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What the President Is Doing For Us
A history of chaos and worse is being written
June 2025 is proving to be a memorable month in the history of the U.S. presidency. Our soon-to-be 79-year-old president is stepping up deportations, federalizing the California National Guard, and presiding over the biggest military parade in recent American history. We also have the spectacle of a New Jersey Congresswoman being indicted for interfering with an ICE operation and, of course, the Trump-Musk feud.
All of this chaos prompted me to write about Trump once again in my weekly Spy Community Media column.
Later this week, if you visit the Talbot Spy website, you can read some of the comments on the piece. You will see that not everyone agrees with me that Trump is a national embarrassment.
The column may be found here and below:
What the President Is Doing For Us
Sometimes, the comments made on editorials are more interesting than the editorials themselves. Take mine, for example. With admirable regularity, I find something negative to say about the…