Trump Thinks Seizing Venezuela Makes Up for His Other Bad Policies

Trump Thinks Seizing Venezuela Makes Up for His Other Bad Policies

I initially assumed that kidnapping Venezuela’s president and imprisoning him in Brooklyn was Trump’s way of distracting us all from America’s affordability crisis. After all, it’s not unusual for an American president to invade another country when he’s worried about his domestic unpopularity; a 1997 movie called Wag the Dog dramatized that phenomenon, depicting a fictional but all-too-realistic president who starts a war to distract from a sca…