As the White House boasted about President Trump’s latest golfing victory, there were viral videos of him appearing to cheat twice. Both showed his caddies dropping a ball for him. In one , he was moving the ball around on the green — all against the rules.
Trump’s golf cheating — long an open secret — wouldn’t matter much to anyone but his playing partners if it didn’t illustrate a critical character flaw in him that’s bad for the country in many ways.
It was on display again when Trump fired the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics over a jobs report that belied his glowing propaganda. Who will want to speak truth to him now? And why should the American people believe it when Trump announces good economic news?
The worst example of his psyche was in January 2021, whe