David Rothkopf

State Department to ban immigrants speaking ill of Charlie Kirk. VP to fly his body to Arizona on Air Force 2. Trump to award him the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Journalists getting fired for asking the right questions. We are spiraling into a dystopia beyond our imagining.

Hey RFK, Jr. I just got vaccinated today for flu and COVID. Because...science.

I think it’s fair to say there have been more overt attacks on and threats to freedom of expression in the US since January than in our entire history. And recently they are accelerating and getting more brazen.

Beenado.

It won't take a China specialist to see the shift in US policy on Taiwan from literally every other president of the modern era to Trump.

Back when I was in the government, a senior official, much less a president, would never go on a mission like Trump's to China that offered no real deliverables of any sort. He embarrassed the country. But, the story of this summit is even worse than that. www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-trip-...

Standing next to the 5'11" Xi, it was clear that Trump is not the 6'3" titan he has long bragged he is. But, more importantly, his trip to China proves he has diminished our nation's stature as much or more than age (or is it just honesty) has reduced his. www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-trip-...

Trump's China trip was a flop. Let me count the ways... www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-trip-...

This is a disgrace. Profoundly reckless.

Ya. That was a wink and a nod from Trump to Xi.