Divided States of America

Donald J. Trump by the electoral collage. USA

Time life chooses the news maker of the year at about this time without judgement on Merit however the fact that the person was a dominant newsmaker makes it worth documenting. Trumps claim to fame relies partly on being a disrupter, he ended two dynasties and promised to “drain the swamp” it certainly seems to fill Times criteria for Newsmaker. 

Start of his term.

It’s hard to measure the scale of his disruption. This real estate baron and casino owner turned reality-TV star and provocateur—never a day spent in public office, never a debt owed to any interest besides his own—now surveys the smoking ruin of a vast political edifice that once housed parties, pundits, donors, pollsters, all those who did not see him coming or take him seriously. Out of this reckoning, Trump is poised to preside, for better or worse.

Time life 

Time Life 90th

 Donald Trump made 2016 POY as its ninetieth subject. Jamel Khashoggi still missing Washington post Journalist  and 2018 featured newsmaker has the dubious distinction of being Times first dead POY. Today the United States Senate, December 13th 2018 voted to end support for the Saudi led war in Yemen probably a direct result of Trumps and the Khashoggi dynamic.

Good Luck and peace with healing.

We hope that the effect of the media on this situation will bring positive results from this tension.. PP America first.




On this Day: December 13th 1982

North Yemen Earthquake kills over 2000.