Commentary by Stephen Macaulay
We are still reeling from the consequences of the massive Trump Taxes (a.k.a., tariffs).
Some people are saying that Trump campaigned on tariffs, so why should it be a surprise that he has imposed them?
While that is true, no one thought that they would be calculated in such an obviously ridiculous way.
Still, he said he would. He did. And now we have to deal with the consequences.
But there is something else that he said — repeatedly — during the campaign, something that has life and death consequences.
In 2023 he told Fox News “I will have it”— the war in Ukraine — “solved within one day.”
In a CNN town hall, also in 2023, he said, “They’re dying, Russians and Ukrainians. I want them to stop dying. And I’ll have that done in 24 hours.”
And he repeatedly said on the campaign trail that he would have peace in the region “while I’m still president elect.”
The war still rages.
He has spoken with Putin.
He had that hugely distasteful meeting — distasteful from the point of view that that isn’t how we treat our guests in the United States of America, particularly guests who are the leaders of a democracy that is being attacked relentlessly by a former superpower that, incidentally, has not been an ally of the United States for well over half a century — with Zelenskyy.
It is now some two-and-a-half months since Trump has been elected president.
It is more than 150 days since he was president-elect.
And the war continues.
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On April 5, 2025, the remains of four US soldiers from the 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division who died in a training exercise were returned to the US at Dover Air Force Base.
Their names are:
•Troy Knutson-Collins
•Jose Duenez Jr.
•Edvin Franco
•Dante Taitano
Donald Trump did not attend the ceremony.
Instead, he was at the LIV Golf Miami tournament held at Trump National Doral Miami.
Shameful.
Macaulay is pundit-at-large for The Hustings.