Bright shiny objects

I think it was David Brooks who first remarked that Donald Trump remains distracted by bright shiny objects. It is becoming clear that he is not the only one. The electronic press media appears similarly distracted. Today they are all about Twitter, pun intended, by Donald Trump's continuing claim that three to 5,000,000 illegal votes were cast in the presidential election. They can't say enough about it. They endlessly speculate about why he is doing it and what it indicates about him. We know why he is doing it. He is a thin-skinned egomaniac with a total disregard for fact.

Enough. It is totally unimportant. Get back to work. Ask him questions about his trade and foreign-policy. How is he going to tax or use trade tariffs in the case of supply lines, and companies like Apple who do not build plants in China but use Chinese plants to assemble their products? Does he think anti-dumping regulation is sufficient to protect American manufacturers? How is he going to bring back the coal industry? Doesn't building oil and gas pipelines conflict with that? What about basic erosion and profit shifting?

What about foreign-policy. What is his overall strategy in the Middle East? Will he side with Russia and Syria against all rebels? How does he intend to deal with turkey, an ally that is drifting away?

Having backed out of the TPT, what is his far east strategy? And for god sakes, China.

Quit being distracted by bright shiny objects. Ask these questions and other actually important ones relentlessly until you get an answer. You are looking like fools.