What amazes me is the sheer number of things the record clearly confirms Mr. Trump has done which would have been unthinkable in any other president.
Imagine Obama making himself chair of the appropriate committee and slapping the name “Obama-Kennedy Center” on that building. Or demolishing half the White House for a huge ballroom, undoubtedly ornate and tasteless, at great cost.
Inspectors-General in federal departments, the Federal Reserve Bank, and the Senate Parliamentarian are all independent for important reasons. Congress created inspectors-general to watch administrative departments for corruption, illegality, and waste, and required presidents who fire them to report reasons to Congress. Trump has fired dozens, Obama none. The Fed exists so independent savvy financial people can make the best financial decisions for our nation, rather than whatever is most convenient politically for passing presidents. Imagine Biden pressuring the bank and starting spurious criminal investigations to extort the Bank to act imprudently to reduce inflation before the 2024 election. The neutral Senate Parliamentarian, an impartial internal referee and rules expert, advises the Senate on what’s lawful. That neutral advice is so important to the Senate’s functioning that the posterior-osculating Republican senators have actually resisted Trump’s demand to fire her, when they resist little else.
Imagine Obama appointing Montel Williams as defense secretary because he’d served in the Navy and Marine Corps.
Imagine Joe Biden sending Hunter to negotiate a Middle East peace agreement while Hunter’s capital investment firm was receiving huge investments from Saudi Arabia. Imagine him making Michael Cohen Attorney-General because he liked Cohen’s testimony against Donald Trump.
Forget the numerous people 47 has had our government try [and fail ludicrously] to jail for doing their jobs or speaking up against the Great Leader. Obviously these discourage dissent. They also waste judicial and legal resources, including wasted of precious dollars when we can’t guarantee folks health and Trump threatens to destroy Social Security.
When did Presidential pardons become a personal profit center? Presidents 43, 44, 45, and 46 pardoned 80 to 212 convicted criminals each. Number 47, in one year, has pardoned 1700 – close to 200 individually, usually with a healthy political donation from the convict’s family, PLUS about 1500 in the mass pardon of the nice folks who attacked cops and defaced Congress, threatening to hang the vice-president, for love of Trump.
President Biden didn’t try to jail David Weiss for investigating his son, or appoint as AG Michael Cohen because he liked that lawyer’s testimony about Trump.
And suppose Obama had removed all reference to the Declaration of Independence from a museum honoring a slave-holding signatory? We’d howl, because both his patriotism and his slave-holding are historically important facts. Like each of us, our historical leaders were inherently imperfect and self-contradictory human beings.
Suppose Obama appointed as HHS Secretary a man with no medical training or health management or administrative leadership experience, and watched quietly while measles and other “extinct” diseases reawakened and spread. Almost all Defense Secretaries have deep experience running large defense institutions or national-security bureaucracies. Pete Hegseth has run nothing except his mouth.
Trump-defenders excused his many personal and political bad acts by saying he’d keep our finances in order and avoid unnecessary foreign wars. Polls show few now trust him fiscally, and an unnecessary and inflationary foreign war is spending vast fortunes and Iranian civilian lives to get us back to where we were under the agreement Mr. Obama had negotiated without war.
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[The above column appeared Sunday, 21 June 2026, in the Las Cruces Sun-News and on the newspaper's website and (presently) on KRWG’s website. A shortened and sharpened radio commentary version of this Sunday column will air during the week on KRWG (90.1 FM) and on KTAL-LP (101.5 FM / ]
[Stupidities mount daily. We just spent zillions on paint that’s already cracking from the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool, and we did nothing to solve the algae problem. Hegseth made vaccines optional, for ideological reasons, and scores of real-world U.S. soldiers quickly got sick. Wonder if he’s stupid enough to be surprised?
[And at G7, where allied leaders try to treat him especially nicely, he offends Italy by saying it’s leader “begged for a photo with me.” I mean, like, man, WTF? Well, why, anyway. Any of us would know that would offend. Any of us know it would be a small hindrance to maintaining a military alliance. Any of us know that although there could be sane reasons for our nation to cross allies, bolstering one person’s ego wouldn’t be one. Not for the first time, he is showing us his lack of self-control and his desperate need for praise and glory. Yet again, in a small example this time, we see clearly from his own conduct that bolstering his ego is a higher priority than we are. Yet again, a third of us refuse to see it, or say, but he beefed up border protection.
[To put it another way, will someone tell the Narcissist-in-Chief that people have their pictures taken with clowns, dead fish, and monkeys, too?]
[Trump is far more competent in corruption. He claims he can’t be accused of insider trading because his sons manage the family’s investments. But when it comes to monetizing ties to a U.S. President, Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. leave Hunter Biden deep in the shade.
Along with the family of Steven Witcoff, Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, they started a cryptocurrency company, World Liberty Financial. The oil-rich kingdom of the United Arab Emirates, invested $2 million. Two weeks later, the Emirates struck a deal with the Trump administration — the first of its kind — giving them access to advanced U.S. AI chips. “Watch our dust, Hunter!” ]
[ Meanwhile, Moody’s Analytics estimates that the Iran fiasco has cost U.S. consumers and taxpayers about $132 billion, with the meter still running. That’s a lot of health care, but who’s counting? ]
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