Trump’s Very Bad Week
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | June 18, 2020
“Trump will no doubt go down as the worst President in U.S. history.”
President Trump is having a very bad week.
On Monday, Trump’s first Supreme Court appointment, Justice Neil Gorsuch, wrote a landmark decision for the Court’s 6-to-3 majority that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects gay and transgender workers from discrimination in the workplace. The decision was a great disappointment to a key portion of the President’s “base.”
Yesterday, excerpts began showing up from former Trump National Security Adviser John Bolton’s explosive new book on the Trump presidency. According to The New York Times, the book “is a withering portrait of a president ignorant of even basic facts about the world, susceptible to transparent flattery by authoritarian leaders manipulating him and prone to false statements, foul-mouthed eruptions and snap decisions that aides try to manage or reverse.”
According to Bolton’s critique: “Trump commingled the personal and the national not just on trade questions but across the whole field of national security. I am hard-pressed to identify any significant Trump decision during my White House tenure that wasn’t driven by reelection calculations.”
Today, in another major defeat for Trump and another key portion of his “base,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote a decision for the Court’s 5-to-4 majority that rejected Trump’s nearly three years attempt to end the DACA program that protects “Dreamers.”
Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight also published today a cumulation of national and state polls that presents a grim picture of Trump’s chances of being reelected.
On top of this, the country is facing a pandemic health crisis that Trump has completely mishandled and makes believe does not exist. And the brutal, senseless murder of George Floyd by a police officer has given birth to a new, diverse national movement against racial injustice, and police brutality and misconduct, to which Trump is incapable of responding.
We have known since he was first elected that Trump is unfit to serve as President. The Bolton book simply confirms with stark details how extraordinarily unfit Trump is to be President. Trump will no doubt go down as the worst President in U.S. history.
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