Will Trump Achieve a Golden Age?
On Tuesday, Peter went live with analysis of this week’s major events. Most notably, he comments on Joe Biden’s controversial final acts as president and on Trump’s return to the Oval Office. He also analyzes the prospects for Trump’s second term and bashes the newly-inaugurated president for promoting a new cryptocurrency bearing his name.
Peter slams Biden’s mass pardons, which constitute a blatant abuse of presidential powers:
The problematic aspect of these pardons is people are not being pardoned of a crime that they’ve been convicted of, or even a crime that they’ve been charged with. People are being pardoned who have never been charged with anything. Basically what Biden is saying is if any of these individuals did anything wrong at any point over the last 11 years, I pardon them for whatever they might have done that I don’t even know that they did, that somebody might discover that they did, which I think is a real abuse of the whole system of a pardon to just preemptively pardon people.
Not to be outdone in the controversy department, Peter explained why he considers Trump’s creation of a “meme coin” both unseemly and unwise:
But it’s not just former President Biden, I think, that was acting inappropriately in the days leading up to the inauguration. Donald Trump also, I think, was very inappropriate in the launching of his meme coin, the Trump coin, which came out on Friday evening. And just as inappropriate, the Melania coin, which I thin
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