Peter Baker: “To hear President-elect Donald Trump tell it, he is about to take over a nation ravaged by crisis, a desolate hellscape of crime, chaos and economic hardship.”
Said Trump last week: “Our Country is a disaster, a laughing stock all over the World!”
“But by many traditional metrics, the America that Mr.
Trump will inherit from President Biden when he takes the oath for a second time, two weeks from Monday, is actually in better shape than that bequeathed to any newly elected president since George W. Bush came into office in 2001.”