Alan and I are flying to Ireland.
My son and daughter- in-law were married in New York last Christmas Eve; and because my daughter-in-law’s paternal family are all from County Clare, Ireland, we will have a wedding reception at Bunratty Castle so we can meet her Irish family and get to know them.
We are looking forward to this adventure and exploring that part of beautiful Ireland.
From “ The Other 98%”
The world is uniting against Donald Trump. This week made that impossible to ignore. On Saturday, the leaders of Mexico, Brazil, Spain, Colombia, South Africa, and Uruguay stood together in Barcelona at a summit built specifically to counter him.
Spain’s Pedro Sánchez told the crowd: “They know their vision of how the world should be ordered is falling apart. From now on, they can be the ones who feel ashamed.” Mexico and Spain shook hands for the first time in years, setting aside a longstanding colonial dispute to stand in the same room against the same man.
Brazil’s Lula said the UN is broken because “the countries that created it do not respect it.” He was talking about one person.
Trump responded by attacking Sánchez on social media.
Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney, who just turned a minority government into a majority by running explicitly against Trump, declared at Davos in January that the world is experiencing “a rupture, not a transition.” He looked at the camera and said: “We know the old order is not coming back.”
In Hungary, Trump’s closest European ally just lost in a landslide. Vance flew to Budapest to campaign for him. Trump posted “I AM WITH HIM ALL THE WAY.” It wasn’t enough. Now even Nigel Farage and Italy’s Meloni are distancing themselves. Being seen with Trump is becoming a liability across Europe, including for the European far right.
In Ireland, a protester took a hatchet to a U.S. military aircraft at Shannon Airport. Spain closed its airspace to American warplanes. NATO allies refused to send ships to the Strait of Hormuz despite direct demands from the White House.
The Pope told reporters from a plane bound for Africa: “I have no fear of the Trump administration, or speaking out loudly.”
And in the Bronx on Saturday, Barack Obama sat on the floor of a childcare center with New York City’s mayor and read to three-year-olds. One week after Trump said the government can’t afford daycare.
The most powerful man in the world is losing in every room across it.
