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Two weeks into Donald Trump’s post-presidency, it feels like he hasn’t really gone away.

He’s stayed in the news, defying the tradition of former presidents abruptly falling off the radar upon their successor’s inauguration and despite the shutdown of his favored means of communication on Twitter.

That makes sense, given that no other former president has faced an impeachment

Politicians have been using short, snappy sentences to motivate their followers since… well, forever.  Long before Donald Trump promised to “Make America Great Again” and Bernie Sanders’ supporters said they would “Feel The Bern”, voters were chanting “I Like Ike”, “Give ‘Em Hell, Harry” and “Keep Hope Alive”. (Go back even further to find further evidence of such practices

President Joe Biden was in office for three months when he addressed the nation from the White House Treaty Room last April, repeating a promise to bring troops home from Afghanistan.

“It’s time to end the forever war,” Biden said from the room where then-President George W. Bush had launched the invasion nearly 20 years earlier. Though two successive administrations had failed to end

Message to BLM: Eric Adams is not backing down.

The Big Apple mayor-elect doubled down on his campaign promise to reinstate the NYPD’s plainclothes unit a day after New York Black Lives Matter leader Hawk Newsome threatened “riots,” “fire” and “bloodshed” should Adams follow through on the move.

“I made it clear on the campaign trail,” Adams said on CNN Thursday morning, a day