Trump Sinks Where Reagan Soared
Donald Trump, the retired game-show host who serves, incredibly enough, as president of these United States, addressed the General Assembly of the United Nations recently, and, of course, he gave a second-rate rally speech that was moronic and superficial and dishonest in all the ways Trump customarily is moronic and superficial and dishonest. Dog bites man, if toothlessly. The ladies and gentlemen of the United Nations, for their part, did what they do best, i.e, approximately nothing, although they did apparently undertake several separate inspections of the escalator Trump would use, hoping to avoid repeating last year’s fiasco in which a malfunction had the president fuming about being “victimized” by sabotage at the international body. This time around, the stalled equipment was Trump’s inferior (very) frontal gyrus , specifically the bit known as Broca’s area, which is the part of the brain responsible for accessing vocabulary w...