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This is Trump's birthday message to America — it might be the dumbest thing he's ever said
Trump’s Birthday Party Is a BillPower, Not PortraitureThe source tries to skewer Trump through age and vanity, and that matters only because he is not a private old man. He is the holder of institutional power. The actual story is not that he looks tired; it is that an aging president is still making decisions that shape prices, war, and the physical use of the White House.The source’s basic facts are enough: inflation is up, Iran policy is lurching, and Trump is pushing a White House ballroom and other vanity projects through the machinery of state. That is the center of gravity. The face…
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