Yesterday I was ready to post a fun post on my experience with my new friend Claude AI but then, the political news of the horror of Trump’s comments and actions at the NATO Summit brought me down.   I’m reading a wonderful book by Tamim Amsary, The Invention of Yesterday, which widens historical perspective, but even that isn’t enough to help me weather all that Trump is doing and saying.  How can we ignore that the man is dangerously ill and should not be president or even allowed out on the streets?

I don’t like or trust Vance but surely anything would be better than this.

My son and his family are currently in Spain enjoying a wonderful vacation, and Trump is even going after Spain.  

As Paul Krugman writes: Cutting off trade with Spain is simply not going to happen. First of all, Trump does not have the authority to do any such thing. Second, the U.S. actually does a lot of business with Spain, and American businesses would not accept any such cuts. But even more, it is impossible because Spain is part of the European Union. 

Krugman continues: What we should take from it is that the statement was “completely crazy.” “In any kind of normally functioning political system,” he said, “in any kind of normally functioning party environment we would have a massive bipartisan call across the aisle, across almost everybody except for a handful of members of congress who are themselves crazy, to say okay this guy is non compos mentis. We cannot leave the fate of the United States or the world in the hands of somebody who is completely irrational, who is making demands and believing himself to have powers that he does not.”

Why isn’t something being done? Meanwhile I share photos one son sent from Ronda, Spain.