr. (@Scavino45), tweet, August 7, 2019, https://twitter.com/Scavino45/status/1159170408894959616.
5. “Cuomo to Trump Press Secretary: He Lies and You Know It,” CNN, August 8, 2019, https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/08/29/cuomo-kayleigh-mcenany-trump-campaign-press-secretary-president-doesnt-lie-cpt-vpx.cnn.
6. Rebecca Morin, “RNC Chair Says Trump Primary Challengers Will ‘Lose Horribly,’ ” Politico, February 28, 2019, https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/28/ronna-mcdaniel-2020-election-trump-1195652.
7. Paul Colford, “Down-to-Earth Reasons for that Heavenly Glow,” Associated Press, June 25, 2015, https://blog.ap.org/behind-the-news/down-to-earth-reasons-for-that-heavenly-glow.
8. Andrew Sullivan, “Andrew Sullivan on Barack Obama’s Gay Marriage Evolution,” Newsweek, May 13, 2012, https://www.newsweek.com/andrew-sullivan-barack-obamas-gay-marriage-evolution-65067.
9. David Paul Kuhn and Ben Smith, “Messianic Rhetoric Infuses Obama Rallies,” Politico, December 9, 2007, https://www.politico.com/story/2007/12/messianic-rhetoric-infuses-obama-rallies-007281.
10. Tamara Keith, “Cabinet Members Heap Praise on Trump,” NPR, June 13, 2017, https://www.npr.org/2017/06/13/532724771/cabinet-members-heap-praise-on-trump.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. Aaron Blake, “In Cabinet Meeting, Pence Praises Trump Once Every 12 Seconds for Three Minutes Straight,” Washington Post, December 20, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/12/20/in-cabinet-meeting-pence-praises-trump-once-every-12-seconds-for-3-minutes-straight/.
15. John Gunther, Inside Europe (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1940), 516–26, https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.149663/2015.149663.Inside-Europe#page/n537/mode/2up, 516–17.
16. CNN Transcripts, January 8, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/01/08/this-is-the-best-argument-to-be-made-for-trumps-political-greatness/.
17. Cheryl McHenry, Bonnie Meibers, and Thomas Gnau, “President Trump to Dayton Shooting Victim: ’. . . We’re with You All the Way,’ ” Dayton Daily News, August 8, 2019, https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/local/dayton-shooting-president-trump-coming-city-wednesday/V4Pvg4gNnStletCnWhC3fL/.
18. “Sen. Sherrod Brown, Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley Speak to Press on Trump’s Visit,” Cincinnati Enquirer, August 7, 2019, https://www.cincinnati.com/videos/news/2019/08/07/sen-brown-dayton-mayor-whaley-speak-press-trumps-visit/1946217001/.
19. Daniel Dale, “Fact Check: Trump Falsely Accuses Sherrod Brown, Dayton Mayor of Misrepresenting His Hospital Visit,” CNN, August 7, 2019, https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/07/politics/fact-check-trump-brown-hospital-visit-dayton/index.html.
20. Dan Scavino Jr. (@Scavino45), tweet, August 7, 2019, https://twitter.com/Scavino45/status/1159170408894959616.
21. Stephanie Grisham (@PressSec), tweet, August 7, 2019, https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1159174708199223296.
22. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, August 7, 2019, https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1159189580697858048.
23. “Remarks by President Trump Before Meeting with Law Enforcement Personnel at Emergency Operations Center | El Paso, TX,” White House Remarks, August 7, 2019. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-meeting-law-enforcement-personnel-emergency-operations-center-el-paso-tx/.
24. Brian Klaas, “I Study Authoritarian Despots, and Trump Is Borrowing a Lot of Their Tactics,” Vice, January 30, 2017, https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d7x7qx/i-study-authoritarian-despots-and-trump-is-borrowing-a-lot-of-their-tactics.
25. “Trump Gets Negative Ratings for Many Personal Traits, but Most Say He Stands Up for His Beliefs,” Pew Research Center, October 1, 2019, https://www.people-press.org/2018/10/01/trump-gets-negative-ratings-for-many-personal-traits-but-most-say-he-stands-up-for-his-beliefs/.
26. “Presidential Ratings—Personal Characteristics,” Gallup, https://news.gallup.com/poll/1732/presidential-ratings-personal-characteristics.aspx.
27. Ruth Ben-Ghiat, “Donald Trump’s Cult of Personality,” HuffPost, January 15, 2017, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trumps-cult-of-per_b_8992650.
28. “Republicans Now Are More Open to the Idea of Expanding Presidential Power,” Pew Research Center, August 7, 2019, https://www.people-press.org/2019/08/07/republicans-now-are-more-open-to-the-idea-of-expanding-presidential-power/.
29. Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom), tweet, May 5, 2019, https://twitter.com/WalshFreedom/status/1125131891965878276.
30. Rush Limbaugh, “Why We Must Hang with Trump on Tariffs,” iHeart Radio, May 13, 2019, https://news.iheart.com/featured/rush-limbaugh/content/2019-05-13-rush-limbaugh-blog-why-we-must-hang-with-trump-on-tariffs/.
31. Thom Tillis, “I Support Trump’s Vision on Border Security. But I Would Vote Against the Emergency,” Washington Post, February 25, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/02/25/i-support-trumps-vision-border-security-i-would-vote-against-emergency/.
32. Brian Murphy, “Tillis Reverses Course, Votes to Support Trump on National Emergency Declaration,” Charlotte Observer, March 14, 2019, https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article227742754.html.
33. “Read the Unclassified Version of the Whistleblower complaint Against Trump, CBS News, September 26, 2019. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/whistleblower-complaint-full-text-read-the-unclassified-version-of-the-whistleblower-complaint-against-president/.
34. Patrick Reevell and Lucien Bruggeman, “Ukrainians Understood Biden Probe Was Condition for Trump-Zelenskiy Talks, Says Former Ukrainian Adviser,” ABC News, September 25, 2019, https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/ukrainians-understood-biden-probe-condition-trump-zelenskiy-phone/story?id=65863043.
35. John Santucci, Alexander Mallin, Pierre Thomas, and Katherine Faulders, “Trump Urged Ukraine to Work with Barr and Giuliani to Probe Biden: Call Transcript,” ABC News, September 25, 2019, https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/transcript-trump-call-ukraine-includes-talk-giuliani-barr/story?id=65848768.
36. Ibid.
37. Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom), tweet, September 26, 2019, https://twitter.com/WalshFreedom/status/1177213462017171458.
38. Andrew P. Bakaj, “RE: Safety Concerns Regarding the Intelligence Community Whistleblower,” Compass Rose Legal Group, September 28, 2019, https://compassrosepllc.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/2019_0928_-Correspondence-to-DNI.pdf.
39. “Trump: ‘Trying to Find Out’ Whistleblower Identity,” Associated Press, YouTube, September 30, 2019, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-7L-eRBNAk.
40. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, October 1, 2019, https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1179023004241727489.
41. Tom Jacobs, “A Cult Expert Finds Familiar Patterns of Behavior in Trump’s GOP,” Pacific Standard, June 21, 2018, https://psmag.com/news/a-sociologist-explains-the-similarities-between-cults-and-trumps-gop.
42. Jason Lemon, “ ‘At Least Two Dozen’ Republicans in House Are ‘Deeply Concerned’ About Trump’s Ukraine Actions: Congressman,” Newsweek, October 6, 2019, https://www.newsweek.com/least-two-dozen-republicans-house-deeply-concerned-trump-ukraine-congressman-1463427.
43. Mariam Khan, “GOP Senators Critical of President Trump over Ukraine Dealings, Syria,” ABC News, October 21, 2019, https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/gop-senators-critical-president-trump-ukraine-dealings-syria/story?id=66417302.
44. ” ‘This Week’ Transcript 11-3-19: Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Rep. Eliot Engel, Rep. Steve Scalise,” ABC News, November 3, 2019, https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/week-transcript-11-19-mayor-pete-buttigieg-rep/story?id=66721987.
Chapter 6: The Narcissist
1. He referred to himself alternatively as “John Miller” and “John Barron”; see Marc Fisher and Will Hobson, “Donald Trump Masqueraded as Publicist to Brag About Himself,” Washington Post, May 13, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/donald-trump-alter-ego-barron/2016/05/12/02ac99ec-16fe-11e6-aa55-670cabef46e0_story.html?asdfk.
2. “Republican Presidential Politics,” C-SPAN, July 14, 2016, https://www.c-span.org/video/?412218-3/washington-journal-peter-wehner-republican-party-campaign-2016.
3. George T. Conway III, “Unfit for Office,” The Atlantic, October 3, 2019, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/10/george-conway-trump-unfit-office/599128/.
4. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, October 7, 2019, https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1181232249821388801.
5. Aaron Blake, “President Trump’s Full Washington Post Interview Transcript, Annotated,” Washington Post, November 27, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/11/27/president-trumps-full-washington-post-interview-transcript-annotated/?noredirect=on.
6. Conway, “Unfit for Office.”
7. Ibid.
8. Lori Robertson, “Factcheck: Adam Schiff’s ‘Parody’ and President Trump’s Response,” USA Today, November 13, 2019. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/11/13/impeaching-hearing-factcheck-adam-schiff-parody/4178449002/.
9. Ed Morrissey, “Stephanopoulos to Schiff: If What Trump Said Was So Bad, Why Make Up Dialogue?,” Hot Air, September 30, 2019, https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2019/09/30/stephanopoulos-schiff-trump-said-bad-make-dialogue/.
