How Donald Trump Echoes Joe McCarthy

Clooney Enters the Frame • Glee in Trumpworld • Speaking With Serena [View in your browser]( | [Update your preferences](newsletter=vf) [Vanity Fair Hive logo image]( How Donald Trump Echoes Joe McCarthy Good Thursday morning! In calling on Joe Biden to exit the race, “lifelong Democrat” George Clooney revealed that the president he was with at a recent fundraiser “was the same man we all witnessed at the debate,” [writes]( Bess Levin. Still, Biden is refusing to step aside, which Eric Lutz [sees]( as playing into the hands of Donald Trump, whose allies are reveling in the Democratic chaos, Gabriel Sherman [reports](. “They’re spiking the football,” says one. With “vengeance the cornerstone of his 2024 campaign,” Molly Jong-Fast [writes]( how Trump is echoing Joe McCarthy. Jong-Fast’s grandfather, the author Howard Fast, was jailed during the Red Scare of the 1950s, and she wonders if political writers could face a similar fate in a second Trump term. Plus, Tom Kludt [talks with]( tennis legend Serena Williams about her hosting tonight’s ESPYs and why she’s having a hard time watching Wimbledon. Thanks for reading. [Image may contain: Face, Head, Person, Photography, Portrait, Adult, Art, Collage, and Painting]( [How Donald Trump Echoes Joe McCarthy]( By [Molly Jong-Fast]( [My grandfather was jailed in the Red Scare of the 1950s. Political writers could suffer a similar fate in a second Trump term.]( [Read more button](   [Trumpworld Is Reveling In the Biden Meltdown: “He’s Cooked”]( By [Gabriel Sherman]( [As Joe Biden clings to the top of the ticket, and chaos consumes the Democratic Party, Donald Trump’s allies envision a November landslide. “It will be an absolute bloodbath,” says one.]( [Read more button](   [Joe Biden Is Playing Right Into Donald Trump’s Hands]( By [Eric Lutz]( [By rejecting calls to step aside, the president is only fueling the nihilism, conspiracism, and distrust that so defines the MAGA movement.]( [Read more button](   [George Clooney Says Joe Biden Can’t Beat Trump, Must Drop Out Now]( By [Bess Levin]( [According to the actor, the president is simply too old—and dropping out now would make him a hero of democracy.]( [Read more button](   [Why Serena Williams Isn’t Watching Wimbledon]( By [Tom Kludt]( [In an interview with Vanity Fair, the GOAT of women’s tennis talks about the struggle of becoming a spectator, hosting this week’s ESPYs, and why a comeback is always in the “back, back, back of my mind.”]( [Read more button](   Get on the list Subscribe to our Hollywood newsletter for your essential industry and awards-season news, every day. [Sign Up Now](   [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [LinkedIn](   This e-mail was sent to you by The Hive. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, vanityfair@newsletter.vf.com, to your address book. View our [Privacy Policy]( [Unsubscribe]( Sent from Condé Nast, 1 World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007 Copyright © 2024 Condé Nast