The following article by Philip Rucker and Ashley Parker was posted on the Washington Post website November 29, 2017:
President Trump on Nov. 29 delivered a speech in St. Charles, Mo., about the GOP tax plan. He also spoke about Kim Jong Un, Hillary Clinton and Christmas. (Bastien Inzaurralde/The Washington Post)
President Trump this week disseminated on social media three inflammatory and unverified anti-Muslim videos, took glee in the firing of a news anchor for sexual harassment allegations despite facing more than a dozen of his own accusers and used a ceremony honoring Navajo war heroes to malign a senator with a derogatory nickname, “Pocahontas.”
Again and again, Trump veered far past the guardrails of presidential behavior. But despite the now-routine condemnations, the president is acting emboldened, as if he were impervious to the uproar he causes. Continue reading “Trump veers past guardrails, feeling impervious to the uproar he causes”