Trump's first week
By DANIEL DALE
Washington Bureau
Sun., Jan. 29, 2017
... The first polls of his tenure reflect what is shaping up to be a historically divisive early presidency. In one of them, by Quinnipiac University in Connecticut, Trump had an 81-per-cent approval rating among Republicans and a 4-per-cent approval rating among Democrats ...
... This is the presidency as 24-hour reality show, a spectacle that insists on being watched even when you know you should just go for a soothing walk, and there is simply too much happening for the media to communicate ...
Breitbart, the formerly fringe-right website led until last year by Trump’s chief strategist Steve Bannon, has a page devoted to “black crime.” Now the White House is planning to have a page devoted to the crimes of largely Hispanic undocumented people. This is an administration less interested in unity than in the grievances of its base ...
America elected a man who came to political prominence promoting an obvious lie about Obama. Unsurprisingly, his administration began with a deluge of obvious lies. America elected a man who believes the fact of global warming is a hoax invented by China. Unsurprisingly, his administration has moved immediately to muzzle environmental scientists, refusing to let them release even routine data to the public without Trump appointees reviewing it first ...
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