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Taken on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, Scotland during the Edinburgh International Arts Festival.
Fringe 27 4601
For The Donald Trump & The Planets feat. Roman Alaska World Enterprises Group show,
-A DIY BLOCKBUSTER- at 42 New Briggate Gallery, in Leeds (UK)
Donald Trump Motorcade In New York
Donald Trump attends The United Nations General Assembly in New York.
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DONALD TRUMP'S OFFICIAL NOMINATION-
By Bernard Bujold
Donald Trump is emerging from the Republican convention as the new political star of the United States. Hundreds of American celebrities from all walks of life showed their admiration for Trump at the rally.
Among the most notable was Donald Trump's son's 17-year-old daughter, Kai, and already a champion golfer...
To be continued...
www.wsj.com/livecoverage/rnc-trump-speech-biden-election-...
LA NOMINATION OFFICIELLE DE DONALD TRUMP-
Par Bernard Bujold -
Donald Trump ressort du congrès républicain comme l’étoile politique l’heure. Des centaines de vedettes américaines provenant de tous les secteurs ont témoigné lors du rassemblement leur admiration pour Trump. Parmi les plus remarquées, il y a la fille du fils de Donald Trump, Kai, 17 ans et une championne de golf…
À suivre…
www.wsj.com/livecoverage/rnc-trump-speech-biden-election-...
Change is born out of hunger for something better. Through personal action, we can move forward and past our current dystopia.
Municipal Auditorium - Downtown Nashville, Tennessee
When President Donald Trump visited Nashville, I documented his visit. It was a cold sunny day in March, but I had a great time capturing the excitement and the protest surrounding his arrival. You can read about that day and see more pictures on my blog: 45 Visits Music City.
Olympus OM1
Olympus OM Zuiko 50mm f1.8
Kodak TRI-X 400
Developed by The FINDlab
On Thursday 12 July 2018, US president Donald Trump, the most dangerous man in the world, was welcomed to the United Kingdom by the British prime minister Theresa May. The following day the streets of London witnessed the biggest protest for over a decade as thousands marched on Trafalgar Square to express their anger at the British government extending a red carpet welcome for Trump.
Protesters pointed out the extreme threat to democracy, to those dependent on welfare, to womens' rights, to civil rights generally and even to the survival of humankind which Trump presents. Such assertions might seem extreme, but they are unfortunately fully justifiable.
As the president of what is by far the richest and most powerful country on earth, Trump has dedicated his term to accelerating the US addiction to fossil fuels and agribusiness, dismantling the Environmental Protection Agency and withdrawing America from the Paris Climate Accords, thereby accelerating global warming and climate change and presenting a huge threat to the continued existence of humankind.
Trump's presidency also marks another dangerous step in the erosion of democracy in the United States. Far from "draining the swamp" as he promised, Trump has surrounded himself with powerful figures from big business, especially major financial institutions such as Goldman Sachs, as well as his friends and allies in the fossil fuel and defence industires.
Government policy, more and more, reflects the direct interests of concentrated private power with the public having less and less influence. At the same time the Trump presidency has allied itself with some of the most ruthless regimes in the world and is profiting from Saudi Arabia's illegal war of aggression in Yemen which has created the world's worst humanitarian crisis. A serious war crime in which Donald Trump and Theresa May are both complicit.
Trump has also been keen to patronise the extreme nationalist constituency in the United States and through preaching a propaganda of fear his presidency has managed to oversee some of the most racist immigration policies ever to be implemented in the United States, targeted almost exclusively at Muslim countries - Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen. Ironically, all of them have been massively destabilized and impoverished by US foreign policy.
He was also responsible for the ruthless decision to separate children from their parents as they cross into the United States from Mexico, in his determination to block immigration from central America, where decades of US illegal intervention, including the CIA funded Contra terror operations in Nicaragua and enforced free trade (under NAFTA or IMF rules) have devastated the region and merely enhanced the power of corrupt corporate elites and drug cartels.
As if this was not enough to worry about, Trump has also authorized a huge increase in both US defence spending and in the US nuclear arsenal, and changed the strategic posture of the US so that nuclear weapons can be used even for offensive operations and even when their use is not required to preempt a nuclear strike by an enemy power.
