David Frum
@davidfrum.bsky.social
Staff writer for the Atlantic. Host of the David Frum Show webcast. Formerly ... quite a lot of things.
Washington DC and Wellington, Ontario.
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Washington DC and Wellington, Ontario.
Reach me via [email protected]
DMs open to followers
Americans are paying over 20% more for coffee under Trump than under Biden. When Trump brags about tariff collections, he's bragging about his tax on your cup. Good morning!
August 20, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Americans are paying over 20% more for coffee under Trump than under Biden. When Trump brags about tariff collections, he's bragging about his tax on your cup. Good morning!
Americans are paying over 20% more for coffee under Trump than under Biden. When Trump brags about tariff collections, he's bragging about his tax on your cup.
August 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Americans are paying over 20% more for coffee under Trump than under Biden. When Trump brags about tariff collections, he's bragging about his tax on your cup.
If Trump lost valued employees to competing offers, one reason might be his company's court-proven practice of requiring employees to participate in tax fraud in order to gain their full compensation. www.reuters.com/legal/trump-...
July 29, 2025 at 6:37 PM
If Trump lost valued employees to competing offers, one reason might be his company's court-proven practice of requiring employees to participate in tax fraud in order to gain their full compensation. www.reuters.com/legal/trump-...
China is plunging off the population cliff www.ft.com/content/8271...
July 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
China is plunging off the population cliff www.ft.com/content/8271...
Russia helped Trump in 2016. Trump welcomed the help. The help made a difference to the election outcome. Some deny those facts because they are motivated to protect Trump. Others deny the facts because they are motivated to protect Russia. But the facts are what they are.
July 19, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Russia helped Trump in 2016. Trump welcomed the help. The help made a difference to the election outcome. Some deny those facts because they are motivated to protect Trump. Others deny the facts because they are motivated to protect Russia. But the facts are what they are.
Richard Nixon & Co. explain Trump' Epstein comms strategy in a tape-record conversation, March 22. 1973: www.nixonlibrary.gov/sites/defaul...
July 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Richard Nixon & Co. explain Trump' Epstein comms strategy in a tape-record conversation, March 22. 1973: www.nixonlibrary.gov/sites/defaul...
Decades of protectionist trade polices are the reason that Coca-Cola does not use real sugar in its US product. Sugar costs twice as much in the USA as in free-trade countries. sweetenerusers.org/wp-content/u...
July 16, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Decades of protectionist trade polices are the reason that Coca-Cola does not use real sugar in its US product. Sugar costs twice as much in the USA as in free-trade countries. sweetenerusers.org/wp-content/u...
Hamas did the crime, then persuaded credulous western media to fix blame on Israel for its own action
June 1, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Hamas did the crime, then persuaded credulous western media to fix blame on Israel for its own action
The future of American politics
Option 1: Anti-Israel socialist crank
Option 2: Pro-Trump crook
Option 3: Guy who should have retired 10 years ago.
Option 1: Anti-Israel socialist crank
Option 2: Pro-Trump crook
Option 3: Guy who should have retired 10 years ago.
May 30, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The future of American politics
Option 1: Anti-Israel socialist crank
Option 2: Pro-Trump crook
Option 3: Guy who should have retired 10 years ago.
Option 1: Anti-Israel socialist crank
Option 2: Pro-Trump crook
Option 3: Guy who should have retired 10 years ago.
Natan Sharansky famously divided the world into "free societies" and "fear societies." Under Trump, the United States seems to making the sad transition from the first into the second.
May 28, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Natan Sharansky famously divided the world into "free societies" and "fear societies." Under Trump, the United States seems to making the sad transition from the first into the second.
More via Wandile Sihlobo
May 23, 2025 at 6:08 PM
More via Wandile Sihlobo
Via South African agricultural economist Wandile Sihlobo, new statistics on farm killings in South Africa from the ministry of justice. In fourth quarter 2024, there were 6 farm killings, only 1 of the victims was white.
May 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Via South African agricultural economist Wandile Sihlobo, new statistics on farm killings in South Africa from the ministry of justice. In fourth quarter 2024, there were 6 farm killings, only 1 of the victims was white.
Congratulations to Nathaniel Frum and the "Call From a Killer" team: top podcast series in Canada, 2nd most downloaded single show in Canada.
May 22, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Congratulations to Nathaniel Frum and the "Call From a Killer" team: top podcast series in Canada, 2nd most downloaded single show in Canada.
Story: Vietnam negotiating tariff relief from Trump administration.
Photo: Eric Trump in Vietnam to accept a billion-dollar payoff to the Trump family from the Vietnamese government.
