I have just read that Donald Trump denied the Associated Press access to an Oval Office event because it refused to bow before his executive order that the Gulf of Mexico must henceforth be referred to as The Gulf of America. His edict, one must admit, would seem to be the act of a true megalomaniac, one not all that different from the monster depicted by his political opponents. His suggestion that Canada ought to become America’s 51st state was equally arrogant. Yet his policies on various other issues are significantly superior to those of Biden and co.. What is the electorate to do? One can only hope that those around Trump will counsel him to take charge of his impulses, to abandon the notion that he can reconfigure history by simply snapping his fingers. It is possible, of course, that many of his pronouncements are mere calculated bluffs. Upon threatening Canada with punitive tariffs, for example, Trudeau immediately abandoned his formerly slack approach to the American border. Perhaps Trump is motivated less by an overweening egotism than a crafty awareness of the vulnerability of his opponents. One wonders, of course, if similar tactics will work on groups such as Hamas. Only time will tell.
That Trump’s arrogance worries me, however, will in no way deter me from devoting my next blog to investigating his attack on the USAID, an institution which, under Biden, apparently spent billions of taxpayers’ dollars in a highly questionable fashion. One hopes, of course, that his response to the supposedly biased abuse of power perpetrated by the Left, will not be reciprocated by an equally tainted use of authority by the volatile and always unpredictable Mr. Trump!