TRUMP | U.S. TRUMP, AMERICA'S BOY KING: GOLF AND TELEVISION WON'T MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN
President Donald Trump waits to greet Denmark's Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen outside the West Wing of the White House before a meeting on March 30 in Washington, DC. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/GETTY The week that began on August 8, 2011, found President Barack Obama in the midst of what The New York Times would call “the most dismal stretch of his presidency.” Days before, Congress had finally managed to strike a deal on raising the debt ceiling, thus averting a disastrous default on the national debt. But the process had been long and hideous, like an ugly domestic argument waged in front of the neighbors. On the 5th, a Friday, Standard & Poor’s had handed the United States its first ever credit-rating downgrade, citing a lack of “predictability of American policymaking and political institutions.” Obama tried to calm the nation with a Monday afternoon speech in which he declared the nation’s economic woes were “eminently solvable.” The financial markets disa...
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