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Mike Pompeo Implies That a Reporter Who Pressed Him Can’t Locate Ukraine on the Map

Calvin Trillin

February 4, 2020

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at a news conference in Washington to announce that the US is pulling out of the INF treaty.(AP Photo / Andrew Harnik)

Mike’s insulting, of course, and quite childish at that. But this might not be labeled a loss If you think of the blunders abroad we’d avoid By imposing such tests on his boss.

Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”


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