WaPo editorial board: "The president's erratic nature can be a strength ..."

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Opinion
Editorial Board

The cost of Trump’s madman theory on tariffs

The president’s erratic nature can be a strength, but it’s also his biggest liability.

February 8, 2026 at 1:08 p.m.

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[Skittles]

1. OK EVERYONE

LET'S IMAGINE THEM SAYING THAT ABOUT A WOMAN OR POC

[sop]

11. Let's imagine the WSJ (the newspaper of business and finance) saying that about corporate CEOs.

[lapfog_1]

2. Bezos might as well just hire KKKaroline Leavitt

she can blow the president's tiny mushroom dick from the briefing room as well as from the editor's desk at Wapo.

Seriously, no one needs to pay any attention to that "rag" anymore, turn out the lights... Democracy dies in darkness indeed.

[agingdem]

3. so the gist is ...

we acknowledge Trump is an insane blathering dementia-addled psycho and whatever tariff dung seeps into his head and blows out his ass may be his biggest strength...or not...

[Walleye]

4. It is the strength of the United States. It's keeping us going. In spite of the erratic, insane sadistic president.

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. The text fails to show any situation in which it has been "a strength"

certainly for the USA. You might, I suppose, argue that it's a "strength" for him personally, since he's managed to stay out of prison despite being a rapist, and a convicted criminal, and instead got into a post where he can skim billions off world wealth for himself. And something's done that.

[Chasstev365]

6. No one should subscribe to the new print version of Fox

[QueerDuck]

7. And they wonder why people are canceling subscriptions, and advertisers are fleeing...

... and why they must fire 1/3rd of their staff. Gee.

[Scrivener7]

8. This on the heels of saying there was no trafficking in Epstein/Trump world.

They saw the NYT chatbot and thought it was real, so now that's what they're modeling themselves on.

[spanone]

9. Oh really?

[bucolic_frolic]

10. Wafflism psychology full of head fakes

WAPO will be left mumbling to themselves

[Prairie Gates]

12. Having fun as usual, eh?

[CTyankee]

13. paywall. Can't see.

[Baitball Blogger]

14. For fuck's sake.

Really? REALLY?

This is going to be an example in every media class from this point on. As in what never, never to do if you plan to be taken seriously as a newspaper.

It doesn't even pass as an oxymoron. It's just moronic.

[ProfessorGAC]

15. I'm Not Clicking To WaPo, But...

...did someone see a rationalization as to how being erratic is a strength?
That makes no sense to me.

[markodochartaigh]

16. I take back what I said yesterday.

If I had a parrot his poop would be too good for the WaPo.

[IzzaNuDay]

17. Why I unsubscribed

this is another butt licking attempt by Bezos and his cabal. Historically WaPo tended to have balanced opinion, but that ship sailed after Bezos bought it. The only other daily rag in DC is the right wing Washington Times. Now every day is a sad day for DMV journalism. Guess the independent media has to pick up that torch!