As any historian of conflict since the Second World War knows, it is only by a miracle that humankind has survived since 1945 without a nuclear war. Now the situation is more dangerous than ever before. Not only are we are now dependent on Trump's extremely unpredictable temperament but also increasingly on automated systems which can easily malfunction.
Trump and Republicans maintain they need to spend heavily on military equipment in order to counter the supposed Russian threat. However they seldom remind the public that the United States already spends almost as much as the rest of the world combined on defence and that Russia's expenditure is far behind both that of the United States and only on about the same level of Saudi Arabia, and spends only 10% of what NATO spends.
It has also to be remembered that it is NATO and US forces which are operating right on the Russian border, not Russian forces on the American border. Russia's defence spending is clearly recognised by academics to be primarily defensive and responsive to US spending. What is desperately needed is a serious international dialogue at the highest level to decrease the danger of conflict, especially the risk of a terminal nuclear war and begin a process of multilateral disarmament.
This caricature of Donald Trump was adapted from a Creative Commons licensed photo from Gage Skidmore's Flickr photostream. The body was adapted from a Creative Commons licensed photo from Pete Birkinshaw's Flickr photostream. The button was adapted from a Creative Commons licensed photo from SunyDay76 on Wikimedia.
This caricature of Mitch McConnell was adapted from a photo in the public domain from the US Senate. The body was adapted from a Creative Commons licensed photo from See-ming Lee's Flickr photostream.
This caricature of Paul Ryan was adapted from a photo in the public domain from the House Website. The body was adapted from a Creative Commons licensed photo from Hairy Jacques's Flickr photostream.
Anti-Donald Trump inaugural protests
Michigan Avenue Bridge
Chicago, IL
January 20th, 2017
All photos © Joshua Mellin per the guidelines listed under "Owner settings" to the right.
painting by Illma Gore from Los Angeles,
censured in the US, on display in a Lon-
don gallery, published in "Der Spiegel".
Signs on the highway near Ely, Minnesota. They reead:
"Don Trump The Con"
"Treason and prison!"
"Turn off Fox News Up Your IQ"
"Remove trump and cumps and violent radical right!"
On April 4, 2023, Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, indicted Donald Trump on thirty-four felony counts of falsifying business records to hide that he paid Stormy Daniels hush money to silence her about their alleged affair. This occurred in October 2016, just weeks before the presidential election. And Bragg claims Trump was part of an illegal conspiracy to undermine the election by suppressing this information because of its negative impact on his candidacy.
During his arraignment, Acting New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan warned Trump not to make comments or engage in conduct that has the "potential to incite violence, create civil unrest, or jeopardize the safety or well-being of any individuals."
Yet a few hours later, in a speech the former president made at Mar-a-Lago, he attacked Judge Merchan and his family. He said, "I have a Trump-hating judge with a Trump-hating wife and family whose daughter worked for [Vice President] Kamala Harris and now receives money from the Biden-Harris campaign." Both conservative and liberal lawyers have stated this is not a conflict of interest.
Donald Trump just can't keep his mouth shut. His narcissism controls everything he says and does. His behavior incites divisions and drains the life out of the American people. He knows exactly what he's doing. It's been his action plan for decades. And it's time to pull the plug on his ability to do and say whatever he wants. It doesn't matter whether or not he's running for president. He gets his energy from media coverage antics like this bring him.
The First Amendment doesn't protect individuals who incite violence.
Donald Trump Motorcade In New York
Donald Trump attends The United Nations General Assembly in New York.
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Way back when, in 1989, I was a New Yorker (still am I guess), living in Brooklyn and this was my take on “the Donald.”
Anti-Donald Trump inaugural protests
Michigan Avenue Bridge
Chicago, IL
January 20th, 2017
All photos © Joshua Mellin per the guidelines listed under "Owner settings" to the right.
KLFI (Joint Base Langley-Eustis) - 02 MAR 2017
"Air Force One" on takeoff roll on RWY 26 en route to Joint Base Andrews (KADW) after a 3-hour stay in the area. The secret service is in the foreground in the back vehicles.
President Trump was here to visit the Newport News shipyard to tour the USS Gerald R Ford aircraft carrier and to speak to over 4,000 Navy sailors and workers there about his plan to lift sequestration and increase the military budget.
The rapper Eminem struck out at President Trump in a video that played at the BET Hip Hop Awards on Tuesday, accusing the president of racism, hypocrisy, disrespect of military veterans and more in almost five minutes of furious freestyle rap.