10. Donald J. Trump, tweet, September 30, 2019, https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1178643854737772545.
11. “Remarks by President Trump and President Niinistö of the Republic of Finland Before Bilateral Meeting,” White House Remarks, October 2, 2019. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-president-niinisto-republic-finland-bilateral-meeting/.
12. Erica Payne, “Granny off the Cliff Part 2,” YouTube, August 11, 2012, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrdeyMNZW88.
13. Eli Stokols, “Listen: Audio of Trump Discussing Whistleblower at Private Event: ‘That’s Close to a Spy,’ ” Los Angeles Times, September 26, 2019, https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-09-26/trump-at-private-breakfast-who-gave-the-whistle-blower-the-information-because-thats-almost-a-spy.
14. Masha Gessen, “Donald Trump’s Very Soviet Fixation on Applause,” The New Yorker, February 6, 2018, https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/donald-trumps-very-soviet-fixation-on-applause.
15. “Read the Trump-Ukraine Phone Call Readout,” Politico, September 25, 2019. https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/25/trump-ukraine-phone-call-transcript-text-pdf-1510770.
16. “Transcript: ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos’ Exclusive Interview with President Trump,” ABC News, June 16, 2019, https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/transcript-abc-news-george-stephanopoulos-exclusive-interview-president/story?id=63749144.
17. Pilar Melendez, “Trump: ‘China Should Start an Investigation into the Bidens,’ ” The Daily Beast, October 3, 2019, https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-china-should-start-an-investigation-into-the-bidens.
18. N. Gregory Mankiw, “Economists Actually Agree on This: The Wisdom of Free Trade,” New York Times, April 24, 2015, https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/26/upshot/economists-actually-agree-on-this-point-the-wisdom-of-free-trade.html?mcubz=0.
Chapter 7: Fixing the Presidency
1. Tim Alberta, American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump (New York: Harper, 2019), 347.
2. Tucker Higgins, “Nancy Pelosi Warns GOP That a Democratic President Could Declare Gun Violence a National Emergency,” CNBC, February 14, 2019, https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/14/pelosi-warns-gop-that-a-democratic-president-could-declare-a-national-emergency-on-guns.html; Benjy Sarlin, “Tom Steyer: I’ll Declare a National Emergency to Tackle Climate Change,” NBC News, October 18, 2019, https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/blog/meet-press-blog-latest-news-analysis-data-driving-political-discussion-n988541/ncrd1034801#blogHeader.
3. Ben Watson, “US Customs Officer Harasses Defense One Journalist at Dulles Airport,” Defense One, October 4, 2019, https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2019/10/us-customs-officer-harasses-defense-one-journalist-dulles/160380/.
4. Jonathan Chait, “Trump Directs Government to Punish Washington Post Owner,” New York Intelligencer, August 2, 2019, http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/08/trump-punish-amazon-washington-post-owner-jeff-bezos.html.
5. “50 States and Territories Projects,” NPR, https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=6382249-50-States-and-Territories-Projects.
6. Mike Lee, “Sen. Lee Introduces ARTICLE ONE Act to Reclaim Congressional Power,” March 12, 2019, https://www.lee.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2019/3/sen-lee-introduces-article-one-act-to-reclaim-congressional-power.
7. Donald F. McGahn II, “Memorandum to All White House Staff,” January 27, 2017, Politico, https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000015a-dde8-d23c-a7ff-dfef4d530000.
8. Rebecca Jones, “The Dangers of Chronic Federal Vacancies,” Project on Government Oversight, August 6, 2019, https://www.pogo.org/analysis/2019/08/the-dangers-of-chronic-federal-vacancies/.
9. Michael Crowley and Tyler Pager, “Trump Urges Russia to Hack Clinton’s Email,” Politico, July 27, 2016, https://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/trump-putin-no-relationship-226282.
10. Melanie Arter, “Trump to Ukraine: ‘There’s a Lot of Talk About Biden’s Son, That Biden Stopped the Prosecution,’ ” CBS News, September 25, 2019, https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/melanie-arter/trump-ukraine-theres-lot-talk-about-bidens-son-biden-stopped-prosecution.
11. Kevin Breuninger, “Trump Says China Should Investigate the Bidens, Doubles Down on Ukraine Probe,” CNBC, October 3, 2019, https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/03/trump-calls-for-ukraine-china-to-investigate-the-bidens.html.
12. “Transcript: ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos’ Exclusive Interview with President Trump,” ABC News, June 16, 2019, https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/transcript-abc-news-george-stephanopoulos-exclusive-interview-president/story?id=63749144.
