Source: The Bulwark
by Will Saletan
“Donald Trump likes to pretend that his victims secretly love the way he treats them. He does this in foreign policy (claiming that Greenland and Canada want him to annex them), in elections (imagining that voters in blue states prefer him), and in his serial abuse of women. Now he’s doing the same thing as he sends troops into American cities. Mayors and governors are saying no to these invasions. But Trump insists that residents are saying yes. Once again, Trump is faking consent. People in these cities don’t support his deployments. Nor do Americans generally. And in honest moments, he has admitted that he never got our approval.” (10/22/25)