Thomas L. Friedman Profile
Thomas L. Friedman

@tomfriedman

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NY Times columnist and Pulitzer Prize winning author of Lexus and the Olive Tree and From Beirut to Jerusalem.

New York, NY
Joined July 2009
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Thomas L. Friedman
5 years
Retweeting as a thread: Mr. President, You are right, unlike you, I am always respectful -- especially when I talk to the President of the United States at the request of a U.S. Senator in your party. I try to be respectful even with people I disagree with.
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Mr. Trump. Steve Job’s biological father’s name was Abdulfattah Jandali. He came to the US as a student. He was from Homs, Syria.
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Thomas L. Friedman
4 years
In the 2000 election Al Gore took a bullet for the country. Tonight President Trump put a bullet into the country. Most shameful thing I’ve ever seen.
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Thomas L. Friedman
3 years
again: McConnell needs to lead a delegation of GOP leaders to the White House to tell Trump that he has to resign immediately -- or they will join with Democrats and impeach him. Otherwise, fellow Americans, what you saw today will be normalized.
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McConnell needs to lead a delegation of GOP leaders to the White House to tell Trump that he has to resign immediately -- or they will join with Democrats and impeach him. Otherwise, fellow Americans, what you saw today will be normalized.
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Business Roundtable Needs to tell Mitch McConnell to lead a GOP delegation to White House to tell Trump he has to resign immediately -- or they will join with Democrats and impeach him. Otherwise, fellow Americans, what you saw today will be normalized.
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9 months
Attention journalists: if Bibi Netanyahu gives you an interview he thinks your’e a sucker.
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President Trump must ask Saudis to give full and credible account of what happened to Jamal Khashoggi inside their Istanbul consulate. And tell us what he knows too.
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7 years
On New Year's Eve President-elect Trump actually called some fellow Americans his "enemies." Really sad and troubling.
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My column: Mike Pompeo Is the Worst Secretary of State Ever
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My column: Trump Is Blowing Apart the G.O.P. God Bless Him.
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Trump’s Ambiguous Wink Wink to ‘Second Amendment People’
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Please watch this exposure of how Bibi misleads the U.S. media
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סתיו שפיר Stav Shaffir 🇮🇱
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Dear American friends. Our Prime Minister has a tendency to lie in his interviews for International media, so I came to help with some facts. Please pass on to your friends - and come help us, Israelis who are fighting for democracy, save our country.
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Attention journalists: if Bibi Netanyahu gives you an interview he thinks your’e a sucker.
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5 years
Time for G.O.P. to Threaten to Fire Trump, my latest column.
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6 years
Muslim Groups Raise Thousands for Pittsburgh Synagogue Victims
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Thomas L. Friedman
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Here's a story from The New York Times that I thought you'd find interesting: It’s become a huge source of power for Trump and trouble for the rest of us.
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For me it is always about what is best for America – the country that I love and that you are now tearing apart. Respectfully yours, Tom Friedman
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My latest column: Trump and Putin vs. America
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3 years
We need to take care of Americans hurting because of Covid-19. We need to buttress our cities that are running out of money. We need to invest in infrastructure. But a $2000 untargeted giveaway, in many cases to people who don't need the help, is crazy. Can we stop and think?
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Mike Pompeo: Last in His Class at West Point in Integrity
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Now we know his supporters can kill someone in broad daylight in Virginia and he wouldn't leave THEM.
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Thomas L. Friedman
3 years
Trump will award Presidential Medals of Freedom to golfers Annika Sorenstam and Gary Player today -- after Trump inspired a mob to ransack the capitol, leaving four dead. Principled Trump staffers resigning. Annika, Gary, what are you doing?
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5 years
My column: ‘Trump’s Going to Get Re-elected, Isn’t He?’
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3 years
Govs. Abbott of Texas and DeSantis of Florida should run for President together. Ticket would be Abbott and Costello and their motto could be: ``Live Free And Die.''
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The United Kingdom Has Gone Mad
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Every American has to ask: If this is how Trump behaved when he was ``constrained'' by the need to get re-elected, imagine how he'll behave if he wins in 2020 and gets four more years ``unconstrained'' by the need for re-election.
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3 years
Rep. Jim Clyburn and the African-American community of South Carolina -- THANK YOU! You knew ahead of everyone (except Donald Trump) that there was only one man who could beat Trump. And you inspired us to choose him. Bless your hearts...
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7 years
Trump believes alleged rapist/Wikileaks founder Julian Assange more than he believes U.S. CIA on Russian hacks. Sad.
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Trump will be the first U.S. President who has to recuse himself from dealing with Russia. Sad.
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Thomas L. Friedman
6 years
Everyone needs to read column in Washington Post today by my friend Jamal Khashoggi. It is missing -- like he is.
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Thomas L. Friedman
5 years
Again, I hereby nominate Jeff Bezos for the ``2019 Pulitzer Prize For Public Service.'' His willingness to take on and expose the National Enquirer is an enormously important act of civic journalism. Thank you Jeff.
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Thomas L. Friedman
3 years
Mike Pompeo, the most unproductive, silly and unethical Secretary of State in American history, gets the farewell he deserves from his hometown paper.
