David Shribman, Globe and Mail »
A 100% tariff on foreign films. A view of constitutional guard rails that is lukewarm at best. A declaration that the boundary between the United States and Canada, substantially fixed since 1846, is an “artificial line.” Changing the name of V-E Day. Posting a picture of himself as the pope.
That’s just the last week’s harvest of Trump‘s ideas and initiatives. And the rustling you hear is the sound of Federico Fellini, James Madison, Daniel Webster, Douglas MacArthur and Pope John XXIII turning over in their graves.
In the second Trump administration, the crumbling of established customs and ideas is coming almost with every sunrise. It provides proof that, in the President’s return to the White House, the more things change, the more they continue to change.
