President Donald Trump. Pool/ABACA/ABACA/PA Images. All rights reserved.While the repainting of a red line against this brutal regime is welcome, Trump’s airstrikes were called for his own sake, not for the sake of the Syrian people. We cannot afford to embolden someone so erratic any further.
For the last year or so, there has been a familiar sense of unease that comes just before I refresh my newsfeeds. Mainly, what’s Trump done next?
Accustomed to the fits of outrage that follow most of Trump’s daily ventures in my echo-chamber, it was a surprise to find a different reaction on the morning of April 7. That day the #STOPTRUMP movement seemed to be put on hold as the president’s decision to use airstrikes in response to Assad’s sarin gas attack was met with a chorus of praise.
Condemning Trump’s inaction hours before, the hosts of CNN fawned over the president. Senator John McCain who called for an independent Trump-Russia Commission said he “deserved the support of the American people.”
