A fading memory
Published 12:18 p.m. today
By Carter Wrenn
When a jobs report showed the economy lagging, he fired the woman who wrote the report. Rolled on.
Calling a press conference in the White House he ordered the National Guard to patrol the streets in Washington, DC to stop crime. The Epstein files sailed away over the horizon. A fading memory.
Tariffs erupted again, Trump announced he’s flying to Alaska to meet Putin. Quashed another eruption.
In the old days when a president landed in a ditch he rolled up his sleeves, went to work to fix the problem. But that took time. And attention spans are short these days. Time’s scarce. And no one grasps that better than Trump.
Blonde hair sweeping across his forehead, nearly eighty but rolling over opponents, he held a press conference at the Kennedy Center, said Sylvester Stallone is the second biggest name on the Hollywood Walk of Fame then grinning added the only bigger name ‘is a guy named Donald Trump.’
That’s politics these days in a nutshell – humility’s also a fading memory.
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Telling stories, in his memoir Carter Wrenn follows The Trail of the Serpent twisting and turning through politics from Reagan to Trump. Order his book from Amazon.
