Performing for the Don

Performing for the Don

Any Strategy that Doesn't Make Trump Look Weak Is a Losing Strategy

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Hank Willenbrink
Mar 06, 2025
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Democratic women wear pink to protest Donald Trump at speech

I didn’t watch Trump’s State of the Union speech for a couple reasons. First was personal sanity. I can think of a million things that I’d rather to do than watch someone lie and obfuscate in front of me while participating in what feels like an ancient form of bipartisan spectacle. Second was that we all knew how this would go down: Trump would lie. Th…

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