| 1 | Sep 3, '20 | New, from @TheAtlantic: Trump skipped a visit to an American military cemetery in France after calling the dead "losers" for getting killed: Full story here: | 44.7× | 0 | 51k | 27k | 1.6k |
| 2 | Sep 3, '20 | Donald Trump, in a White House meeting, asked that a military parade exclude wounded veterans, because "nobody wants to see" amputees. My story here: | 42.5× | 0 | 55k | 28k | 1.3k |
| 3 | Feb 24, '22 | Noting that Putin is demanding the "denazification" of a country led by an elected Jewish president. | 15.8× | 0 | 39k | 6.9k | 299 |
| 4 | Sep 14, '20 | In his first interview, Alex Vindman tells me that Trump is Putin's "useful idiot." "In the Army, we call this ‘free chicken,’ something you don’t have to work for—it just comes to | 14.6× | 0 | 24k | 10k | 438 |
| 5 | Nov 15, '20 | .@BarackObama: "I did not believe how easily the Republican establishment, people who had been in Washington for a long time and had professed a belief in certain institutional val | 9.5× | 0 | 23k | 3.5k | 216 |
| 6 | Sep 5, '20 | This story by @CillizzaCNN fails to note, among other things, that Fox News and the Associated Press both corroborated the reporting in my piece for @TheAtlantic: | 8.3× | 0 | 19k | 3.6k | 67 |
| 7 | Sep 30, '20 | To underscore: When given a chance, the president of the United States refused to condemn white supremacy. | 7.3× | 0 | 17k | 3.9k | 34 |
| 8 | Sep 4, '20 | Donald Trump calls The Atlantic a "second-rate" magazine, a "third-rate" magazine, and a "failing" magazine. I call it America's best magazine. Who is right? Subscribe now and find | 6.7× | 0 | 15k | 2.2k | 39 |
| 9 | Oct 22, '24 | New, from me: | 6.7× | 1M | 5.7k | 1.8k | 346 |
| 10 | Apr 26, '20 | "We Stand Behind the President" -- a short film from @PhilRosenthal, is worth watching. Three minutes of your time. It captures a core truth of the Trump presidency: | 6.4× | 0 | 9.5k | 4k | 713 |
| 11 | Nov 15, '20 | "If we do not have the capacity to distinguish what’s true from what’s false, then by definition the marketplace of ideas doesn’t work. And by definition our democracy doesn't work | 6.3× | 0 | 13k | 2.7k | 281 |
| 12 | Apr 23, '19 | A Trump transition staffer (and law professor) says enough is enough, and calls for impeachment (via @TheAtlantic): | 6.1× | 0 | 11k | 4.2k | 124 |
| 13 | Feb 16, '20 | "Roughly 92 percent of conservatives said they would be friends with a liberal, and just 3 percent said that they would not have a liberal friend. Among liberals, however, almost a | 6.0× | 0 | 9.3k | 3k | 399 |
| 14 | Mar 29, '20 | I can't get this bit of analysis, from Donald Trump, off my mind: "You can call it a germ. You can call it a flu. You can call it a virus. You know, you can call it many different | 5.9× | 0 | 12k | 2.4k | 130 |
| 15 | Sep 18, '20 | At this point, it would be newsworthy to find a gruntled ex-White House employee. | 5.9× | 0 | 16k | 1.6k | 26 |
| 16 | Jan 7, '21 | "6MWE" -- a slogan on T-shirts seen at the Capitol yesterday. It stands for, "Six Million Wasn't Enough." Nice friends you have there, Jared. | 5.8× | 0 | 12k | 3.1k | 183 |
| 17 | Sep 6, '20 | Your periodic reminder that Donald Trump called President George H.W. Bush a "loser" for getting shot down by the Japanese in World War II: | 5.7× | 0 | 11k | 3.8k | 54 |
| 18 | Jul 10, '19 | "Unlike immigrants, natural-born citizens such as Carlson are neither screened nor forced to pass a citizenship test nor made to swear an oath. And when they stray from the America | 5.5× | 0 | 11k | 2.8k | 124 |
| 19 | Sep 4, '20 | Fact check: @TheAtlantic is doing quite well. If you're interested in reading the excellent work of our journalists, here's a way to do so: | 5.5× | 0 | 12k | 2.4k | 31 |
