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The Low Point?

Calvin Trillin

December 24, 2019

Sixteen-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg speaks at the 2019 United Nations Climate Action Summit.(Carlo Allegri / Reuters Pictures)

President Trump on Thursday found time to insult 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg after she was named Time’s Person of the Year, an honor he has coveted for years. The Washington Post

And yet we’re probably due for worse. He hasn’t reached his nadir fully. The bully pulpit’s sad descent Now means we’re left with just the bully.

Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”


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