Courtesy of Pam Martens.
Donald Trump
Confidence in America can impact the strength of the U.S. dollar, the willingness of foreigners to invest their capital here in our markets and real estate, and our diplomatic relations with other nations.
With each passing day of his candidacy, Donald Trump drags his country – the one he claims to want to make great again – deeper into the embarrassing caricature of a land where billionaires are unfettered to run wild with both their money and their mouths.
For example, it’s not every day that a major U.S. ally is set to debate whether it will ban a U.S. Presidential candidate from entering their country. That ignominious milestone now goes to Donald Trump, courtesy of the United Kingdom. According to a report out this morning from the BBC, following more than 500,000 people signing a Parliamentary e-petition, a Parliamentary committee will decide next week whether to open debate on banning Trump from the U.K. over his recommendation to ban Muslims from entering the U.S.
Trump’s vitriolic attacks have led the Los Angeles Times to publish an article calling for “white people” to “take responsibility for Donald Trump.” Writing for the Washington Post in August, conservative columnist George Will said that Trump is an “unprecedentedly and incorrigibly vulgar presidential candidate,” adding that his “squalid performance and its coarsening of civic life are costs of freedom that an open society must be prepared to pay.”
Just how big that price tag will be to the reputation of the United States by the time Trump leaves the campaign trail is hard to calculate at this point. The danger to America’s standing among nations that demand civil discourse from its political leaders is that Trump finds it increasingly necessary to feed red meat to his fan base to keep them on board and turning out for his gladiator-like rallies.
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