America on Its Back: The Total Collapse of Trump's Global Clout
Trump’s failures, lies, grift, greed, and narcissism, have at last drained the good will and respect that generations of Americans worked to build around the world. Our president is now openly mocked on the world stage, and our nation is humiliated. America isn’t back; it’s on its back, and Donald Trump and his Republican Party are to blame.
Jimmy Carter was a good man, a president who loved America, and a leader who paid attention to detail. That didn’t prevent Iranian revolutionaries from overrunning the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and taking 66 Americans hostage. Months of negotiations failed to bring those hostages home. Then Iraq invaded Iran, changing the calculus of the new Iranian government, and the Iranians began to negotiate in earnest. Those negotiations succeeded — the hostages came home on day Jimmy Carter left office. Throughout that terrible and deeply stressful time, the Strait of Hormuz was never closed.
Still, Ronald Reagan used the crisis to paint Carter as weak and ineffective.
Well, as Reagan would say, “There you go again.” Donald Trump is utterly spent, desperately weak, and entirely ineffective. Trump launched a war without the approval of Congress and without explanation to the American people. That didn’t make him strong. It left him exposed. Now at least 18 Americans are dead and zero of Trump’s many and shifting war objectives have been achieved. Nevertheless, Trump announced a peace deal. And now he’s announced that deal, too, is dead.
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