America First—We Hardly Knew Ye

The Donald called Fed Chairman Powell a “numbskull” earlier this week and deservedly so. But to paraphrase an old adage, when the cap fits said numbskull howlers tend to wear it themselves.

Surely, that’s where we are this morning upon Israel’s reprehensible attack on Iran’s civilian nuclear facilities and decapitation of its military and scientific leadership. Self-evidently, the attack was well known to Trump and tacitly greenlighted by him during the course of several conversations this past week with Netanyahu himself.