Trump Needs War to Distract From His Domestic Failures
Donald Trump is making the United States’ affordability crisis worse and suffering historically low approval ratings. He is likely hoping wars abroad will divert the public’s attention from his domestic policy failures.
War appears to be a one-size-fits-all solution to all of Donald Trump’s problems. (Jim Watson / AFP via Getty Images)
This month, Donald Trump bombed Venezuela, kidnapped its president, and threatened Cuba, Colombia, Greenland, Mexico, Venezuela (really the whole Western Hemisphere), and Iran with military force. Last week, Trump said he’s going to propose a $1.5 trillion military budget next year, as Congress prepares spending bills that would give him $1 trillion this year.
The warning signs have always been there with Trump. We’re now seeing the beginning of what those signs were warning against. War is no longer just part of Trump’s political agenda; war is his political agenda. It’s a one-size-fits-all solution to all of Trump’s problems. Or so he hopes.
War Is Trump’s Answer to the Affordability Crisis
Foreign policy starts at home. For Trump, home is where his biggest political problem lies. The Jeffrey Epstein investigation looms large, but even that isn’t as massive a political liability as the affordability crisis, a major factor in his historically bad approval ratings. He’s desperate for a distraction.
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