Michael Goodwin: Trump recklessly accepting a plane from Qatar is the...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : Trump and his family have businesses -- golf courses, hotels and or towers in each of the three Arab countries he's visiting this week, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar.
45% : Trump was more careful in his first term, and ruled out any new foreign family deals.
38% : Add to this impressive list the fact that he's already a self-made billionaire, and the question becomes even more maddening: Why is Trump risking everything he's worked so hard for just to have a few more shiny baubles and trinkets?
38% : Ditto for its jihad against Elon Musk and the DOGE effort to cut federal spending.
37% : The left has been desperately searching both for a leader and issues it can use against Trump now and in the 2026 midterms.
35% : Trump is also taking on the far left over its cultural dominance with hot-button issues, including the size and cost of government and the roles of race, religion and the transgender movement in business, schools and sports.
33% : And with the stock market recovering its losses from the plunge after Trump announced his "Liberation Day" tariffs and with inflation falling, the economy doesn't look now as if it's going to be a hammer Dems can use against him next year.
32% : But if Qatar's money is good enough for Trump and his family, how is it too dirty for universities?
30% : In his case, the mystery would be why Trump appears willing to ruin a perfectly good presidency by engaging in financial dealings that are suspect and unnecessary.
24% : Think Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky.
17% : Comes now Donald Trump, who is behaving in ways that risk his name being added to the list of the notoriously foolhardy.

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