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We had transgender for everybody, men in women's sports, crime ravaging our cities, and the whole world was laughing at us as a nation. But not anymore. Two years ago, our country was dead. Now, we are the hottest country anywhere in the world.
There is a particular cruelty in a medical report. Unlike a political speech, a budget forecast, or an election manifesto all genres of creative literature to which democratic publics have made a resigned peace a medical report carries with it the residual authority of science. When a doctor speaks, we are conditioned, in some prelinguistic way, to believe them. Which is precisely why what has happened to American presidential medicine under Donald Trump is so arresting. The clinic has been converted into a theatre, the stethoscope swapped for a megaphone, and the diagnosis subordinated entirely to the demands of the narrative.
From "Worst Deal Ever" to Quiet Regret: The Shifting Discourse on Trump's JCPOA Withdrawal
Apologies and using a long spoon
In Trump's universe, American history is divided into two eras: Before Trump and The Golden Age of Trump. George Washington crossed the Delaware so Trump could cross social media. Abraham Lincoln preserved the Union so Trump could preserve his television ratings. The moon landing was merely a rehearsal for the launch of Truth Social.
Centre for Nigeria Progress 