Trump’s “American Carnage” speech

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-funeral-oration-at-the-death-of-reaganism/2017/01/21/4fc8bef6-dffb-11e6-918c-99ede3c8cafa_story.htmlI have been a consistent Trump critic, but my expectations are never quite low enough.Nobody would mistake him for...

Trump not particularly coherent

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/french-people-translate-donald-trump-us-president-language-speech-a7539461.htmlAn example of why translators struggle with Trump’s word salads:Look, having nuclear—my uncle was a great professor and scientist and...

Trump at the CIA

http://www.npr.org/2017/01/21/510977543/campaign-trail-trump-on-display-as-he-goes-to-cia-on-first-day-as-president On his first full day in the White House, President Trump went to the CIA presumably to try and offer an olive branch to members of the...

George Will, high and inside

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2017/01/20/a-most-dreadful-inaugural-address/?utm_term=.53b073b97473#Oblivious to the moment and the setting, the always remarkable Trump proved that something dystopian can be strangely exhilarating: In what...