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Thomas L. Friedman
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When does counting stop and treason start? Only Truth Can Save Our Democracy
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Thomas L. Friedman
6 years
It is easy to win trade wars. Ask China. It just cleaned Trump's clock on trade.
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8 years
Donald Trump is a ``legal alien'' -- though born in America, his values are alien to all that makes America great.
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Thomas L. Friedman
6 years
Rex Tillerson: The worst Secretary of State ever - and I am really going to miss him. In the Trump Madhouse, he was a voice of sanity on big issues like trade & Russia.
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4 years
When My President Sang ‘Amazing Grace’ We’ve forgotten what it’s like to have a truth-teller and a healer in the White House.
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4 years
Hard for humans to grasp exponentials like corona: ``The virus is like a loan shark who charges 25% a day interest,’’ says my friend Bill Joy. ``We borrowed $1 (first case). We fiddled for 40 days. Now we owe $7500. If we wait 3 more weeks to pay we’ll owe almost $1 million.’’
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Thomas L. Friedman
6 years
Trump, Kushner. I don’t usually tweet opinions, but here goes: you need to get the Saudis to find/release Jamal Khashoggi. Without constructive critics like him, Saudi econ reform will fail.
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When My President Sang ‘Amazing Grace’ We’ve forgotten what it’s like to have a truth-teller and a healer in the White House.
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Thomas L. Friedman
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Charles Krauthammer. I often disagreed with him. I never missed reading him. One of the best in our profession. Shalom, Shalom. Tom
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My latest column: Get out of Facebook and into someone’s face: The NRA
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My column: Trump Has Made the Whole World Darker
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Saudi CP MBS and FM al-Jubeir: You need to find/release my friend Jamal Khashoggi, who went missing in Saudi Istanbul consulate. It will be disastrous for your diplomacy if he’s been abducted.
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5 years
Since you are clearly a reader of my column, you know that from the day you announced your candidacy, I have not hesitated to criticize you when I have seen you dividing our country, alienating America’s closest allies and giving succor to racists and bigots everywhere.
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My column: Trump’s Big Lie Devoured the G.O.P. and Now Eyes Our Democracy
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My column - Paging Michael Bloomberg Democrats need to nominate the right person to prevent Trump from winning a second term.
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Thomas L. Friedman
7 years
A cartoon from my friend Aaron Sandel captures my mood
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Thomas L. Friedman
3 years
Here is what Trump is saying when he refuses to acknowledge Biden's victory or manage the Covid-19 pandemic: ``I demand the right NOT to lead you for four more years.''
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Thomas L. Friedman
6 years
My column on Trump's love for dictators. Trump to Dictators: Have a Nice Day The world is finding out what the U.S. now finds acceptable.
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I do this because I hope it will increase the chances that they listen to me. You should try it.
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For me it is always about what is best for America – the country that I love and that you are now tearing apart. Respectfully yours, Tom Friedman
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How can we trust THIS GOP to ever hold the White House again?
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Thomas L. Friedman
5 years
And you also know that on issues where I thought you were serving the American interest – like confronting China’s most abusive trade practices or not going to war with Iran – I have not hesitated to support your polices, very publicly. I will continue to do both.
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Thomas L. Friedman
5 years
Mr. President, You are right, unlike you, I am always respectful -- especially when I talk to the President of the United States at the request of a U.S. Senator in your party. I try to be respectful even with people I disagree with.
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Today, I hereby nominate Jeff Bezos for the ``2019 Pulitzer Prize For Public Service.'' His willingness to take on and expose the National Enquirer is an enormously important act of civic journalism. Thank you Jeff. See:
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Thomas L. Friedman
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My column: There Was a Loser Last Night. It Was America.
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Thomas L. Friedman
6 years
Here's a story from The New York Times that I thought you'd find interesting: Much of the outlook that infuses my own writings was bred into me from my mom, who believed that even if pessimists were usually right, optimists were behind great changes.
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Thomas L. Friedman
3 years
Does anyone have any idea where 65-year-olds and older can get vaccinated against Covid in Maryland? They opened the category today and told people NOTHING about where to go. None of this would be happening if Larry Hogan were governor.
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4 years
My latest column: Is Trump Challenging Mother Nature to a Duel?
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From The New York Times: Trump Has Made the Whole World Darker America has become just as cynically transactional in its foreign dealings as Russia and China.
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Thomas L. Friedman
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Trump Is Blowing Apart the G.O.P. God Bless Him.
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Thomas L. Friedman
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Sounding Code Red: Elect the Trump Resistance
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Thomas L. Friedman
5 years
And here is exactly how I began our conversation, precisely because I did not trust what you would do with it: ``Mr. President, you know that I disagree with you on many things but you were right not to bomb Iran.’’
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Shame on Nikki Haley. Pulls U.S. out of UN Human Rights Council because it is mean to Israel. And gives a free pass to pro-Trump human rights abusers everywhere else.
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