| 单词 | sycophant |
| 例句 | Jackie was no sycophant or whipping boy, as he’s been described by other writers. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Apparently, the man had gone from servant to sycophant. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Around him was a raucous entourage of assistants, sycophants, distant relatives and assorted hangers-on. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Shusgis talked and talked to me and to the many employees, aides, and sycophants who sat down at his table nightly; I had never known him so longwinded, so relentlessly jovial. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Naturally, a tall and incompetent sycophant is procured in short order. Alain Mabanckou's 'Black Moses' is an orphan story with biting humor 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z Best guess: She’ll be even worse than they were — even more blatantly political, even more contemptuous of the truth, even more of a sycophant. Perspective | New Trump press secretary Kayleigh McEnany could do the impossible: Make us miss Sean Spicer 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z “I speak for those unlike Trump, unlike the sycophants who surround him, unlike the hate-filled souls and the conscious optional bigots who applaud him, unlike the Russian puppeteers who may be manipulating him.” Have liberals found their combative new leader in … Keith Olbermann? 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z “After the election,” Barr writes, “he was beyond restraint. He would only listen to a few sycophants who told him what he wanted to hear. Reasoning with him was hopeless.” William P. Barr’s Good Donald Trump and Bad Donald Trump 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z His biography on his LinkedIn page is even more amorphous, calling him a “blogger and occasional narcissist; sycophant and dilettante.” Up Close: A New-Media Mogul and Social Butterfly 2010-07-14T18:45:00Z And a boycott or blackout not only runs counter to the core idea that the reporters are there to inform the public, but it also would cede the briefings to the worst Trump sycophants. Perspective | Words and walkouts aren’t enough. CNN should sue Trump over revoking Acosta’s press pass. 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z It’s a quieter, more pleasant variation on the sycophant he plays in “Succession.” Review: ‘Quiz’ Has a Big Question but No Final Answer 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z Sometimes excessive praise from sycophants changes them and produces monsters of narcissism. O.J.’s yes men and the celebrity echo chamber problem: “People come to believe that their version of the truth is correct” 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z No one mentions the sycophant in the room. TV review: Highgrove: Alan Meets Prince Charles 2010-09-24T05:45:00Z It's also the base of operations for Byron's tech company Gogol – yes, like Google – which manufactures an array of devices and employs a cadre of sycophants. Dark comedy "Made for Love" is HBO Max's "Black Mirror"-lite tale of bad romance turned sociopathic 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z It’s not just one jerk — it’s a whole department of sycophants and terrorized underlings. Dharun Ravi says he’s sorry 2012-05-30T15:30:00Z By the time the pandemic arrived, his administration was left mostly with “a mix of family members, 20-somethings, hangers-on, fourth-stringers, former lobbyists, sycophants,” the authors write. Reliving a Year of Death, as Havoc Reigned in the White House 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z Susanna is a rock singer whose star seems to be fading, although she can still rally a crowd of male sycophants to her living room to smoke and drink and discuss her “sound.” What Maisie Knew: The Parents From Hell 2013-05-03T03:30:56Z They have to have this cadre of sycophants who surround them. Why bringing Bill Cosby to justice took so long: "I reported all of this in 2005 and nobody cared" 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z In terms of villains, blaxploitation films often featured resolutely evil racist white caricatures, along with comically duplicitous black sycophants eager to sell out the race for their own personal gain. The return of blaxploitation: why the time is right to bring back Shaft and Foxy Brown 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z The closest thing to a message that “Rules Don’t Apply” imparts — that the slavish sycophants bowing and scraping before their master enable his insanity — is hardly new. Review: ‘Rules Don’t Apply’ Features Warren Beatty as Howard Hughes 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z This is a man who goes on Twitter rants in the early hours of the morning, refuses to answer substantive policy questions and surrounds himself with sycophants and extremists. Alec Baldwin’s Donald Trump tightrope: Brilliantly impersonating a president who’s already impersonating a president 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z One inept sycophant showered her with compliments, saying how superior she was to that brash newcomer Nilsson. A Tale of Two Sopranos: Astrid Varnay and Birgit Nilsson 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z We’ve seen how the whims and fears of a leader, transformed into deeds by an army of sycophants, can spread chaos through a nation’s institutions. Stories of Then That Still Hold Up Now 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z They are the brightest stars in a constellation of hustlers, sycophants, tough guys and wannabes, whose admiration is streaked with envy and fear. ‘Ash Is Purest White’ Review: Love Smolders and Crime Pays in a Changing China 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z He also reviewed works written by what Lozada called Trump’s “sycophants.” Washington Post wins Pulitzer Prizes for criticism, photography; affiliated cartoonist also honored 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z Unsettlers of Catan: In this variation on the classic game, an emperor, his son-in-law and assorted sycophants distribute a harvest of misinformation. Style Invitational Week 1381: Let’s get equinoxious with fictoids 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z And to hear somebody say, "Look at all the good Purdue has done" indicates to me that Sackler gets no feedback other than from the paid sycophants that he surrounds himself with. The reality of life in a "Dopesick" country: "It is just a state of misery" 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z Several segments read like little admonitions for Trump: “Surrounding yourself with sycophants and bootlickers is the shortest route to failure,” Duncan says. Review | Bill Clinton and James Patterson’s ‘The President Is Missing’ is an awkward duet 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z He was surrounded by sycophants, obsessed with his public image, and in the view of his critics, a megalomaniac prepared to start World War III. MacArthur and Truman face off in H.W. Brands' new history 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z The sad answer to that question, however, is: someone like Jimi Hendrix, whose genius, artistic miscegenation, willingness to shatter boundaries and personal confusion ultimately left him a vulnerable, isolated figure amid innumerable sycophants and fans. Music: Beyond the Jimi Hendrix Experience 2010-02-27T03:40:00Z The Guardian newspaper once said the show “manages to serve as a court sycophant, whispering in the ear of the king, criticizing his perceived enemies and fluffing his feathers.” Is ‘Fox & Friends’ getting feistier with its Friend in Chief? 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Ms. Groff takes a wicked view of Lotto’s circle of friends, climbers and sycophants, and she skewers them intermittently throughout the early parts of the book. Review: Lauren Groff’s ‘Fates and Furies’ Features a Wife Who’s Full of Surprises 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z The chilly, exacting Upper West Side socialite has gathered a circle of sycophants at her Connecticut country house to witness her gnashing her veneers over the recent election of Donald Trump. The Plight of the Aggrieved, Rich Manhattan Liberal 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z The best moments in the early episodes of Season 3 involve Tony Hale’s quietly raging performance as Gary, the sycophant’s sycophant. On Season 6 of ‘Veep,’ Satire Meets Its Match 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z The turning point comes when the wealthy and magnanimous Timon realizes what the rest of us already know: His friends are sycophants, adoring him only as long as the handouts last. A First-Time Visitor Inhales Stratford’s Theatrical Perfume 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z In it, Shakespeare uses Richard’s war in Ireland, favoritism towards sycophants and heavy taxation to comment on Elizabeth’s war in Ireland, favoritism towards sycophants and heavy taxation. For Shakespeare, the Trump-stabbing “Caesar” would be business as usual 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z Doesn’t that person look like a nobody, a monster, a sycophant? Facebook's greatest weapon: endless comparison of ourselves to others 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z Who would want to be like Beavis, the sycophant forever trying and failing to “score” with girls? The ’90s Cartoon That Mattered? ‘Beavis and Butt-Head.’ (Fight Me.) 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z But the aspects of it that still reward investigation — the satire of sycophants and the tortured portrait of Timon — do not jibe comfortably with this Occupy Athens interpretation. Review: Shakespeare’s ‘Timon’ Gets an Occupy Athens Makeover 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z “I’ve seen many, many people that go in critics of Trump and come out sycophants,” he says. Anti-Trump Republican Adam Kinzinger accepts his fate, whatever it is 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z Then he said, “I told the president I can’t afford to be a sycophant to you, sir.” ‘The moment when it really started to feel insane’: An oral history of the Scaramucci era 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z The sources tend to be current or former White House staffers jostling for position and posterity, strategically leaking to journalists in order to cast themselves as noble custodians and their rivals as craven sycophants. How Trump Is Remaking the Highest Office in His Own Image 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z His sycophants and sympathisers likewise find the idea hard to take. Christopher Hitchens: from socialist to neocon 2013-01-18T13:01:01Z What made the jokes about Richter so gently absurd is that no one has more persuasively countered the popular image of the sidekick as a pathetic sycophant. Does the Job of Talk-Show Sidekick Even Make Sense Anymore? 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z There, at the center of a network of sycophants, Cheney stirs the cauldron of our nation’s anxieties about “terrorists, jihadists, liberals.” Book review: ‘The Global War on Morris,’ a political satire by Congressman Steve Israel 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z Astronomical wealth buys him a favorable translation from the company he's in, which is why he surrounds himself with his power-hungry children and other sycophants. Between "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and "Succession," TV presents the fall (and rise) of old white guys 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z If he does understand the role that journalists must play in a democracy — as public-spirited watchdogs, not sycophants like his friends at Fox News — he shows no indication of it. Perspective | Trump’s press attacks didn’t cause the Annapolis tragedy. But there is a connection. 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z And in a gratifying scene for anyone who has ever had to deal with a mealy-mouthed sycophant at work, the episode ends with Karen’s being shown the door. 'Veep' Recap: The Former Veep Has Veep Problems 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z They too often were sycophants, cheerleaders, or bootlickers for big monied interests, even as the boots were crushing poor and working people. “His dream was for all poor and working people to live lives of decency and dignity” 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z While Dunn entertains sycophants in his Florida compound, the scope of needed repairs to the body politic is staggering: Review | Hillary Clinton’s thriller with Louise Penny is a thinly veiled jab at a Very Stable Genius 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z In one cowering swoop, you’ve put yourself in the I-am-not-worthy-so-I-must-grovel-to-make-people-like-me role, also known as the groupie, the sycophant, the thing ending in “-mat.” Perspective | Carolyn Hax: College student should not grovel to her long-distance friend 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z His fellow Jews, on the other hand, have until recently written Josephus off as a traitor and a Roman sycophant. Rome, Through the Eyes of Flavius Josephus 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z In a Fox Business interview with one of his favorite sycophants, Maria Bartiromo, he dissed the idea, in part because “they cut you off whenever they want.” Perspective | By giving Trump a town hall to rival Biden’s, NBC is playing into his ratings obsession — again 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z Amazingly, a male TV personality, a genre of sycophant known as the Haw-Haw Guy, was fired for merely having listened to and laughed at one of the billionaire’s sexist rants 11 years ago. The end of the ‘Boys-Will-Be-Boys Guy’? 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z We’ve enjoyed or endured memoirs by Trump’s former employees, his devoted sycophants and confirmed enemies. Tired of Trump books? A new wave of politicians could bring a fresh crop of titles. 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z Could a senator who has called someone a dangerous kook later become that dangerous kook’s most rabid sycophant? Review | Arthur Phillips shows that choosing a leader was no easier 400 years ago 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z By the time he hit his 50s, Picasso was a whiny, tiny monster, almost comically self-centered and petty, casually abusive with his family, friends, employees and sycophants. 10 Artists on Picasso’s Enduring, Confounding Influence 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z To earn respect in a cohort composed not of the sycophants her father favors but of intellectual leaders. Perspective | Ivanka Trump is acting as if everything is normal 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z We know he plans to purge the executive branch of civil service employees and turn the entire branch into a patronage grift for cronies and sycophants to do his bidding and nothing else. Trump threatens to handle the "vermin": MAGA has got a hold of the Nazi playbook 2023-11-13T05:00:00Z Scalise and Trump’s other sycophants in Congress disgorge daily disinformation devoured by a ravenous minority of disenfranchised voters who are only that way because they, like Trump, cannot accept reality. Cancel the Donald Trump reality show: War in the Middle East makes Don's courtroom antics irrelevant 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z Kelly told the Post, “The lesson he learned was to find sycophants.” Opinion: Trump promises vengeance and power grabs if he wins in 2024. Here's the plan. 