He also excoriated Mr. Trump for his responses to the recent violence in Charlottesville, the devastation in Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria and the mass shooting in Las Vegas.
The video, titled “The Storm", was filmed in Detroit as part of the BET Hip Hop Awards’ traditional cyphers, in which rappers typically aim to deliver showy verses in a group setting.
© 2017 The New York Times
On Thursday 12 July 2018, US president Donald Trump, the most dangerous man in the world, was welcomed to the United Kingdom by the British prime minister Theresa May. The following day the streets of London witnessed the biggest protest for over a decade as thousands marched on Trafalgar Square to express their anger at the British government extending a red carpet welcome for Trump.
Protesters pointed out the extreme threat to democracy, to those dependent on welfare, to womens' rights, to civil rights generally and even to the survival of humankind which Trump presents. Such assertions might seem extreme, but they are unfortunately fully justifiable.
As the president of what is by far the richest and most powerful country on earth, Trump has dedicated his term to accelerating the US addiction to fossil fuels and agribusiness, dismantling the Environmental Protection Agency and withdrawing America from the Paris Climate Accords, thereby accelerating global warming and climate change and presenting a huge threat to the continued existence of humankind.
Trump's presidency also marks another dangerous step in the erosion of democracy in the United States. Far from "draining the swamp" as he promised, Trump has surrounded himself with powerful figures from big business, especially major financial institutions such as Goldman Sachs, as well as his friends and allies in the fossil fuel and defence industires.
Government policy, more and more, reflects the direct interests of concentrated private power with the public having less and less influence. At the same time the Trump presidency has allied itself with some of the most ruthless regimes in the world and is profiting from Saudi Arabia's illegal war of aggression in Yemen which has created the world's worst humanitarian crisis. A serious war crime in which Donald Trump and Theresa May are both complicit.
Trump has also been keen to patronise the extreme nationalist constituency in the United States and through preaching a propaganda of fear his presidency has managed to oversee some of the most racist immigration policies ever to be implemented in the United States, targeted almost exclusively at Muslim countries - Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen. Ironically, all of them have been massively destabilized and impoverished by US foreign policy.
He was also responsible for the ruthless decision to separate children from their parents as they cross into the United States from Mexico, in his determination to block immigration from central America, where decades of US illegal intervention, including the CIA funded Contra terror operations in Nicaragua and enforced free trade (under NAFTA or IMF rules) have devastated the region and merely enhanced the power of corrupt corporate elites and drug cartels.
As if this was not enough to worry about, Trump has also authorized a huge increase in both US defence spending and in the US nuclear arsenal, and changed the strategic posture of the US so that nuclear weapons can be used even for offensive operations and even when their use is not required to preempt a nuclear strike by an enemy power.
As any historian of conflict since the Second World War knows, it is only by a miracle that humankind has survived since 1945 without a nuclear war. Now the situation is more dangerous than ever before. Not only are we are now dependent on Trump's extremely unpredictable temperament but also increasingly on automated systems which can easily malfunction.
Trump and Republicans maintain they need to spend heavily on military equipment in order to counter the supposed Russian threat. However they seldom remind the public that the United States already spends almost as much as the rest of the world combined on defence and that Russia's expenditure is far behind both that of the United States and only on about the same level of Saudi Arabia, and spends only 10% of what NATO spends.
It has also to be remembered that it is NATO and US forces which are operating right on the Russian border, not Russian forces on the American border. Russia's defence spending is clearly recognised by academics to be primarily defensive and responsive to US spending. What is desperately needed is a serious international dialogue at the highest level to decrease the danger of conflict, especially the risk of a terminal nuclear war and begin a process of multilateral disarmament.
On Thursday 12 July 2018, US president Donald Trump, the most dangerous man in the world, was welcomed to the United Kingdom by the British prime minister Theresa May. The following day the streets of London witnessed the biggest protest for over a decade as thousands marched on Trafalgar Square to express their anger at the British government extending a red carpet welcome for Trump.
Protesters pointed out the extreme threat to democracy, to those dependent on welfare, to womens' rights, to civil rights generally and even to the survival of humankind which Trump presents. Such assertions might seem extreme, but they are unfortunately fully justifiable.
