Bill Kristol’s Weekly Standard folded in 2018. His gigs at ABC and Fox News were not renewed.
Should Kristol suffer a similar fate at The Bulwark, the fiercely anti-Trump website where he serves as editor-at-large, Bill should consider opening shop in a local strip mall: “Mystic Mister William Sees All, Tells All.”
The suggestion arises in light of Kristol’s Bulwark column today: “Reading Trump’s Mind.”
In it, Kristol writes satire like he’s comedian Larry David, posing as if he were President Trump as he conducts a review of multiple senior aides. The prism through which he judges them all is their usefulness to him “in 2028.”
Thus, “Trump”:
- Concludes that, “because he screwed up too many times,” he must fire Pete Hegseth. Trump does so regretfully because: “He was willing to do what it takes to get a military that’s loyal to me. Which is goddamn…