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z Jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny says Putin has led Russia down a strategic dead end towards ruin, building a brittle system of corrupt sycophants that will ultimately bequeath chaos rather than stability. Exclusive: Russia's Putin to stay in power past 2024, sources say 2023-11-06T05:00:00Z Then, referring to the man who has replaced him as premier, he adds "not like Li Qiang", who he describes as a sycophant. Li Keqiang: Official nerves show as BBC hears praise for dead Chinese leader 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z Trump often acts as a sycophant for Putin too, and machismo also is a big part of Trump’s own public persona. Trump’s violent rhetoric echoes the fascist commitment to a destructive and bloody societal rebirth 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z Along with millions of his followers, Trump was holding out for his last hope: the election of loyal sycophant Jim Jordan as speaker. Day of the goons: Win or lose, Jim Jordan marks a new low point for the GOP 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z Trump is basically now surrounded by a collection of legal sycophants who are telling him what he wants to hear so that they can continue to stay on this high-profile legal team. "The Trump empire ... will fold like a stack of cards," says former prosecutor 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z He's going to fully weaponize the Department of Justice against his opponents, filling it with sycophants who will always say yes to his ideas. The cost of accountability for Trump 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z He spent more than four years as Mr. Trump’s running mate and then vice president, a period in which he was so loyal that a prominent vice-presidential historian called him the “sycophant in chief.” From Right-Hand Man to Critical Witness: Pence at Heart of Trump Prosecution 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z Trump got rid of the experienced public servants who told him that what he was doing was illegal and/or immoral and unethical and then replaced them with sycophants. Mile Taylor on why his "Anonymous" plan failed against Donald Trump 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z “It just simply would be chaotic, because he’d continually be trying to exceed his authority but the sycophants would go along with it. It would be a nonstop gunfight with the Congress and the courts.” Trump and Allies Forge Plans to Increase Presidential Power in 2025 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z The people who served in the Trump administration, the White House, knew that they had to be sycophants, or they would be out. "Cataclysmic evidence against him": Espionage Act expert explains how Trump faces "historic" trouble 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z He was so loyal that the vice-presidential historian Joel K. Goldstein called him the “sycophant in chief.” 5 Things to Know About Mike Pence 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z The circle of Fascist leaders around him were largely corrupt sycophants who lied to Mussolini about Italy’s strength and prosperity to keep him happy. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z In the next stage, the sycophants basically compete with one another to be the one that does whatever the leader wants, no matter how bad and extreme. Mile Taylor on why his "Anonymous" plan failed against Donald Trump 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z They are the first victims of political reform and the role of the small number of them who survive is generally that of sycophants despised by their inferiors, upstarts to the great offices of state. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z That led to the first glimmers among conservatives that perhaps he is not ready for prime time, notwithstanding the fruitless efforts of his sycophants to depict his confusion as the product of deep thinking. Column: A glimpse into the dystopian abyss of President DeSantis' America 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z “There’s also a chance that sycophants will haunt offices to leapfrog those who don’t,” Ms. Poole says. Back-to-Office Battles Underscore a Change in Workplace Authority 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z He can give stirring speeches to a handful of unquestioning, hand-picked sycophants who know when to cheer and boo. The real message behind Trump's Easter threats of World War III 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z Indicted, booked and fingerprinted, the former president scurried home to his safe space at Mar-a-Lago, where surrounded by sycophants and other grasping hangers-on, he whined. Column: Donald Trump's pity party at Mar-a-Lago 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z He wants to roast and be roasted, and instead, he’s surrounded by sycophants and second-stringers. Review | ‘Succession’ stops pulling punches in its final season 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z As Serwer notes, the Dominion lawsuit has revealed there is "a strong demand for falsehoods," exacerbated by a social media environment that alllows "individual hustlers to amass an audience of sycophants by feeding them conspiracies." "The customer's always right": Here's why the GOP loves conspiracy theories. 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z The laid-back rhythms of an arty colony transfer well from rural Russia to Upstate New York, as do the preoccupations of the lady of the homey manor, her friends and sycophants. Review | A delightful ‘Seagull’ with Parker Posey is modernized and done right 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z The statement went beyond the usual policy analysis by mocking Republicans as sycophants for the wealthy by enabling people to “skip out on their taxes.” Biden team struggling to adapt to GOP power on Capitol Hill 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z The 48-year-old said he would contact Self’s office to learn exactly why he changed his vote, adding that if Self turns out to be a “sycophant” he won’t vote for him again. Back in their districts, House speaker holdouts get cheers, jeers and shrugs 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z Imagine being a sycophant for Trump as your legacy. "America's seditious mayor": Rudy Giuliani trolled over "unintelligible" Mar-a-Lago greeting 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z With elected Republicans shunning the event, Trump’s campaign filled the room with the usual Trump sycophants. Opinion | At Trump’s angry announcement, the magic is gone 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z The Virginia Democratic Party quickly seized on Ms. Gabbard’s appearance, dubbing her a “Putin sycophant” and “notorious homophobe.” Tulsi Gabbard campaigns with Republican Yesli Vega in Virginia 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z Kiley, running in the Republican-leaning district, calls Jones a sycophant of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whom he blames for “the sky-high gas and grocery prices crushing our families.” Like 'two separate elections.' How abortion and inflation have taken over California political ads 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z He lamented that “all senior and experienced leaders were sidelined, and a new coterie of inexperienced sycophants started running the affairs of the party.” Indian opposition party seeks to shed dynastic rule image 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z That Putin is now blaming the sycophants he created for failing to bend reality to match his delusions was predictable. Opinion | Putin is limping toward an endgame in Ukraine. Should the West go along? 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z “Do we really think a government of political hacks and sycophants is in the best interest of the American people?” House Passes Bill to Insulate Federal Workers, Addressing a Trump Threat 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z Elections are run by party hacks who toe the line and place in office only sycophants who support the political ruling class. I've seen America's future if the Trumpers win: It's what Lebanon looks like right now 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z They have been noble exceptions to those who clutch their titles and sacrifice their honor; these heroes will likely be replaced with sycophants rather than serious legislators. Opinion | The reckless rage of the lawless 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z “All senior and experienced leaders were sidelined and new coterie of inexperienced sycophants started running the affairs of the party.” Veteran of India's Congress quits with broadside against Gandhi scion 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z While his dwindling cadre of sycophants believe he can, a growing number of Americans perceive the truth. Donald Trump gets his revenge on Liz Cheney — but it may be short-lived 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z Still, the junior Bush’s blandishments proved unavailing; he lost badly in May’s Republican primary to incumbent Ken Paxton, a Trump sycophant who has spent the last seven years under federal indictment. Column: Cheney's Wyoming defeat is a win for Trump and a decisive blow to fading GOP establishment 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z Consider an FBI stocked with Trump sycophants and directed at his enemies. Opinion | The gaps in Trump’s claims of a ‘deep state’ attack 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z He is a man with legions of devoted followers, countless office-holding sycophants and the capacity to be heard by the multitudes whenever he chooses to speak. Perspective | Oh, how the powerful wail and whine 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z But his crowd of D.C. sycophants seemed to love it. The walls are finally starting to close in — so expect Trump to announce his 2024 run soon 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z For hours before the address, sycophants praised the former president and failed coup leader. Opinion | Pence gets dissed again — and he ‘deserves it’ 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z Asturias fills the novel with beggars, the idle rich, simpering aristocrats and political sycophants. Review | A Nobel laureate’s novel about dictatorship gets a welcome new edition 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z She did her patriotic duty by pulling back the curtain on a power-mad president and his spineless sycophants. Opinion | Glenn Youngkin could learn something from Cassidy Hutchinson 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z The facts, of course, did not stop a Trump sycophant like Stephen Bannon from chortling about Hutchinson’s story on his podcast. Column: Is the Trump lunge story true? Let's see if his Secret Service sycophants tell us under oath it isn't 2022-07-02T04:00:00Z Snyder and his hired sycophants have maintained that the focus of all this attention involved incidents that happened years ago. LOVERRO: No more franchise, no more team, only Snyder and doom 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z Pence was among the most loyal soldiers of the Trump presidency, defending him against multiple ethics charges and praising him so effusively that many ridiculed him as a sycophant. Mike Pence 'resisted the pressure' and other takeaways from the Jan. 6 hearing 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z But one former White House reporter I spoke to told me Andrew was merely a “sycophant,” a guy Trump liked to golf with. Column: What makes Rudy Giuliani's son think he should be governor of New York? 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z Surrounded by sycophants, Depp deceived himself that his alcohol and drug use was not upending his career, relationships and life. Opinion | Johnny Depp and Other Pirates 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z And so you get blowhards and sycophants, egoists and ignoramuses mixed in among those just striving to be dedicated public servants. Perspective | The Supreme Court: Unreachable, inaccessible and frightening 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z Those are just a few of the celebrity gadflies, sycophants, grifters and weirdos he is backing. Does Trump still have the juice? His spotty endorsement record suggests decline 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z “His goal is to reward sycophants or upset the apple cart,” he said. ‘I’m a gambler’: Trump plunges into GOP primaries with risky picks 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z Trump enjoys flattery and is not above rewarding sycophants. Mar-a-Lago Machine: Trump as a Modern-Day Party Boss 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z Barr in his book wrote that Trump surrounded himself with "sycophants" and "whack jobs from outside the government, who fed him a steady diet of comforting but unsupported conspiracy theories." Trump admits he wanted Barr to take the fall for election scheme: “I said look, get impeached” 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z He accused the Republicans of “slavishly” following Mr. Trump like “sycophants,” instead of joining efforts to investigate the deadly attack on the Capitol that left more than 150 police officers injured. House Votes to Find Two Trump Aides in Contempt in Jan. 6 Inquiry 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z Graham, a known Trump sycophant, took to Twitter to voice his frustrations tweeting, "As Ukraine burns, President Biden is talking about Charlottesville and domestic politics. Very sad." Lindsey Graham's attempted criticism of Biden backfires when Twitter users flip the script 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z For strongmen, the consequences of losing power can be extreme — prison, exile, or death — and so they tend to surround themselves by sycophants. Putin's massive miscalculation: Echoes of George W. Bush — and a lesson for America's elites 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z The corrupt, paranoid germophobes love surrounding themselves with sycophants, conjuring delusional worlds and giving unhinged rants. Opinion | While Putin Shrinks, Zelensky Soars 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z “So he’ll stay focused — and take nothing for granted, regardless of how many Trump sycophants run against him.” Gov. Gavin Newsom will face little-known challengers for a second term 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z Barr goes on to write that "after the election he was beyond restraint. He would only listen to a few sycophants who told him what he wanted to hear. Reasoning with him was hopeless." Bill Barr's pride gets in the way: Trump's top lackey just blew up his own redemption tour 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z “After the election,” Barr wrote, “he was beyond restraint. He would only listen to a few sycophants who told him what he wanted to hear. Reasoning with him was hopeless.” Pressing for evidence, Jan. 6 panel argues that Trump committed fraud 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z The claim by Trump and his sycophants that his relationship with Putin had kept Russia out of Ukraine is ludicrous. Opinion | Zelensky and Trump: Two Performers, One Hero 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z The Republicans, their followers and their media sycophants view Biden as the white leader of a predominantly Black and brown political party. Dear Joe Biden: We don't want "unity" with fascists — that's why Democrats lose 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z Trump and his sycophants, Levin stresses, have been "rewriting history when it comes to his relationship with Russia, Ukraine and NATO." "Village idiot" Trump would have let Putin take Ukraine "no questions asked": journalist 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z Barr writes that Trump “surrounded himself with sycophants, including many whack jobs from outside the government, who fed him a steady diet of comforting but unsupported conspiracy theories.” Barr calls prospect of Trump running for president again ‘dismaying,’ says GOP should ‘look forward’ to others 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z “He surrounded himself with sycophants, including many whack jobs from outside the government, who fed him a steady diet of comforting but unsupported conspiracy theories.” Barr Rebukes Trump as ‘Off the Rails’ in New Memoir 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z But Trump sycophants in the state are only going further down the election conspiracy theory rabbit hole. Wisconsin GOP pushes “illegal” scheme to decertify 2020 results, jail election officials 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z The assembled sycophants declared the participation of Reps. Opinion | The Jan. 6 committee is an organ of truth. Of course Trump Republicans are attacking it. 