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Trump's abysmal joke nicknames flagged as sign he's losing marbles: 'Time to hang it up'
The Point Is Not That Trump Is Clumsy. It Is That He Holds the Levers Anyway.Source ContextA cable-news segment turned Trump’s latest public mess into a diagnosis of decline: bad judgment at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, bad nicknames, and a broader claim that he no longer has the capacity or concern to govern. That is the setup. It is also a dodge.Power Has a NameThe person with actual institutional power is Donald Trump. He is not a commentator, not a surrogate, not a bystander to his own administration. He is the president. That means the failures described here are not random…
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