13. Morgan Phillips, “Trump Scraps Plans to Host 2020 G-7 Summit at Doral Resort amid Dem Uproar,” Fox News, October 20, 2019, https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-doral-resort-out-2020-g7-summit.
14. 5 US Code, section 3110, “Employment of Relatives; Restrictions,” December 16, 1967, https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/5/3110.
15. David Shepardson, “Trump Praises Chinese President Extending Tenure ‘for Life,’ ” March 3, 2018, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-trump-china/trump-praises-chinese-president-extending-tenure-for-life-idUSKCN1GG015.
16. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, August 21, 2019, https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1164138796205654016.
17. David Mack (@davidmackau), tweet, August 21, 2019, https://twitter.com/davidmackau/status/1164217774564159488.
Chapter 8: Fixing Conservatism
1. Colin Dwyer, “Donald Trump: ‘I Could . . . Shoot Somebody, and I Wouldn’t Lose Any Voters,’ ” NPR, January 23, 2016, https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/01/23/464129029/donald-trump-i-could-shoot-somebody-and-i-wouldnt-lose-any-voters.
2. Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs), tweet, July 15, 2019, https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1150911765699579904.
3. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, October 7, 2019, https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1181232249821388801.
4. Judd Gregg, “Judd Gregg: Trump Is the Almost, Occasionally, Pretty Close to Socialist Policy Guy,” The Hill, September 16, 2019, https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/461505-judd-gregg-trump-is-the-almost-occasionally-pretty-close-to-socialist-policy.
5. Joshua Gillin, “Bush Says Trump Was a Democrat Longer than a Republican ‘in the Last Decade,’ ” PolitiFact, August 24, 2015, https://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2015/aug/24/jeb-bush/bush-says-trump-was-democrat-longer-republican-las/.
6. Phil Hirschkorn, “Trump Proposes Massive One-Time Tax on the Rich,” CNN, November 9, 1999, https://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/11/09/trump.rich/index.html?_s=PM:ALLPOLITICS.
7. Philip Bump, “Donald Trump Took 5 Different Positions on Abortion in 3 Days,” Washington Post, April 3, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/04/03/donald-trumps-ever-shifting-positions-on-abortion/.
8. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, November 13, 2012, https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/268431151666954241.
9. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, January 13, 2012, https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/157918533655871488.
10. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, September 7, 2019, https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1170469618177236992.
11. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, June 4, 2014, https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/474134260149157888/?.
12. Gregg, “Judd Gregg: Trump Is the Almost, Occasionally, Pretty Close to Socialist Policy Guy.”
13. Phyllis Schlafly, The Conservative Case for Trump (Washington, DC: Regnery, 2016).
14. Donald J. Trump, “Remarks by President Trump at the Conservative Political Action Conference,” White House, February 23, 2018, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-conservative-political-action-conference-2/.
15. ” ‘This Week’ Transcript: Hillary Clinton, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump,” ABC News, January 31, 2016, https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/week-transcript-hillary-clinton-sen-bernie-sanders-donald/story?id=36619138.
16. “Republican Candidates Debate in Houston, Texas,” American Presidency Project, February 25, 2016, https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/republican-candidates-debate-houston-texas.
17. Ibid.
18. Kevin Liptak, “Trump: ‘Nobody Knew Health Care Could Be So Complicated,’ ” CNN, February 28, 2017, https://www.cnn.com/2017/02/27/politics/trump-health-care-complicated/index.html.
19. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, March 26, 2019, https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1110586787808903168.
20. Alex Wayne (@aawayne), tweet, March 26, 2019, https://twitter.com/aawayne/status/1110613053404602370.
21. Judy Woodruff, “George Will on American Conservatism and Trump’s ‘Lasting Damage,’ ” PBS NewsHour, July 22, 2019, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/george-will-on-american-conservatism-and-trumps-lasting-damage.
22. Ezra Klein, “George Will Makes the Conservative Case Against Democracy,” Vox, July 18, 2019. https://www.vox.com/ezra-klein-show-podcast/2019/7/18/20698397/george-will-conservative-sensibility-republicans-donald-trump.
23. Mark Muro, Robert Maxim, and Jacob Whiton, “Automation and Artificial Intelligence: How Machines Are Affecting People and Places,” Brookings Institution, January 24, 2019, https://www.brookings.edu/research/automation-and-artificial-intelligence-how-machines-affect-people-and-places/.
Chapter 9: Fixing the Debt
1. Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, “Transcript: Donald Trump Interview with Bob Woodward and Robert Costa,” Washington Post, April 2, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/04/02/transcript-donald-trump-interview-with-bob-woodward-and-robert-costa/.
2. Stephen Gandel, “Donald Trump in His Own Words: Atlantic City to the White House,” Fortune, April 21, 2016, https://fortune.com/2016/04/21/donald-trump-q-and-a/.
