President Trump has provided his opponents abundant material with which to criticize him. His Twitter feed as commander in chief is similar to what it was when he was a candidate: an early-morning soapbox about cable news and what bothers him. It often gets him into…
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President Trump has provided his opponents abundant material with which to criticize him. His Twitter feed as commander in chief is similar to what it was when he was a candidate: an early-morning soapbox about cable news and what bothers him. It often gets him into trouble. So do his policy planks and his efforts to make them law, such as his travel ban order and the GOP health care bill. That he followed through on bombing the stuffing out of ISIS in Afghanistan isn’t surprising; that his military assertiveness unexpectedly includes Syria has given some of his isolationist supporters fits. Mar-a-Lago has become a place more specific than just the southern White House—it’s the southern situation room, from where he ordered the strike on Bashar al-Assad’s airfield and monitored a North Korean missile test with Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe at his side and resort-goers in proximity. The president’s trips there have prompted security concerns.
With all these the realities of the new administration in just the first 100 days, there would figure to be little incentive to make false attacks against Trump, an astonishing development for our politics of distortion. But that conclusion implies there’s enough hard substance at some point— say, a 42-percent approval rating —to dial down the exaggeration and hyperbole. That’s not how the game is played.
Look no further than Easter Sunday. A pollster at a Democratic-founded firm, Matt McDermott, tweeted at 8: 39 a.m., « The Obama’s [sic] spent every Easter attending church service. Trump hasn’t attended church once since his inauguration.
