Last week was bigly bad for Donald. He would have been much better off skipping Davos. His Greenland threats went flat, and his Peace Club was reduced to foreign aid recipients. Worse for his battered ego, he had to apologize to Britain for his remark about their NATO troops.
The reason of course he had such a bad week was that he has no advisors, at least on his cabinet. But the apology does indicate that he does listen to someone, because I cannot imagine that he realized that an apology was necessary on his own. If it is Stephen Miller or Steve Witkoff, or someone else, my staff has not determined. There does however seem to be some definite advice toward moderation. Tom Homan is replacing Gregory Bovino in Minneapolis, suggesting Trump knows that ICE has gone too far.
We do know that a victim of Trumpism is our homegrown Ryan Mackenzie. His press release yesterday on the ICE shooting was better thought out than his meme last week praising Trump. On this recent shooting he struck a conciliatory tone, although staying to the right.There was no mention that Kristi Noem defended the shooting, and other immediate knee-jerk reactions from the administration.
What about the knee-jerk reactions form the governor of Minnesota, the mayor of Minneapolis, or the organized mobs assaulting law enforcement?
ReplyDeletePlease call him 'The Donald". Thank you.
ReplyDeleteI love how Trump TACO'd the February 1, 2026 tariffs on Northern European countries after just one day! in Davos. Like the boy who cried wolf, no one will be scared of Trumps tariff threats anymore.
ReplyDeleteI cant imagine organizig a band of crazed lost souls to go against the Allentown Police. To have our crazed leaders like the Pinsleys of the Valley publicallly go to the press and whip up the crazed army to disrupt our Police and make their job 20 times harder.
ReplyDeleteTo publically daily bad mouth the cops and call them Hitlers etc. And then blame the cops when a crazed person gets hurt or killed while interfering with Police duty.
No sympathies from me. FAFO.
anon@7:38: I have no problem with him not following through with any tariff. I think tariffs should be very thought out economic tools, not used as political levers. Hopefully he'll mature beyond making such threats.
ReplyDeleteMichael, Trump never apologizes. He backtracked from his original remarks about NATO troops and is now calling them "the greatest of all warriors," but there is no direct apology, no admission that he was wrong. https://www.nbcnews.com/world/united-kingdom/trump-praises-uk-troops-backlash-nato-front-line-remarks-rcna255796
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