{"id":910,"date":"2026-06-02T22:13:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T22:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=910"},"modified":"2026-06-02T22:13:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T22:13:16","slug":"nyt-columnist-hits-trump-with-vicious-new-nickname","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=910","title":{"rendered":"NYT columnist hits Trump with vicious new nickname"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>President Donald Trump has earned a vicious new moniker: \u201ccommander in thief,\u201d writes New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, who chastised the president for his efforts to engage in a \u201cbrazen, in-your-face attempted heist of the U.S. Treasury to benefit himself, his family and his political allies.\u201d Those allies, he said, could include Trump\u2019s supporters who were present at the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol \u2014 whom Friedman labels \u201cphony defenders of freedom\u2019s frontier.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=908\">\u2018You did it\u2019: Ex-MAGA praises \u2018outraged\u2019 voters who bombed Trump\u2019s latest grift<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Friedman also accused Trump of having \u201cconspired with his own Justice Department, headed by his former personal lawyer, to use taxpayer money to create a $1.776 billion political slush fund.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Having a president who \u201cbehaves like a commander in thief \u2014 not a commander in chief \u2014 is costing us dearly at home and abroad,\u201d he writes. \u201cThis perversion of the American presidency is undermining the very alliance structure that won two world wars and the Cold War and generated one of history\u2019s longest ages of peace and prosperity. Every day we tolerate such behavior we endanger our children\u2019s future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Friedman argued those are just a few of several reasons why Trump has failed as commander in chief.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has not even tried to get Democrats to support his war against Iran.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Generally, when our nation has been at war, the commander in chief\u2019s top domestic priority is to keep the country united,\u201d says Friedman. \u201cBecause there is nothing more demoralizing for U.S. troops fighting abroad than to look back and see our country ripping itself apart at home.\u201d And he warns that \u201cseeing America at war with itself\u201d just encourages the enemy.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=906\">The real reason the GOP tanked Trump\u2019s \u2018dumbest\u2019 grift<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Friedman also expressed alarm at how Trump\u2019s actions toward America\u2019s allies have forced them to engage in deterrence \u2014 not just against Russia, but against America.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur allies have watched Trump threaten to make Canada the 51st state and to seize Greenland from Denmark,\u201d writes Friedman. \u201cThey have watched him start a war with Iran without consulting NATO and then demand that NATO help rescue us from what has turned into a mess. They have watched him slash U.S. financial assistance to Ukraine, put the Russian aggressor on the same moral footing as that country and then top it all off with reckless, ill-conceived tariffs on all our allies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Friedman also pointed to the early days of Trump\u2019s second term, when the president \u201cforced Ukraine to give the United States access to critical minerals in return for U.S. help against a Russian Army trying to overrun it. This is the real \u2018Trump Doctrine\u2019: Oppose America, and I will tariff you; depend on America, and I will extort you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=905\">CNN data guru: Platner\u2019s latest scandal \u2018looks different\u2019 to Maine voters<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump has not even tried to get Democrats to support his war against Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NYT columnist hits Trump with vicious new nickname - Next Address America<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=910\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NYT columnist hits Trump with vicious new nickname - 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