In the August 19 edition of The Washington Post, an op-ed by columnist Charles Krauthammer: "The price of powerlessness"

In the August 21 issue of The Washington Post, an opinion piece by columnist Anne Applebaum: "Trump is a Russian oligarch"

In the August 22 edition of POLITICO, an opinion piece by Goran Buldioski: "Viktor Orbán's Potemkin referendum"