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z Insecure general managers and team presidents are in pursuit of sycophants instead of partners who may have different but complementary ideas. Perspective | Mike Tomlin shows how rare real opportunity is for Black coaches 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z Mr. McCarthy tried to pack it with pro-Trump sycophants who would have obstructed its work. Opinion | Subpoena Kevin McCarthy 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z Since Trump's election in 2016, data and facts about his pathological personality have been ignored and swept under the rug by his sycophants and by Republicans as a whole. Our professional diagnosis: Joe Biden is normal; the "Insurrection Caucus" isn't 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z Despite their wild ambitions, Ellis and Eastman were not the only Trump sycophants to draft election coup manuals lacking in constitutional substance. 6 ways to overturn an election, according to Team Trump memos 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z During the recall, the governor and his allies cast the Republican candidates as sycophants of former President Trump, who were supported by far-right and anti-vaccine militants. With 2022 campaign on the horizon, Gov. Gavin Newsom has the public stage to himself 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z Morrison’s return from touring meant the reemergence of his enabling sycophants. How Jim Morrison's final sessions with the Doors produced an L.A. classic out of chaos 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z That’s when Larry Elder, the loudmouth radio talk show host known for mentoring Trump sycophants and demonizing Black liberals to entertain white conservatives, decided he was going to “save” the state. In 2021, the recall circus returned to California. Republicans sent in the clowns 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z The most recent grievance from Trump and his most loyal sycophants is that McCarthy allowed 13 members of the House GOP caucus to vote for a bipartisan infrastructure bill. All Republicans care about these days is trolling — and Kevin McCarthy is hilariously bad at it 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z White conservatives, and too many of their Black and brown mercenary sycophants, know the song, in whatever form they may hear it. Right's cynical attack on "critical race theory": Old racist poison in a new bottle 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z It refers, of course, to the assertive and toxic maneuvers of Trump and his right-wing sycophants aimed at subverting democracy — and since his electoral defeat last year, at regaining power at any cost. Donald Trump's "slow-motion coup" is becoming a runaway train 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z But with Lauer protected all around by professional sycophants and facilitators, Couric was hardly the only one who didn’t pick up on his transgressions. Review | Katie Couric recalls her rise to ‘Today’ — and what she really thought of everyone 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z In May 2018, a video had come out showing Kelly surrounded by a crowd of sycophants chanting that it was too late for us to mute him. Commentary: #MuteRKelly co-founder: I'm through crying. It's R. Kelly's turn 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z He and all his sycophants are all over the Internet and right-wing media spreading his usual lies and crazy talk. Opinion | Mr. Trump is still all over some media 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z Refuting the Big Lie being perpetrated by Donald Trump and his loyal GOP sycophants, Biden noted the overwhelming evidence that the 2020 election was among the most clean and honest in American history. Past looms large in future of voting rights 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z Throughout their relationship, the scout made a conscious effort not to come across as a sycophant. After 45 Years, a Cop Still Looks After His Favorite (Base) Thief 2021-07-09T04:00:00Z "This appalling politicization of the Department of Justice by Donald Trump and his sycophants must be investigated by both the DOJ Inspector General and Congress." Fallout for Trump's political targeting: Top DOJ appointee to resign, AG Garland announces probe 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z “This appalling politicization of the Department of Justice by Donald Trump and his sycophants must be investigated immediately by both the DOJ Inspector General and Congress.” Justice Dept. watchdog to probe Trump-era leak investigations, including secret subpoenas for data from Congress, journalists 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z “This appalling politicization of the Department of Justice by Donald Trump and his sycophants must be investigated immediately by both the DOJ Inspector General and Congress,” the statement said. Justice Department inspector general to probe Apple subpoenas 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z And meanwhile, Trump stews at Mar-a-Lago, reportedly telling his sycophants and hangers-on that he will somehow be “reinstated” as president in August. Opinion | Facebook kicked the Trump can down the road again. Enjoy the respite. 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z More than 81 million Americans voted for Biden, a fact that Jordan, like so many other Trump sycophants, conveniently ignores. Editorial Roundup: Ohio 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z After all, she's just saying what we should expect any elected official to say if the entire Republican Party hadn't turned itself into a cult of craven Trump sycophants. Beware Liz Cheney 2024: If you think that's a big improvement on Trump, think again 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z But when Ducey acknowledged that Biden won Arizona fair and square, he committed an unforgivable sin in the minds of Trump and many of his sycophants. How Donald Trump hopes to take revenge against Arizona’s Republican governor: report 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z Miller, who had never written a biography before but who was already deep into interviews with Roth's friends and acquaintances, told friends that Roth was "surrounded by sycophants" and walked away from the project. From beyond the grave, Philip Roth cancels himself 2021-04-24T04:00:00Z It was so bizarre to me that Amazon was making their employees sit on the clock and be sycophants for the people hiring them. A comedian says he created "Darla," the anti-union Amazon worker, as a joke 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z They wrote off her supporters as sycophants and “deranged activists.” Timnit Gebru was fired from Google — then the harassers arrived 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z It was strange to me when sycophants in the press nicknamed Cuomo “America’s Governor” last year. Andrew Cuomo Should Resign 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z Yet anti-Trumpism frequently produced narrative conformity in media outlets that congratulated themselves on not being like those sycophants at Fox. Opinion | The Twilight of the Anti-Trump Idols 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z Expect no surprises from this gang of sycophants and cowards. Still in lockstep 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z Donald Trump's lawyers put forth such a flimflam argument to open the Senate's impeachment trial that his biggest sycophants in the right-wing media didn't even bother trying to spin in the disastrous first day. Trump's biggest Fox News cheerleaders think his impeachment lawyers are doing a terrible job 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z “How would you know since you will in general only politely interact with the sycophants,” Lissack responded. Timnit Gebru was fired from Google — then the harassers arrived 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z Never in our 245-year history has our democracy been actively sabotaged by a sitting president and his congressional sycophants. Expulsion is the only remedy: Insurrectionists in Congress must be rooted out 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z Senate, where the majority of Republicans are either spineless sycophants or outright authoritarians who will never vote to convict you, no matter how compelling the evidence. Odds of conviction are poor — but Democrats must stay strong on impeachment 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z As reprehensible as the actions are of those who stormed the Capitol and of our former president’s loyal sycophants who prioritize his approval over truth, it is the thought of inaction that stalks me. To heal our collective trauma, we must first face it 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z Some Republicans rationalized their accommodation on the totally unreasonable hope that Mr. Trump — in his 70s, surrounded by sycophants and in possession of unmatched power — would change the habits of a lifetime. Opinion | The End of Trump Can Be the Beginning of America 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z Even Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a reliable Trump sycophant, admitted, "The president saw these people as allies in his journey and sympathetic to the idea that the election was stolen." Trump didn't suffer from "paralysis": He failed to stop the Capitol siege because he loved the show 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z “Now the two camps are, who is a Trump sycophant and who is not,” Mr. DuHaime said. Fractured by Trump, the G.O.P. Can’t Agree on a Way Back to Power 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z With a few exceptions, Mr. Trump elevated a collection of ideologues, sycophants and mediocrities to run the federal government. Opinion | The Justice Department is a mess. Merrick Garland can fix it. 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z Trump instead surrounded himself with sycophants to a level that would’ve made Fidel Castro gag. Column: Trump saw himself as a strongman leader. He ended up a one-term president with a legacy of failure 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z What else must happen to convince his sycophants and followers that he is a con man and a madman all together in one? This psychopath has finally crossed the red line: He must be stopped now 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z Surely a man so stupid, his opponents believed, will one day blunder so badly he can't be saved, even by his most powerful sycophants. Remember that stupid thing Donald Trump did? Hard as it is to pick, here are the top 10 2020-12-26T05:00:00Z Since the election, he's fired the civilian leadership at the Pentagon and replaced them with henchmen and sycophants, apparently setting of serious concern among the top brass. More frightening than Nixon's final days: Trump's firing Pentagon civilians, pardoning war criminals 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z On the other side are sycophants who supported Trump’s spurious legal challenges to the election result but apparently draw the line at treason. Opinion | Trump is an authoritarian wannabe. He must never hold power again. 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z Now Sykes says the man he once hailed as independent has become the opposite, decrying the way he says the senator has become one of the ultimate Trump sycophants and conspiracy boosters. Ron Johnson could take his last stand Wednesday as Trump’s most stalwart Senate defender 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z By enlisting or intimidating his allies and sycophants into an attempted coup against American democracy. Yes, Trump will leave office — but his seditious secession movement isn't going away 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner thinks he has the answer for what happened to the Trump sycophant. Lincoln Project co-founder: Lindsey Graham is a small fish that "hovers around a larger predator" 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z When the political violence occurs, as it almost inevitably will, Trump and his sycophants will deny any responsibility for the resulting carnage and mayhem. Wajahat Ali on reaching out to Trumpers: "White supremacy is a terrible drug" 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z Professionals, rather than corporate shills and incompetent sycophants, will be running domestic policy. A virtual Thanksgiving with real blessings 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z It is gone, and has been replaced by a party led and run by sycophants, cynics, careerists, cowards and conspiracy mongers. A new symbol for a new low 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z Cash's ego is enormous as he's surrounded by sycophants, money, and his name in lights. Stephen Dorff on how he's stayed grounded in Hollywood amid early fame and success 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z They were “sycophants,” a colorful and metaphorical Greek word whose literal meaning “fig-sucker” hardly disguises its vulgar connotations. Opinion | Me, Tucker Carlson and the danger to democracy posed by false allegations 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z “So people who otherwise would be pretty clear-thinking and fair, or at least equitable, toss all that to the side and become sycophants to the president or his base for one simple reason — political preservation.” Fear of losing Senate majority in Georgia runoffs drives GOP embrace of Trump’s unfounded claims of election fraud 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z It was clear that, as always, Trump resents every moment when the spotlight's not in him, even in the context of helping a sycophant. In the last days of the campaign, Trump wallows in his contempt for his supporters 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z “Mbeki surrounded himself with sycophants and cost his country hundreds of thousands of lives by ignoring science, and we’re suffering the same fate.” Opinion | America and the Virus: ‘A Colossal Failure of Leadership’ 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z The defense attempted to portray him as a lying sycophant with an alcohol problem. Nicole Brown Simpson’s sister says she attempted suicide 10 years after murder: 'I went big' 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z Meadows has long had a reputation of being a Trump sycophant, dating to his time in Congress earlier in the administration. Even from his hospital rooms, Trump tries to convince public he’s in charge 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z The defense tried to Shipp him as a lying sycophant with an alcohol problem. Nicole Brown Simpson’s pal recalls hearing her heartbreaking diary entries in doc: ‘We were in tears' 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z Lawrence Summers, who served as Treasury secretary under Bill Clinton, has called Mnuchin perhaps “the greatest sycophant in cabinet history.” Steven Mnuchin’s Deal Staved Off Catastrophe. Can He Make Another One? 