Around noon yesterday, the NYT ran a headline saying that Trump and Hegseth would make a big announcement in Florida in the next few hours. I assumed it involved an attack on Venezuela. As it turned out, the administration is going to build a new class of “battleship” (battleships are sitting ducks, so we don’t build them anymore) to be named after Trump. Crisis averted, at least for now.
This episode reminded me, however, that the very first task of the next Democratic president should be to sign an executive order removing Trump’s name from everything (and I mean everything) he puts it on during his second term.
In case you were wondering, getting rid of all of that gold is Job 2.