A few days apart, there were two Donald Trump-related stories in the news. First, he called his former aide Omarosa Manigault Newman a “dog.” Second, his Administration coddled Saudi Arabia immediately after their armed forces targeted and blew up a schoolbus full of children in Yemen. Guess which story elicited a big response in the United States?
Voting Democratic this fall? There’s no telling what they’ll do if they take back the House or the Senate because they refuse to make specific promises.
West Hollywood City Council has voted to remove Donald Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The star has been vandalized, repaired and now there’s a civic battle over whether or not it should be removed.
Laura Ingraham’s racist tweet about illegal immigrants was endorsed by David Duke.
Back in the 1980s, it may have been possible to reverse climate change. But we missed that opportunity and now it’s too late. There’s simply too much energy in the atmosphere to reverse the effects of more than two centuries of mass industrialization. Yet every new story and article put out by environmentalists and their allies keep claiming that it’s not too late to reverse course. What’s the point of hope when the truth is hopeless?
As in the old joke about the restaurant with terrible food but such small portions, American media outlets simultaneously criticize Donald Trump and his staff of lying at press conferences and then complain that he doesn’t give enough of them.
For more than two years, we have been treated to vague rumors and leaks about alleged Russian interference in American elections beginning in 2016. However, there has never been much detail provided. Now, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats has testified before Congress, and the details are finally coming out. It turns out that there aren’t many details at all. To the contrary, the American intelligence community accuses Russia of using Russian media outlets to promote Russian points of view, and of bringing attention to divisive issues in American politics. It never occurred to anyone that these issues are legitimate and deserve to be discussed ,or to say perhaps what matters is the issues themselves.
All presidents commit crimes against decency. Donald Trump doesn’t do much that other presidents didn’t do too. But his obnoxious style makes him feel worse than all the rest.
Former reality star and Trump PR flack Omarosa Manigault-Newman’s book about working in the White House comes out soon. It’s called “Unhinged.”
Violating every pretense that the attorney general of the United States is an independent non-partisan law-enforcement officer, Jeff Sessions gave a speech before a group of young conservatives where he joined a chant about Hillary Clinton concerning her emails: “lock her up.”
