Source: Orange County Register
by Rafael Perez
“It is abundantly clear that President Donald Trump likes to put people of questionable intelligence and expertise in charge (as demonstrated recently by the Signal chat leak), in part because of the loyalty they appear to demonstrate. A leader like Trump can take a worse step still and choose to actually listen to such people – unfortunately their advice is either a product of some fantasy world or tailored to please the ears of the president. … We can now think of our country as an individual that does not listen to the experts, but only to the fringe – by doing so we can appreciate that Trump’s reliance on people like [Peter] Navarro only increases the likelihood of catastrophe.” (04/14/25)