US President Donald Trump has lashed former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull in a late-night social media post as he prepares to decide whether to exempt Australia from tariffs on steel and aluminium imports.
Trump was scathing of Turnbull on his Truth Social, a social media platform owned by the president, on Sunday evening
The historian Stephen Kotkin analyzes what a President who governs in the style of professional wrestling gets wrong—and right—about an unstable world.
How unpopular is Trump? Silver Bulletin approval ratings for President Trump — and all presidents since Truman. “We’ve just launched this landing page, where we’ll update President Trump’s approval ratings several times per week. Sometimes, you’ll find a quick note here analyzing the latest trends.
And sometimes, approval ratings can be pretty boring, so we won’t have much to say. As of launch, Trump is more popular than at a comparable point in his first term, but on something of a downslope, at a 48 percent approval rating and an equal 48 percent disapproval rating.
There’s a lot that’s happened recently that may not yet be reflected in the numbers, like Trump’s address to Congress on Tuesday, his contentious meeting with Ukrainian president Zelenskyy, and volatility in the stock market associated with on-again, off-again tariff threats.
So watch this space: this may be a first test of whether Trump has as high a floor — and as low a ceiling — as he did last time around.”
Empathy is dead, apparently. It’s dangerous, toxic, sinfuland, I guess, uncool.
When Elon Musk told Joe Rogan this week that “the fundamental weakness of Western civilisation is empathy”, he was not just outlining his approach to government “efficiency” in slashing foreign aid programs and his dislike of social security, nor his own lack of empathy as detailed by his biographer Walter Isaacson. He was aligning himself with a burgeoning hard-right movement that insists people must steel their hearts against stories of pain or loss or suffering for fear of being manipulated.
