Melania Trump Archives

Cockburn’s Diary

Shutdown siestas

Plus: Nobel, no problems

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Charming both the Trumps, in wholly separate ways, is a tough gig, but Catherine managed it with flying colors

Alexander Larman

Plus: Kimmel-suspension backlash sweeps Hollywood

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Plus: The acting head of the CDC will buy your kidney

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Cockburn’s Diary

Plus: Booker and Rosario’s pedicure date

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Europe
August 18, 2025
Zelensky dresses up and avoids dressing-down
Trump specializes in the diplomatic theater of the absurd
Madeline Grant
Politics
August 14, 2025
Melania’s $1 billion defamation suit won’t keep Hunter Biden quiet
The First Lady is kindly asking Hunter to apologize for saying she met Trump through Epstein
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Cockburn’s Diary
July 29, 2025
Trump takes on the homelessness problem
Plus: The Trump Center for the Performing Arts
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Politics
July 24, 2025
Behold, the First Lady Melania Trump Opera House
While Cockburn has no quibbles with Melania, this move does bear a whiff of kowtowing to Dear Leader
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International
July 16, 2025
The secret life of Agent Melania
The former Slovenian supermodel clearly has no great love for Vladimir Putin
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Politics
July 14, 2025
Has Putin turned Trump into a Russia hawk?
The hawks in Washington are jubilant, the MAGA restrainers, as they refer to themselves, aghast
Jacob Heilbrunn
Politics
July 11, 2025
Barron Trump, the enigmatic crypto scion
His mystique appears entirely deliberate
Kara Kennedy
Politics
July 4, 2025
Trump’s Big, Beautiful Fourth of July
‘As we enter our 249th year America is winning, winning, winning, like never before’
Matt McDonald
Politics
May 30, 2025
Melania Trump is phoning it in
Her absence turned into a pretty lucrative enterprise
Kara Kennedy
Cockburn’s Diary
May 9, 2025
Where in the world is Melania Trump?
Plus: the new Interim US Attorney
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