| 20 | Jun 14, '19 | "She has accused reporters of 'purposefully misleading the American people.' She has deflected; she has belittled; she has eye-rolled; she has condescended; she has obfuscated; she | 5.4× | 0 | 11k | 2.8k | 91 |
| 21 | May 7, '20 | Axl Rose and Steven Mnuchin are apparently fighting on Twitter. I don't think anyone saw that one coming. | 5.3× | 0 | 14k | 1.4k | 23 |
| 22 | Oct 2, '24 | “We don’t have a fucking air force,” a source in Tehran close to the Iranian military told me, under condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals. Of the attack on Israel, he said, | 4.9× | 736k | 7k | 1.1k | 620 |
| 23 | Jun 3, '20 | Former Secretary of Defense James Mattis denounces President Trump, accusing him of making a mockery of the Constitution and pitting Americans against each other. Read all about it | 4.9× | 0 | 8.7k | 3k | 129 |
| 24 | Sep 24, '23 | “I’ve worked for 8 presidents, and not even Lyndon Johnson or Richard Nixon in their angriest moments would have considered doing or saying some of the things that were said betwee | 4.7× | 709k | 7.5k | 1.9k | 209 |
| 25 | Sep 30, '20 | "Don't ever use the word smart with me" is an inadvertently great line. | 4.7× | 0 | 12k | 1.6k | 44 |
| 26 | Sep 7, '20 | View post on X | 4.5× | 0 | 9.3k | 2.5k | 130 |
| 27 | Feb 8, '20 | "The president can put quotation marks around lieutenant colonel, as he did in today’s tweets, in an effort to demean Vindman’s service, but there is nothing to demean about his se | 4.3× | 0 | 9.4k | 2.3k | 43 |
| 28 | Oct 22, '24 | General John Kelly: “President Trump used the terms suckers and losers to describe soldiers who gave their lives in the defense of our country. There are many, many people who have | 4.1× | 613k | 4.5k | 1.7k | 214 |
| 29 | Mar 24, '19 | "Good news, America. Russia helped install your president. But although he owes his job in large part to that help, the president did not conspire or collude with his helpers." -- | 4.1× | 0 | 7k | 2.6k | 111 |
| 30 | Mar 18, '20 | "It looks like the coronavirus is being weaponized as yet another element to bring down Donald Trump. I’m dead right on this. The coronavirus is the common cold, folks." -- Preside | 4.0× | 0 | 6.6k | 2.4k | 153 |
| 31 | Jan 17, '21 | "We can be the party of Eisenhower, or the party of the conspiracist Alex Jones. We can applaud Officer Goodman or side with the mob he outwitted. We cannot do both." -- @BenSasse: | 3.9× | 0 | 7.7k | 1.9k | 248 |
| 32 | Aug 22, '24 | Dramatic morning at the Whole Foods in Tenleytown DC. One police officer I interviewed said, laconically, ‘Brakes and gas are very different pedals.’ No one was hurt, so far as I c | 3.7× | 546k | 3.2k | 253 | 241 |
| 33 | Oct 22, '24 | Donald Trump: "Vietnam would have been a waste of time for me. Only suckers went to Vietnam." New, from @TheAtlantic: | 3.5× | 530k | 6.1k | 3.2k | 300 |
| 34 | May 27, '20 | .@TheAtlantic's audience has never been bigger. Please join our hundreds of thousands of subscribers, and tens of millions of readers. Subscribe here: | 3.4× | 0 | 7.4k | 1.7k | 22 |
| 35 | Sep 13, '20 | Not to mention President John Kerry's mishandling of Hurricane Katrina: | 3.3× | 0 | 8.8k | 1.1k | 13 |
| 36 | Aug 6, '19 | The New York Times employs 1600 journalists who do indispensable work across the globe. The paper publishes millions and millions of words each year. Sometimes it makes mistakes. A | 3.2× | 0 | 5.6k | 888 | 18 |
| 37 | Nov 24, '21 | Thank you to everyone who cared enough to praise or condemn me this week for leaving Fox. It was an easy decision, in large part because it was made by a completely different Goldb | 3.1× | 0 | 9.7k | 275 | 33 |
