Back into the Trump vortex America goes, as the president fuels a divisive debate
WASHINGTON - America once again finds itself where it has been so often since the day Donald Trump descended an escalator to a podium at the tower named for him to announce his presidential candidacy: pulled into the vortex of partisanship as a master publicist plays notes of division and dispute.
President Trump's continued stoking of debate over football players kneeling during the national anthem - and the way the subject has dominated public discussion - raised anew the question that surrounds many Trump controversies: Is this part of a plan? Does he believe he gains political advantage from playing off national divisions on topics as fraught as race relations and patriotism? Or does the resulting chaos deliver personal satisfaction to a president who often appears bored with the more humdrum aspects of his post?
Eight months into Trump's presidency, there's no answer.
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