I don’t fault Europe for feeling ill-treated by their American “partners,” and I’ve begun to wonder whether any of us will ever again live in an America that is trusted by anybody, anywhere.
Headed to the Outer Banks for the next several days, and there is a lot to get done before then; back the 21st.
Dawn and I have visited the Outer Banks almost each of the past 30-years, and have seen a lot of changes — most seriously, the effects of sea level rise. It’s a beautiful area, and if you’ve never visited you need to do it soon. High tide flooding is now a commonplace, and the rising sea is carving back the beach inexorably. This may be a summer tradition with only a few more years to go.
The Fake News is working overtime. Just reported that, despite the tremendous success we are having with the economy & all things else, 91% of the Network News about me is negative (Fake). Why do we work so hard in working with the media when it is corrupt? Take away credentials?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 9, 2018
Trump’s violent and unhinged rants against the press will only grow worse with each new revelation of corruption, and the nitwits who can’t see what Trump is are going to go from simmer to boil. The unraveling of the Trump administration into a cesspool of corruption is a dangerous time to be a journo, I fear.
Diplomacy is about thin slices. Was the Iran deal the right deal? There are arguments on both sides.
Was abandoning the Iran deal the worst foreign policy blunder since Bush took us into Iraq? Absolutely.
Our word cannot be trusted. THAT is what we lost here. Plus more.
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) May 8, 2018
Exactly right: America’s word is now meaningless.
But think about it: The House Republican leadership was more inclined to push out a chaplain than to impose accountability on a president who is a proven liar and trashes the rule of law for his own selfish purposes day after day.
The Republican base adores Trump and, as Nietzsche wrote a long time ago, “the gospel of the lowly … lowers.” Donald Trump is the truth about evangelicals.
