Trump just doesn’t care. That is a great takeaway from this week’s list. He views his power as absolute, saying in an interview that he has not been humbled by the Iran War, but instead learned that there are “no limits” to his power. He feels unbridled by public opinion or what is good for his political party approaching midterms. His concerns seem wrapped up in his legacy as a great conqueror abroad, while also enshrining his legacy in our country’s capital, as would be typical of dictatorships.
Trump has lost the war with Iran that he started, abandoning all of his stated objectives, for fear of his legacy being compared to former President Herbert Hoover. It wasn’t his falling approval, reaching new lows on issues as well, or the crisis of affordability hitting most Americans, it was the stock market. After spending the past decade criticizing former President Barack Obama for releasing $1.7 billion in funds to Iran in completing the JCPOA, the Trump regime opened U.S. dollar-denominated oil sales for the first time in four decades, planned to released tens of billions more from frozen accounts, and set up a $300 billion fund for Iran. All in all a humiliation for the U.S. and our world standing that will surely have lasting world impacts.
Meanwhile, Trump spent the week obsessed with his D.C. legacy, this week on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, inventing stories of “vandalism” to cover for gross incompetence. The Kennedy Center remains under wraps, quite literally, after his name was removed. The White House complex is a literal mess. His regime continues to struggle with the basic tasks of the federal government, the tolls of which are increasingly coming to bear, and instead is focused on his campaign of retribution. On the edges the Republicans, out of their own self-interest, are turning on him.
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