Trump's fantasy pursuit of 'hotness' is killing Americans
By Carlos Lozada / The New York Times
Just days before a winter storm overwhelmed much of the United States with snow and ice, President Donald Trump addressed the World Economic Forum in Switzerland and declared that America was “the hottest country anywhere in the world.”
The hottest. It’s an adjective Trump likes to use, whatever the weather. Nearly 40 years ago, when he published “The Art of the Deal,” he described his efforts to promote Trump Tower in Manhattan. “We positioned ourselves as the only place for a certain kind of very wealthy person to live — the hottest ticket in town. We were selling fantasy.”
Yes, hotness is a fantasy and, decades later, Trump is still selling it. The American economy, for example, is “booming” and “exploding” and “surging” and “soaring” its way to the “fastest and most dramatic economic turnaround in our country’s history,” as he put it in Davos last week. In fact, the economy remains much like the one he inherited from the Biden administration, with low unemployment but persistent concerns over affordability.
Trump continues to sell the fantasy that he settled eight wars, that he has brought down prescription drug prices by mathematically impossible proportions and, of course, that he won the 2020 election, with the president now pledging to prosecute people for the imaginary crime of rigging it.
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