As the president of what is by far the richest and most powerful country on earth, Trump has dedicated his term to accelerating the US addiction to fossil fuels and agribusiness, dismantling the Environmental Protection Agency and withdrawing America from the Paris Climate Accords, thereby accelerating global warming and climate change and presenting a huge threat to the continued existence of humankind.
Trump's presidency also marks another dangerous step in the erosion of democracy in the United States. Far from "draining the swamp" as he promised, Trump has surrounded himself with powerful figures from big business, especially major financial institutions such as Goldman Sachs, as well as his friends and allies in the fossil fuel and defence industires.
Government policy, more and more, reflects the direct interests of concentrated private power with the public having less and less influence. At the same time the Trump presidency has allied itself with some of the most ruthless regimes in the world and is profiting from Saudi Arabia's illegal war of aggression in Yemen which has created the world's worst humanitarian crisis. A serious war crime in which Donald Trump and Theresa May are both complicit.
Trump has also been keen to patronise the extreme nationalist constituency in the United States and through preaching a propaganda of fear his presidency has managed to oversee some of the most racist immigration policies ever to be implemented in the United States, targeted almost exclusively at Muslim countries - Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen. Ironically, all of them have been massively destabilized and impoverished by US foreign policy.
He was also responsible for the ruthless decision to separate children from their parents as they cross into the United States from Mexico, in his determination to block immigration from central America, where decades of US illegal intervention, including the CIA funded Contra terror operations in Nicaragua and enforced free trade (under NAFTA or IMF rules) have devastated the region and merely enhanced the power of corrupt corporate elites and drug cartels.
As if this was not enough to worry about, Trump has also authorized a huge increase in both US defence spending and in the US nuclear arsenal, and changed the strategic posture of the US so that nuclear weapons can be used even for offensive operations and even when their use is not required to preempt a nuclear strike by an enemy power.
As any historian of conflict since the Second World War knows, it is only by a miracle that humankind has survived since 1945 without a nuclear war. Now the situation is more dangerous than ever before. Not only are we are now dependent on Trump's extremely unpredictable temperament but also increasingly on automated systems which can easily malfunction.
Trump and Republicans maintain they need to spend heavily on military equipment in order to counter the supposed Russian threat. However they seldom remind the public that the United States already spends almost as much as the rest of the world combined on defence and that Russia's expenditure is far behind both that of the United States and only on about the same level of Saudi Arabia, and spends only 10% of what NATO spends.
It has also to be remembered that it is NATO and US forces which are operating right on the Russian border, not Russian forces on the American border. Russia's defence spending is clearly recognised by academics to be primarily defensive and responsive to US spending. What is desperately needed is a serious international dialogue at the highest level to decrease the danger of conflict, especially the risk of a terminal nuclear war and begin a process of multilateral disarmament.
What's it like living in a city under what is essentially martial law? In the 1970s, I spent a lot of time on both sides of the Berlin Wall. This isn't Checkpoint Charlie; it's Checkpoint Donny. This is my Cold War vision where authoritarianism meets democracy. (Concept mine, executed by AI.)
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This photo was taken in Whitehall during the anti-Trump ban march from the US embassy to Downing Street.
On Friday morning thousands of protesters armed with placards filled most of Grosvenor Square outside the American Embassy in London. They were rallying to demand that prime minister Theresa May repudiate Donald Trump's shameful blanket entry ban on all Syrian, Iraqi, Somali, Yemeni, Iranian, Sudanese and Libyan nationals for the next 90 days as well as the indefinite ban on all Syrian refugees.
Some also demanded that his planned state visit as a guest of the queen be revoked and that the British government also take decisive action to help desparate refugees and ease the conditions within the UK for asylum seekers.
By 11 am an estimated ten thousand had gathered outside the US Embassy for a march on Downing Street organized by the Stop the War Coalition, Stand Up to Racism and the Muslim Association of Britain
Among the most frequent chants heard were "May shame on you", "dump Trump", "build bridges not walls" and "refugees are welcome here". Protesters pointed out that all the countries effected were Muslim majority nations and yet none of the countries targeted had any nationals implicated in any recent terrorist attack within the United States.
Ironically it is US foreign policy in the Middle East, including years of bombing and support for regional dictators that is one of the main causes of the current refugee crisis.
