President Donald Trump is meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Trump also signed a measure to have tariff rates match what other countries charge.
All other western democracies use some sort of parliamentary system akin to what the English have, a party appointed Prime Minister with very limited power. Presidential systems always devolve into fiefdoms.
The world will continue to exist and some portion of mankind probably will survive too. At some point, historians will dissect the current crisis – whatever the outcome – with the same scrutiny as today's historians examine other past events.
And I hope they won't face the same issues as today's historians, who have to watch as their departments are cut down one by one while their cries of alarm go unheard.
Nah, he's just at the end of his career and is no longer concerned with reelection while also 100% confident in the vote passing without his vote. He has the seniority to be allowed to have a "conscience vote" that the other members can't have.