The Biggest Question About Trump’s Glorious ‘Golden Age’
In his Mar-a-Lago speech announcing his candidacy for president, Donald Trump raised a difficult question that highlights a contradiction at the very core of his campaign.
If his achievements as president truly brought about the golden age of glorious greatness he so lovingly described in his address, how could the public have possibly voted him out of office?
“Together, we built the greatest economy in the history of the world,” the candidate declared in his speech. He insisted that by October 2020, “America was roaring back with the number-one fastest economic recovery ever recorded”; “Inflation was nonexistent”; “We built the wall”; “I rebuilt our entire military” and “I’ve gone decades, decades without a war, the first president to do it….Click here to read the full column at Newsweek.com.