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z In the sycophants’ eyes, ignorance is smart and laziness is savvy. Review | The most essential books of the Trump era are barely about Trump at all 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z Multiple employees claimed that Sun’s ego was easy for sycophants to subtly exploit. The crypto millionaire that acquired BitTorrent—and waded into the trade war 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z Through its allies, enforcers, sycophants, servants and camp followers, the Trump regime shows this to be true almost every day. Trump and his movement are evil — but the hope-peddlers in the chattering class won't say so 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z Nobody can claim that these sorts of insults "just don't sound like something he'd say," even as numerous of his current and former henchmen and sycophants stepped forward to say just that. Trump's contempt for the military reveals his fatuous, bloated ego — and could finish him off 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z They endured repeated verbal pummelings and character assassinations from the president and his sycophants, but they had some successes. Review | White House insiders’ failure to rein in Trump’s tilt toward chaos and lawlessness 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z First are the sycophants, who through a lack of options or shame have embraced the new order and relentlessly justified it. Review | The most essential books of the Trump era are barely about Trump at all 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z “To say that he was a sycophant so understates it,” said one former senior administration official. Mike Pence hopes four years of subservience to Trump will lift his political future 2020-08-23T04:00:00Z His allies and sycophants will have every reason to maintain a court in exile. Opinion | Win or Lose, Trump Will Hold Power Over the G.O.P. 2020-08-22T04:00:00Z They surrounded themselves with sycophants and encouraged squabbling among underlings. Perspective | How fascist is President Trump? There’s still a formula for that. 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z "That would have destabilized him. He needed Mike Pence, the ultimate beta male sycophant." Whose alpha male is this? Donald Trump and America's sad, failed model of masculinity 2020-08-22T04:00:00Z Trump seems as drawn to QAnon conspiracy theorists as sycophants are to him. Opinion | Trump’s QAnon dodge is a sickening reminder of the man he is 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z He has manipulated the news media — and not only the sycophants of Fox News — to sow disunity, even fostering a political divide over sensible anti-pandemic practices such as mask-wearing and social distancing. Column: How FDR's vice president warned against the fascism of Trump 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z It is exactly the same idea being promoted by the ever divisive, racist Trump and his sycophants using his secret police to generate chaos. Feedback: Gloria Steinem and Eleanor Smeal fact check 'Mrs. America' 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z For Mr. Trump it is the rule: fill influential positions with sycophants who lack even the minimal standing needed to satisfy the generally supine Republican majority in the Senate. Opinion | Even Republicans found a Trump nominee too bigoted. Trump appointed him anyway. 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z Theirs is a chorus of hope that drowns out the spurious attacks of a disreputable man and his sycophants. Opinion | Alexander Vindman: Coming forward ended my career. I still believe doing what’s right matters. 2020-08-01T04:00:00Z But while savvier Republican operatives rely more on polling and focus groups to devise strategy, Trump's ego drives him–and the sycophants he surrounds himself with–to embrace their partisan propaganda as reality. Right-wing media are killing Trump's campaign 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z But do we really need another production about this racist madman and his druggie sycophants turned assassins? Do we need another story about Charles Manson? Why Angelenos can't look away 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z Trump continues to use the office of the presidency as means to enrich himself, his family and his surrounding circle of sycophants, at the literal expense of the American people. ACLU's David Cole: "If Trump seeks to stay in power after losing the election," we'll be ready 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z Of course, he may try to escape the ignominy of being a loser by playing golf on Inauguration Day or hosting a self-congratulatory party for sycophants at Mar-a-Lago. Trump’s stormtroopers crush liberty on the streets of Portland 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z "By now, according to Trump officials and sycophants, we were supposed to be seeing a fading pandemic and a roaring recovery," Krugman explains. Paul Krugman: "Roaring pandemic" will keep unemployment "in double digits" for "a long time" 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z Rather, the article shows, Trump and his staff of unqualified family and equally unqualified sycophants are naive and gullible, their rank incompetence unwittingly putting our national security in jeopardy. How Chinese spies penetrated the Trump White House 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z Indeed, a lot of the responsibility rests with Trump and his hapless and corrupt collection of grifters, buffoons, sycophants, lobbyists and relatives. Robert Reich: America is exceptional in all the wrong ways 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z What’s bothering me is that idiot in the White House and his idiot sycophants. Patti LuPone braces for theater's long closure: 'I was made tough by this business' 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Trump has surrounded himself with sycophants who celebrate his offenses or people who lack the courage to speak up — sometimes even after they have left public service. Opinion | Gen. Milley’s apology shows respect for the principles Trump tramples on 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z She respects Grace as an artist and, unlike some of the paid sycophants in her orbit, knows her work inside out. Review: 'The High Note,' a soothing music-biz fairy tale, falls short of perfect pitch 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z Trump, his family, political allies and other sycophants have used the pandemic to grow their personal fortunes. Activist turned scientist Gregg Gonsalves on Trump's "genocide" and Deborah Birx's "horrific" game 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z Tests should be like the people with whom Trump surrounds himself: sycophants who tell him only what he wants to hear. Perspective | Covid testing is about saving lives. Trump thinks it’s just about numbers. 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z The replacement of competent individuals with sycophants, and the cooptation of institutions, is part of what we warned would happen in "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump," following our conference at Yale in April 2017. Yale psychiatrist: Trump “projects his sense of inferiority” by calling women reporters “nasty” 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z By contrast, Governors around the country who have shown leadership and independence, of both parties, are seeing massive popularity while those who've acted as Trump sycophants are not doing so well. Trump's new fakeout: "Obamagate" won't fly with 83,000 dead and millions out of work 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z "And then, in February he was replaced with Mike Pence, who’s a sycophant." NY Times says reporter 'went too far' during TV appearance blasting Trump admin's virus response 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z Some of it is due to Trump and his hapless and corrupt collection of grifters, buffoons, sycophants, lobbyists and relatives. Under Trump, American exceptionalism means poverty, misery and death | Robert Reich 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z Trump is too much of a fake tough guy to wear a mask and Mike Pence is too much of a sycophant to the fake tough guy to wear a mask. Opinion | Live and Let Die, Trump-Style 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z His inner circle of sycophants, lightweights and glib TV pundits, ill-managed by his dilettante son-in-law, might be good for a joke or a tall tale. Opinion | Trump has proven it. We’re on our own, America. 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z Trump and his sycophants knew that potentially millions of Americans could die but chose to do nothing. Psychologist John Gartner: Trump is a "sexual sadist" who is "actively engaging in sabotage" 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z Trump and his sycophants have consistently put Trump's re-election as being more important than the American people's lives. Tim Wise on Trump, the coronavirus and the pandemic of white privilege 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z Instead, he's distributing urgently needed equipment like a dictator or mafia boss, as rewards to his court and other sycophants. Donald Trump is not a supervillain — he just wants to be 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z And his bubble is exclusively occupied by loyalists and sycophants. Paula Reid and Kaitlan Collins pop the toddler king's balloon — and he melts down 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z With him in charge, with his apologists mute, with congressional GOP sycophants watching like mummies? Column: Why can't Donald Trump be more like Queen Elizabeth? 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z Instead, he's just being a sycophant to Trump. Kevin McCarthy's opponent says blatant racism is "definitely" a reason to take him down 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z A sycophant is incompetent to carry hard truths, by definition. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Misusing ‘shelter in place’ and offering conflicting accounts 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z Nero, who died in 68 A.D., was a famously corrupt, nativist ruler who flaunted his great wealth, assassinated perceived enemies and surrounded himself with sycophants. Review | Defending the rule of law in the Trump era 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z Trump's health is an enigma, shielded from the public by an army of sycophants. When Brezhnev comes to America: gerontocracy in action 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z While his biggest sycophants on Fox News are finally treating the threat seriously, states are still waiting for tests more than a month after asking the federal government for help. There's a massive leadership gap at the top on coronavirus — but states are stepping in 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z COVID-19 is hardly the "hoax" that President Donald Trump and his sycophants at Fox News spent weeks claiming that it was: it's the worst global health crisis in more than 100 years. Susan Collins criticized for opposing “funding for pandemic flu preparations” in 2009 stimulus 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z In his March 17 op-ed, “ ‘President Pence’ doesn’t sound too bad,” Michael Gerson called Vice President Pence “a sycophant but not an incompetent.” Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Misusing ‘shelter in place’ and offering conflicting accounts 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z On 9 March he tweeted one of his most dangerous and false statements about the virus, comparing it to the flu, a common refrain among his media sycophants at the time. How Trump changed his tune on coronavirus again and again … and again 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z The vice president is a sycophant but not an incompetent. Opinion | Never have GOP votes against impeachment seemed more shortsighted 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z He was so proud that it regained 1,900 points the following day that he sent around autographed copies of the stock ticker to all his sycophants in the media. Can a pandemic shake the faith of Trump's followers? Don't count on it 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z The federal judiciary has been filled with Trump's unqualified sycophants. Former Bush White House lawyer Richard Painter: "Trump will grab as much power as he possibly can" 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z Moreover, those same fans will often fawn over the players they abuse if they ever meet them – making them the worst kind of sycophants. After Eric Dier snapped, let's turn the spotlight on the abusers too 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Kimmel also crudely suggested that Pence was a sycophant to Trump. Jimmy Kimmel mocks Pence's ability to tackle coronavirus: 'What's his plan, abstinence?' 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z Having “a Trump toady and a sycophant” as director of national intelligence raised national security concerns, said Groombridge. Baby-faced assassin: the 29-year old at the heart of Trump's 'deep state' purge 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z He is surrounded in the White House by pliant sycophants who do as he tells them. Opinion | Trump used the State of the Union speech to trumpet his own primacy 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z It’s astounding how thoroughly Trump has managed to do the polar opposite, surrounding himself with incompetents, mediocrities, sycophants and grifters. Opinion | Trump doesn’t want aides with values. He wants servile minions. 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z Trump has inflicted his own crude, self-aggrandizing pathologies on the nation, and he brought along a revolving cadre of sycophants and criminals to enable his delusional ambitions. Opinion | Thanks to Trump, we are living in a world of sleaze 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z Trump critics have labeled Cipollone a Trump sycophant whose advocacy for an expansive view of executive authority is at odds with the Constitution. Trump taps ‘strong, silent type’ to lead impeachment defense 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z It’s a safe bet that when the trial begins late this week or early next, Trump’s Senate sycophants will seek the dismissal he requested. Opinion | Suddenly Trump has lost enthusiasm for his trial 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z “The public humiliation of Nancy Pelosi and her Democrat caucus of sycophants who dare not oppose her is actually an embarrassment to watch,” Pirro said on Saturday night. Judge Jeanine: Public humiliation of 'Pelosi and her Democrat caucus' is 'an embarrassment to watch' 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z This is validated by his sycophants, minions, cult members and other enablers who constantly tell him that he is the greatest of all presidents, worthy of being an American emperor. America's first mercenary president: Donald Trump is blinded by greed and self-interest 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z And, of course, it’s one more piece of a buffet full of evidence to shove down the throats of the team sycophants and cheerleaders who would tell you that Snyder is now the hands-off owner. LOVERRO: Who told Haskins to sit feels like another Snyder red flag 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z Strong men, typically surrounded by sycophants, are often the last to realize that their popularity is not what they thought it was. Has Narendra Modi Finally Gone Too Far? 