Stephen Colbert talked with Diane Sawyer on Late Show about her having interviewed Donald Trump back i n1999, when he was first flirting with running for POTUS, and not many people were taking him seriously. “He was amazingly consistent about China and the trade war,” she said. “North Korea back then too.” She…

The Simpsons is poking the POTUS bear again. A month after it skewered President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office, the stalwart Fox toon is ripping him in a ripped-from-the-headlines short that covers a seemingly NBA-ready Jim Comey; Presi-, er Vice President Mike Pence; First Hand-Slapper Melania Trump; even…

Hillary Clinton kicked off the Memorial Day Weekend news cycle comparing President Donald Trump to Richard Nixon, hoping his tenure ends similarly, and warning that people in power who invent their own facts and attack those who question them mark the beginning of the end of a free society. Delivering Friday’s…

As political journalists take a bit of a breather with President Trump on foreign soil, History has seized on the opportunity to make a headline of its own. The cable channel has ordered Watergate, what it calls the “definitive” documentary series about the scandal and cover-up that forced President Richard Nixon out…

President Donald Trump’s surprise sacking of FBI Director James Comey dominated late-night monologues Wednesday night. “It's been an historic day; we’ve reached a milestone as a nation,” Colbert told his Late Night viewers. It’s not just that the president fired the head of the FBI. We apparently have elected a…

After reporters were told the White House found it startling Democrats weren’t elated that President Trump sacked FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday, Trump took to twitter to blast Dems for not sticking to White House script: Dems have been complaining for months & months about Dir. Comey. Now that he has been…

Robert Redford says Donald Trump has taken the Nixon Administration’s “false accusations of ‘shoddy’ and ‘shabby’ journalism to new and dangerous heights.” Forty-five years after Watergate, the All the President’s Men actor writes in a Washington Post column that our nation’s “tenuous grasp on truth” leaves us…

President Donald Trump's early-morning tweet that his predecessor Barack Obama wiretapped him prior to the November election has created a political and media firestorm still burning today. "Just found out that Obama had my 'wires tapped' in Trump Tower just before the victory," he wrote Saturday. "This is Nixon/Waterg…

Donald Trump's claim that The New York Times, CNN, ABC, CBS and NBC News are "the enemy of the American people" has a familiar ring to John Dean, former White House counsel to President Richard Nixon. "It's pretty outrageous talk for a president, but this is a pretty outrageous president," Dean told Deadline. "He kind…

Tonight's first debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump falls on the anniversary of the most famous debate in American history: the first Richard Nixon/John F. Kennedy faceoff. Held 56 years ago tonight, it was the first presidential debate ever televised. More than 70 million Americans watched the debate that…

Diane Sawyer will undoubtedly have plenty of tales to tell now that she has departed the anchor’s chair at ABC’s World News. But I doubt few will be as …odd…as the night she spent at Camp David in the company of her boss, Richard M. Nixon. It must have been the weirdest place in America to be that day – Pearl Harbor…