On Thursday 12 July 2018, US president Donald Trump, the most dangerous man in the world, was welcomed to the United Kingdom by the British prime minister Theresa May. The following day the streets of London witnessed the biggest protest for over a decade as thousands marched on Trafalgar Square to express their anger at the British government extending a red carpet welcome for Trump.
Protesters pointed out the extreme threat to democracy, to those dependent on welfare, to womens' rights, to civil rights generally and even to the survival of humankind which Trump presents. Such assertions might seem extreme, but they are unfortunately fully justifiable.
As the president of what is by far the richest and most powerful country on earth, Trump has dedicated his term to accelerating the US addiction to fossil fuels and agribusiness, dismantling the Environmental Protection Agency and withdrawing America from the Paris Climate Accords, thereby accelerating global warming and climate change and presenting a huge threat to the continued existence of humankind.
Trump's presidency also marks another dangerous step in the erosion of democracy in the United States. Far from "draining the swamp" as he promised, Trump has surrounded himself with powerful figures from big business, especially major financial institutions such as Goldman Sachs, as well as his friends and allies in the fossil fuel and defence industires.
Government policy, more and more, reflects the direct interests of concentrated private power with the public having less and less influence. At the same time the Trump presidency has allied itself with some of the most ruthless regimes in the world and is profiting from Saudi Arabia's illegal war of aggression in Yemen which has created the world's worst humanitarian crisis. A serious war crime in which Donald Trump and Theresa May are both complicit.
Trump has also been keen to patronise the extreme nationalist constituency in the United States and through preaching a propaganda of fear his presidency has managed to oversee some of the most racist immigration policies ever to be implemented in the United States, targeted almost exclusively at Muslim countries - Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen. Ironically, all of them have been massively destabilized and impoverished by US foreign policy.
He was also responsible for the ruthless decision to separate children from their parents as they cross into the United States from Mexico, in his determination to block immigration from central America, where decades of US illegal intervention, including the CIA funded Contra terror operations in Nicaragua and enforced free trade (under NAFTA or IMF rules) have devastated the region and merely enhanced the power of corrupt corporate elites and drug cartels.
As if this was not enough to worry about, Trump has also authorized a huge increase in both US defence spending and in the US nuclear arsenal, and changed the strategic posture of the US so that nuclear weapons can be used even for offensive operations and even when their use is not required to preempt a nuclear strike by an enemy power.
As any historian of conflict since the Second World War knows, it is only by a miracle that humankind has survived since 1945 without a nuclear war. Now the situation is more dangerous than ever before. Not only are we are now dependent on Trump's extremely unpredictable temperament but also increasingly on automated systems which can easily malfunction.
Trump and Republicans maintain they need to spend heavily on military equipment in order to counter the supposed Russian threat. However they seldom remind the public that the United States already spends almost as much as the rest of the world combined on defence and that Russia's expenditure is far behind both that of the United States and only on about the same level of Saudi Arabia, and spends only 10% of what NATO spends.
It has also to be remembered that it is NATO and US forces which are operating right on the Russian border, not Russian forces on the American border. Russia's defence spending is clearly recognised by academics to be primarily defensive and responsive to US spending. What is desperately needed is a serious international dialogue at the highest level to decrease the danger of conflict, especially the risk of a terminal nuclear war and begin a process of multilateral disarmament.
How come nobody is writing positive books about Donald Trump? He seems like the type of guy that wrote "To know me is to hate me" in high school yearbooks.
I could think of a few positive titles My Little Donald by Vladimir Putin, He Kissed Me at the DMZ by Kim Jong-un, The Exalted One: Sycophant am I by William Barr, Thank You Donald: No More Hood by David Duke, My Kind of Guy by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, I'll Burn in Hell for Donald by Mike Pence and Donald First and Very Foreign Affairs by Mike Pompeo.
But I did take this photo on the day before Carl Bernstein sent a second Republican president to the political graveyard. That latest title "Rage" is cause for celebration.
It’s extraordinary that every irrational and questionable thing Donald Trump has done up to this point has bounced off him. Mr. Teflon Man's misogyny, narcissism, racism, impeachment, and his failed promise of being president for every American have had little effect on his approval ratings. His base remains true to him. But, with 5 months to go before the election, suddenly multiple threats to our lives have coalesced. Together, his mishandling of the pandemic and of the public outrage caused by the death of George Floyd is becoming his Waterloo. All the negatives of Trump's tenure are reaching a critical mass.
