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Terry Glavin: Canadians are right about Trump, but Trump isn't America

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It was quite the performance, you’d have to admit. After all, Donald J. Trump is nothing if not a showman, and his falsehood-strewn schoolboy encomium to himself Tuesday night, which lasted a full hour and 47 minutes, was quite the spectacle. The State of the Union event was punctuated by frenzied bursts of ovation from Trump’s sycophants in the U.S. Congress. Not quite Pyongyang, but close.

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And that is what has become of what was until recently the greatest democracy on Earth, in the 20th year of democracy’s retreat around the world, during the first week of the fifth year of Ukraine’s courageous resistance to Vladimir Putin’s failed war of conquest, Europe’s bloodiest war since the 1940s.

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The United States of America, which once led the free world, has been reduced to a presidency that boasts of the profit American arms manufacturers are making from the carnage in Ukraine, that lies about the damage its tariffs are doing to the American economy, and no, the Trump White House has not ended eight wars over the past year.

After having been re-elected partly on the lie that the U.S.........

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