Trump / Personal History
First, a note: I would like to clarify the intent of my recent essays. As most of you know, I was trained as a lab scientist. When I chose to leave research, I visited my thesis advisor and asked him if I was abandoning my career by leaving science. He wisely...
The past is prologue. What a person does in his private life is usually reflected in what he does in his business life and his public life. I have written before about how Mr. Trump’s distain for giving money to Hospitals, Universities, Cultural Institutions,...
The Anatomy of a Trump Lie All Trump lies begin with a kernel of truth; but when fully formed have mutated into something unrecognizable. Take this quote from the Speech on Tuesday Night: “The Panama Canal was built by Americans for Americans, not for others, but...
Shuffle and Shake. The Trump administration is now pushing a story that his comments about “fine people” in Charlottesville were about those protesting the removal of a stature of R.E. Lee. Let’s look at this a little deeper: Point 1. The comments that were made at...
INTRODUCTION TO VOLUME 1 The Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election in sweeping and systematic fashion. Evidence of Russian government operations began to surface in mid-2016. In June, the Democratic National Committee and its cyber response...
Last week after a video was posted by Mr. Trump with a racist image at the end, Mr. Trump said he condemned the racist portion of the clip. “Of course I do,” he said. And asked later whether the video could hurt Republicans’ standing with Black voters, the president...
I am curious as to the comments that the “election of Donald Trump as President of the US is a Godsend relative to the fate of Judaism with America led by Obama, Biden, or Harris.” How so? You preface that comment with the low birthrate among Jews. Do you think Mr....
I am not trained in understanding people’s motivations. I cannot read their minds or understand how they think. I can only observe patterns and extrapolate future actions from prior ones. We do as we have done. I believe it is possible to correlate Mr. Trump and...
Trump in 2020: “You have good genes. A lot of it is about genes, isn’t it, don’t you believe? The racehorse theory — you think we’re so different? You have good genes in Minnesota.” He believes that intelligence, intellect, ability and success is directly related to...
We love horror movies in the same way we love roller coasters. We love the sense of fear, knowing that in the end everything will work out and the hero will triumph; we will leave the movie or the carny ride safely. I wish that this was truth in the real world, but...
Following the Kansas City Chiefs' victory over the San Francisco 49ers during the Super Bowl, Trump took to Twitter to congratulate the winning team for representing the "Great State of Kansas." The only problem is that the Kansas City Chiefs are based in the state of...