An hour before Trump addressed the country yesterday, The Atlantic published a column by David Frum, Americans Aren't Rallying to Trump-- A president who writes off half the country can't expect to garner support from a crisis of his own making.
After the assassinations in Baghdad this week, CNN reported that the U.S. is deploying thousands of additional troops to the Middle East as tensions with Iran mount.
The week started with Señor Trumpanzee announcing an expansion of his trade war antics against Brazil, Argentina and France (and its only Wednesday!)-- followed by grandstanding self-destructive nonsense about trade with China that caused domestic and world markets to crash.Bloomberg reporters Derek Wallbank and
Yesterday, South Carolina Republican Mark Sanford ended his half-assed primary challenge to Trump. He went out with a whimper.
You'd think someone would have mentioned it. Oh, CNN did. Saturday morning a convoy of between a dozen and two dozen military vehicles left northern Iraq and crossed into Syria's Deir Ezzor region to either prevent the recently escaped ISIS prisoners from taking over the Syrian oil fields, or seizing the fields. There seems to be a lot of confusion. NPR Middle East corespondent Greg Myre on the contradictory statements from the Trump Regime: "Some have left, but some are still there. And their mission seems to have changed. They're going to be protecting the oil.
-by NoahIn precipitating the freeing of ISIS prisoners and their families, President Trump has given the entire world as clear of a picture into his utterly insane mind as he ever has. I've always said that Trump is clearly the president who hates all living things. At no time has this been more evident. Trump is a psychopathic death worshiper. That is a fact that way too many people continue and continue to tiptoe around.
by NoahPutin as the man who controls Trump's puppet strings has gotten a lot of play but not nearly enough. Ideally we would hear the complete horrid details quickly and not just more suggestive tidbits years from now after all the players are dead and buried, which is usually how it goes down when it comes to the sordid parts of our American history.
-by Reese ErlichWashington, DC is buzzing with talk of troop withdrawals and the impact on peace talks in Afghanistan. The U.S.
Did South Korea put him on a postage stamp? No-- but North Korea did. According to a report from Nicole Gaouette and Kylie Atwood at CNN, Trump has soured on South Korea, not North Korea, South Korea, our allies.
Trump has always been physical coward. President Obama isn't-- and he visited American fighting men and women in Afghanistan... four timesI spent a lot of my life on the road, living abroad, traveling, working, exploring... People always ask me what my favorite place to visit was. I can never just come up with one. But if it could only be 3...
