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Calvin Trillin

June 30, 2020

President Donald Trump hosts a roundtable discussion with law enforcement officials at the White House on June 8, 2020.(Saul Loeb / AFP via Getty Images)

With SCOTUS rulings seen as Trump defeats, Trump answered with a burst of angry tweets. At West Point, he prepared to look like Caesar. Instead his ramp walk showed a fragile geezer. His rage at that will probably never stop. And then his Tulsa rally was a flop. By then the tell-all book released by Bolton Had stoked this anger—hot now, nearly molten. Red-faced with rage? That judgment can’t be made, Since orange close to red’s his normal shade.

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


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