Watching and Reading

My personal blog was crowded with Trump junk so I am moving them to their own blog. This was originally posted June 26, 2018.

Discussion on The View today included scrutiny of President Trump's reaction to recent events (white supremacists in Charlottesville, hurricane relief in Puerto Rico, the Muslim "travel ban," and separating families crossing the border illegally).  Co-host Joy Behar stated that what these had in common was "fear of the other."

Guest Jon Meacham, author and presidential historian, stated, "What President Trump is is the most vivid manifestation of some of our worst instincts."

Meacham went on to say, "What the President is governing on is … white nostalgia."

He added, "The public figures we remember … are those who reached out in hope, not in fear…. Historically speaking, the presidents we want to emulate, we want to commemorate, are the ones who pointed forward, not at each other."

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I recently finished reading Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff.  It raised a lot of interest when it was released in January.  I believe people thought it would contain a lot of "dirt" about mass confusion in the Trump administration.  It certainly did confirm turmoil, turbulence, and chaos.  But I was left wondering how much of it was true and how much was a "spin" to promote the author's apparent bias. 

 


This is a very brief excerpt from the book: