Mainstream Weeklyby Monaem Sarker
President Donald Trump’s 20 months in office have aged many Americans at least by a multiple of that length of time.
This week two events provided glimpses of White House staffers in panic mode. First, there were news reports about Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward’s new behind-the-scenes book, Fear, which described a nervous breakdown in the Trump Administration as top aides manoeuvred to prevent the President from taking disastrous and impulsive missteps. We also learned that Gary Cohn, one of President Trump’s advisors, lifted a letter off Trump’s desk so that the President wouldn’t act on his worrisome threat to scuttle a trade deal with South Korea.
Then came the jaw-dropping confirmation of Woodward’s point when an anonymous