Another Wall Street Journal article, this one from yesterday:
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trumps-provocation-principle-fear-intimidation-tactics-6cb749b6
Trump’s Provocation Principle
The administration is too addicted to shock, awe and intimidation to see the harm it is doing to itself.
Some snippets:
Though the chaos seems to defy analysis, one element is frightfully common to current domestic, economic, and foreign policies: the consistent overestimation of powers necessary to accomplish aims. At home and abroad, President Trump has pitted his objectives against allies, enemies, rivals, and friends, not as a matter of miscalculation but, in the glaring absence of calculation, amid a tsunami of haphazard impulses.
And the things that are broken belong to the American people, not to Messrs. Trump and Musk, whose defiant enjoyment of being bad boys is unseemly and undignified. The Republican Party, or what is left of it, will suffer for years to come as a result of the gross overestimation of impermanent political advantage.
Challenging the whole world to a tariff war is reckless enough.
In regard to its initiatives across all categories, the administration puts at risk its genuine accomplishments. Its delight in shock and awe feeds upon itself in complete disregard of history and without projecting forward in view of the relative powers it seeks to marshal against those of the world, the laws of economics, and the very weight of reality, all of which it seems to imagine it is somehow able to intimidate. The price will be steep.
I mean, the elections are over, yes, and (to a decreasing degree, as their legislative agenda gets passed), keeping Trump happy is important for Congressional Republicans, to be able to make use of the Republican trifecta.
But he’s generating a lot of friction in his coalition.
I can’t wait until he calls the Wall Street Journal some kind of radical left publication.
He doesn’t care
What?
Peoples perception of his wealth and business accume is pretty much all he cares about…
He’s been obsessed with it for 78 fucking years
You’re close. He cares about his perception of people’s perception of his wealth. He’s got yes-men all around him and doesn’t read. He doesn’t care any more than any other publication giving him shit.
The guy who obsessively watched faux news thru his first term doesn’t watch faux news anymore?
But even reading, he was literally just spotted reading a newspaper about China and the tareifs like two days ago…
I just don’t understand why so many people on both sides of the aisle are just so enthusiastic about renting the reality in front of their faces
And you’re all always just so angry when people point out what’s real.
I think long COVID or micro plastic is gonna end up being worse than leaded gas for everyone’s brains. There’s got to be a reason everyone is like this now, it’s not just you.
I just don’t understand people that can’t understand hyperbole. It was heavily reported in his first term that in order to keep his attention his name had to be heavily used in any reports that also had to me horribly shortened.
“Holding a newspaper”… 😁
Is this a new version of “slamming” someone?
Blasted.
He looks awful. When will nature finally put him out of our misery?
