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Trump’s Lame-Duck Damage Must Be Contained
A raging president threatens harm to everyone from the military to his own supporters.
President Donald Trump’s mood on election night, and pretty much ever since.
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President Donald Trump will leave office in 48 days, 19 hours, 50 minutes and 35 seconds, not that anyone is counting. That’s plenty of time for him to cause plenty of trouble, as we’ve written, and not just with his endless campaign to defy the will of the electorate. The latest example is his threat to veto a must-pass military funding bill unless Congress: