Trump’s Unending Ability to Astonish
The most disorienting thing about the president isn’t that he lies so often but that he so often tells the truth.
“We never had a more beautiful set than this, did we?” said Donald Trump Sunday night, looking very pleased. He was sitting, implausibly, at the feet of Abraham Lincoln—or rather, at the feet of Lincoln’s statue in the Lincoln Memorial—to take questions for a Fox News virtual town hall. The vast marble chamber was spookily lit to highlight Lincoln’s angled, impassive visage and our current president’s sumptuous corona, if you’ll pardon the expression, of tangerine hair.
The first question came from one of the two Fox anchors, Bret Baier, who wondered what the president would say to the opposing
