Few days until we have a fruitcake in the White House
BRUCE'S LIST: Countdown to D-Day
A rundown on Donald Trump in the run-up to his inauguration
Bruce’s List: A guide to informed reads. 2017 was bound to start in more or less the same way 2016 ended. Donald Trump got elected US president last November and on Friday this week he gets inaugurated. I know a lot of people in business are pleased about this — and he may even do some good things. But, in my heart, I just know there’s a problem. You know it in yours, too. I have been trying to explain my unease to myself. It isn’t just Trump’s blatant racism and misogyny, or his self-promotion, his threats to neighbouring Mexico or his uncannily close ties to Russian leader Vladimir Putin. No, it’s something a guy called Keith Olbermann told me. Olbermann does a video blog for GQ magazine in the US. It is excellent and very funny, and his piece from January 8 is what helped nail my Trump itch. There is just this one simple thing about Trump that we need to understand: there is something wrong with him. It would take a psychologist or a psychiatrist to tell me exactly what it is, bu...
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