For all his faults,"Obama bequeaths the incoming president “the longest economic expansion in history and he has tried to Trump-proof a climate pact that commits the world’s second leading producer of earth-warming pollutants --US-- to making this little orb of ours a less perilous place; but Trump, the pumpkin-haired rooster taking credit for the dawn, has already tried to seize a bit of that achievement as his own. He has also, already flirted with treason, flouted conflict-of-interest rules, bullied dissidents and blown off the advice of seasoned public servants. He has yet to hold a news conference since winning the election.Most of the Trump agenda — building a wall, cutting taxes on the rich, ramping up oil and gas drilling at the expense of alternative fuels, taking away people’s health care — is opposed by clear majorities. Trump will erase Obama’s policy legacy at his peril."
At www.nytimes.com
