The World's Greatest Expert (🇺🇸 US-UK🇬🇧 Edition)

There was once a time when presidents hired experts.Now we appear to have discovered a more efficient arrangement: one man who is already an expert on everything.In this week’s dispatch, I look at the remarkable burden Trump bears by being humanity’s foremost authority on economics, trade, diplomacy, law, medicine, history, and virtually every other subject that happens to arise before lunch.One begins to wonder how civilization managed before his arrival.— DunneaginWatch short-form video commentary on YouTube Shorts:https://www.youtube.com/@civics_unhinged/shorts☕ Reader editions and collected volumes are available at:https://f-p-dunneagin-shop.fourthwall.com👉 Thank you for reading, listening, and supporting independent civic commentary.📬 To receive each new essay by email the day it publishes, subscribe to Civics Unhinged.A note on the shelf. These essays are part of an ongoing chronicle of American politics, democratic institutions, and the peculiar age through which we are presently living. The collected volumes—and the occasional standalone work—remain available through the Fourthwall shop, best read with something warm in the cup. Get full access to ~ Civics Unhinged: Dispatches From Trumpistan ~ at dunneagin.substack.com/subscribe