Donald Trump held a big cabinet meeting on Tuesday. It was a chance to turn the page on criticism over his pardoning of a convicted cocaine trafficker and his government’s indiscriminate blasting of alleged “drug boats” in the Caribbean. An opportunity to project competence.
The president did not take that opportunity. During the two-hour meeting Trump instead talked about “fourth world war countries” (I think this was something to do with the border, but even rereading the transcript it is hard to be sure), seemingly confused a test designed to detect dementia with an IQ test, and declared Somali immigrants to be “garbage”.
