50 Moments That Define an Improbable Presidency

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50 Moments That Define an Improbable Presidency

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And to think that we're just barely two years into it....
Jeffrey Goldberg, Editor in chief of [i]The Atlantic[/i] wrote:
In an October 2016 editorial, The Atlantic wrote of Donald Trump: “He is a demagogue, a xenophobe, a sexist, a know-nothing, and a liar.”  We argued that Trump “expresses admiration for authoritarian rulers, and evinces authoritarian tendencies himself.”  Trump, we also noted, “is easily goaded, a poor quality for someone seeking control of America’s nuclear arsenal.  He is an enemy of fact-based discourse; he is ignorant of, and indifferent to, the Constitution; he appears not to read.”

In retrospect, we may be guilty of understatement.
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Click here to see their list of the defining moments.

And a suggestion/warning .... be prepared to spend some time with this article.  It's too important to just rush through it.
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