“MAGA cultists might consider Trump the second coming, but many swing voters hold a more reasonable, if still inaccurate view: Yes, Trump’s a jerk, but he knows how to fix the economy. The reality is that Trump’s both a bigoted creep and a total buffoon who can barely string a coherent sentence together on policy.”

I Agree on one point: Trump’s a jerk, and that’s the least of his problems. I watched the NY Economic Forum question and answers. Trump proved he has no understanding on how trade works. The idea that countries pay the tariffs is laughable on its face. The importers (US companies) pay the tariff and pass it along to the US consumer; it’s a federal sales tax meant to reduce sales of foreign products to protect US companies. Tariffs impede growth, they do not spur growth.

They are also used as leverage against countries that practice unfair trade policies in their own countries (against foreign competition), like China does when it steals US intellectual property. Remember when Trump imposed a 50% tariff on Chinese imports and China retaliated by destroying our $50 billion a year agricultural export industry to China? We are still subsidizing agriculture to the tune of $60 billion a year (second largest bailout in US history), thanks to Trump’s reckless actions against China.

That said, watching the audience clap after Trump delivered his unhinged mixed word salad had to be the epitome of a “Emperor has no clothes” moment. Trump made no sense and sounded like a petulant five year old, whose dog ate his homework. He said so much, while saying nothing; all at the same time. And none of it was true or even remotely accurate or coherent.

I dropped my subscription to the NYT’s because they are a useless news organization that fears losing access to republicans, as it did when covering for Bush during the Run up to the Iraq War. They treat republicans (liars) with deference, while ripping apart democrats for far less.

Bottom line: Good riddance!…:)