Online Public Relations Thoughts

 What's in it for me?  Ukraine can only hope the US stands by its security pledge. 

President Trump is going after companies that want to show the impact of tariffs on pricing.  He doesn't realize that lack of transparency provides cover for companies to raise prices in addition to tariffs.  Trump apparently realizes how dumb transparency pricing would make him look to the public.  So, he wants tariffs effects hidden, which just makes him look worse in the public's eyes.   

Handicapping the new Pope has started in the media already and predictably the media will get it wrong.  It would be worth everyone's time to stop the guessing and just wait for the decision.

Candidate Trump repeatedly promised to end the Ukraine war in 24 hours.  Now Trump is saying he was being sarcastic when he said it.  The problem with that is he was and is toying with the lives of millions of people.  Now the administration is threatening to walk away from peace talks altogether.  Sarcasm again or admission of failure? 

It takes nerve and effrontery to accuse Ukraine of prolonging a war it didn't start and never wanted, especially after continued bombing of the country.  Yet, that is what Trump is doing.  Putin must be laughing out loud that America is doing his work for him.  

President Trump is now saying his imposition of high tariffs on China will come down but not be zero.  This ignited the markets, which soared.  Trump is blinking because he now knows the disaster he has caused.  Had he paid attention to overwhelming testimony from experts worldwide, it would never have come to this in the first place.  His freewheeling style is dismaying and badly disruptive.