The Nobel for Trump? Why not the Booker Prize for fiction instead?

Other governments have chosen to address the facts rather than pursue the fictional interpretations of a president whose overriding motive is to present himself in only a positive light.

Americans need to ask themselves why, with almost two months lead time and international examples, and with much vaunted American health care, they find themselves today with one-third of the world’s recorded cases of the coronavirus, and one-quarter of the world’s deaths from the virus and still rising. White House photograph by Andrea Hanks

Opinion

BY JOSEPH INGRAM

May 6, 2020

The recent roller coaster of American stock market performance, with a precipitous increase in market values coming during the same week as more than 30 million had Americans filed for unemployment, has starkly revealed the fiction of President Donald Trump and his congressional cheerleader’s cont...

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