The Obama Obsession: Why Trump’s "Peace" Record Is a Dangerous Sham Let us cut through the rally chants, the internet memes, and the cable news talking points. Let us talk about cold, hard facts, common sense, and the rule of law. For years now, Donald Trump has aired a constant, bitter grievance: that he was robbed of a Nobel Peace Prize, and that Barack Obama was handed one for "doing nothing." To hear his loyalists tell it, Trump is the greatest anti-interventionist dealmaker in modern history, while the global establishment conspired to keep him from getting his due. It is a neat sales pitch. But when you look at the scoreboard, the "peace president" myth completely implodes. Trump’s diplomatic approach was not peacemaking—it was a volatile mix of personal vanity, unilateral violence, and blatant disregard for international law. From outside-international-law drone strikes blowing up boats in our own hemisphere, to dismantling nuclear guardrai...
He Has Really Cost Us We all want America to win. We want solid jobs, wages that actually keep up with groceries, and towns that aren’t hollowed out while Wall Street throws a party. If you listen to Donald Trump, he fixed it all overnight. The story goes: our country was completely in the toilet; he stepped in, waved a magic wand, and built the "greatest economy in the history of the world." He will tell you that he was the only one who could do this. It’s a great story, but is it true? If a mechanic tells you your truck is good as new when he just slapped fresh paint over a cracked engine block, you aren’t doing yourself any favors by believing him. At some point, you must stop listening to the stories and look at the receipts. Not the cable news spin, not the campaign rallies, just the cold, hard numbers from our own government. Here are just four examples of what really went down. Myth 1: "I Built the Whole Economy from Scrat...