3. Woodward and Costa, “Transcript: Donald Trump Interview with Bob Woodward and Robert Costa.”
4. “Remarks by President Trump, President Moon, Commerce Secretary Ross, and NEC Director Cohn in Bilateral Meeting,” White House Remarks, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-president-moon-commerce-secretary-ross-nec-director-cohn-bilateral-meeting/.
5. “Did the Trade Deficit Cause $20 Trillion in Debt?,” Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, July 6, 2017, https://www.crfb.org/blogs/did-trade-deficit-cause-20-trillion-debt.
6. Marin Cogan, “GOP Frosh: Obama Budget a ‘Joke,’ ” Politico, February 14, 2011, https://www.politico.com/story/2011/02/gop-frosh-obama-budget-a-joke-049481.
7. “The CBS News Republican Debate Transcript, Annotated,” Washington Post, February 13, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/02/13/the-cbs-republican-debate-transcript-annotated/.
8. Social Security and Medicare Boards of Trustees, “A Summary of the 2019 Annual Reports,” Social Security Administration, https://www.ssa.gov/oact/TRSUM/.
9. “Gross Domestic Product, Fourth Quarter and Annual 2018 (Initial Estimate),” Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Department of Commerce, February 28, 2019, https://www.bea.gov/news/2019/initial-gross-domestic-product-4th-quarter-and-annual-2018.
10. Asawin Suebsaeng and Lachlan Markay, “Trump on Coming Debt Crisis: ‘I Won’t Be Here’ When It Blows Up,” The Daily Beast, March 14, 2019, https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-on-coming-debt-crisis-i-wont-be-here-when-it-blows-up.
11. “Fix the National Debt,” Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, http://www.crfb.org/debtfixer/.
12. Social Security and Medicare Boards of Trustees, “A Summary of the 2019 Annual Reports.”
13. Suebsaeng and Markay, “Trump on Coming Debt Crisis: ‘I Won’t Be Here’ When It Blows Up.”
14. Ibid.
15. House Freedom Caucus (@freedom caucus), tweet, February 7, 2018, https://twitter.com/freedomcaucus/status/961398045022871552.
16. Eliza Collins, “As Paul Ryan Turns to Democrats for Votes, Conservatives Fume over Budget Deal,” USA Today, February 8, 2018, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/02/08/paul-ryan-turns-democrats-votes-conservatives-fume-over-budget-deal/320248002/.
17. Mark Meadows, “House Freedom Caucus Opposes Budget Agreement,” July 23, 2019, https://meadows.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3058.
18. Ramsey Touchberry, “23 Senate Republicans Break with Donald Trump over Massive Budget Deal,” Newsweek, August 1, 2019, https://www.newsweek.com/republicans-rebuke-massive-trump-backed-budget-deal-measure-passes-1452139.
19. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, August 1, 2019. https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1156935288322699265?lang=en.
20. “POTUS Rescission Transmittal Package,” White House, https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/POTUS-Rescission-Transmittal-Package-5.8.2018.pdf.
21. Michelle Lee, “Fact Check: Has Trump Declared Bankruptcy Four or Six Times?,” Washington Post, September 26, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2016/live-updates/general-election/real-time-fact-checking-and-analysis-of-the-first-presidential-debate/fact-check-has-trump-declared-bankruptcy-four-or-six-times/.
Chapter 10: Fixing Trade
1. Donald Trump, “The America We Deserve,” (Los Angeles: Renaissance Books, 2000). https://books.google.com/books?id=PV6qZU_xev8C&q=world+war+II#v=snippet&q=enemies%20in%20world%20war%20II&f=false.
2. Donald J. Trump, Time to Get Tough: Make America Great Again! (Washington D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2011), 31.
3. Dylan Matthews, “Zero-Sum Trump,” Vox, January 19, 2017, https://www.vox.com/a/donald-trump-books.
4. “Section 201 Cases: Imported Large Residential Washing Machines and Imported Solar Cells and Modules,” Office of the United States Trade Representative, https://ustr.gov/sites/default/files/files/Press/fs/201%20FactSheet.pdf.
5. “Public Law 87-794,” US Government Printing Office, October 11, 1962, https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-76/pdf/STATUTE-76-Pg872.pdf, 872; “Presidential Proclamation on Adjusting Imports of Steel into the United States,” White House, March 8, 2018, https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/presidential-proclamation-adjusting-imports-steel-united-states/; “Presidential Proclamation on Adjusting Imports of Aluminum into the United States,” White House, March 8, 2018, https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/presidential-proclamation-adjusting-imports-aluminum-united-states/.
6. “What You Need to Know About Implementing Steel and Aluminum Tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and the European Union,” White House, May 31, 2018, https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/need-know-implementing-steel-aluminum-tariffs-canada-mexico-european-union/.
