Modesty is the best policy

Donald Trump before a live microphone or in front of a crowd of two who are willing to applaud and/or drool gives evidence that modesty is to be avoided at all costs. In today´s Spanish press, normally dismayed into silence at his oracular declarations,  quoted him to have said that “never in the history of the nation has any president done in such a short period as much as  I have”. Of course his endless effort at national salvation is understandable when it is weighted in the context of his considered opinion that the Obama years were a disastrous period in US history from every point of view. In what seemed more like a campaign pitch, rather than a press conference, our man in Washington waxed more and more outraged that the press would call the grandeur of these last two weeks into doubt. Of course he concluded that they are evil people who protect special interests. He could have at least excepted Fox and other sources of reporting the news rather than inventing it. In conclusion, Trump is well covered here. Every attempt is made to quote him out of context just like CNN and the NYT. Now, dear reader, please remember that is was Churchill was said “never in a thousand years …”. Just in case he´s been reading again in search of the right thing to say at the improper moment.