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z But it's Trump's most ardent sycophant, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who is really letting it all hang out: After impeachment and acquittal, expect a vicious Republican counterattack 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z “His rumored support for delusional conspiracies plays to Trump & sycophants. It threatens another blow to DOJ credibility & American justice,” he wrote. Bill Barr disputes key finding of inspector general report that debunks Trump’s Russia probe claims 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z Again, Trump’s sycophants are working hard to realize this objective in the U.S. Impeachment as a struggle to save democracy — from the pathological cult of Donald Trump 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z Based on his earlier cameo appearances, you might have thought that Trump’s ambassador to the European Union was a shallow, vainglorious sycophant who was desperately solicitous to cozy up to his shallow, vainglorious boss. Sleazy Sondland overcomes his amnesia and dishes the dirt on Trump | Richard Wolffe 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z Cooper added, "Ambassador Haley may have survived the administration, but it's not clear her reputation can survive her book tour's endless and kind of sad stops along sycophant street." CNN's Anderson Cooper takes nasty shots at Nikki Haley for saying Trump was 'truthful' to her 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z He claimed that Trump is “surrounded by so many sycophants” that no one would correct him before playing footage of Lindsey Graham also making a number of mistakes on a recent Fox News interview. Jimmy Kimmel on Trump: 'Does he ever do any actual president work?' 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z “And maybe the most disgusting thing going on today is the president and his sycophants are questioning the patriotism and loyalty of an American combat veteran,” Kimmel continued. Stephen Colbert: 'Unlike Trump, Vindman's character is unimpeachable' 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z Bill Mitchell, a Trump sycophant and conservative radio host, bragged on Twitter that “odds of her going 3rd party and splitting the Democrat vote just went up exponentially.” Tulsi Gabbard announces she won't seek re-election to Congress amid speculation of a third-party bid 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Her decision to refer to foes as “bullies” appeared to be harsher than her previous condemnations of opponents, first calling them “defenders of the status quo,” then “sycophants of the system.” Betsy DeVos blasts 'Tinseltown’ for ignoring a movie she likes and calls her critics ‘bullies’ 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z If this weird little do-si-do with Erdogan was the result of sober consideration, then the president of the United States isn’t only a morally corrupt sycophant to murderous dictators, he’s bat-guano crazy. Opinion | What does Erdogan have that Trump wants? 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z But mostly he hired cronies, ideologues and sycophants, while also leaving hundreds of important senior level positions unfilled and paying less attention to many agencies than he does to cable TV news. Opinion | Michael Bloomberg: Voters must demand that 2020 candidates answer this question 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z Taibbi’s column illustrates the strange occasional convergence between Trump sycophants and the anti-anti-Trump left, whose oft-justified critiques of liberals sentimentalizing power can devolve into the reactionary assumption that everything liberals support is worth opposing. Donald Trump is a criminal — and impeachment is a murky, amoral struggle. Both these things are true 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z “This is the beginning of a massacre that he caused. Even his Republican sycophants are furious that he would do this to our allies.” Jimmy Kimmel: Trump handling impeachment 'about as well as you expect, which is badly' 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z With each passing day, the Trump administration trades patriots for sycophants who will support anything this president says or does to stay in his good graces. Opinion | Dear anonymous op-ed writer: Your plan didn’t work 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z He had gotten away clean with everything in the Mueller report — as he perceived it, not unreasonably — and had surrounded himself with sycophants who constantly told him he was all-powerful and could rule forever. Here we are — but where are we? Your semi-useful user's guide to the impeachment of Donald Trump 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z The president and his sycophants in the White House will withhold documents until the courts stop him, if the courts stop him. Opinion | Pelosi has finally taken ownership of impeachment. Now she must own the process. 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z One of Nixon’s aides, Patrick J. Buchanan, told reporters that Mr. Vanocur was “a notorious Kennedy sycophant.” Sander Vanocur, TV Newsman Who Covered Kennedy, Dies at 91 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z But this stallion somehow knew Pence was a sycophant. Opinion | American Pharoah has officially joined the Resistance 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Many of these sycophants act as cheerleaders and apologists and normalize the toxic leader's pathological behavior. The Trump depression (and we don't mean the economy): Key symptom of autocratic regimes 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z But the adults are gone, and their replacements are mainly sycophants and timeservers who are happy to tell Trump that 2+2=22. Opinion | Yes, Trump is losing it. But don’t pretend he ever had it to begin with. 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z “Today’s GOP is marked by sycophants for a president who sought to ban Muslim immigration, who praises white supremacists, and who derides black countries and cities as sh*tholes and sites of infestation,” Cheney-Rice explains. Republican racism is alive and well: Don’t be fooled by the GOP backlash against Rep. Steve King 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z Both inherited a family business and are surrounded by sycophants. Review: 'The Great Successor' paints a macabre portrait of Kim Jong Un 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z Trump, aided by his economic brain trust of cranks and sycophants, believes any indicator showing the U.S. economy could be in trouble must be fabricated. Opinion | Move over, Illuminati. The conspiracy against Trump’s economy is massive. 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z Bankrolling “Suicide Squad” and other movies — whatever their artistic merits — and earning the coveted title of greatest sycophant in Cabinet history bear little relevance to rescuing the world from economic crisis. Opinion | Trump has a dream team for mismanaging a recession 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Instead, kleptocrats and incompetents are replaced by sycophants and functionaries — the latter, ironically, even more capable of dismantling effective governance. Review | The missteps and misdeeds of Trump’s Cabinet 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z The result is a yes-man government: a team of sycophants rather than of rivals. Nigel Farage is the malign spectre haunting Boris Johnson’s new government | Nick Cohen 2019-07-28T04:00:00Z He is a President who spends an inordinate amount of time watching television, takes political cues from his sycophants at Fox News, and adds to them his own particular brand of outer-borough white bigotry. There Is Nothing Strategic About Trump’s Racism 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z He really does not appear to look kindly on anyone of any race unless they are sycophants, members of his family or foreign dictators. There’s no denying what’s eating Trump 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z The golf establishment tends to remember Roberts as a sour figure, a charmless tyrant, and a canny sycophant—the bad cop to the faultless Bobby Jones. Inside the Cultish Dreamworld of Augusta National 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z He capitulated to the tube unions and was a sycophant to property speculation. Boris Johnson may be an incompetent liar, but charm is his secret weapon | Simon Jenkins 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z Republican leaders are cultivating greed and selfishness, intolerance and bigotry, and a generation of hypocrites and sycophants. Opinion | It is time for Republicans to reject hypocrisy 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z Leaders tend to get isolated, become surrounded by sycophants and succumb easily to the human tendency to self-rationalize. The Real Reason Fans Hate the Last Season of Game of Thrones 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z He says that Trump has a way of overwhelming people's better angels and robbing them of integrity over time, until they either find the energy to get away or become a full-fledged Trump sycophant. Jim Comey has it wrong: Trump is a monster, all right — but the GOP created him 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z The cartoon appeared to suggest Barr acted as a sycophant for Trump and his administration as Democrats pressed for more details surrounding Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report. New Yorker portrays AG Barr as a massive 'toady' on top of White House 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z Bush administration, Mr. Barr avowed loyalty to the Justice Department’s mission and, nearing the end of his career, seemed to have little incentive to serve as another Trump sycophant. Opinion | William Barr torched his reputation. His testimony compounded the damage. 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z This is what happens when an enormous ego is inflated further by wealth and sycophants. Kim Kardashian’s budding law career takes celebrity hubris to a whole new level 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z She continued, blasting Barr as “basically a lackey and a sycophant for the president of the United States of America.” Maxine Waters calls Barr a 'lackey and a sycophant' for Trump 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z He only cares about himself, his voters and other sycophants. Echoes of history: Trump's "movement" now has a uniform and membership cards 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z “I mean, he is a sycophant for Donald Trump, he is all things Trump. He’s not even thoughtful about it.” Claire McCaskill begs Stacey Abrams to run for Senate — and help end Mitch McConnell’s grip on power 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z He also denies he would be a Trump “sycophant.” Opinion | Why Moore is less 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z It matters that he appears to be a Trump sycophant. For the Fed, Trump's personnel troubles reach an alarming new low 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z More than Fox News, more than the sycophants who surround him, the rallies are the mirror before which he preens. How to make a difficult situation awful 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z As candidate and president, Trump has already demolished standards of civility, worsened the racial and ethnic fractures of the American public, and reduced the Republican Party to a slobbering set of sycophants. Can America recover from Trump? A radicalized right wing suggests dangers ahead 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z And Cohen is not the most wretched sycophant in political history. Opinion | The Sycophant and the Sociopath 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z Gone are the days when the House speaker, Paul Ryan, was a Trump sycophant; Trump must now work with a Democratic House speaker who isn’t shy about standing up to him. President Donald Trump’s 2019 State of the Union address: Here are four things to watch 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z Perhaps there are still a couple of rock star art critics out there with multimillionaires hanging on their reviews and clouds of sycophants buzzing around them. Netflix’s Velvet Buzzsaw is an artist’s fondest power fantasy 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z In the end, those many essays on France’s first ladies, whether written by sycophants, critics or professional haters, are far more revealing about their authors and French society as a whole than about their subject. Leave Brigitte Macron alone. We French need to lay off our first ladies | Agnès Poirier 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z But a word of caution: Graham's ego is getting pretty inflated and he might just slip up and forget who's the leader and who's the sycophant. A new low for Lindsey Graham: How a maverick turned Trump sycophant 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z Usually, when the super-rich or their sycophants spout off like that, truth does not intrude. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez vs. the "fact-checkers": Challenging the boundaries of conventional wisdom 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z So it's difficult to escape the conclusion that Republican Party leaders are just authentically sycophants and authoritarians, and it's not just a cynical pose that is affected for political purposes. GOP goes Deep Orange: Republican Party is all in for "Trump Victory" in 2020 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z Unfortunately for Woods and his sycophants, the tying attempt came up well short, his second shot barely in shouting distance of the cup and the birdie putt never scaring the hole. Tigermania 2018: The spectacular highs and lows of (arguably) the most emotional golf season ever - Golf Digest 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z But instead of the usual GOP sycophants clapping like a bunch of trained seals, this time he got pushback. What’s behind Mike Pence’s stony visage? Trump may plan to dump him for Nikki Haley 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z Sadly, cruelty seems to be the president’s weapon of choice and that of his sycophants in the media. Opinion | Too narrow of a view 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z There were no simpering sycophants in the GHW Bush White House. Bush’s Coffin Arrives at Capitol, Where the Former President Will Lie in State 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z He has been the “worst sycophant of all time,” as he put it at his favorite Omaha bar and grill this summer, parroting the usual flak he takes. Brian Windhorst and the Burden of Being a LeBron James Whisperer 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z He was a detached observer even in crowds of sycophants, snapping photographs or recording voices in preference to the futility of personal interaction. There’s Still No Escaping Andy Warhol 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z It is pointless to take up impeachment and single-payer health care and the like with Trump in the White House and his sycophants controlling the Senate. Opinion | Can Democrats keep it together? 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z The questions for the senator and other Trump sycophants remain the same: why was the job market stronger across much of Obama’s second term than it is now? On jobs, Republicans pick the wrong fight at the wrong time 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z One spineless Clinton sycophant in the media, the editorial page editor for the Daily Press in Newport News, not only failed to condemn Mr. Clinton’s threat of violence, he outright applauded it. Donald Trump at fault for all political incivility? 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z It has led to an enviable career, an unenviable amount of scorn, and accusations of being, well, a sycophant who clings to one of the world’s most famous athletes. Brian Windhorst and the Burden of Being a LeBron James Whisperer 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z “I can’t put it in better terms. He is a Trump sycophant.” Will Too Much Love From Trump Be a Bad Thing for a Long Island Congressman? 