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Trump is sleeping in public and possibly on experimental drugs—but the media is silent
The President Who Can Skip the Work and Still Own the CreditThe Ceremony Was TheaterThe source story centers on a housing bill that would become law with or without Donald Trump’s signature, and on his decision to skip the ceremony anyway. That matters because the ceremony was not governance. It was credit assignment. Trump was supposed to stand in front of a bipartisan bill and harvest the optics while doing nothing to change the outcome.That is the first clue to the political structure here: the institutional work was already done by Congress, while Trump was invited to launder it through…
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