7. “Trade Act of 1974,” US House of Representatives, August 6, 2018, https://legcounsel.house.gov/Comps/93-618.pdf, 195, 191.
8. Donald J. Trump, “Statement by the President Regarding Trade with China,” White House, June 15, 2018, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-president-regarding-trade-china/.
9. Donald J. Trump, “Statement from the President,” White House, September 17, 2018, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-from-the-president-4/.
10. “Statement by U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer on Section 301 Action,” Office of the United States Trade Representative, May 10, 2019, https://ustr.gov/about-us/policy-offices/press-office/press-releases/2019/may/statement-us-trade-representative.
11. Caitlain Devereaux Lewis, “Presidential Authority over Trade: Imposing Tariffs and Duties,” Congressional Research Service, December 9, 2016, https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R44707.pdf, 1.
12. Erica York, Kyle Pomerleau, and Scott Eastman, “Tracking the Economic Impact of U.S. Tariffs and Retaliatory Actions,” Tax Foundation, May 31, 2019, https://taxfoundation.org/tariffs-trump-trade-war/.
13. Rick Newman, “Trump’s Trade War Has Killed 300,000 Jobs,” Yahoo! Finance, September 10, 2019, https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trumps-trade-war-has-killed-300000-jobs-194717808.html.
14. Dion Rabouin, “Trump’s Trade War Is Being Felt Throughout the Economy,” Axios, September 12, 2019, https://www.axios.com/trumps-trade-war-is-being-felt-throughout-the-economy-cf192439-cd83-4bfa-a9b8-a28e4659d8b1.html.
15. “2019 Footwear Tariff Letter,” Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America, May 20, 2019, https://fdra.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2019-Footwear-Tariff-Letter-1.pdf.
16. Mary Catherine Wellons, “The $400 Billion Outdoor Industry Sounds Alarm on Trump’s Trade War Tariffs,” CNBC, September 13, 2019, https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/13/the-400-billion-outdoor-industry-sounds-alarm-on-trumps-trade-war.html.
17. Richard Waters, “How the Trade War Is Damaging the US Tech Industry,” Financial Times, August 15, 2019, https://www.ft.com/content/16fa93ba-bf69-11e9-b350-db00d509634e.
18. “China Trade Standstill More Bad News for Farmers,” American Farm Bureau Federation, August 5, 2019, https://www.fb.org/newsroom/china-trade-standstill-more-bad-news-for-farmers.
19. “China: Top Market for U.S. Ag Exports,” Minnesota Department of Agriculture, https://www.mda.state.mn.us/sites/default/files/inline-files/profilechina.pdf.
20. Kamron Daugherty and Hui Jiang, “Outlook for U.S. Agricultural Trade,” United States Department of Agriculture, May 30, 2019, https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/publications/93215/aes-108.pdf?v=5416.2.
21. Bloomberg TicToc (@tictoc), tweet, March 2, 2018, https://twitter.com/i/moments/969519906097106944?lang=en.
22. “Farm Policy: USDA’s 2018 Trade Aid Package,” Homeland Security Digital Library, June 19, 2019, https://www.hsdl.org/?abstract&did=826586.
23. “USDA Announces Support for Farmers Impacted by Unjustified Retaliation and Trade Disruption,” U.S. Department of Agriculture, May 23, 2019, https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2019/05/23/usda-announces-support-farmers-impacted-unjustified-retaliation-and.
24. Ibid.
25. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, May 10, 2019, https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1126833126179840000.
26. “China—Agricultural Industry,” International Trade Administration, July 30, 2019, https://www.export.gov/article?id=China-Agricultural-Sectors.
27. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, May 10, 2019, https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1126815126584266753?lang=en.
28. Nahal Toosi, “Trump Plan Would Steer Foreign Aid to ‘Friends and Allies,’ ” Politico, September 6, 2019, https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/06/trump-foreign-aid-allies-1483788.
29. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, July 23, 2019, https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1153634372442107904.
30. Alan Rappeport, “Farmers’ Frustration with Trump Grows as U.S. Escalates China Fight,” New York Times, August 27, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/27/us/politics/trump-farmers-china-trade.html. During that same forum, Perdue joked, “What do you call two farmers in a basement? A whine cellar.”
31. Alan Rappeport, “U.S. Rolls Out More Farm Aid as Soy Growers Urge Trade Cease-Fire,” New York Times, July 25, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/us/politics/farm-aid-trade-wars.html.
32. Steve Karnowski and Balint Szalai, “Some Big Farms Collect Big Checks from Trump Aid Package,” Associated Press, July 3, 2019, https://www.apnews.com/c40f92fefbac487fb2a0bb8f9a5b6643.
33. James MacPherson, “Economist: New Trump Farm Aid May Be Distributed More Fairly,” Associated Press, July 26, 2019, https://www.apnews.com/c753b1f7330443728dc5e4cc8b7be2dd.
