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The great performance of America's failing president

President Trump's ratings are the lowest of any modern president at this point in a first term

Donald Trump, US President, Qatar Crisis
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US President Donald Trump said the action was proof that his meeting with Persian Gulf Arab leaders in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia was ‘already paying off’

Geoffrey Kabaservice | NYT
On the morning of the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing with James Comey, the former director of the FBI, a number of bars here opened early to allow political groupies to celebrate or drown their sorrows while watching the proceedings live.

I’m afraid that I let this experience pass me by. I had to work, and besides, I didn’t think the hearing would do anything to change President Trump’s behaviour or his base’s indulgence of it.

It’s true that President Trump’s ratings are the lowest of any modern president at this point in a first term, which has hamstrung