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Trump’s Trash Talk Revives the Worst of World Politics
No, he won’t invade Panama, seize Greenland, or annex Canada. But he will drop principle for power and carve up the globe into spheres of influence.
Trashtalker-in-Chief
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Donald Trump, just weeks from returning to the Oval Office, wants friend and foe to know that he’s wrestled with an alligator, tussled with a whale, murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalized a brick — because he’s so mean he makes medicine sick.
Oh wait, that was Muhammad Ali, in the heyday of his boxing and epic trash-talking before bouts. Trump — especially in the run-up to his inauguration — is clearly challenging The Greatest for his title of GOAT in smack talk, chirping, jawing, or whatever you call it.