Brooke Sample, Columnist

Donald Trump Had a Terrible Week: Weekend Edition

Here are Bloomberg Opinion’s top stories this week.

December 29, 2018 at 1:00 PM UTC

Brooke Sample is an editor for Bloomberg Opinion and member of the editorial board. She was previously an editor at Metal Bulletin, Bauer Media Group and the Virginian-Pilot.

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There are many reasons to be optimistic about 2019. The increasingly isolated man in the Oval Office is not one of them.

With the first two years of Donald Trump’s presidency drawing to a close, the past week all too perfectly exemplified its destructive effect on competent government in Washington — and it should give all Americans, in all parties, cause for concern.