Mass shootings, North Korean aggression, Brexit and a faltering economy are grabbing attention and the president is losing his ability to distract.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP was facing a potentially very bad news cycle, with special counsel Robert Mueller preparing to testify before Congress and a past friend, Jeffrey Epstein, charged with sexually molesting underage girls. So he went on a rant about four minority, female members of Congress, calling on them at rallies and in tweets to “go back” to their countries of origin.
It was a classic Trump move: distract, divert, repeat. When a presidential problem surfaces, the president finds a way to move the problem out of the public eye, relieving pressure on him to solve the actual problem.
View the complete August 9 article by Susan Milligan on The U.S. News and World Report website here.