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struggle4progress

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Tue May 2, 2017, 09:50 AM May 2017

Two lonely accomplishments

By Eugene Robinson
May 1 at 7:40 PM

President Trump’s first 100?days in office were mostly about empty noise. The next 100 likely will be the same ...

What kind of president calls North Korean leader Kim Jong Un a “pretty smart cookie,” as Trump did in an interview broadcast Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation”? Who uses words of grudging admiration for a brutal dictator who consolidated power by executing hundreds of people, including his uncle? ...

What kind of president invites a man like Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte to the White House? Duterte has addressed his country’s problem of drug-fueled crime with a campaign of assassination that has killed more than 7,000 people without arrest, trial or judgment ....

What kind of president seeks to govern a divided country — he lost the popular vote, remember — by holding campaign-style rallies designed to appeal only to his political base? ...


https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/100-days-of-trump-two-lonely-accomplishments/2017/05/01/f5e98920-2ea0-11e7-9534-00e4656c22aa_story.html?utm_term=.0995563d3ed7

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