34. “USDA Announces Support for Farmers Impacted by Unjustified Retaliation and Trade Disruption,” US Department of Agriculture, May 23, 2019, https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2019/05/23/usda-announces-support-farmers-impacted-unjustified-retaliation-and.
35. P. J. Huffstutter, “Trump Trade-War Aid Sows Frustration in Farm Country,” Reuters, September 13, 2019, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china-aid/trump-trade-war-aid-sows-frustration-in-farm-country-idUSKCN1VY0ZT.
36. Alan Rappeport, “Peter Navarro Invented an Expert for His Books, Based on Himself,” New York Times, October 16, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/16/us/politics/peter-navarro-ron-vara.html.
37. Tom Bartlett, “Trump’s ‘China Muse’ Has an Imaginary Friend,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 15, 2019, https://www.chronicle.com/interactives/20191015-navarro.
38. Scott Horsley, “White House Adviser Peter Navarro Calls Fictional Alter Ego an ‘Inside Joke,’ ” NPR, October 18, 2019, https://www.npr.org/2019/10/18/771396016/white-house-adviser-peter-navarro-calls-fictional-alter-ego-an-inside-joke.
39. Bob Sellers, “Tariff Man: Behind Trump Economic Advisor Peter Navarro’s Long Quest to Ratchet Up the Trade War with China,” Fortune, August 27, 2019, https://fortune.com/2019/08/27/tariff-man-behind-trump-economic-advisor-peter-navarros-long-quest-to-ratchet-up-the-trade-war-with-china/.
40. Josh Dawsey and Damian Paletta, “ ‘My Peter’: Rising Influence of Controversial Trump Trade Adviser Navarro Concerns His Critics,” Washington Post, June 12, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/my-peter-rising-influence-of-controversial-trump-trade-adviser-navarro-concerns-his-critics/2019/06/12/e4fcb81c-8b96-11e9-b162-8f6f41ec3c04_story.html.
41. Melissa Chan, “Trump’s Top China Expert Isn’t a China Expert,” Foreign Policy, March 13, 2017, https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/03/13/peter-navarro-profile-national-trade-council-donald-trump-china-expert/.
42. Annie Lowrey, “The ‘Madman’ Behind Trump’s Trade Theory,” The Atlantic, December 2018, https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/12/peter-navarro-trump-trade/573913/.
Chapter 11: Fixing Immigration
1. Politico (@politico), tweet, January 10, 2019, https://twitter.com/politico/status/1083448877666193409.
2. Michelle Hackman, “U.S. Immigration Courts’ Backlog Exceeds One Million Cases,” Wall Street Journal, September 18, 2019, https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-immigration-courts-backlog-exceeds-one-million-cases-11568845885.
3. Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (New York: Crown Publishers, 2006), 268.
4. Fact Checker, “In 993 Days, President Trump has Made 13,435 False or Misleading Claims,” Washington Post, October 9, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims-database/.
5. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, July 14, 2019, https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150381395078000643.
6. Z. Byron Wolf, “Trump’s Attacks on Judge Curiel Are Still Jarring to Read,” CNN, February 27, 2018, https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/27/politics/judge-curiel-trump-border-wall/index.html.
7. “Remarks by President Trump and President Mattarella of the Italian Republic Before Bilateral Meeting,” White House, October 16, 2019, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-president-mattarella-italian-republic-bilateral-meeting/.
8. This specific wording came from a rally in San Jose on June 2, 2016; see Miriam Valverde, “Donald Trump Stalls on Promise to Build a Wall, Have Mexico Pay for It,” PolitiFact, January 14, 2019, https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/1397/build-wall-and-make-mexico-pay-it/.
9. “Homeland Security Secretary Confirmation Hearing,” C-SPAN, January 10, 2017, https://www.c-span.org/video/?421234-1/homeland-security-nominee-general-john-kelly-testifies-confirmation-hearing.
10. “Written Testimony of DHS Secretary John F. Kelly for a Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Hearing Titled ‘Improving Border Security and Public Safety,’ ” US Department of Homeland Security, April 5, 2017, https://www.dhs.gov/news/2017/04/05/written-testimony-dhs-secretary-kelly-senate-committee-homeland-security-and.
11. Donald Judd, “Kelly Dismisses Need for Wall Along Full U.S. Mexico Border,” CNN, March 7, 2019, https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/07/politics/john-kelly-border-wall/index.html.
12. Jerry Markon and Dan Lamothe, “Retired Marine Gen. John Kelly Picked to Head Homeland Security,” Washington Post, December 7, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/retired-marine-gen-john-f-kelly-picked-to-head-department-of-homeland-security/2016/12/07/165472f2-bbe6-11e6-94ac-3d324840106c_story.html.
