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From the moment the first scribe etched a paean of praise to Nebuchadnezzar into a stone tablet, it's reasonable to conclude that never in history has the media covered a single human being as it has Donald Trump.
For more than a year now, unless a terror attack roiled American life, he's been the news cycle, essentially the only one, morning, noon, and night, day after day, week after week, month after month. His every word, phrase, move, insult, passing comment, off-the-cuff remark, claim, boast, brazen lie, shout, or shout-out has been ours as well. In this period, he's praised his
secret plan to destroy ISIS and
take Iraqi oil. He's
thumped that "big, fat, beautiful wall" again and again. He's
birthered a campaign that could indeed transport him, improbably enough, into the Oval Office. He's fought it out with 17 political rivals, among others, including "lyin' Ted," "low-energy Jeb," Carly ("
Look at that face! Would anyone vote for that?") Fiorini, "crooked Hillary," a Miss Universe ("
Miss Piggy"), the "
highly overrated" Megyn Kelly's menstrual cycle ("You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever"),
always Rosie O'Donnell ("a slob [with] a fat, ugly face"), and so many others. He's made
veiled assassination threats;
lauded the desire to punch someone in the face; talked about
shooting "somebody" in "the middle of Fifth Avenue"; defended the size of his hands and his
you-know-what; retweeted
neo-Nazis and a quote from
Mussolini; denounced the outsourcing of American manufacturing jobs and products while
outsourcing his own jobs and products; excoriated immigrants and foreign labor while
hiring the
same; advertised the Trump brand in every way imaginable; had a
bromance with Vladimir Putin;
threatened to let nuclear weapons proliferate; complained bitterly about a
rigged election,
rigged debates, a
rigged moderator, and a
rigged microphone; swore that he and he alone was capable of again making America, and so the world, a place of the sort of greatness only he himself could match, and that's just to begin a list on the subject of The Donald.
Comment: The US rethinking its stance? Categorically, US thinks verrrrry slowwwly until the furor passes and then it is 'business' as usual. Since November 2013 Iran deal was struck, the US has reaped $35.7B in arms sales to S.A., plus $4.7B in sales to UAE. The Yemeni war is a cash cow for the US.