• CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      “Aimless and stupid, Trump’s tantrums leave the US alone and adrift” never would have made it past editorial review.

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        3 months ago

        That’s about the weirdest part of this whole thing to me.

        It really is just The Emperor’s New Clothes played out in real life, as a wide swath of people who certainly know better all studiously pretend that the President of the United States is not a petty, shallow, vindictive, willfully ignorant and delusional egomaniac with the emotional maturity of a toddler who’s slipping into dementia right before our eyes.

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      3 months ago

      His “concepts of a plan” sound bite would have sunk any other candidate in US political history.