A reality check on Donald Trump’s ruinous presidency

The U.S. president is not the business whiz saviour of America. He is, in fact, the guy who went bankrupt six times. He is not a paragon of virtue, entitled to judge others. He is a felon convicted of 34 counts of fraud. He is the man who was found guilty in a civil case of sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll.

U.S. President Donald Trump seems unable to get even the little things right, such as renovations to the White House or the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, Michael Harris writes. Photograph courtesy of Molly Riley/The White House

Opinion

BY MICHAEL HARRIS

July 13, 2026

HALIFAX—The 32-member NATO military alliance that recently gathered in Ankara deserves to be congratulated.

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