All posts tagged "Philip Bump"

There's a slight problem with President Donald Trump's moratorium on the use of certain words he has deemed "worrisome or problematically diversity-focused," according to Philip Bump, columnist with The Washington Post.

It seems the president himself is a repeat offender when it comes to using terms like "victim," "women," "barrier," and "political" — words the National Science Foundation has been told to flag when deciding whether a scientific research proposal should receive funding.

The Trump administration gave the NSF a list of 100 or so offending words it says promotes the dreaded Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies of liberals, and which have no place in 2025 MAGA land....

Someone should probably ask Donald Trump if he knows how much his rhetoric and threats mirror those made by Adolf Hitler — because it’s been an open question for too long, the Washington Post recommended Monday.

“Stories about Trump’s flirtations with Hitler — or, at least, with some narrowly constructed vision of the mass murderer — have been around for decades,” wrote analyst Philip Bump.

“Is Trump doing so knowingly — or is he simply following the same path those dictators walked?”...