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Donald Trump's Parrot

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"Audacious ignorance is hard at work in the White House,  countless small ways that hurt.. A “Foreigners Unwelcome” sign now hangs over Trump’s US. It will not boost American jobs; foreign applications to U.S. colleges have dropped. USA Today reports that “an inhospitable political climate could punch an $18 billion hole in U.S. tourism.  Trump won’t change. At 70 he’s what he was at 40 in crankier & bulkier form. His political formula was already clear: mythical American humiliation calls for muscular American nationalism led by a macho American savior. At night in the ghostly White House, the gold-robed president — crazed as Lear on the cliffs “fantastically dressed with wildflowers” — wanders from room to room staring at TV screens, cursing in frustration when he cannot find the remote, hurling abuse at the “enemies of the people” who fail to genuflect daily before his genius...".

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