Trump’s Superlatives Are Bigger Than Yours

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By Frank Bruni

Mr. Bruni is a contributing Opinion writer who was on the staff of The Times for more than 25 years.

There I was, recording my students’ end-of-semester grades and worrying about how many A-minuses I was handing out, when President Trump came to the rescue and showed me I was being not soft but stern. I was denying those students one of the many, many marks higher than that.

Like an A. Or an A-plus. Or an A-plus-plus. Or an A-plus-plus-plus, which is still inferior to the plus-a-palooza that Trump pulled off.

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