The picture above is from a "Guest Essay" that ran in The New York Times on April 4, 2025. The headline on that "Guest Essay" was as follows (hardcopy version): "The Republican Triumphalism of 2024 Is Fading Fast."
Online, the headline on the "Guest Essay" was a bit more direct, implicitly addressing Republican Party elected officials in both the Senate and the House: "Republicans Better Watch Out." That essay in The Times was authored by a Republican Party pollster, Kristen Soltis Anderson.
I have previously commented on another "Guest Essay" by Kristen Soltis Anderson, in which she speculated that our current president might be "Going Rogue On America." It was my thought that Anderson should really have been using the past tense. Our current president hasn't been in office very long, admittedly, but he has already "gone rogue." The newspapers that hit my front walkway on April 4th document this fact.
April 4th was the day that The Times, and other newspapers, reacted to the president's unilateral imposition of elevated new tariffs on almost every country in the world. The president's unilateral action will raise prices on almost everything, and the tariffs immediately caused a major drop in the stock market that affected not only businesses, but millions of individuals throughout the nation. Many economists are now predicting a nationwide recession. To me, that was a pretty good example of a president who has, quite clearly, "gone rogue." Mr. Trump, apparently, has so little empathy for, or understanding of, other people that he truly believes that he was elected to do whatever he thinks best, regardless of the impacts his actions might have on others.
Trump's tariff actions, although ill-considered in the extreme, weren't actually the clearest example from the newspapers on April 4th of just how far "rogue" our current president has gone.
Here is an excerpt from another April 4, 2025, Times' article that illuminates the distance that Mr. Trump has departed from reality, and from any concern for anyone else:
Trump Denies Car Exhaust Contaminates Environment
Reporting from WashingtonPresident Trump announced on Monday that he planned to relax limits on pollution from cars, saying that the move wouldn’t “mean a damn bit of difference to the environment.”
But decades of science show that the pollution from automobile tailpipes has harmed the environment and public health, from the days when leaded gasoline sent neurotoxins into the air and soil to the carbon dioxide emissions that are heating the planet right now.
Transportation is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States.
It accounts for about a third of all U.S. emissions contributing to climate change, which is leading to more frequent and intense extreme weather like deadly heat waves, droughts, floods, and storms....
The nation made a huge mistake in electing Donald J. Trump to the presidency, and the only immediate way for us to insulate ourselves from the consequences of having elected a rogue president is for us to start making our elected representatives in the Congress, both Republicans and Democrats, begin actually representing us, the people of the United States of America.
Anyone who claims that "I, alone, can fix it," as our current president has, is demonstrating delusions of grandeur, and infallibility, that are immensely dangerous to the rest of us (and, actually, to the world at large). No one can properly claim such powers. People on the streets of my hometown, who sometimes make similar, delusional claims about their own powers, are promptly escorted to the nearest mental health facility (at least, that is what is supposed to happen).
Remembering a phrase from the past, a phrase that seems all too applicable, today: "Houston [and the rest of America], we have a problem." We do have a problem. We have a "rogue" president in the Oval Office.
Today, April 5th, is a nationwide day of mobilization. It's time to rein in the rogue!
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