The Trump nightmare hits full stride

Unfortunately, Donald Trump may only be getting rolling as he bets his anger-based, divisive election blitz can overcome his historically low popularity ratings come November 2020.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest screed against a group of Democratic congresswomen isn’t surprising when he has a long record of racist troublemaking, most notably his trademark argument that former president Barack Obama was not born in the U.S. and therefore ineligible to be president, writes Les Whittington. Flickr photograph by Gage Skidmore

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

July 24, 2019

OTTAWA—The thing about Watergate was that Richard Nixon resigned. With impeachment by the U.S. Congress over Watergate looming in 1974, Nixon stepped down—becoming the first president to do so. Would Donald Trump quit the White House if lawmakers were moving to impeach him? There’s every re...

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