Mod: If he'd just kept his mouth shut most people would have never read it. But Trumplethinskin has to scream before the world. Like a small child.
Trump’s lost summer: Aides claim victory, but others see incompetence and intolerance (
Washington Postlink): When
President Trump presided over the battle tanks and fighter jets, the fireworks and adoring fans on
July 4, he couldn’t have known that the militaristic “
Salute to America” — as well as to himself — would end up as the apparent pinnacle of the season.
What followed was what some
Trump advisers and allies characterize as a lost summer defined by self-inflicted controversies and squandered opportunities.
Trump leveled racist attacks against four congresswomen of color dubbed “
the Squad.” He derided the majority-black city of
Baltimore as “
rat and rodent infested.” His anti-immigrant rhetoric was echoed in a missive that authorities believe a mass shooting suspect posted. His visits to
Dayton,
Ohio, and
El Paso after the gun massacres in those cities served to divide rather than heal.
Trump’s economy also began to falter, with the markets ping-ponging based on the president’s erratic behavior. His trade war with
China grew more acrimonious. His whipsaw diplomacy at the
Group of Seven summit left allies uncertain about
American leadership. The president returned from his visit to
France in a sour mood, frustrated by what he felt was unfairly negative news coverage of his trip.
The two months between
Independence Day and
Labor Day offered a fresh and vivid portrait of the president as seen by
Trump’s critics — incompetent, indecisive, intolerant and ineffective.
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