| 38 | Sep 4, '20 | "In one account, the president told senior advisers that he didn’t understand why the U.S. government placed such value on finding soldiers missing in action because they had perfo | 2.9× | 0 | 4.1k | 2.2k | 50 |
| 39 | Jun 2, '20 | Former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: "I have to date been reticent to speak out on issues surrounding President Trump's leadership, but we are at an inflection point, and | 2.9× | 0 | 4.9k | 2.1k | 131 |
| 40 | Aug 28, '20 | Quick fact check: Donald Trump did not make peace in the Middle East. | 2.9× | 0 | 7.3k | 1.2k | 7 |
| 41 | Oct 2, '23 | A good moment to post the original "suckers and losers" piece, from 2020: | 2.9× | 427k | 2.4k | 947 | 82 |
| 42 | May 31, '20 | Statements like this one from the President of the United States endanger the lives of reporters: | 2.9× | 0 | 5.5k | 1.6k | 18 |
| 43 | May 25, '20 | "Why do working-class white men—the most reliable component of Donald Trump’s base—support someone who is, by their own standards, the least masculine man ever to hold the modern p | 2.8× | 0 | 4.6k | 1.4k | 128 |
| 44 | Jun 3, '20 | The former defense secretary, James Mattis, condemns President Trump in an extraordinary statement. He describes him as a threat to American unity. Read more @TheAtlantic: | 2.8× | 0 | 5.1k | 1.7k | 62 |
| 45 | Aug 29, '19 | James Mattis, in his first interview since leaving office: "There is a period in which I owe my silence. It’s not eternal. It’s not going to be forever.” | 2.7× | 0 | 4.8k | 1.3k | 222 |
| 46 | Sep 6, '20 | Donald Trump has been credibly accused of rape, sexual assault, and harassment many times. @TheAtlantic asked one of the women who accused him of rape, the writer @ejeancarroll, to | 2.7× | 0 | 4.1k | 2k | 127 |
| 47 | Oct 3, '20 | Future historians will simply not be able to explain the behavior @PeterAtlantic witnessed in the White House today: | 2.5× | 0 | 4.4k | 1.4k | 287 |
| 48 | Mar 13, '20 | "(I)t’s hard to name a president who has been as overwhelmed by a crisis as the coronavirus has overwhelmed Donald Trump." -- @Peter_Wehner: Read the whole piece; it's important: | 2.4× | 0 | 4.1k | 1.4k | 136 |
| 49 | Sep 7, '20 | Interesting. | 2.3× | 0 | 4.5k | 1.4k | 86 |
| 50 | Sep 7, '20 | Just wondering if one version of reality is more real than the other? But who can say, really? | 2.3× | 0 | 5.7k | 741 | 36 |
| 51 | Nov 16, '20 | "If we do not have the capacity to distinguish what’s true from what’s false, then by definition the marketplace of ideas doesn’t work. And by definition our democracy doesn't work | 2.2× | 0 | 4.7k | 986 | 214 |
| 52 | Feb 6, '22 | This is an astonishing piece by a very brave Uyghur writer: | 2.2× | 0 | 3.4k | 1.4k | 577 |
| 53 | Aug 8, '22 | "The President’s loud complaint to John Kelly one day was typical: 'You fucking generals, why can’t you be like the German generals?'” 'Which generals?' Kelly asked. 'The German ge | 2.1× | 0 | 3.3k | 1.2k | 311 |
| 54 | Sep 3, '20 | “We’re not going to support that loser’s funeral," Trump said, referring to John McCain. Full story here: | 2.1× | 0 | 3k | 1.5k | 44 |
| 55 | Aug 30, '21 | .@djrothkopf: "Unlike his three immediate predecessors in the Oval Office, all of whom also came to see the futility of the Afghan operation, Biden alone had the political courage | 2.1× | 0 | 4.3k | 1.1k | 73 |
| 56 | Oct 3, '20 | It's appropriate that accounts expressing the desire to see harm come to Trump are being suspended, but I wish that Twitter had taken more seriously the countless thousands of deat | 2.0× | 0 | 5.1k | 781 | 13 |
| 57 | Sep 24, '22 | "Americans have waited four decades for Iranians to reject the regime’s propaganda and stop seeing them as the enemy. This is a historic opportunity for the two nations to forge a | 2.0× | 0 | 3.6k | 1.1k | 21 |
