July 12, 2018
Donald Trump: American Matador
This is the season of the running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, at the Sanfermines festival, when hundreds of foolhardy youngsters run through the street, as has been the custom for 700 years, defying the animals intent on goring and trampling them. In 2017, thousands engaged in this diversion, and 64 were injured, in the event that Ernest Hemingway in his 1926 book The Sun Also Rises called a battlefield with brave heroes in the equivalent bullring.
The political international bullring is now the arena for President Donald Trump to display diplomatic skill if not comparable bravado in running or being chased or being gored by NATO members through the streets of Brussels in July 11-12, 2018, sipping tea with Queen Elizabeth at Windsor on July 15 and discussing with Prime Minister Theresa May and perhaps his "friend" Boris Johnson the turmoil in British politics, and going to Helsinski, Finland, on July 16 to meet with Russian...(Read Full Article)