'Trump's Professor Referred to Him as the Worst Student He Ever Had' | David Cay Johnston

Dec 16, 2025 | "He doesn't know anything about the issues he needs to know about as the president of the United States."

Trump, the "greatest con artist", is fooling everyone into thinking he's making deals as US-UK tech deal stalls, says investigative journalist and Trump biographer, David Cay Johnston.

Trump Won't Survive the 'Moral Indignation' of America | David Cay Johnston

Nov 13, 2025 | "Will that arouse moral indignation in America or not? I think it will."

The American public would "not be so embracing" if there were "irrefutable proof of serious misconduct" from Donald Trump, says Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, David Cay Johnston.


What a vile man Trump is, and what a ridiculous president he makes! Surely, I cannot be the only person who is sick to death of hearing his name mentioned. Personally, I am sick to death of this unsavoury character dominating the news, day after day after goddamned day! WTF did we find to talk about before he came on the scene? — © Mark Alexander

Trump Is Still a ‘Conman’ | David Cay Johnston

Sep 24, 2025 | Professor David Cay Johnston joins Times Radio’s Maddie Hale to discuss Donald Trump’s speech at the UN General Assembly, whether his remarks on Ukraine being restored to its “original form” means President Zelenskyy won’t be asked to concede land to Russia and if the US President’s contradictory remarks on the status of the war means he never understood the truth behind Putin’s lies.

Trump's Epstein Links ‘Will Be the End of His Presidency’ | David Cay Johnston

Sep 17, 2025 | Pulitzer Prize winning journalist David Cay Johnston tells Times Radio's Fergus Macphee why the Epstein story isn't going away now Donald Trump is in the UK and what the second state visit means for the President.

Why are we celebrating our “Special Relationship” with this failed state? Iys leader is deplorable. Send him home! — © Mark Alexander

David Cay Johnston Is Back for Part 2 of His Analysis of the Collapsing Trump Dictatorship

Aug 18, 2025 | David Cay Johnston returns to The Weekend Show for Part 2 of his analysis of the economic and social fallout of the Trump takeover of U.S. democracy, bogus tariffs and alignment with Russian over America’s traditional allies. And was the entire Alaska summit designed to distract from The Epstein Files?

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“I’m Embarrassed for My Country” | David Cay Johnston Slams Trump-Putin Summit after No Deal

Aug 16, 2025 | Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and Trump biographer David Cay Johnston gives his immediate reaction to the Trump-Putin summit saying that more detail will come out, but that it appears the US President has 'sold out Ukraine.'

David Cay Johnston on Trump's Cruel Dictatorship and How America Moves to Counter Authoritarianism

Aug 11, 2025 | Pulitzer Prize winning journalist David Cay Johnston joins Anthony Davis to discuss ways to counter Trump’s divisive dictatorship and how America moves forward under authoritarian rule, as civil and human rights are revoked and erroneous tariffs kick in - only on The Weekend Show

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Trump Vows to Deport All Who Dare to Oppose Him, Even American Citizens | David Cay Johnston

Jul 5, 2025 | “Donald has even said he wants to take citizenship away from natural-born American citizens. He is, in his own mind, our dictator.”

Trump’s expansion of power in the courts means “democracy will be gone,” says author and professor David Cay Johnston.

Trump, JD Vance 'Don't Know’ History: David Cay Johnston on If VP Should Apologise

Mar 4, 2025 | Journalist, professor and author David Cay Johnston tells Times Radio’s Maddie Hale that both Donald Trump and JD Vance “don’t know history” or have any “cultural background” after the vice-president made controversial un-factual remarks where he alluded to British and French troops having not fought a war in “30 to 40 years”.

Elon Musk Is the Enemy of Freedom and Democracy, Prof. David Cay Johnston

Mar 11, 2025

Elon Musk is not only a man-child, he is also a POS! – © Mark Alexander

Trump ‘Has No Idea’ What He’s Doing as Twenty-somethings Leading Doge Takeover | David Cay Johnston

Feb 6, 2025 | On today's Trump Report, Jo Crawford speaks to David Cay Johnston, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, professor at Rochester Institute of Technology and author of an array of books on Donald Trump.

David Cay Johnston with Part 2 of His Analysis of Trump's Threat to Democracy.

Jan 6, 2025 | Professor David Cay Johnston returns to The Weekend Show to discuss how media coverage of Trump needs to change in light of the raised temperature, terrorism and threats of mass deportation - and the risks to democracy by a complicit corporate media.

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David Cay Johnston on the Trump Regime's Disruption to the World Order and Economic Malpractice

Dec 30, 2024 | Pulitzer Prize winning-investigative reporter and Professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology, David Cay Johnston, joins Anthony Davis to discuss the incoming Trump regime and its expected disruption to the world order, his economic malpractice and the cultural shift towards authoritarianism - only on The Weekend Show.

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The Mark Thompson Show: Trump Only Hires the Best People. But Past Picks Have Haunted Him. David Cay Johnston

Dec 10, 2024 | David Cay Johnston, Pulitzer Prize winning Author & Investigative Journalist

The Mark Thompson Show: “Trump's Future Is Prison If He Does Not Win, And He Knows It,” David Cay Johnston

Oct 22, 2024 | David Cay Johnston, Pulitzer Prize winning Author & Investigative Journalist

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The Mark Thompson Show: Trump Is Afraid, Pulitzer Prize Investigative Journalist & Author David Cay Johnston

Jul 23, 2024

Journalist on Trump’s Civil Fraud Trial: “His Whole Life Has Been a Façade” | Amanpour and Company

Oct 2, 2023 | Donald Trump was back in court today. This time, as the former president answers for his business dealings in New York, his empire could be at stake. The self-described property mogul has already been found liable for “persistent and repeated” fraud in this civil trial. David Cay Johnston is a Pulitzer Prize-winning economics reporter. He joins the show to discuss what this means for the Trump organization. | Originally aired on October 2, 2023

Thom Hartmann: Is Trump Really Going to Jail? (w/ David Cay Johnston)

Feb 22, 2022 • Will Donald Trump go to jail? He is over 70 and most people over that age without ‘previous’ don’t go to jail.

Does this mean if Trump is indicted, most likely in Georgia, there is the potential that he loses everything he has, except his presidential pension. The rest goes. Could the whole Trump organization be dissolved?

How likely is this scenario?

David Cay Johnston joined Thom to discuss the possibilities.

Bio: David Cay Johnston - Investigative Journalist & Co-founder of DCReport.org / Pulitzer Prize Recipient (2001) / Distinguished Visiting Lecturer-College of Law and Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University / Author of 8 books including his latest, The Big Cheat: How Donald Trump Fleeced America and Enriched Himself and His Family

“House of Absolute Horrors”: Mary Trump’s Book Reveals How Trump Family Gave Rise to a “Sociopath”

In a new book, Mary Trump — the president’s niece — describes Donald Trump as a “sociopath” who grew up in a dysfunctional family that fostered his greed and cruelty. Donald Trump’s younger brother, Robert, is seeking to block the sale of the book on the grounds that it violates a confidentiality agreement, but publisher Simon & Schuster says 600,000 copies of the book have already been distributed ahead of its July 14 publishing date. Investigative journalist David Cay Johnston, who has reported on Trump for three decades, says the book is “very, very important” and helps to answer how Trump got to the White House.

Was Donald Trump Trafficking Cocaine? (w/ David Cay Johnston)

David Cay Johnston points out that in his opinion Donald Trump was in the cocaine trade back in the 1980s. Would this explain his bizarre behavior?