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Samantha Bee Backs the Bus Over Paul Ryan: "Portrait in Courage"

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam2/17/2017 1:05:53 am PST

The Economist is clearly disappointed in the Trump administration.

The axing of Michael Flynn reveals deep problems in Donald Trump’s government

It’s a long piece, overly polite, IMO. Here’s the concluding paragraph.

There is still time for Mr Trump to salvage his administration. But this will involve him not only changing tack on issues, as he often has in the past, but expanding his view of the government and reforming his belligerent and highly personalised style of leadership. The qualities that made him a successful property developer are not translating well to running the government. But Mr Trump shows no sign of recognising this. He does not even appear to recognise the shambles his government is in. Appearing alongside Israel’s prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, on February 15th (see article), he blamed Mr Flynn’s fall on the journalists who had reported his misdemeanours: “He’s been treated very, very unfairly by the media—as I call it, the fake media.”