Tantrum Trump’s lack of inhibition about spraying racist insults around then flat denying he said what he said in the face of corroboration by others, and blaming Barack Obama for a GW Bush decision on moving the London US Embassy (for reasons of security and space), does suggest he’s losing the plot … Read more
Michael Wolff, who has lit a fuse under Trump with his Fire and Fury expose, is known as a ‘provocateur and media polemicist’ with a liking for stirring up arguments and is not above adding his own creative touches to his tales and inventing quotes. Not all of what he writes can … Read more
Lest you’re suffering Trump withdrawal symptoms, now that everyone has got bored with same as same as/mine’s bigger than yours, there’s going to be renewed excitement with the publication next week of Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House. Leaks to date suggest that Steve Bannon is getting his … Read more
Trump is continuing his petulant war of words with CNN, retweeting a doctored image with the CNN logo imposed on a bloodlike splatter under his shoe. Even a conservative radio host criticized him for attacking CNN and the FBI on the morning of Christmas Eve. He tweeted “Grow up sir. Have you no sense of … Read more
Trump says he won’t fire Mueller, but his allies in the media and GOP are pushing hard to discredit the Russia probe as improper and politically motivated. Mueller has been accused of wrongfully obtaining thousands of emails sent and received by Trump officials before the start of his campaign; but other legal experts … Read more
Rex Tillerson pushes for diplomacy over North Korea and is promptly contradicted by his White House boss. Presumably he just chooses the ignore the views of the man he reputedly called ‘a moron’ and do what seems sensible. Though this is the third time in several months he’s been publicly at odds … Read more
Even Jewish American groups have accused Trump of ignorance and irresponsible decision making and warn of destructive consequences to his latest lunacy in deciding to move the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. The Middle East is in uproar with the Palestinians promising ‘three days of rage’, though it’s unlikely to end there. … Read more
Trump Term revisited as it sidles towards its first ‘victory’ – a tax bill the FT describes as ‘the most bogus and politically cynical tax plan in recent memory. This is Reaganomics with all the downside and none of the upside.’ If it ultimately passes, it will create a fiscal mess and … Read more
Donald Trump is either descending into paranoid psychosis or he’s up to his usual game of diversionary tactics to render reality irrelevant; plus his narcissistic urge to keep attention focussed on him. Although his return in private to obsessive conspiracy theories about Obama’s birth certificate, Hillary not winning the popular vote and it … Read more
Donald Trump’s penchant for dictator-chic is being well-nourished by a glitzy state welcome in China, though that’s likely to fall foul of North Korea and trade wars. This December/January look pretty explosive between Xi Jinping and DT; with a fast downhill slide through 2018. Today’s FT, sadly behind a paywall, has an … Read more