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struggle4progress

(118,282 posts)
Sat Feb 18, 2017, 11:53 AM Feb 2017

Trump, Our 15th President Thanks You

Gail Collins
FEB. 17, 2017

... Buchanan’s been on the bottom for 150 years, but his days may be numbered. Sure he sent the country careening into civil war. But he never tweeted about it ...

... I know some of you are worried that the president is losing his mind. Perhaps you think that he’s depressed over the fact that his first four weeks in power have been marked by a disastrous attempt at immigration control, the axing of the national security adviser, the ignominious retreat of a nominee for labor secretary and a failed military raid in Yemen ...

... The good news is all this was not actually evidence the president is suffering a mental collapse. He’s always been like that ...

Right now the administration is such a mess that after national security adviser Mike Flynn was pushed out of office, Trump’s next pick claimed he couldn’t take the job because he needed to spend more time with his family. That’s bad. On the other hand, the president did promise to create jobs. And the way we’re going, sooner or later everybody in the country is going to get an offer to serve in a top White House position ...


https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/17/opinion/mr-trump-our-15th-president-thanks-you.html

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