We couldn’t bring ourselves to watch the speech live, but I caught it on YouTube, and it was everything I feared it would be. Reading from a TelePrompTer in his usual weird monotone, he boasted about his mostly nonexistent accomplishments, minimized the problems, took gratuitous shots at the EU, and misstated parts of his own travel ban. The markets are going to respond accordingly.
The fact is that Trump would be happy to see a million American deaths if they were all Democrats. Unfortunately for him, most of them will be his elderly supporters.
I was depressed, but never scared, after 9/11. Today, I’m both.