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z If Trump's sycophants haven't figured out how to get him to govern his tongue, they had best then focus on distancing themselves from these egregious, outrageous slurs that he is spewing. Trump Bets Kavanaugh ‘Hoax’ Can Turn Into Midterm Gains 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z For some in public office, the reward and the thrill is not getting to keep a cushy job that comes with staff, sycophants and travel. Opinion | The revealing reaction to Heidi Heitkamp’s ‘no’ 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z All of which is to say that, as usual, the president weighed the advice he receives from sycophants on TV more highly than any counsel he might receive from more credible sources. After demanding release of DOJ documents, Trump admits he’s doing what his sycophants tell him... 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z To not vote is to extend an invitation to Trump and his gang of Republican sycophants to do more of their destruction — or worse. Opinion | This is the most important thing you will do all year 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z Nevertheless, for Tiger sycophants waiting on the official word before booking their tickets to Carmel Bay, here's your green light. Tiger Woods ends up not needing U.S. Open exemption he would have certainly received anyway - Golf Digest 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Two 39-year-old underdogs – a Trump sycophant and Florida’s first African-American gubernatorial nominee – will go toe to toe in the nation’s largest swing state. Primary voters set the stage for some historic 2018 contests 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z This I-know-you-are-but-what-am-I debate strategy is the fourth obligatory element of the sycophant canon. Review | I read six sycophantic pro-Trump books — and then I read Omarosa 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z On Friday night, Tucker Carlson was the latest Trump sycophant to endorse lite treason. Trump defenders downplay evidence of Russian collusion: “So What?” 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z These days, if you’re just going to be a dumb, stupid, sick sycophant or a cheerleader for Trump, that’s the safest place to be for ratings. Right-wing talk show host Joe Walsh tells Salon: Donald Trump “betrayed his country” 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z This time they just brought along Republican sycophants and everyone was happy. Senate Intelligence Committee agrees: Putin was helping Trump. Now they’re meeting in private 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z Now Stephanopoulos gets another scoop, this time an interview in which Cohen makes it clear that he will no longer serve as Trump's loyal sycophant. Is Michael Cohen ready for the John Dean role: A hero who saves America from Donald Trump? 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z He was very excited about his "agreement" and couldn't stop praising Kim for weeks afterward, apparently convinced by his braying sycophants that he was a shoo-in for the Nobel Peace Prize. As the North Korean deal crumbles, Donald Trump’s foreign policy looks worse than ever 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z Add to that his need to surround himself with readily compliant flatterers and sycophants. Opinion | Trump’s Assault on the World Order 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z “In the past when that’s happened, leaders get into this bubble because they surround themselves with sycophants and flatterers, and they end up making disastrous errors. This kind of unilateralism is an outcome.” Going it alone: Trump increasingly relies on unilateral action to wield power 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z He alienated the clergy and replaced the old elite with a coterie of sycophants. Don’t Fear Regime Change in Iran 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z But instead of letting it go, his team decided that this was their chance to give Rudy Giuliani a run for his money as most unhinged sycophant of the Trump administration. Summit madness: After Donald Trump’s G7 meltdown in Quebec, what lies ahead in Singapore? 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z On the evidence of House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s CNN interview over the weekend, the likely next speaker of the House is a mindless sycophant and a threat to the constitutional order. Opinion | The likely next speaker of the House is a mindless sycophant 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z Several segments read like little admonitions for Trump: "Surrounding yourself with sycophants and bootlickers is the shortest route to failure," Duncan says. James Patterson and Bill Clinton's authorial debut is... awkward 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z In Annapolis, Trump won’t find sycophants such as the ones he packed into his Cabinet. Opinion | Naval Academy grads will respect the president’s office but not necessarily the man 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z In the White House, Trump has likewise surrounded himself with sycophants, fixers and telegenic attack dogs. Opinion | Trump is running America just like his businesses — right into the ground 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z Hiring a sycophant for your lawyer - not a good idea. Giuliani to Join Trump’s Legal Team 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z The president promoted a Fox News show via Twitter that starred a steady stream of sycophants who slandered special counsel Robert S. Mueller III. Opinion | Trump’s miserable crew has never been so desperate 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z This was a political if ever there was one, and I'm sure if they look, they will see some tie between the IG and Trump or Trump's favorite sycophant: Jeff Sessions. Former F.B.I. Deputy Director Is Faulted in Scathing Inspector General Report 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z She is a bought and paid for sycophant like all of the sellout republicans. How Lisa Murkowski Mastered Trump’s Washington 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Six months ago, Lawrence H. Summers, a former treasury secretary, said “Mnuchin may be the greatest sycophant in Cabinet history.” Opinion | It’s official: Steven Mnuchin is the greatest sycophant in Cabinet history 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z Your embrace of Donald Trump, grandstanding on FOX News, and other shameless pandering to the alt-Right conspiracy theorists has shown American you are another fraud in Trump's orbit of sycophants and liars. Giuliani to Join Trump’s Legal Team 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z But there was nothing mystical or magical about the man bellowing through Barclays with a posse of sycophants, scampering from security, flinging anything not bolted down at a bus filled with other fighters. Conor McGregor has become what he once condemned: a bully and a bum 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z I have a dream where politicians are not moral cowards and spineless sycophants. The panel: what would Martin Luther King's dream be in 2018? 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z Another Trump sycophant swimming in the new cesspool. Veterans Affairs Secretary Is Latest to Go as Trump Shakes Up Cabinet 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z Bootlicking may secure his job with Trump, but a sycophant is without honor, even at his alma mater. Opinion | It’s official: Steven Mnuchin is the greatest sycophant in Cabinet history 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z Cartoonist and Trump sycophant Ben Garrison depicted Hogg as an assault rifle, wielded by CNN, and loaded with Marxism. How rightwingers have attacked Parkland students with lies, hoaxes and smears 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z It'll be a bunch of career staffers whom will be fired if he insists, and then trump will either not replace them or replace them with sycophants. Trump Chooses Bolton for 3rd Security Adviser as Shake-Up Continues 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z He is greedy and mercenary, questionably ethical, and seemingly of the same ilk as Trump and those fellow sycophants in Congress. Facebook Executive Planning to Leave Company Amid Disinformation Backlash 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z The circle of sycophants, who do not care about the boss, often spurs the leader’s flameout. Opinion | Trump, Flush With Power 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z With the sycophant GOP in power in Congress, Trump wants to try Putin-ism here. Opinion | The Poison Putin Spreads 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z Those who delay this fate the longest are bootlicking mediocrities — the survival of the sycophants. Opinion | All this chaos is a sign of Trump’s confidence 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Contrary to the notion that Mr. Trump is surrounded by sycophants, the president has aides who are willing to say “no.” ‘There Will Always Be Change,’ Trump Says as More Personnel Shake-Ups Loom 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Yes, the president sounds like an oafish sycophant on the topic of President Vladimir Putin. Trump can no longer have it both ways on Russia 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z It’s a film that takes us from Stalin’s final days in March 1953 through the battle for power among his intimidated minions — spineless but dangerous sycophants who made up the dictator’s potential successors. ‘The Death of Stalin’: Dictator’s final days a comedy of terrors 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z In a White House aggressively staffed with family members and novice sycophants, the former Goldman Sachs No 2 was a rare, highly experienced professional. The biggest Trump resignations and firings – so far 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z Soon only the shameless sycophants will be left. Springtime for sycophants 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z He ends up surrounded by sycophants, as he cans anyone who has an independent thought. ‘There Will Always Be Change,’ Trump Says as More Personnel Shake-Ups Loom 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z But this argument would be more credible if so many Trump evangelicals were not such sycophants. Opinion | Trump evangelicals have sold their souls 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z Allowing the slaughter of children to "'remain free"? Even Sparta would have a hard time competing with this group of self serving sycophants. The President and the Porn Star: A Story’s Slow Rise Above the Din 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z It's a film that takes us from Stalin's final days in March 1953 through the battle for power among his intimidated minions — spineless but dangerous sycophants who made up the great man's potential successors. 'The Death of Stalin' mines horrific history for satirical laughs 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z And the story of Navarro’s rise tells you a lot about the nature of the Trump administration — a place that rewards sycophants who tell the boss what he wants to hear. Springtime for sycophants 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z The scary part for all of this is that Trump's future appointments must be committed sycophants like Pompeo in order to be willing to work for him. ‘There Will Always Be Change,’ Trump Says as More Personnel Shake-Ups Loom 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z So, if some of the hundreds of loyal Trump sycophants are still in their cushy jobs in 2021 or 2025, why, then they will be the bureaucrats the next president vows to throw out. A swamp crawling with friends and family 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z The American people are playing the fool to Trump and his Republican sycophants. Hard-Line Supporter of Israel Offers to Pay for U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Clad in a fleece, surrounded by 12 screens, masseuses, a manipulative wife, a hostile ex-wife and a cast of millionaire sycophants whom he periodically culls, Mr. Cohen cuts a sad figure. Opinion | When Wall Street Writes Its Own Rules 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z And the story of Navarro’s rise tells you a lot about the nature of the Trump administration — a place that rewards sycophants who tell the boss what he wants to hear. Springtime for sycophants 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z The sycophants here may want to check if your passports are still viable. Every One of the World’s Big Economies Is Now Growing 2018-01-27T05:00:00Z Neither Judge Moro nor the 4th Federal Appeals Court are "kangaroo courts" as Lula's sycophants style them. Upending Brazil’s Presidential Race, Court Upholds Ex-Leader’s Conviction 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z But that is not a reason to become sycophants, cheerleaders and enablers. Opinion | The Trump evangelicals have lost their gag reflex 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z Just as Nielsen “imagines” Norwegians are white, I imagine that she, in her denial of the obvious and defense of the indefensible, is the latest Trump sycophant to trash her reputation. Opinion | This way madness lies 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z “I don’t think being a Trump sycophant is going to do much in the long run for the party or holding the majority,” said Republican consultant Mike Murphy. Kevin McCarthy relishes role as Trump’s fixer, friend and candy man 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z More anti-Trumpers seem to be telling themselves a “Madness of King George” narrative: Trump is a semiliterate madman surrounded by sycophants who are morally, intellectually and psychologically inferior to people like us. The devolution of anti-Trumpists 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z The Indian media - ever sycophants - to those in power rarely report these difficulties. India’s Economic Woes Are Piercing Modi’s Aura of Invulnerability 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z “There’s a word for a person who would praise someone every 12 seconds,” the online dictionary tweeted Thursday, linking to its definition of the word “sycophant.” Dictionary.com calls Mike Pence a ‘sycophant’ for Trump 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z Nor does he care to find out what he should be doing or surround himself with people who do and will help him, instead of sycophants and enablers. Inside Trump’s Hour-by-Hour Battle for Self-Preservation 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z I have more respect for kim jong un than for any trump sycophants.... How Far Will Sean Hannity Go? 