With Immigration Order, Trump Engages His Opponents on Fundamentals

U.S. President Donald Trump listens to a speaker during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus, which causes COVID-19, in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington on April 23, 2020. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

Commentary

President Donald Trump’s announcement April 20, via his messenger of choice, Twitter, that he was temporarily closing the United States to almost all forms of immigration is a fitting capstone to his 2016 candidacy and the Armageddon of the battle between right and left in the United States at this point in our history.