A Warning

by Anonymous

It’s his gluttonous, vanity-pleasing digestion of TV coverage about himself that leads to the most embarrassing outbursts.

Calm leaders are able to let criticism wash over them.

In the minds of Trump boosters, problems such as white supremacy are an invention of the Left to push an identity-politics agenda.

As a result, the president is reluctant to act, hesitant to lead the charge on an issue that might alienate some of his supporters, all the while ignoring a deadly brushfire sweeping the hearts and minds of a small but menacing faction here at home.

So many of us were already frustrated by the president’s handling of his job. Now, purposefully or not, he was channeling the views of bigots, who were in turn excited that an American leader was sticking up for them.

Once people like David Duke are praising you, a normal person quickly figures out they’re on the wrong track and corrects course. Not Donald Trump.

“That’s why,” I responded. “Because he’s a mess.” It was true for a lot of us. We thought we could keep it together.

The mood in the administration darkened in the months ahead.

The controversy left a permanent bruise on Trump’s presidency.

yet I feared—and knew—it was a harbinger o...

Donald Trump does not belong among them.

He isn’t a man of great character, or good character. He is a man of none.

Ideologically, the Trump White House is like an Etch A Sketch.

Every morning the president wakes up, shakes it, and draws something.

It might be the same sketch as yesterday. Sometimes it’s totally different or impossible ...

he will call a top lieutenant to talk about his drawing, and the entire day will feel like a séance, with officials huddling to divine the mysterious squiggly lines and ...

The GOP purports to be the party of principles, so you should be alarmed that our figurehead’s philosophy is not “stick to ideals”—but to throw them at the wall and “see what sticks.”

If his flip-flopping is any indication, he prioritizes convenience, not conviction.

It can take a while to get him to come around; his fear of disappointing “the base” most consistently keeps him in check.

Because the base will not matter to Trump if he is reelected in 2020.

With the full powers of the Executive Office of the President, Donald Trump has turned the GOP into a mess of contradictions.

For all President Trump’s talk these days about Democrats trying to make America socialist, the reality is that he is the king of big government.

The US federal budget deficit was actually declining under the Obama administration, from $1.4 trillion in 2009 when Obama took office to $587 billion in 2016, just before he left.

the budget deficit has increased every single year since Donald Trump took office, returning to dangerous levels.

The president is on track to spend a trillion dollars above what the

government takes in ...

Just look at 2019. The president proposed a record-breaking $...

Since Trump took office, the US debt—much of which we owe to other countries that we borrow from—has grown by the trillions, to another a...

So in a deal cut with Nancy Pelosi, he effectively scrapped the conservatives’ treasured Budget Control Act and increased spending limits by more than $300 billion annually, adding another $2 trillion to America’s debt over the next decade. It’s difficult to capture the significance of this reversal. If President Obama had hatched a similar plan with a GOP House Speaker, Republicans would have been livid.

Conservatives should view this as complete and utter betrayal. Trump promised to do the opposite on federal spending.

During the presidential campaign, he said he would eliminate America’s debt during his time in offic...

How h...

going to repay trillions in debt during such a short window was n...

Trump has a Darth Vader chokehold on weak-willed Republicans.

Donald Trump has America back on the road to bankruptcy, an area where he has unparalleled expertise for a president of the United States.

The number of government employees hasn’t shrunk much at all under Donald Trump.

In his

first three years, Bill Clinton issued 90 executive orders. In that same time period, Barack Obama issued 110. Donald Trump issued 120 before his third year was over.

Our attempts to get the president to care have mostly failed.

In reality, Trump has been a disaster for the Pentagon.

they are on the receiving end of orders barked by a man who cowered at the thought of military

service.

The patriots who are still in uniform will not come out and say it because they don’t want to openly disagree with their commander in chief, but many are appalled by Trump’s lack of decoru...

Time and again, he has put our armed forces in a terrible position by trying to pull the military into political debates or using...

Analysts pointed out that such statements are used by

terrorists for propaganda, helping them recruit supporters by touting America’s supposed cruelty.

It feeds their narrative, putting US forces in ...

He is more than a minor headache for the Pentagon. He is a blinding migraine.

Those who have served at the highest levels of the Pentagon, who have sat with Trump in moments of decision, know all too well.

On a weekly basis, they shield men and women in uniform from the knowledge, as best they can, of just how undisciplined the commander in chief is above them and how he treats the US mi...