Picture = thousand words.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Photo: Eric Trump in Vietnam to accept a billion-dollar payoff to the Trump family from the Vietnamese government.
Picture = thousand words.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
May 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Story: Vietnam negotiating tariff relief from Trump administration.
Photo: Eric Trump in Vietnam to accept a billion-dollar payoff to the Trump family from the Vietnamese government.
Picture = thousand words.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Photo: Eric Trump in Vietnam to accept a billion-dollar payoff to the Trump family from the Vietnamese government.
Picture = thousand words.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Muslim-majority Bangladesh was once the eastern half of Pakistan. In 1971, Bangladesh broke away from the western half, achieved independence, and made peace with India. Look what happened next. data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY...
May 16, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Muslim-majority Bangladesh was once the eastern half of Pakistan. In 1971, Bangladesh broke away from the western half, achieved independence, and made peace with India. Look what happened next. data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY...
Gift from a democracy: chickpea-and-lentil snacks; artisanal mustard.
Thank you for gift: handshake and souvenir photo.
Gift from an emirate: $400 million jet for personal use and use by heirs.
Thank you for gift: a whole lotta political influence and terrorism impunity.
Thank you for gift: handshake and souvenir photo.
Gift from an emirate: $400 million jet for personal use and use by heirs.
Thank you for gift: a whole lotta political influence and terrorism impunity.
May 14, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Gift from a democracy: chickpea-and-lentil snacks; artisanal mustard.
Thank you for gift: handshake and souvenir photo.
Gift from an emirate: $400 million jet for personal use and use by heirs.
Thank you for gift: a whole lotta political influence and terrorism impunity.
Thank you for gift: handshake and souvenir photo.
Gift from an emirate: $400 million jet for personal use and use by heirs.
Thank you for gift: a whole lotta political influence and terrorism impunity.
As Trump celebrates all things Saudi, someone not to forget about. She is held at an unknown prison with no contact with outside world for social media posts about her right to dress as she pleases. www.bbc.com/news/world-m...
May 14, 2025 at 11:34 AM
As Trump celebrates all things Saudi, someone not to forget about. She is held at an unknown prison with no contact with outside world for social media posts about her right to dress as she pleases. www.bbc.com/news/world-m...
Neither house has much artistic value. Stornoway also has little historic value.
Knock down both 24 Sussex and Stornoway and commission competing teams to build rival showplaces of Canadian excellence in architecture and design.
Knock down both 24 Sussex and Stornoway and commission competing teams to build rival showplaces of Canadian excellence in architecture and design.
May 13, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Neither house has much artistic value. Stornoway also has little historic value.
Knock down both 24 Sussex and Stornoway and commission competing teams to build rival showplaces of Canadian excellence in architecture and design.
Knock down both 24 Sussex and Stornoway and commission competing teams to build rival showplaces of Canadian excellence in architecture and design.
How tariffs differ from VATs. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
May 13, 2025 at 1:51 PM
How tariffs differ from VATs. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
It's a complicated moral and psychological question whether to feel sorry for people who got bilked by Trump's 438th consecutive scheme to bilk anyone fool enough to trust him.
May 13, 2025 at 1:48 PM
It's a complicated moral and psychological question whether to feel sorry for people who got bilked by Trump's 438th consecutive scheme to bilk anyone fool enough to trust him.
It's not only breathtakingly corrupt, it's manifestly illegal, no matter what permission is received from a cowardly and compromised Department of Justice.
May 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
It's not only breathtakingly corrupt, it's manifestly illegal, no matter what permission is received from a cowardly and compromised Department of Justice.
First-term Donald Trump credited George Washington's army for seizing airports from the British. Second-term Donald Trump claims Iwo Jima is in Europe.
May 8, 2025 at 2:43 PM
First-term Donald Trump credited George Washington's army for seizing airports from the British. Second-term Donald Trump claims Iwo Jima is in Europe.
Keep the below principle in mind today as the Trump administration tries to sell its so-called US-UK trade agreement.
May 8, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Keep the below principle in mind today as the Trump administration tries to sell its so-called US-UK trade agreement.
in an op-ed for @wsj.com, Trump Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent makes a series of highly specific promises of economic improvement in the second half of 2025. Bookmark to review later. www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...
May 6, 2025 at 1:26 AM
in an op-ed for @wsj.com, Trump Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent makes a series of highly specific promises of economic improvement in the second half of 2025. Bookmark to review later. www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...
"One serving per person, no second helpings, until we have won the great patriotic war against Chinese pencil exporters."
May 4, 2025 at 6:02 PM
"One serving per person, no second helpings, until we have won the great patriotic war against Chinese pencil exporters."