Robinson: The utter chaos and blatant corruption of Trump presidency is unprecedented

[lunasun]

WASHINGTON — The ceaseless barrage of news — both real and fake — from the Trump administration can be numbing, so it’s important to step back every once in a while and look at the big picture: Never have we seen such utter chaos and blatant corruption.

If Barack Obama had ever said such a thing, we’d be in the middle of Civil War II.

Any other president who displayed such cavalier disregard for previous policy positions and total ignorance of basic facts would have provoked an uproar. Trump barely gets a shrug. Nobody expects him to be consistent. Nobody expects him to know anything about anything. He is defining the presidency down in a way that we must not tolerate

I spent years as a foreign correspondent in Latin America. To say we are being governed like a banana republic is an insult to banana republics. It’s that bad, and no one should pretend otherwise.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/03/02/robinson/

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. I agree. It is horrifying and sickening.

Not to be tolerated.

[lunasun]

5. Yes not to be tolerated . Resist

[Botany]

2. Loves me some Eugene Robinson

"I spent years as a foreign correspondent in Latin America. To say we are being governed
like a banana republic is an insult to banana republics. It’s that bad, and no one should
pretend otherwise."

[SWBTATTReg]

7. I love this guy, he's one of my most favorite commentators and heroes!!! NT

[MBS]

9. Me, too!

And he NAILED it this time especially.

Any other president who displayed such cavalier disregard for previous policy positions and total ignorance of basic facts would have provoked an uproar. . . He is defining the presidency down in a way that we must not tolerate.

I spent years as a foreign correspondent in Latin America. To say we are being governed like a banana republic is an insult to banana republics. It’s that bad, and no one should pretend otherwise.

[duforsure]

3. Did Putin's nuclear attack display show Florida

Because he stiffing his Russian debts now?

[lunasun]

4. Like thug to thug he is letting trump know his turf is expendable

Pay up trump

[BigmanPigman]

6. You'd think Putin would be happy

that the Moron didn't impose the sanctions from Congress.

[dalton99a]

8. Kick

[Stuart G]

10. k and r

[Blue_Tires]

11. Oh, fancy that...

Everything I predicted about life under trump rule has been proven accurate...