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z The president has assembled such a gaggle of unqualified sycophants that I cannot imagine his having realized the error of his ways inside of a year. Jared Kushner’s Vast Duties, and Visibility in White House, Shrink 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z That is the problem with kings, emperors and "Rulers for Life": their power-hungry relatives and sycophants use them as a symbol to keep power, like The Party uses Big Brother in George Orwell's "1984." Behind Mugabe’s Rapid Fall: A Firing, a Feud and a First Lady 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z Dictionary.com defines sycophant as “a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite,” and provides “toady, yes man, flunky, fawner” and “flatterer” as acceptable synonyms. Dictionary.com calls Mike Pence a ‘sycophant’ for Trump 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z And for future reference, any of the current president’s sycophants are equally a waste of time: Conway, Miller, the lot of them. Listen to ‘The Daily’: Steve Bannon on Virginia’s Elections 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Mugabe ran a prosperous country into the ground, destroyed wildlife and murdered thousands while enriching himself and a small coterie of sycophants. With Mugabe’s Era Ending in Zimbabwe, a Warning Echoes in Africa 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z What a loss for American diplomacy and international standing- no strong and clear position on the trade deficit, no mention of human rights and democracy, combined with an embarrassingly sycophant behavior and speech. Trump, Aiming to Coax Xi Jinping, Bets on Flattery 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z If we allow Trump and his sycophant toadies to paper this over, it will remain an open wound forever on our national sovereignty. Opinion | The Sleazy Case Against Mueller’s Probe 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z He embraced Moyo but lost the deft skill of juggling favor among sycophants. The Shakespearean excesses and political intrigues that drove Africa's oldest strongman out of power 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z She soon launched a series of rallies, where she shone as the primary sycophant for her husband. From typist to first lady of Zimbabwe to presidental contender. Did Grace Mugabe's political ambitions topple her husband? 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z It’s not a problem that Pence is a sycophant in chief, perhaps the greatest bootlicker to take up residence at the Naval Observatory. The vacuity of Mike Pence 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z In her first few days on the job, Brazile writes that she also discovered the DNC was $2 million in debt and that the payroll was stacked with “hangers-on and sycophants.” Donna Brazile: I considered replacing Clinton with Biden as 2016 Democratic nominee 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z It is possible for Christian conservatives to support the appointment of conservative judges without becoming a tribe of apologists and sycophants. Opinion | The religious right carries its golden calf into Steve Bannon’s battles 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z Can you imagine the current US cabinet, stuffed as it is with sycophants and billionaire know-nothings, turning on their patron for the sake of the country and the world? Yes, Donald Trump can be removed from the US presidency. Here’s how | Jonathan Freedland 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z People like Ryan and his sycophants like this view, we know it does not work as believed. Opinion | Will Trump Trumpify the Fed? 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z The show manages to serve as a court sycophant, whispering in the ear of the king, criticizing his perceived enemies and fluffing his feathers. Trump and the Fox & Friends show. Think ego, not news 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z After Mr. Cuomo spoke on Roosevelt Island, Mr. de Blasio also delivered a speech praising Mr. Bloomberg, after first saying that he was not known as a “sycophant” of the former mayor. Glow of De Blasio’s Primary Victory Is Dimmed by a Cuomo Speech 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z It’s not just where the secretary is but where the sycophants are. Here comes Hillary Clinton's memoir – and there's plenty of blame to go round 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z If the 33-year old Kim, a living deity ensconced in an opulent palace alongside a coterie of adoring sycophants, faced his own ignominious demise, who’s to say he wouldn’t feel the same? The Argument for War with North Korea Is No Argument at All 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z Mr. Summers followed up by adding: “‘Presidents are poorly served by sycophant advisers who reflexively flatter & defend them. Even Business Leaders Who Abandoned Trump’s Councils May Not Stray Far 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z He is, as any White House job in the current administration requires, a skilled sycophant. Opinion | Why Anthony Scaramucci won’t make a dent in Trump’s problems 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z Like other Trump sycophants, he had insisted that there was no evidence that the 2016 Republican campaign colluded with Russia to effect the outcome of the election. Trump’s pious and dangerous enablers 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z It was true of the sycophants and opportunists before whom he dangled Cabinet appointments during the campaign and then, oh, never mind. The Don Jr. game changer 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z And while the purging of crackpots ought to be celebrated, what if all that remains are talk show hosts, sycophants and second-rate economists? Opinion | William F. Buckley Jr. and the collapse of the conservative movement 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z Trump’s professional sycophants are paid very well to defend the Great Leader. The “resistance” needs to stop collapsing to the fainting couch every time Trump says something ignorant or inflammatory 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z The point is I don’t care for all the sycophants who treat Trudeau like Ryan Gosling just because – for a politician – he is relatively young, liberal and handsome. Can Justin Trudeau’s socks bring peace to the world? 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z In a family business like the Trump Organization, it’s possible for the CEO to surround himself with sycophants. President Trump's Loyalty Obsession Is Bad for the White House 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z The interview also speaks to a larger trend in the president’s approach to the press, as he increasingly elevates and prioritizes loyal conservative sycophants over actual news outlets. “Fox & Friends” is Donald Trump’s safe space 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z Not satiated by the string of superlatives from his Cabinet of sycophants, he resorted to stroking his own ego, opening with the fanciful claim that Americans are “seeing amazing results” from his presidency. Trump’s Cabinet of sycophants won’t admit his job performance is terrible 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z Here, for all of America and the world to see, were the sycophants of the Imperial President’s court: those who, unlike former FBI Director James Comey, demonstrated their loyalty and were proud to say so. Trump's Cabinet of Worship Is a Scary Sign of American Collapse 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z What they don’t see on their computers or glimpse on television is fed to them by an armada of sycophants eager to deliver any news that might catch the player’s attention. The Cavaliers showed championship grit in climbing off the canvas. Now what? 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z The Warriors were up, three games to one, and planning celebratory excursions to Napa and noodling with the latest toys coughed up by Silicon Valley sycophants. Sorry, Cavaliers. It’s Warriors (in Four, Five, Six or Seven). 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z In its place, we have what Lord and an increasing number of like-minded sycophants represent: a brazen repudiation not simply of the facts, but of the fact that facts matter. When facts are brazenly repudiated, civil discourse is impossible 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z He’s enabled by sycophants and hypocrites leading Congress. Resist rollback of net neutrality: A free society needs access to information on the internet 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z What remains in the Trump administration are opportunists, ideologues, sycophants, family — plus a few genuine professionals, who lent their talents and reputations to Trump for what they saw as the good of the country. Opinion | Trump may have broken one D.C. Commandment too many 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z Should Trump leave his cocoon of sea-level sycophants, he might be surprised at what he’d find in the other American time zones. Come West, Mr. President, and you’ll see the natural wonders your actions threaten 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z But perhaps the big issue the constitution was trying to address was the culture of the 1980s and early 1990s, when the Kenyan president tended to be surrounded by half-educated sycophants. Letter from Africa: Should degrees be necessary for leaders? - BBC News 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z Trump’s aversion to veracity is exacerbated by his inner circle of sycophants and conspiracists. Trump’s enablers feed his conspiracy theories 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z At a cocktail party they attend together, he is “the jester king,” entertaining the hostess’s “suitors and sycophants with tales of his childhood,” though some attentive listeners discover “inconsistencies in the fabric.” Jerzy Kosinski’s Traumas, Real and Invented 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z True believers in the press pack were confined to a knot of shameless sycophants. Roger Federer continues to defy time and critics with Indian Wells win 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z A fake Twitter account is only one of the early signs of impending celebrity, along with well-meaning admirers, autograph-seekers, groupies and sycophants. Greg Bird Draws Attention and Praise, Hit After Hit 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z He’s insulated by sycophants and by family members, and he can still ride a long way on his popular following. Holding Trump Accountable 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z A teenage mind in an old body inhabits the Oval Office surrounded by a sea of sycophants. Labor Leaders’ Cheap Deal With Trump 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z He has spent his adult life surrounded by sycophants who reinforce his opinion that he wins and is the bestest ever at everything. ‘My Own Life Ended Up Imitating Her Art’ 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z Robots are menial servants and sycophants rather than colleagues, and human slavery persists. Why Peter Thiel Fears “Star Trek” 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z Franken is not an leader other than to his own sycophants. Al Franken Faces Donald Trump and the Next Four Years 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z But they got their dream team of hold-back-the-clock fossil fools and corporate sycophants. Beyond showmanship, drama, what can Trump deliver? 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Then Mrs. Cross' own character and story emerged as an abject sycophant who will be ill-used by her friend-mistress. There's a lot of Jane Austen in 'Love & Friendship' but even more Whit Stillman 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z “I’m prepared to say that he’s filled his Cabinet with a bunch of lackeys and sycophants and idiots,” the conservative said. Trump defends pace of transition work as process remains opaque 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z The Trumpists and their sycophants outside the US taunt those of us who are fearful. Trump’s world is too dark – even for Leonard Cohen | Jonathan Freedland 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z He attracts the worst people to him, sycophants and power-hungry strivers who will be placed in positions of authority and who will obey the boss’ diktat above anything else. President Trump: A colossal failure for democracy, and our terrifying new reality 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z A stout defender of Clinton in public, in private Tanden injects some bracing honesty that suggests the candidate is not surrounded by sycophants. WikiLeaks emails: what they reveal about mechanics of Clinton’s campaign 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z His career in the headlines was a sycophants’ delight. Donald Trump has lived by the media, and will die by the media 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z His defense to all of this, echoed by his coterie of sycophants, is that boys will be boys. Donald Trump is no man 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z In this constantly changing landscape, every critic is a conspirator, every sycophant a friend and every lie is a truth. Tyson Fury is having a laugh – a sad and lonely one 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z Kelly has been described alternately as a dogged sycophant of the governor's and "someone who just ordered meals for meetings". Chris Christie Knew About Bridge Lane Closings as They Happened, Prosecutors Say 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z That’s the thing about sycophants: Their worship belies their true intentions. Questions of Redstone’s Competency Promise Years of Litigation 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z He has never been vetted thoroughly in a national campaign, and the media will try to portray him as another too-eager sycophant. Trump’s Pence Selection 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z So desperate is the Obama administration and its sycophants to distract the American people from Mr. Obama’s shocking failure, we are now being subjected to this year’s version of “It Was a YouTube Video” spin. Obama foreign policy failure: ISIS far from defeated 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z These sycophants sneer through their sunglasses towards the crowd, flaunting a "That's right, I'm inside the ropes; I'm special" cadence. 8 reasons why the driving range during a practice round is the most interesting, entertaining place in professional golf - Golf Digest 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z My own running list of sycophants remains handy for the duration of their likely shortened political careers. After Trump, the GOP may need a better voting system 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z Or as Eugene V. Debs put it, “I would rather a thousand times be a free soul in jail than to be a sycophant and coward in the streets.” Questions of Redstone’s Competency Promise Years of Litigation 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z Donald Trump is terrifying the greedy, selfish, and incompetent "Establishment", and its "leeches" and sycophants, turning their arrogance... Donald Trump Is Coherent on Monetary Policy, but Not on Debt 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Dulled from years of living in a bubble surrounded by sycophants and yes men, sure. Donald Trump’s amazing, beautiful, super-classy veepstakes: Here are some running-mate ideas for the presumptive GOP nominee 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Political debates are not allowed on the site; everyone is there strictly to laugh at Sanders and his sycophants. Sick of Bernie bros? There's a subreddit with your name on it | Cindy Casares 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z You can expect multitudes of office-seekers and sycophants to follow Chris Christie’s craven path to believing, or pretending to believe, in a presidential Trump. Softening on Trump? Remember this. 