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Publisher’s Note

The Trump Travesty Trudges On, Sadly

To a real estate developer, every patch of land looks His obsession with deal-making extends beyond
like an opportunity for a beachfront hotel, a glitzy land to trade itself. On his inauguration, Trump
casino or a luxury resort. Donald Trump embodies announced a series of tariffs targeting China,
this mindset—his name adorns many lavish Mexico and Canada—central planks of his
Trump Towers worldwide, four of them in India. campaign, sold to Americans as a bold reassertion
He will license anything—golf clubs, sportswear, of economic control. “Instead of taxing our citizens
even a meme coin—so long as someone is willing to to enrich foreign nations,” he declared, “we will tax
pay for it. foreign nations to enrich our citizens.” The reality?
Now, he proposes something even more bizarre American companies importing goods must bear
(and worrying): a grandiose vision to transform the brunt of these tariffs, passing the costs on to
Gaza into a riviera. In other words, he wants consumers. Retaliatory tariffs meant that American
Palestinians to be driven from their homeland so exports will suffer, and in the end, passing on to
that their suffering can be repackaged as prime ordinary Americans to pay more for everything.
real estate. If this isn’t ethnic cleansing, then what Trump’s flaws are difficult to miss. He turns his
is? The sheer scale of horror required to make this artless incompetence into an art form, and his
happen is left conveniently vague. His words are defects are almost fractal—his flaws have flaws of
not only deranged but incoherent—because if Gaza their own. If Frankenstein had set out to construct a
is ‘cleared’ by any means, it erases even the last monster made entirely of human shortcomings, he
pretext of a Palestinian state. The real question is: would have built a Trump.
does the President of the United States grasp the
full implications of his utterances? Or is this just
Trump the property tycoon, surveying a prime Vickram Sethi
stretch of coastline? Publisher and Editor-in-Chief

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