Wall Street Journal (January 8)
With 13 days remaining in Trump’s presidency, “the best outcome would be for him to resign to spare the U.S. another impeachment fight.” Though impeachment could send a valuable “message to future Presidents that Congress will protect itself from populists of all ideological stripes willing to stir up a mob and threaten the Capitol or its Members.” Doing this “so late in the term” wouldn’t be “easy or without rancor…. It is best for everyone, himself included, if he goes away quietly.”
Tags: Capitol, Congress, Ideological, Impeachment, Mob, Outcome, Populists, Presidency, Protect, Resign, Trump, U.S.
LA Times (October 2)
“Trump’s coronavirus infection is the result of his deadly, foolish recklessness.” His presidency “has been a disaster,” but this is still “a time for Americans to come together and wish Trump a speedy recovery…. We hope Trump will return to good health — and then be resoundingly defeated in November.”
Tags: Coronavirus, Deadly, Defeated, Disaster, Foolish, Health, Presidency, Recklessness, Recovery, Trump, U.S.
The Guardian (September 4)
“Donald Trump is the most repellent individual ever to have sought, let alone won, the presidency of the United States. The latest proof comes in a quadruple-sourced account of Trump describing US troops who died for their country as ‘losers’ and ‘suckers.’” But it’s not just what he says. The nation’s economy now “lies in tatters, racked by mass unemployment. And yet, despite that record of lethal failure, this inadequate, malignant man still has the support of 42% of the American people.”
Tags: Economy, Inadequate, Lethal failure, Losers, Malignant, Presidency, Repellent, Suckers, Support, Tatters, Troops, Trump, U.S., Unemployment, Won
Washington Post (July 15)
“All signs suggest it’s closing on his presidency because of his world-class incompetence with the coronavirus pandemic, the protracted economic collapse that resulted, and the increasingly overt racism Trump has embraced.
Tags: Coronavirus, Economic collapse, Incompetence, Pandemic, Presidency, Racism, Signs, Trump
Newsweek (March 29)
“As a master of misdirection, Donald Trump is exceedingly good at shifting our attention away from things that matter. With a single tweet, he can magically shift the news narrative in an entirely new direction….President Trump’s greatest rhetorical magic trick, however, has been to create the illusion that he won the Presidency of the United States without the aid of the Russian government.
Tags: Attention, Illusion, Magic trick, Misdirection, Presidency, Rhetorical, Russia, Shifting, Trump, Tweet, U.S.
Washington Post (March 6)
“As the saying goes, you don’t miss the water until the well runs dry: This deeply aberrant presidency threatens to cost the nation much more than even some of President Trump’s harshest critics may realize…. It’s easy to lose the habits and values of democracy, but incredibly hard to get them back. Perhaps most difficult is to recover lost faith in the rule of law.”
Tags: Aberrant, Cost, Critics, Democracy, Habits, Lost faith, Presidency, Recover, Rule of law, Trump, Values
The Atlantic (October Issue)
“Donald Trump is testing the institution of the presidency unlike any of his 43 predecessors.” Will he destroy the institution? That remains to be seen. “We have never had a president so ill-informed about the nature of his office, so openly mendacious, so self-destructive, or so brazen in his abusive attacks on the courts, the press, Congress…. Trump is a Frankenstein’s monster of past presidents’ worst attributes.”
Tags: Brazen, Frankenstein, Ill-informed, Institution, Mendacious, Presidency, Self-destructive, Trump
Chicago Tribune (July 5)
“The greatest threat facing America is President Donald Trump…. Daily he shows he lacks the character, discipline, intellect, judgment or respect for the office to be president of the United States.” One might “have to go back to King George III to find a head of state who so threatened America. But there is no precedent for one whose character is so obviously ill-suited to the presidency.”
Tags: Character, Discipline, Ill-suited, Intellect, Judgment, Presidency, Respect, Threat, Trump, U.S.
CNN (February 16)
“Although at this point nothing should surprise anyone about how Trump conducts himself, it was still hard not to have your jaw drop as his face-off with reporters played across screens. He lashed out personally against reporters, he resumed fighting over the outcome of the election and his loss in the popular vote, and continued steadfastly refusing to admit to facts that are beyond dispute…. This is not a way to conduct the presidency.”
Tags: Conduct, Election, Face-off, Facts, Popular vote, Presidency, Reporters, Trump
Wall Street Journal (January 31)
“Political disruption has its uses but not if it consumes your Presidency in the process.” Donald Trump “seems determined to conduct a shock and awe campaign to fulfill his campaign promises as quickly as possible, while dealing with the consequences later.” Unfortunately, governing effectively “is more complicated than a campaign rally” and the “bonfire over his executive order on refugees shows that government by deliberate disruption can blow up in damaging ways.”
Tags: Awe, Blow up, Consequences, Damaging, Disruption, Executive order, Governing, Government, Presidency, Promises, Rally, Refugees, Shock, Trump
