It’s abundantly clear that Donald J. Trump was all talk about making America great again during the 2016 presidential campaign and his first two years as the scandal-ridden chief executive of our government. Fact is, Trump is crippling America financially and blaming everyone but himself for the problem created by a businessman who is in […]
Someone needs to introduce Donald Trump to the phrase Pyrrhic Victory. Trump claims victory in his government-paralyzing Wall tantrum. In truth, he gets no Wall and $3 billion less in congressional funding than he could have had a few months ago. That “victory” comes at a cost of many more billions in a month-long hamstrung […]
No matter how The Donald slices it, The Wall is a failed campaign promise. He can pull money — American taxpayer dollars — from departments or agencies in the federal government to cover construction costs, but Mexico will not pay for the concrete “white elephant” as he promised on the 2016 presidential campaign trail. The […]
A self-imposed exile from the machinations of Donald Trump is a good thing. It is like spraying Febreze Clean Linen scent inside your skull until the rotten stench is completely covered. Two weeks wasn’t long enough to fully enjoy it, but it is a start. A real exile from Trump means no cable news, newspapers, […]
The good news about recent debacles is that it seals Trump’s doom. How so? I’ll get there in a minute. First let’s dispense with any imputation of Trumpian strategy to the pre-Christmas disasters. “Deliberate Chaos” it’s been called, as analysts struggled to find motive and pattern in a week of unparalleled disasters — Wall Street […]
Chinese citizens, once terrified to voice their political views, speak freely now, as I learned last week touring three of the country’s (and the world’s) largest cities. At least, they talk freely when commenting on foreign leaders. Political freedom in China? Let’s not get carried away, as was the friend of one of my co-workers […]
There’s new trouble in Trumplandia: Just when Mr. Trump figured he had his red-hatted MAGA sheep running mad with fear over the approaching hordes from south of the border, synchronized deceleration raised its ugly head. Whoa! The toothy term describes an emerging economic condition that bodes ill for everybody — economists who stay four or […]
