So Trump Can’t Keep His Mouth Shut. So What?

I have just finished reading the 700-page book, The Divider, by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser, which is a day-to-day, if not minute-to-minute account of how the Trump Administration functioned, or better yet didn’t function from 2017 through 2021.

On the one hand, the book can be read as a chronicle of how a dysfunctional Presidential Administration somehow muddled through four years. On the other hand, the text can be seen as a warning about what would be in store for us if Trump gets back into the Over Office in 2025

Either way, Baker-Glasser make it clear that they found Trump uniquely unsuited to be the CEO of the world’s largest corporation, largely due to his inability to either understand any of the issues which created the daily governing agenda or having the temperament to deal with anyone who didn’t necessarily share his views of what needed to be done.

That being said, I’m going to make an argument which won’t necessarily find any favor with my liberal friends, but as Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter once said, “history also has its claims,” and I do not believe that the history of Trump’s Presidency as presented by Baker-Glasser does Trump the justice that he deserves.

First and foremost, I didn’t find a single issue presented in this book which was either new or different…