The strangest show on earth: lightning, imperial hubris and a boring tour of Trump’s rhetorical back alleys | David Smith
Would we get a 21st-century Gettysburg address? Or YMCA, gripes about his legal woes and boasting about Iran? The astronomer Carl Sagan once described the earth as a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. “Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot,” he wrote. Donald Trump took the stage on Saturday night imagining himself the master of the universe, not the temporary cus…

