About zero chance this is the end of the ‘beginning of the end’ predictions for Trump
Beginning of the end? David Brennan, Newsweek, January 22:
(Donald) Trump Jr accused the mainstream media of … failing to do due diligence on allegations of wrongdoing by the president … “They’ve been pushing this nonsense for two years,” (he said.) The BuzzFeed report … broke last Thursday … Pundits quickly … predicted the revelations would mark the beginning of the end of Trump’s stint in the White House.
Seriously. Roger Sollenberger, pastemagazine.com, January 18:
Here are a few reasons why BuzzFeed — no really, seriously, really this time — could have signaled the beginning of the end … It’s not the beginning of the end. It’s actually near the end of the end of a story that has run for more than a year now …
Oops. Maybe not. Devlin Barrett, The Washington Post, January 18:
In a rare move, Mueller’s office denies BuzzFeed report that Trump told Cohen to lie about Moscow project
Bombshell. Will Bunch, Philadelphia Inquirer, November 27, 2018:
Could Paul Manafort, Julian Assange bombshell be the beginning of the end for Trump?
Forever known as. Michael Cohen, Boston Globe, August 21, 2018:
There is a very good chance that August 21, 2018, will forever be known as the beginning of the end of the Trump presidency.
End of buffoon. Gabriel Schoenfeld, New York Daily News, May 12, 2017:
Is this the beginning of the end of Trump? … As the pace of personal and political disintegration of this criminal buffoon accelerates, one is increasingly compelled to ask: Is this the beginning of the end of his administration? Or is it the beginning of the beginning of the end?
End with a whimper. Dana Milbank, Washington Post, August 2, 2016:
Is this the beginning of the end for Donald Trump? Maybe this is how it ends for Donald Trump: not with a bang but with a child’s whimper.
Elise Jordan, Time, April 3, 2016:
The beginning of the end of Donald Trump. Sex. The downfall of many a great man. And some bad ones, too. This week, Donald Trump became the latest.
Dead. ABC News, August 9, 2015:
Mark Halperin (Bloomberg Politics): I think going forward, the establishment, the other candidates, the press, it’s kind of an iron triangle saying Trump is dead. This is the beginning of the end.
We were right. Jonah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, July 22, 2015:
For those of us who predicted the inevitable, watching Donald Trump verbally wander into a field of face-whacking garden rakes like Sideshow Bob fills one with a mixture of schadenfreude and affirmation. We knew it was coming, but it still feels good to be proven right … The Trump squall is not over, alas. But it’s nonetheless obvious that we will someday soon look back on this as the beginning of the end of Trumpmania.
Jackass. Senator Lindsey Graham, CNN, July 21, 2015:
He’s becoming a jackass … when we need to have a serious debate about … the party … and this is the beginning of the end of Donald Trump.
Wishful thinking. Face the Nation, CBS News July 19, 2015:
Ruth Marcus (Washington Post): And I don’t think this is the end, but I think, and this may be a little bit wishful thinking, it might be the beginning of the end.