IN HIS VICTORY speech in the early-morning hours of November 9, President-elect Donald Trump vowed to rebuild the nation’s highways, bridges, tunnels, airports, schools and hospitals; “finally take care of our great veterans”; and double the nation’s economic growth. “Nothing we want for our future,” he declared, “is beyond our reach.”
GLOBAL WARPING: Trump meets with students at the Cleveland Arts and Social Sciences Academy. The president-elect has called climate change a hoax perpetuated by the Chinese.
Except, perhaps, clean water, clean air, limits on greenhouse gases, solar power, wind energy, protection of fish stocks, medical research, advances in information technology, support for basic and applied medical research, space exploration and the protection of biodiversity.