Will the Democrats manage to help re-elect Trump?
By Patrick Cockburn, Counterpunch
In 1989, I had a comical but revealing series of encounters with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, his palatial mansion in Palm Beach, Florida. He had bought the giant house, with 58 bedrooms and 33 bathrooms, four years earlier without realising that it was directly under the flight path from Palm Beach International Airport. This was undergoing rapid expansion and by the time I met him there were 200 flights a day roaring overhead.

Trump had responded to the devastating noise pollution by trying to make common cause with the less-well-off residents of West Palm Beach, who lived at the end of the runway. As with the plutocrats, they were suffering from the same chronic noise pollution that robbed them of sleep.
I learned about this furious row because I knew a Canadian paper magnate who had bought a house close to Mar-a-Lago at about the same time as Trump. My friend was bitter that the agency that sold him the property had carefully timed his visit for a moment in the afternoon when there were no planes flying directly overhead.
Poll after poll confirms:
Americans are ready to move on from Joe Biden.
We’re calling on Joe Biden to announce that he’s not running for President in 2024.
Sign our petition below saying “Don’t Run Joe”! Learn more at www.DontRunJoe.org
Recent Posts
Trump’s Personal Army? Exec. Order To Create “Quick Reaction Force” Raises Alarm
September 11, 2025
Take Action Now Is President Trump working to build his own personal army?By Amy Goodman and Radley Balko, Democracy Now! Investigative reporter…
Charlie Kirk’s Murder Is A Tragedy And A Disaster
September 11, 2025
Take Action Now The assassination of Charlie Kirk threatens to embolden the far right and provide Donald Trump with a pretext for crushing dissent.…
Israel Bombed Qatar To Assassinate Hamas’s Lead Ceasefire Negotiators
September 11, 2025
Take Action Now Amid ongoing ceasefire talks, Israel attempted to assassinate the Hamas negotiating team in an airstrike on the Doha office of its…
Supreme Court Ruling Allows ICE To Use Racial Profiling In Los Angeles Raids
September 10, 2025
Take Action Now Civil rights groups warn that Trump’s immigration crackdown has been given a green light to target Latinos across Southern…