13. Franco Ordoñez, “Trump Pick to Head Homeland Security Oversaw Guantánamo Prison,” McClatchy, December 7, 2016, https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article119427068.html.
14. “Public Law 115-31—May 5, 2017,” US Congress, https://www.congress.gov/115/plaws/publ31/PLAW-115publ31.pdf.
15. “Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018,” US Congress. https://www.congress.gov/115/plaws/publ141/PLAW-115publ141.pdf.
16. “Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019,” US Congress, https://congress.gov/116/bills/hjres31/BILLS-116hjres31enr.pdf.
17. Laura Meckler, “Trump Administration Seeks $18 Billion over Decade to Expand Border Wall,” Wall Street Journal, January 5, 2018, https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-administration-seeks-18-billion-over-decade-to-expand-border-wall-1515148381.
18. “H.R. 7059–Build the Wall, Enforce the Law Act of 2018,” US Congress, October 12, 2018, https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/7059/text.
19. Burgess Everett and Seung Min Kim, “Schumer Withdraws Offer on Trump’s Wall,” Politico, January 23, 2018, https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/23/chuck-schumer-trump-wall-offer-359156.
20. Brandon Carter, “50 States and Territories Projects,” NPR, https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=6382249-50-States-and-Territories-Projects.
21. Paul Sonne, “To Pay for Trump’s Wall, a Hurricane-Wrecked Base in Puerto Rico Loses Funding,” Washington Post, September 19, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/at-half-ruined-puerto-rico-base-hurricane-recovery-funds-pulled-for-trumps-wall/2019/09/19/173ad4f4-d63c-11e9-ab26-e6dbebac45d3_story.html.
22. Lamar Alexander, “Alexander Statement on Vote to Disapprove of National Emergency Declaration,” September 25, 2019, https://www.alexander.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2019/9/alexander-statement-on-vote-to-disapprove-of-national-emergency-declaration.
23. Tim Lau, “Progress Toward Reforming the National Emergencies Act,” Brennan Center for Justice, July 29, 2019, https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/progress-toward-reforming-national-emergencies-act.
24. Pete Williams, “Judge Rules Trump Violated the Law on Wall Funding with National Emergency,” NBC News, October 11, 2019, https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/judge-rules-trump-violated-law-wall-funding-national-emergency-n1065216.
25. Nick Miroff and Josh Dawsey, “ ‘Take the Land’: President Trump Wants a Border Wall. He Wants It Black. And He Wants It by Election Day,” Washington Post, August 27, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/take-the-land-president-trump-wants-a-border-wall-he-wants-it-black-and-he-wants-it-by-election-day/2019/08/27/37b80018-c821-11e9-a4f3-c081a126de70_story.html.
26. Salvador Rizzo, “More Than Two Years Later, Trump’s Wall Remains Unbuilt,” Washington Post, September 6, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/09/06/more-than-two-years-later-trumps-wall-remains-unbuilt/.
27. Donald J. Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Meeting on Human Trafficking on the Southern Border,” White House, February 1, 2019, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-meeting-human-trafficking-southern-border/.
28. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, January 2, 2019, https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1080457560291987457.
29. Daniel Dale (@ddale8), tweet, October 23, 2019, https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1187111478547177473.
Afterword: Closing Thoughts
1. Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, “US Attitudes Toward Socialism, Communism, and Collectivism,” YouGov, October 2019, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-Finnggps7JDvgoylYYWc_onPtP8UiR8/view.
2. “Executive Order 9066: Resulting in the Relocation of Japanese (1942),” February 19, 1942, National Archives, https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=74#.
3. Thom Tillis, “I Support Trump’s Vision on Border Security. But I Would Vote Against the Emergency,” Washington Post, February 25, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/02/25/i-support-trumps-vision-border-security-i-would-vote-against-emergency/.
4. Ibid.
5. Scott Wong and Alexander Bolton, “GOP’s Tillis Comes Under Pressure for Taking on Trump,” The Hill, March 13, 2019, https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/433929-gops-tillis-comes-under-pressure-for-taking-on-trump.
6. Brian Murphy, “Tillis Reverses Course, Votes to Support Trump on National Emergency Declaration,” News & Observer [Raleigh, NC], March 14, 2019, https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article227742754.html.
7. Gary D. Robertson, “Rep. Mark Walker Declines Tillis Primary Challenge,” News & record [Greensboro, NC], June 13, 2019, https://www.greensboro.com/news/state/rep-mark-walker-declines-tillis-primary-challenge/article_10e7e0c1-ec31-5265-9857-baf0b43a756e.html.
8. Gary D. Robertson, “Trump Endorses North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis,” Associated Press, June 25, 2019, https://apnews.com/3bf80ecb6a6a42f58a640e2b4e669ca8.