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When Trump says fake news, he means journalism that makes points with which he disagrees, usually about him.

Gene Weingarten

I think we too often go soft in trying to spare people the agony of confronting reality.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Agony Reality Thinking
One of my favorite footnotes in the hypochondria book [The Hypochondriac’s Guide to Life. And Death.] was about the death of one of the King Charleses. He was essentially bled and vomited to death by his doctors. They also drilled holes in his head.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Books Doctors Kings
Allowing a non-lawyer to be on the Supreme Court strikes me as a very American thing, in a good way. Another is that the speaker of the house doesn’t have to be a member of congress.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Constitution Court House Supreme
We want to believe that the world is understandable and controllable and unthreatening, that if we follow the rules, we’ll be okay.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Believe Monster People
I once found myself driving, smoking a cigar, taking notes, and talking on the phone at the same time. I only became completely aware of this when I had to shift, and realized something had to give.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Giving Phones Talking
The intelligent Trump supporter will be someone who is so cynical about politics that he wants the world blown up, and doesn’t care if the person doing the blowing up is an obnoxious, infantile vulgarian. I don’t know where to find these people. Do you?
GENE WEINGARTEN

Cynical Intelligent People
My neighborhood is fairly white, yet the local middle school is all black. It is bad. It is very bad.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Black Local Middle School
The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it’s hard. If you think it’s not hard, you’re not doing it right.
GENE WEINGARTEN

One Thing Thinking Writing
When my daughter was a senior in high school, I remember noticing, almost in passing, that her friends were very cute. Which made me realize her friends’ fathers probably found Molly very cute.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Cute Daughter Senior
I was possessing heroin in fairly large quantities in New York City during the years of the draconian Rockefeller Drug Laws. Had I been busted, I would have faced mandatory life in prison. I don’t think many white kids walked, either. I knew one who got 15 years for pot.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Drug Kids Thinking
I think Trump wants to be dictator. I don’t think the courts will allow him to be, and I think that after months of revolting sycophancy, neither will Congress. He will sink to such a popularity trough that even those spineless, craven gophers will cave.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Dictator Popularity Thinking
One thing I am learning from the kitten is that everything he is doing seems to be in preparation for murder.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Kitten Murder Preparation
It is hard to quantify the value of name recognition, but Donald Trump has gone from fame to international mega-fame. That has to be gargantuan when your business is your name.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Gone Names Recognition
Donald Trump’s humor is hostile to a fault.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Faults Hostile Trump
I think politics is everything.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Everything Politics Thinking
Politics is how you think about life itself.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Itself Politics Thinking

When Trump says fake news, he means journalism that makes points with which he disagrees, usually about him.

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