Trump has gotten us into a trade war. His “first strike” tariffs have not crippled the enemies into submission, but only sparked retaliatory strikes. We are now in a war of attrition that could go on indefinitely. Escalation of the…
Category: Foreign Policy
Only a scrap of paper
Adolf Hitler once said that treaties are mere scraps of paper. Donald Trump has the same mentality. In scrapping the Paris Accord, trade deals and now the agreement with Iran, he is showing the world that making agreements and treaties…
“Mission Accomplished”, What mission?
Donald Trump has accomplished the mission of propagandizing himself as a strong leader and humanitarian, but the facts point otherwise. With his Syrian attacks, Donald Trump has treated the U.S. Constitution and international law as scraps of paper. He has…
Trump and war with North Korea
Senator Lindsey Graham R(SC) has said that Trump told him if North Korea continues it’s ICBM program that war is inevitable. Trump has said that if China doesn’t get North Korea under control the U.S. would do it alone. Is…
The art of failure
Whenever Donald Trump has failed in the past, he has seen them as some kind of success. This includes his many gambling casino bankruptcies. Apparently Republicans and some independents did the same thing when they voted for him. Donald Trump…
An irresistible urge to Tweet?
The Emperor wannabe left the G-20 table for a quick Tweet? He put a live brain in the seat while he was gone. Not such a bad move.
Trump’s lies and the media
The media created a false image of Donald Trump from The Apprentice on to his unending stream of lies and attention getting stunts like name calling during the election. His odd charm with all the beautiful women and his alleged wealth…
Senator McCain sees the light again
During the election, the few thinking Republicans that there are saw the light about Donald Trump’s mental problems. John McCain was one of them. Then he flip flopped to put party over country. Now he sees the wrongness of his flip…
The power of mental illness
The Emperor of Ignorance pulls out of the Paris Climate Accord
All of the nations of the world big and small except Syria and Nicaragua signed the Paris climate accord. The Pope was for it. The overwhelming majority of scientists concur that something needs to be done about global warming caused…
The Art of the deal?
Like a bull in a China closet, Donald trump went on a disastrous rampage in Europe. Instead of unifying the U.S. with NATO Europeans, the mentally ill President created many cracks in our alliances with them. Germany is in dismay…
What a liar or mental case
Broken campaign promise and confusion
During the election, Trump said we are going bankrupt and our allies should shoulder more of their defense costs. A few days ago he said South Korea should pay for an antimissile defense. Then he made an about face and…
How Trump could destabilize nuclear arms containment
Donald Trump said that it would probably be better that Japan, South Korea and Saudi Arabia have nuclear weapons. At the same time, he said he “hates nuclear weapons proliferation”, but it is going to happen anyway. He said we…
The $150,000,000,000 falsehood
On Tuesday, March 15th, 2016 in a speech, Donald Trump said about the Iran nuclear deal, “We give them $150 billion, we get nothing.” We are only giving them their own frozen assets back. Most experts agree that it is…