Source: Los Angeles Times
by Jackie Calmes
“For 14 seasons right up to his first run for president, Donald Trump was the star of his own reality shows, ‘The Apprentice’ and then ‘The Celebrity Apprentice.’ The shows stopped, but Trump as president is still creating his own reality. … In the increasingly warped world in which the showrunner president appears to dwell, he inherited messes and created the best economy in history. Trump took a country that was an international laughingstock and made it respected again. He won election three times, he said yet again at Friday’s White House Correspondents Assn. dinner. But the second was rigged against him, so brave ‘patriots’ revolted on Jan. 6, 2021; they were ultimately foiled and then unfairly prosecuted and convicted — only to have super-hero Trump return to dispense clemency and spring the freedom-fighters on his first day back in office. Daily, on matters big and small, the president just makes things up.” (07/30/26)