| 58 | Nov 21, '19 | This is a brave and insightful and deeply humane piece by @JohnGHendy and everyone should read it: | 2.0× | 0 | 2.9k | 946 | 340 |
| 59 | Apr 11, '20 | This is powerful. From @RadioFreeTom: | 1.9× | 0 | 3.4k | 1.2k | 123 |
| 60 | Dec 19, '19 | "Trump’s exceptional narcissism defines him, and it’s what makes him wholly unfit for his job. 'The fundamental life goal' of an extreme narcissist, as one psychologist has put it, | 1.9× | 0 | 3.8k | 1.1k | 47 |
| 61 | Dec 28, '19 | "Trump’s tweeting in the past two days was so frenzied and the sources quoted were so bizarre.... as to renew doubts about the president’s mental stability." -- @davidfrum: | 1.8× | 0 | 3.1k | 1.2k | 33 |
| 62 | Nov 25, '19 | Ouch. "No other developed, democratic country—and perhaps no other country in the world—would entrust any part of its foreign policy to someone like Gordon Sondland." | 1.7× | 0 | 3.7k | 1k | 46 |
| 63 | Oct 28, '22 | Everyone on this platform should consider migrating to deeply reported, carefully written magazine feature stories, printed on paper. | 1.6× | 0 | 3.2k | 294 | 27 |
| 64 | Sep 10, '20 | .@RadioFreeTom: "The only decent, sensible, and conservative position is to vote against this Republican Party at every level, and bring the sad final days of a once-great politica | 1.6× | 0 | 2.8k | 1k | 73 |
| 65 | Sep 21, '20 | Mueller deputy Weissmann to George Packer: 'There’s no question I was frustrated at the time. There was more that could be done that we didn’t do." Read the whole story here: | 1.6× | 0 | 2.3k | 1.1k | 160 |
| 66 | Oct 25, '19 | This piece is amazing. Starting with the headline. | 1.6× | 0 | 3k | 888 | 106 |
| 67 | Oct 23, '20 | The children who were stolen from their parents are kept in very clean facilities -- this is the president's argument. | 1.5× | 0 | 3.4k | 669 | 6 |
| 68 | Dec 17, '19 | "The matter is fairly simple: Impeachment is popular. The president is not." Read @GrahamDavidA: | 1.5× | 0 | 3.2k | 894 | 45 |
| 69 | Sep 11, '20 | One of the greatest pieces of 9/11 journalism, by @TomJunod: | 1.5× | 0 | 2.5k | 825 | 253 |
| 70 | Mar 20, '21 | "I suppose a magazine aimed at teens and preteens would strain to acknowledge what every adult knows, which is that the entire point of being a teenager is to make and correct the | 1.5× | 0 | 3.5k | 488 | 107 |
| 71 | Oct 24, '20 | "I worked at the State Department.... as a senior adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. I have watched as Pompeo and his predecessor, Rex Tillerson, have weaponized the instit | 1.4× | 0 | 2.4k | 958 | 106 |
| 72 | Jan 6, '21 | I was with pro-Trump protesters all morning near the White House. This was the plan. Trump whipped them up, and then they marched on the Capitol to subvert the democratic process. | 1.4× | 0 | 2.6k | 911 | 28 |
| 73 | Sep 21, '20 | Just when you think it can't get worse: | 1.4× | 0 | 2.5k | 716 | 19 |
| 74 | Sep 10, '20 | To support the crummy Atlantic's great journalists, please subscribe: | 1.4× | 0 | 3.1k | 594 | 15 |
| 75 | Aug 4, '20 | Also the way Maggie and I greet each other. | 1.3× | 0 | 3.8k | 281 | 10 |
| 76 | Apr 23, '19 | "I wanted to share my experience transitioning from Trump team member to pragmatist about Trump to advocate for his impeachment, because I think many other Republicans are starting | 1.3× | 0 | 2.1k | 960 | 40 |
| 77 | Oct 23, '20 | Trump is the best president for windows since Abraham Lincoln. | 1.3× | 0 | 3.7k | 294 | 8 |
| 78 | May 27, '20 | This is the article that probably triggered Trump: | 1.3× | 0 | 2.6k | 696 | 44 |
