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Here in part is how I reiterated the self-conscious disdain Trump has for his followers in “Aping Notorious Cult Leader Jim Jones, Trump Invites His MAGA Followers to One Last Rally…?” January 6, 2020: _________ His MAGA followers probably thought he was joking when he said during one campaign rally last year that he would… Read more.
Polls numbers are looking very strong. Big crowds, great enthusiasm. Massive RED WAVE coming!!! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 16, 2020 Except that he’s willfully ignoring that it’s the second wave of Covid-19 – with its red-headed spikes – coming to kill off his presidency. Related commentaries: Covid-19… Read more.
The White House Coronavirus Task Force briefings have become must-see TV. Perhaps you’re among the millions who tune in every day to watch. But that can only be for morbid diversion. After all, for over a month now, these daily briefings have been must-see only for the reason a train wreck would be. Specifically, they… Read more.
Donald Trump’s record of racism dates back decades. He sowed it in the 1970s in joint ventures with his daddy to discriminate against blacks seeking to rent in their apartment buildings. And, with all due respect to his birther conspiracy, he reaped it most notoriously in the late 1980s in full-page newspaper ads, in which… Read more.
Most commentators hailed Russian President Vladimir Putin as a disruptive genius for cyberattacking the 2016 US presidential election. This, because Putin made clear that he did so to get Donald Trump elected – presumably to do his bidding. But I warned that Putin was in for a rude awakening. Case in point is the following… Read more.
The real story is the way Argentina greeted President Trump upon his arrival at this annual Kabuki dance. After all, here is what Trump said when China denied Obama the red-carpet treatment upon his arrival at the G20 summit in 2016: You see that? They have pictures of other leaders who are … coming down… Read more.
North Korea says its quest for nuclear weapons is ‘complete’ and it ‘no longer needs’ to test its weapons capability, a significant development ahead of diplomatic engagement with both South Korea and the United States. (CNN, April 21, 2018) Trust me folks, this is like Syria saying its conquest of all rebel strongholds is complete… Read more.
From day one of his presidency, Donald Trump has been using his bully pulpit to attack Amazon. He claims this standard-bearer of online retailers struck a sweetheart deal with the US Postal Service (USPS) that is ripping off taxpayers. His latest salvo came in a tweetstorm last weekend, which included this cheap shot: Only fools,… Read more.
China and the United States agreed that efforts to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula should be ‘complete, verifiable and irreversible’, Chinese state media said on Saturday, reporting the results of high level talks in Washington this week. ‘Both sides reaffirm that they will strive for the complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula,’ a… Read more.
