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Donald Trump spent most of his post-election transition making corporate America fear that a simple tweet from him could cost any corporation billions if it failed to do as he decreed. Even worse, corporations like Carrier and Ford began kissing his … brass ring – as if they were Catholic bishops and he, the pope.… Read more.
President Donald Trump appeared to equate US actions with the authoritarian regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin in an interview [with Bill O’Reilly of Fox News] released Saturday, saying, ‘There are a lot of killers. You think our country’s so innocent?’ (CNN, February 6, 2017) Unsurprisingly, CNN commentators led near-universal condemnation of Trump for what… Read more.
I was in the vanguard of those who despaired at the willingness of so many Americans to swallow the big lies (e.g., about tax returns) and outrageous pledges (e.g., about banning Muslims) that characterized Trump’s presidential campaign. Not least because I began sounding alarms in this respect years before he even declared his candidacy —… Read more.
Donald J. Trump is clearly the most thin-skinned, self-centered and self-aggrandizing man ever elected president of the United States. This explains why he became so unnerved and unhinged on Saturday – after watching women gather in cities around the world to greet the first day of his presidency with jeers, not cheers. More than 1 million… Read more.
Here is what I wrote almost a month ago on this topic: Frankly, besides Putin manipulating his infantile ego, the only thing that explains Trump’s antic infatuation [with Putin] is the same Russians who hacked the DNC making it clear to him that they have compromising, if not incriminating, information on him and/or his family. (“The Issue Is Not… Read more.
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In light of the recent trend set by Angela Merkel of Germany and Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia, Bachelet’s election [in Chile] would be encouraging to those of us who welcome the seepage of womanpower through the crevices of political and corporate governance around the world… Here’s to ‘the fairer sex’ – not only as indispensable guardians of… Read more.
Many of my progressive friends are having a hard time coming to terms with Donald Trump as president-elect of the United States. Some are even joining self-flagellating, flash-mob protests, which are springing all over the country, to vent their raging disbelief. I tried reasoning with them to no avail. Ironically, some of them are convinced… Read more.
Trump bragged during that now-infamous hot-mic moment on Access Hollywood about being entitled to kiss women on the mouth and grab them by the pussy … because he’s a star. That was just the latest in a series of outrages that should have disqualified his presidential campaign. But I wrote in “Evangelicals Supporting Donald Trump like… Read more.
I am holding fast to my pledge not to dignify the presidential debates between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump with any comment. But there’s compelling public interest in making sure the following is part of Sunday’s post-debate commentary: No doubt you’ve seen the viral video, which leaked on Friday, of Trump bragging, during a hot-mic… Read more.