| 79 | Nov 14, '20 | "I think you'll see by June a lot of the country should be back to normal and the hope is that by July the country's really rocking again." -- Jared Kushner, April, 2020. | 1.3× | 0 | 3k | 440 | 17 |
| 80 | Jan 13, '21 | Glenn Beck has compared Twitter suspension to the forced ghettoization of Jews by the Germans. Here is some information from Yad Vashem about conditions in the Warsaw Ghetto: | 1.3× | 0 | 2.3k | 766 | 47 |
| 81 | Mar 29, '20 | .@Yamiche is a fine reporter and a model of professionalism. | 1.3× | 0 | 3.7k | 285 | 0 |
| 82 | Oct 15, '21 | "They call me a RINO, but I haven’t changed. The Republican Party has changed into an authoritarian Trump organization. They’re the RINOs. Trump is a RINO.” -- @AdamKinzinger, from | 1.2× | 0 | 2.6k | 516 | 64 |
| 83 | Jan 4, '21 | "This is sedition... No amount of playacting and rationalizing can change the fact that the majority of the Republican Party and its apologists are advocating for the overthrow of | 1.2× | 0 | 2.4k | 749 | 41 |
| 84 | Jun 10, '19 | Not to go on about this forever, but I just reread @AdamSerwer's "The Cruelty is the Point" -- the article that introduced this entire concept -- and I think it will turn out to be | 1.2× | 0 | 2k | 732 | 167 |
| 85 | Nov 16, '20 | .@BarackObama: "I did not believe how easily the Republican establishment, people who had been in Washington for a long time and had professed a belief in certain institutional val | 1.2× | 0 | 2.5k | 561 | 86 |
| 86 | Nov 4, '20 | Fox News: Biden is doing very poorly among Trump supporters. | 1.2× | 0 | 3.2k | 211 | 7 |
| 87 | Jun 22, '21 | Someone should win a Pulitzer for this headline: | 1.2× | 0 | 2.8k | 419 | 48 |
| 88 | Sep 30, '20 | At this point, Chris Wallace should call a time-out and ask Trump to take five minutes to collect himself. | 1.2× | 0 | 3.1k | 350 | 0 |
| 89 | Feb 9, '20 | This is an example of good ad-making: | 1.1× | 0 | 2.4k | 540 | 44 |
| 90 | Sep 4, '20 | New and noteworthy: | 1.1× | 0 | 2.4k | 585 | 10 |
| 91 | Sep 30, '20 | "Will you shut up, man" might be Biden's Gettysburg Address. | 1.1× | 0 | 2.6k | 489 | 12 |
| 92 | Jun 4, '20 | Something overlooked in the coverage of Jim Mattis's statement denouncing Trump: He specifically endorsed the anti-police violence protests: | 1.0× | 0 | 2.3k | 546 | 17 |
| 93 | Dec 28, '20 | "Lost entirely is the fact that the elderly are individual human beings, each with a distinctive face and voice, each with hopes and dreams, memories and regrets, friendships and m | 1.0× | 0 | 2.1k | 527 | 86 |
| 94 | Jan 9, '21 | So many people read this @gtconway3d story when we published it, but not enough paid heed. And now here we are. | 1.0× | 0 | 2.3k | 432 | 56 |
| 95 | Oct 3, '20 | "The Trump White House... is the most dysfunctional in history. Donald Trump is the most corrupt president in history. Yet that White House and that president head the government o | 1.0× | 0 | 2k | 613 | 32 |
| 96 | Jul 25, '21 | Providence, Sunday morning. | 1.0× | 0 | 2.6k | 291 | 34 |
| 97 | Feb 15, '20 | "A man is what he thinks about all day long." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson. | 1.0× | 0 | 2.3k | 332 | 36 |
| 98 | Oct 7, '20 | I am morally and contractually required to note that @TheAtlantic's great @AdamSerwer came up with the defining phrase of the Trump era: The cruelty is the point. | 0.9× | 0 | 2.2k | 362 | 11 |
| 99 | Jan 24, '20 | 5:35 a.m., flight from San Francisco to Salt Lake City. Guy next to me just ordered a Scotch on the rocks. As the saying goes, it’s 7 a.m. somewhere. | 0.8× | 0 | 2.4k | 53 | 5 |
| 100 | Nov 4, '20 | In which a commentator attacks a woman for refusing to endorse a man who viciously insulted her late husband: | 0.8× | 0 | 2.1k | 283 | 15 |
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