His self-interest is crystallizing in a way his call to Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky failed to do. His denial of the COVID-19's danger to our lives and his gross negligence in handling the pandemic, even ceding presidential and federal responsibility, leaving states to fend for themselves, have cost people's lives. It has been estimated that over 36,000 people died because of his 70 day delay in acknowledging the threat. On March 9, Trump tweeted, "Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus [sic], with 22 deaths. Think about that!" The President suggested the flu was worse than the coronavirus. And now, over 127,000 Americans are dead.
Trump was worried the resulting stock market crash would adversely affect his chances for re-election. So it was in his best interest to deny the seriousness of the virus. The economy, he thought, was his crowning achievement and would be the foundation of his re-election campaign. Yet, the stock market and low unemployment did not accurately convey the real health of our economy when many were living paycheck-to-paycheck. And workers are becoming disenchanted with the failure of companies to make them partners in their success.
Then the country (and the world) erupted when the video of George Floyd's death surfaced. Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin held his knee on Floyd's neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds while he pleaded for his life. The event was not only shocking, it tore the scab off of the systematic racism that African Americans and other minorities had suffered for hundreds of years.
But President Trump mishandled the largely peaceful protests. On June 1, in a White House Rose Garden press conference, he stated, "I am your President of law and order... we are entering the riots and lawlessness that has spread throughout our country. We will end it now. Today, I have strongly recommended to every governor to deploy the National Guard in sufficient numbers that we dominate the streets." While the vast majority of protests were peaceful, the President continually reiterated the necessity for showing overwhelming force. In a call with governors, Trump told them, "We're strongly looking for arrests. You have to get much tougher.... You have to dominate. If you don't dominate, you're wasting your time. They're going to run all over you, you'll look like a bunch of jerks. You have to dominate, and you have to arrest people, and you have to try people and they have to go to jail for long periods of time." And then there was his infamous PR stunt, strutting to St. John's Episcopal Church, a block away from the White House, where he simply stood there holding up a Bible. To do so, the US Park Police cleared his path through peaceful protesters with pepper balls and smoke canisters.
Calls to remove racist signifiers throughout the country crescendoed. Confederate statues on government grounds were removed. Some protesters took it upon themselves to bring them down. While many organizations decided to do the same. The American Museum of Natural History decided to remove James Earle Fraser's Equestrian Statue of Theodore Roosevelt from their entrance. The statue commemorates Roosevelt, a naturalist, but it also "communicates a racial hierarchy," according to the museum's website, with the former president on horseback, followed by an African American and an Indian. Mississippi's Republican legislature voted to redesign the state flag, removing the Confederate battle emblem. And both country music groups Lady Antebellum and the Dixie Chicks removed words in their names that reflected the 19th century South. They are now Lady A and The Chicks, respectively. We are reaching a collective and bipartisan tipping point. Except for the President.
Every day, it seems his actions become more abhorrent. On Sunday, June 28, Trump tweeted a video of a parade in Florida where people repeatedly yelled "white power" from golf carts festooned with Trump campaign posters. Trump tweeted "fine people," but claims he didn't hear the phrase in the video (it's easy to hear).
Finally, the New York Times reported US intelligence knew Vladimir Putin had offered the Taliban a bounty for each American service person killed in Afghanistan. The Times stated Trump had been briefed in March but took no immediate action. He denied reading the brief. Joy Behar of The View reacted by saying, "If he didn't see the brief then he's incompetent; if he did see the brief, he's a traitor." The Washington Post's David Ignatius wrote, "Through this agonizing period, Trump kept up a buzz of happy talk about improving relations with Putin, including the possibility of inviting Russia back into the Group of Seven. Were Trump's commanders too afraid to warn him of this folly?" Given the President's temperament, it wouldn't be surprising. So, add to the already overflowing incompetence of Trump's presidency the notion of systematic ignorance.
It's all coming together. Donald Trump claims to be a patriot, a forceful advocate of law and order. But our democracy is at risk with "patriots" who act like dictators. If Trump were a statue, it would be time to haul him away. We might say the same about the President himself.
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Donald John Trump, aka Donald Trump, is a businessman and is the 45th President of the United States.
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