Donald Trump calls the National Review a 'dying paper' after it publishes anti-Trump issue


The cover of a special edition of the National Review says it all: "Against Trump."
The magazine is out on Friday, but the National Review posted the 22 essays by conservative thinkers on its website Thursday night, with each author trying his best to put as much distance between Republican frontrunner Donald Trump and the conservative movement as possible. Yuval Levin, a contributing editor of the National Review, put it succinctly: "Donald Trump is no conservative. That's not a crime, it's just a reason to vote against him."
Glenn Beck decided to take the fear mongering route, saying if Trump becomes the Republican nominee, "there will once again be no opposition to an ever-expanding government. This is a crisis for conservatism." Talk show host Michael Medved also played on the fears of some conservatives that Trump is becoming the poster boy for the movement. "Trump's brawling, blustery, mean-spirited public persona serves to associate conservatives with all the negative stereotypes that liberals have for decades attached to their opponents on the right," he wrote.
Subscribe to The Week
Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives.

Sign up for The Week's Free Newsletters
From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.
From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.
Novelist Mark Helprin painted Trump as someone ill-prepared for the presidency, writing: "He doesn't know the Constitution, history, law, political philosophy, nuclear strategy, diplomacy, defense, economics beyond real estate, or even, despite his low-level mafioso comportment, how ordinary people live." Others decided to get personal, with David Boaz of the Cato Institute saying Trump puts his "crazy" out "front and center," and is "effectively vowing to be an American Mussolini," while Mona Charen of the Ethics and Public Policy Center called him "pitifully insecure."
Trump responded by calling the National Review a "dying paper" that "people don't even think about."
Sign up for Today's Best Articles in your inbox
A free daily email with the biggest news stories of the day – and the best features from TheWeek.com
Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
-
May 31 editorial cartoons
Cartoons Saturday's political cartoons include how much to pay for a pardon, medical advice from a brain worm, and a simple solution to the national debt.
-
5 costly cartoons about the national debt
Cartoons Political cartoonists take on the USA's financial hole, rare bipartisan agreement, and Donald Trump and Mike Johnson.
-
Green goddess salad recipe
The Week Recommends Avocado can be the creamy star of the show in this fresh, sharp salad
-
White House tackles fake citations in MAHA report
speed read A federal government public health report spearheaded by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was rife with false citations
-
Judge blocks push to bar Harvard foreign students
speed read Judge Allison Burroughs sided with Harvard against the Trump administration's attempt to block the admittance of international students
-
Trump's trade war whipsawed by court rulings
Speed Read A series of court rulings over Trump's tariffs renders the future of US trade policy uncertain
-
Elon Musk departs Trump administration
speed read The former DOGE head says he is ending his government work to spend more time on his companies
-
Trump taps ex-personal lawyer for appeals court
speed read The president has nominated Emil Bove, his former criminal defense lawyer, to be a federal judge
-
US trade court nullifies Trump's biggest tariffs
speed read The US Court of International Trade says Trump exceeded his authority in imposing global tariffs
-
Trump pauses all new foreign student visas
speed read The State Department has stopped scheduling interviews with those seeking student visas in preparation for scrutiny of applicants' social media
-
Trump pardons Virginia sheriff convicted of bribery
speed read Former sheriff Scott Jenkins was sentenced to 10 years in prison on federal bribery and fraud charges