Trump’s short-sightedness laid bare as he mindlessly jumps from one preposterous decision to the next

Trump’s short-sightedness laid bare as he mindlessly jumps from one preposterous decision to the next: There’s an old joke about how Richard Nixon was the kind of politician who’d cut down an endangered giant redwood, then climb on the stump and make a speech about conservation.

Fast forward to 2020 and Donald Trump, who with every breath plunges Nixonian hypocrisy to heretofore unimagined depths: