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The Mouth In The Oval Office: One Year Down

December 31st, 2017 | General, Politics, social media, Time Passes

The news media—certainly the “fake news” media from which I get most of my information—are weighty with analysis this morning, the Sunday morning of New Year’s Eve 2017. Trump has been president of the United States of America for just under twelve months. On every...

The Mouth In The Oval Office: Boss Tweet

July 5th, 2017 | Friends, General, Politics, social media, Society at Large

As I write this, Donald John Trump has been President of the United States for 161 days—not quite 24 weeks. He has been, as he tweets it, “modern-day presidential.” I can’t even begin to parse that; obviously such presidential qualities as dignity, humanity and...

The Mouth That Would Be President: It Has Been Elected President and I Am Sick

November 9th, 2016 | General, Politics, Popular Culture, social media, Society at Large

When I went to bed, North Carolina had already fallen and I knew the nightmare was about to descend. When I awoke, I watched the numbers on my clock flip toward 6:15 when the radio would click on with the news on WYPR. And it did. And three or four words in, I heard...

The Mouth That Would Be President: Endgame

July 5th, 2016 | Friends, General, Politics, social media

It is July and Cleveland is battening down the hatches in anticipation of Tornado Trump. The Drumpf has been sitting pretty as “presumptive nominee” since early May and Ted Cruz’s disappearance after the Indiana primary. Hillary could not rest easy, as it were, until...

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