Trump's inferno of hate is intensifying

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14. NYT editorial by a republican provides satisfying condemnation. And as usual the comments

are astute and creative....I recommend reading many.

Like the article in OP, blunt assessment of TSF is welcome and about damn time. Our Petty, Hollow, Squalid Ogre in Chief:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/opinion/trump-reiner-death-post-truth-social.html

Though I tend to think it’s usually a waste of space to devote a column to President Trump’s personality — what more is there to say about the character of this petty, hollow, squalid, overstuffed man? — sometimes the point bears stressing: We are led by the most loathsome human being ever to occupy the White House.

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Right now, in every grotesque social media post; in every cabinet meeting devoted, North Korea-like, to adulating him; in every executive-order-signing ceremony intended to make him appear like a Chinese emperor; in every fawning reference to all the peace he’s supposedly brought the world; in every Neronic enlargement of the White House’s East Wing; in every classless dig at his predecessor; in every shady deal his family is striking to enrich itself; in every White House gathering of tech billionaires paying him court (in the literal senses of both “pay” and “court”); in every visiting foreign leader who learns to abase himself to avoid some capricious tariff or other punishment — in all this and more, our standards as a nation are being debased, our manners barbarized.