His excuse is it’s the US Army’s 250th birthday, the first of many such celebrations of the founding of America in 1776, conveniently on his watch.
Trump’s brazenness is part of his authenticity. Because he is transparently transactional, he regards himself as incorruptible. Because he can sign executive orders at will, he believes he is irresistible. Contrary to his carefully curated self-image, however, he is not all-powerful.
For starters, the tariff wars aren’t over. As John David Rainey, chief financial officer of Walmart, the superstore giant, warned this week on CNBC’s business news channel: “We’ve not seen a period where you’ve had prices go up this high, this quickly. We’re well equipped and experienced in dealing with price increases that are going up two or three per cent, but not 30 per cent.”
Laura Loomer, the Trump tricoteuse who has been enthusiastically guillotining suspected non-Maga White House officials, recycled an image comparing Qatar’s gift of a plane to a Trojan horse stuffed with jihadis.
“This is not in fact draining the swamp,” he griped. “If we switched the names to Hunter Biden and Joe Biden, we’d all be freaking out on the right.”
Then there’s Melania, who has spent only 14 days at the White House since the inauguration, according to the New York Times, but still managed to launch her own crypto coin. The Financial Times revealed that a lucky few traders received a $100 million windfall in the minutes before the launch of the First Lady’s meme coin.
Lifting sanctions on Syria was one of Trump’s better moves on his Middle Eastern tour. It was bold to describe President Ahmad al-Sharaa, as a “young, attractive guy. Tough guy. Strong past. Very strong past. Fighter,” given the latter’s former links to Islamic extremists.
“Nothing’s going to happen until Putin and I get together,” Trump blustered to reporters on Air Force One, while the war grinds on and his Russian friend continues to cock a snook at him. “We’re going to have to get it solved because too many people are dying,” he added, as if Russian President Vladimir Putin was not ordering the killing.
Sarah Baxter is director of the Marie Colvin Center for International Reporting
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