Washington Post columnist George Will thinks President Trump is the worst commander in chief in the nation’s history. He wrote a scathing editorial slamming Trump’s choices and despairing about the future.
Will’s ire seems to have been particularly raised by Trump’s decision to support Roy Moore.
“But curb your enthusiasm because nationally, as in Alabama, most Republicans still support the president who supported the credibly accused child molester,” he wrote.
“After the president’s full-throated support of the grotesque, he should be icily shunned by all but his diehard collaborators.”
Trump tried to work his magic in Alabama; he failed. Moore lost the election and the president was left looking silly. It’s been suggested that Moore’s loss reflects even more badly on Trump than Moore himself.
“By joining Stephen K. Bannon’s buffoonery on Moore’s behalf, the 45th president planted an exclamation point punctuating a year of hitherto unplumbed presidential depths,” Will wrote.
“He completed his remarkably swift — it has taken less than 11 months — rescue of the 17th, Andrew Johnson, from the ignominy of ranking as the nation’s worst president.”
Trump’s alliance with Moore might have more negative consequences than the president was expecting. Moore is accused of sexually abusing little girls. People on both sides of the aisle are revolted by him.
Will blasted Moore in his editorial.
“He is an anti-constitutional recidivist, twice removed from Alabama’s highest court for his theocratic insistence that his religious convictions take precedence over U.S. Supreme Court decisions, so he could not have sincerely sworn to ‘support and defend the Constitution’ and to ‘bear true faith and allegiance to the same,'” he wrote.
( Source: The Hill)