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z Certainly not in my view, but I don’t like being lied to—by candidates, campaign staffs, or their media sycophants. Enough with the Hillary cult: Her admirers ignore reality, dream of worshipping a queen 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Surrounded by sycophants, Trump appears to have lost sight of his original goal, which was to promote Trump. “The Donald is his own biggest enemy”: Former Super PAC director exposes Donald Trump’s bulls*** artistry 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z Instead, Trump has surrounded himself with yes men and sycophants. I helped create Trump the politician. Now I bitterly regret it | Christopher R Barron 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z These are unpardonable crimes in Donald’s universe, a universe of sycophants and artifice. The GOP’s fatal Trump blunder: Myopic Republicans thought they could contain him, but they instead created the path for his rise 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z Cai’s argument reflects a growing concern among experts that Xi’s crackdown on internal dissent will leave him surrounded by sycophants and unable to hear constructive criticism. China’s ‘Donald Trump’ is latest victim of government crackdown 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z He did not want to portray himself as a sycophant, willing to blindly accept instructions from his superiors. As first spring training approaches, new Dodgers Manager Dave Roberts focuses on building unity 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z But he is both sympathetic and balanced, never a sycophant. Was Thatcher ‘that bloody woman’ or a boon to Britain? 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z The term “systemic opposition” in Russia usually refers to the toadies and sycophants who support Mr. Putin. Putin’s most aggressive attack dog is unleashed 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z His first TV commercial positions him as a lone voice of reason in a corrupt world, a sour vigilante who has had enough of the bureaucrats and sycophants. Donald Trump's first 2016 ad: a frame-by-frame microcosm of his campaign 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z Charles told Paderni to see about opening the scrolls, and the keeper, whom the historian Charles Seltman described as “a lazy sycophant of a man,” saw to it. The Quest to Unlock an Ancient Library 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z Wall Street’s sycophant business press post-2008 hyped the “Chinese and emerging market growth miracles” as great places to invest, as they stepped up to be our factory for ever cheaper stuff. The world will come crashing down (again): Inside the global debt crisis that America is about to import 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z One tweeted to Rushdie, "sad that so many of us 'Modi Toadies' who've defended u over years are now dismissed as sycophants." By using the phrase 'Modi Toadies', writer Salman Rushdie prompts an online storm - BBC News 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z According to progressive educators, the state HBCUs were run by sycophants who served the white supremacist governors loyally and ensured that black students would not get out of line. The future of historically black colleges 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z The book’s darker aspects deal with her reconnection and ultimate break with her mother, who, in Jewel’s telling, funneled money from her and surrounded her by a cult-like band of well-paid sycophants. Jewel's Never Broken: The Perfect Celebrity Memoir 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z If you keep it up, eventually you will be seen as a sycophant, someone not to be trusted or taken seriously. Don't make this networking mistake 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z Terry drank nothing but milk, claiming that dairy was, in fact, the best thing you could do for your vocal chords, and anyone who said otherwise was a dumb-witted sycophant. Clone Boys at the End of the World 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z “The environment made it such that sycophants weren’t allowed in,” he said. George W. Bush Recalls Putin's 'My Dog Is Stronger' Style of Diplomacy 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Bush talked about the need to avoid the trappings of power and create an environment around leadership where “sycophants are not allowed in,” adding Clinton told him to use big words. The Bill and Dubya show offers hope of more civilised election race 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Oliver, a soccer sycophant who grew up in England, also had a great line about what soccer really is in America: "It is what you pick up your 10-year-old daughter from." Whispers around world soccer and kickbacks now scream from headlines 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z All sorts of people sought an audience; bootlickers and sycophants, hoping to remind Bryce of their existence, in case there was somehow room for them in his will. Grains of wheat : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z But Wells presents enough evidence for only a blind sycophant to believe Brady had no say in the air pressure inside the balls. Tom Brady lied; only the consequences are open to debate 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z There is the Clinton who is cautious to the point of paranoia, who surrounds herself with sketchy sycophants and launches scorched-earth campaigns against anyone who would doubt her. The Clinton Blind Spot 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z He spoke dismissively of candidates who surrounded themselves with “sycophants” and bemoaned a culture built around a single person or party. In Rare Remarks, George W. Bush Argues Against the Lifting of Iran Sanctions 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z He spoke dismissively of candidates who surrounded themselves with “sycophants” and bemoaned a culture built around a single person, or even a party. George W. Bush Opens Up About 2016 Race 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z Being aware is not the same as being a sycophant. The Three Traits Of Successful Millennials 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z After being in politics so long, she and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, have accumulated an impossibly large retinue of hangers-on, advisers, supporters and sycophants. Hillary Clinton’s Management Paradox 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z These literary touchstones primarily warn against leaders’ susceptibility to sycophants. Obama doesn’t have to say he loves us 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z He urged Mr Poroshenko to let “decent people” into his circle instead of “sycophants and despots”. The fire that did not cease 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z It's hopeful — that perhaps David Foster Wallace found some moments to be just Dave, away from interviewers and sycophants, even before his tragic death. The End of the Tour is about the soul-sucking nature of the celebrity profile 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z But be warned: The short-term rentals, new best friends and sycophants will return to form at some point over the next four years. Bob Ehrlich: A few words of advice for Larry Hogan 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z Rumours swirl of a rival “shadow cabinet” of Mr Erdogan’s sycophants. Forward to the past 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z But, says Lemann, these books celebrating Google are the usual set of “corporate devotionals” of American business, in which currently-successful firms and their sycophants sing hymns of praise to themselves. Is Google Doing Anything New? 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z The aides insisted that they’d never heard the stories before, but it didn’t matter: Madame Chancellor was calling them sycophants. The Astonishing Rise of Angela Merkel 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z Jarrett has amassed a number of nicknames, most of them not so great: the spy, the chief sycophant, the night stalker, the Obama whisperer, the consigliere and the human decoder ring. Five myths about Valerie Jarrett That’s the word from the Washington Examiner’s Byron York, who talked with a number of people plugged into Romney’s inner circle of advisers, sycophants, and former campaign personnel who “developed an extraordinary loyalty to Romney.” This will kill the GOP in ’16: Romney buzz and GOP’s immigration meltdown 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z If his teammates and sycophants really want to help and support him, they would tell Brandon Meriweather this: He needs to adapt. Brandon Meriweather needs to change his ways if he hopes to remain in the new NFL In any group, there are generally one or two people who believe the best way to get ahead is to be a sycophant. 5 Signs Your Employees Think You're Awful 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z He and most of his colleagues, excluding a few Nixon sycophants on the right and Nixon-haters on the left, took their role very seriously, he said. Watergate and Lessons Not Learned 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z "He wants to close things down," Mr Cummings said, accusing the senior adviser of being a "sycophant presiding over a shambolic court". Gove ally attacks 'bumbling' Cameron 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z The polls and the legions of Bill’s and Hillary’s friends and the sycophants in the media all insist that she is the odds-on favorite to secure the Democratic nomination for president. I'm Sick To Death Of Bill And Hillary 2014-05-12T07:26:00Z "You haven't lacked anything. You don't have the desperation for a job that makes you a sycophant." Nigeria's central bank governor to challenge suspension in court 2014-02-21T14:36:29Z I learned that one is a motivational poster, warning of laziness, gossips and sycophants. | The Task: Stalin and Soap 2014-02-18T19:28:44Z He’s too immersed in his delusional world where he’s surrounded by sycophants and overpaid lawyers telling him he’s the victim in all this. Feinstein: Alex Rodriguez tried to ensure his legacy, but killed it instead 2014-01-17T19:12:59Z He also criticised two of the PM's most senior aides, labelling one a "sycophant" and another "clueless". Gove ally attacks 'bumbling' Cameron 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z Television reporters, restless and idle, zeroed in on a bunch of sycophants, who had begun conducting a religious ceremony on the pavement outside Ms. Dikshit’s house to pray for her victory. India Ink: Delhi’s Popular Chief Minister Couldn’t Escape Anti-Congress Wave 2013-12-10T11:47:04Z Even his usually unquestioning army of sycophants showed signs of discomfort at Obama's rush to war, cheek by jowl with Muslim extremists. The Syria crisis: Back from the brink? 2013-09-13T09:24:38Z My guess is that Clinton will have to emerge from her comfort zone--the succor provided by her friends and sycophants and favored advisers--and really address the money culture that is rotting our democracy. Joe Klein: The Clintons Need a Restart 2013-08-29T14:50:23Z After he lost that election, Mr. McCain saw Mr. Obama as naïve, aloof and surrounded by too many sycophants. Letter From Washington: The Most Pivotal Figure in the Senate Today 2013-07-28T17:22:17Z Obviously a Democrat sycophant. paulejb 9/11/12 - 9/12/12 Four valiant Americans die in a terrorist attack in Benghazi. Fireworks to Explode on Capitol Hill Today Over Benghazi 2013-05-08T11:05:25Z As she became more and more isolated by power, and increasingly surrounded by sycophants, Thatcher lost touch. Margaret Thatcher's Death Marks an End to the 'Heroic Soloist' Era 2013-04-09T15:33:00Z It is a fact, too, one of the few indisputable facts attached to this sorry saga: indisputably the act of a man who is either a fascist or, if not a fascist, then a sycophant. Sunderland stumble blindly into a mess of their own making 2013-04-02T21:09:45Z What is his reputation: Is he lauded as a trusted counselor or derided as a spineless sycophant? Think You Believe in Your Company? Here's the Real Test 2013-03-25T12:40:52Z The rest are a bunch of worthless sycophants. Venezuela's "Che" prays for hero Chavez's recovery 2013-01-10T12:17:41Z As is so often the way with twitter foodie cliques, this was widely picked up on by the gang of cheffy wannabee sycophants, and then all the big guns joined in. Top chefs unite against blogger's review 2012-11-08T13:20:00Z Writing in The New York Times Book Review in 1980, the journalist and China scholar Robert Elegant described Dr. Han as an “outmoded sycophant.” Han Suyin Dies; Wrote Sweeping Fiction 2012-11-06T02:24:57Z The sycophants and grubby little people who depend on him. African viewpoint: Mugabe and the Jamaicans 2012-09-27T12:34:24Z By all accounts she looked the part too, playing "the spoiled socialite, with two Bentleys, a purse-size lap dog and a commanding, petulant personality that kept her posse of sycophants in check". Seven of the week's best reads 2012-09-08T23:38:01Z The most endangered leader is the one surrounded by sycophants and yes men and women; their ubiquity goes a long way toward explaining the series of banking fiascos we've witnessed over the past five years. Thank the People Who Really Matter 2012-09-02T04:00:01Z He listens to the sycophants around him who tell him 'you are a gift from God'. Insight: Syria's Assad trusts inner circle in fight for survival 2012-07-18T06:08:11Z But when Mr Putin turned up to deliver his speech the delegates, Westerners included, were transformed into slavering sycophants. Schumpeter: Davos on the river Neva 2012-06-28T15:03:25Z Speaking from her home in Australia, Mrs Assange said: "He chose Ecuador because it is not a sycophant of the US, like Britain, Australia or Sweden." Assange 'being buoyed by support' 2012-06-25T08:52:37Z Young emperors especially, who were surrounded by swarms of sycophants and panders, and who often lived in continual dread of assassination, plunged with the most reckless and feverish excitement into every variety of abnormal lust. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z Even a court sycophant could not pretend to see beauty or grace in our present Prince. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z The house, awhile before filled with servants and sycophants, was left in silence. The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries To-Day and in Days of Old 2012-03-25T02:00:04.800Z Mild; soft; gentle; smooth and soothing in manner; suave; as, a bland temper; bland persuasion; a bland sycophant. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z Your parasites and sycophants and courtiers are a most morose, miserable, ugly, detestable, intolerable swarm of blind beetles and wasps; the devils are beyond comparison better company.” Satires And Profanities 2012-03-14T02:00:24.637Z He directly challenged the president over the removal of an Islamist sheik from a major mosque, telling the president that he was surrounded by “sycophants” and “hypocrites.” Aboul Fotouh Is Unlikely Moderate in Egypt Election 2012-03-14T00:59:34Z Only sycophants can consider them a crime "in the war of the slaves against their oppressors, the only just war in history." Dictatorship vs. Democracy (Terrorism and Communism) 2012-02-27T03:00:14.477Z "Very kind of you to come, Mr. Vaughan," said the Sergeant, who, like many browbeaters, could be a sycophant at need. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z They waged war for the sake of place and pillage, pomp and power,—for the ignorant applause of vulgar millions,—for the flattery of parasites, and the adulation of sycophants and slaves. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 8 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Political 2012-02-11T03:03:48.503Z Hereditary god-kings, surrounded by a coterie of advisors and sycophants, became the perverse exaggeration of those loosely structured hierarchies that existed in our hunter-gatherer forebears. Apes in the Suites and the Streets: Participatory Organizing from #Scio12 to #OccupyWallStreet 2012-02-02T15:45:20.917Z But, says the sycophant, the early settlers of Oregon are greatly indebted to the Hudson’s Bay Company for supplies of goods and provisions sent to aid the starving immigrants. A History of Oregon, 1792-1849 Drawn From Personal Observation and Authentic Information 2012-01-20T03:00:11.607Z In this way, the document must be described as a pitiful forgery, which might be circulated only by the most malignant sycophants in the most yellow of the gutter press. Dictatorship vs. Democracy (Terrorism and Communism) 2012-02-27T03:00:14.477Z |
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