Find another unthinkable moment
50–41
40–31
30–21
20–11
10–01
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50.Donald Trump touches the magic orbJames Parker
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49.A Cabinet officer likes private planes too muchElaina Plott
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48.The president praises the congressman who body-slammed a reporterDavid French
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47.An overcompensating press secretary lies about crowd sizeMegan Garber
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46.Trump tells the Boy Scouts about a hot New York partyYoni Appelbaum
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45.A name-calling feud ends with the secretary of state’s ouster by tweetYara Bayoumy
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44.The WikiLeaks president goes silentGeorge Packer
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43.The nation loses its consoler in chiefJames Fallows
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42.The first president to complain about an election he wonDavid Graham
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41.Trump waits 19 months to pick his science adviserEd Yong
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40.The president’s most trusted adviser is his own gutSarah Zhang
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39.A White House economist creates facts for the presidentTom Nichols
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38.Trump holds a top secret confab on the Mar-a-Lago dining terraceIan Bogost
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37.The president just wants to go homeVauhini Vara
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36.Trump threatens to strip security clearances from his criticsDavid Frum
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35.Mueller’s “witch hunt” is good at finding witchesCiara Torres-Spelliscy
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34.Trump leads the country to the longest government shutdown in American historySaahil Desai
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33.The chief justice of the United States corrects the presidentScott Stossel
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32.Trump disseminates Soviet propagandaKori Schake
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31.The White House punishes a CNN reporter for asking questionsEmily Bell
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30.The buck stops over thereKathy Gilsinan
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29.The president tries to kick transgender service members out of the militaryMatt Thompson
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28.Trump tweets the wisdom of MussoliniKrishnadev Calamur
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27.Turkish agents assault protesters near the White HouseDon Peck
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26.Trump helps the Saudis cover up a murderLyse Doucet
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25.“We’re gonna have the cleanest air”Robinson Meyer
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24.The president can’t stop talking about carnageRebecca J. Rosen
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23.America gets a first daughterCaitlin Flanagan
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22.The UN General Assembly laughs at the presidentRachel Donadio
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21.Rain stops Trump from honoring the deadEliot A. Cohen
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20.The president learns about separation of powersRussell Berman
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19.The president learns about the Justice DepartmentNatasha Bertrand
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18.The president lies constantlyAngie Drobnic Holan
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17.Trump threatens to press his “nuclear button”Uri Friedman
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16.Public humiliation comes for everyone in the White HouseAlex Wagner
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15.The CIA dead become a TV propVernon Loeb
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14.You know you’re in a constitutional crisis when...Quinta Jurecic
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13.Trump mocks Christine Blasey Ford to a cheering crowdMcKay Coppins
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12.A new term enters the presidential lexicon: “shithole countries”Ibram X. Kendi
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11.Trump throws paper towels at Puerto RicansVann R. Newkirk II
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10.“I have the absolute right to pardon myself”Garrett Epps
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9.CovfefeAdrienne LaFrance
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8.The president calls his porn-star ex-paramour “horseface”Sophie Gilbert
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7.Trump picks the wrong countries for his travel banHannah Giorgis
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6.Trump declares war on black athletesJemele Hill
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5.James Comey is firedBenjamin Wittes
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4.Putin and Trump talk without chaperonesFranklin Foer
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3.The president still hasn’t released his tax returnsAnnie Lowrey
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2.“Very fine people on both sides”Adam Serwer
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1.Children are taken from their parents and incarceratedAshley Fetters