At one point during his first term, I wrote that Donald Trump “is like a toddler in the china shop. He knows the value of nothing but destroys everything that he can reach.”
It was, of course, a metaphor for his horribly harmful policies and behaviors then, but Trump has now brought the image to concrete life in his second term. He has wantonly destroyed the historic East Wing of the White House in order to build a Big Beautiful Ballroom where it once stood. This very visible physical act stands in well for the less visible but even more pernicious damage being done by his policies in his first year back in office.
Mr. Trump is not taking out the trash. He is bringing it. Continue reading “The Trashman Cometh”
