THE ONLY SURPRISING aspect to President Donald Trump’s racially charged tirade this week is that some seemed surprised by it.
“Yet again this president finds a new low,” said Sen. Tina Smith of Minnesota, a home state colleague to Rep. Ilhan Omar, the prime target of Trump’s invective.
But for a president who has shattered nearly every conventional rule of politics and endured a cascade of uproars – from his birther campaign to insulting a national war hero to the “Access Hollywood” tape to the two-year wide-reaching investigation into his curious relationship with Russia – Trump has been taught that survival requires brazen, line-crossing, double-fisted pugilism.
View the complete July 19 article by David Catanese on The U.S. News and World Report website here.