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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Americans are paying over 20% more for coffee under Trump than under Biden. When Trump brags about tariff collections, he's bragging about his tax on your cup. Good morning!

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Americans are paying over 20% more for coffee under Trump than under Biden. When Trump brags about tariff collections, he's bragging about his tax on your cup.

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

If Trump lost valued employees to competing offers, one reason might be his company's court-proven practice of requiring employees to participate in tax fraud in order to gain their full compensation. www.reuters.com/legal/trump-...

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

China is plunging off the population cliff www.ft.com/content/8271...

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Russia helped Trump in 2016. Trump welcomed the help. The help made a difference to the election outcome. Some deny those facts because they are motivated to protect Trump. Others deny the facts because they are motivated to protect Russia. But the facts are what they are.

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Richard Nixon & Co. explain Trump' Epstein comms strategy in a tape-record conversation, March 22. 1973: www.nixonlibrary.gov/sites/defaul...

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Decades of protectionist trade polices are the reason that Coca-Cola does not use real sugar in its US product. Sugar costs twice as much in the USA as in free-trade countries. sweetenerusers.org/wp-content/u...

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Hamas did the crime, then persuaded credulous western media to fix blame on Israel for its own action

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

The future of American politics Option 1: Anti-Israel socialist crank Option 2: Pro-Trump crook Option 3: Guy who should have retired 10 years ago.

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Natan Sharansky famously divided the world into "free societies" and "fear societies." Under Trump, the United States seems to making the sad transition from the first into the second.

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Via South African agricultural economist Wandile Sihlobo, new statistics on farm killings in South Africa from the ministry of justice. In fourth quarter 2024, there were 6 farm killings, only 1 of the victims was white.

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Congratulations to Nathaniel Frum and the "Call From a Killer" team: top podcast series in Canada, 2nd most downloaded single show in Canada.

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Story: Vietnam negotiating tariff relief from Trump administration. Photo: Eric Trump in Vietnam to accept a billion-dollar payoff to the Trump family from the Vietnamese government. Picture = thousand words. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Muslim-majority Bangladesh was once the eastern half of Pakistan. In 1971, Bangladesh broke away from the western half, achieved independence, and made peace with India. Look what happened next. data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY...

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Gift from a democracy: chickpea-and-lentil snacks; artisanal mustard. Thank you for gift: handshake and souvenir photo. Gift from an emirate: $400 million jet for personal use and use by heirs. Thank you for gift: a whole lotta political influence and terrorism impunity.

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

As Trump celebrates all things Saudi, someone not to forget about. She is held at an unknown prison with no contact with outside world for social media posts about her right to dress as she pleases. www.bbc.com/news/world-m...

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Neither house has much artistic value. Stornoway also has little historic value. Knock down both 24 Sussex and Stornoway and commission competing teams to build rival showplaces of Canadian excellence in architecture and design.

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

How tariffs differ from VATs. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

It's a complicated moral and psychological question whether to feel sorry for people who got bilked by Trump's 438th consecutive scheme to bilk anyone fool enough to trust him.

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

It's not only breathtakingly corrupt, it's manifestly illegal, no matter what permission is received from a cowardly and compromised Department of Justice.

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

First-term Donald Trump credited George Washington's army for seizing airports from the British. Second-term Donald Trump claims Iwo Jima is in Europe.

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Keep the below principle in mind today as the Trump administration tries to sell its so-called US-UK trade agreement.

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

in an op-ed for @wsj.com, Trump Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent makes a series of highly specific promises of economic improvement in the second half of 2025. Bookmark to review later. www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

"One serving per person, no second helpings, until we have won the great patriotic war against Chinese pencil exporters."

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Nazi Germany surrendered in May 1945. For Americans, the Second World War would rage for three more months, until VJ Day in August. But for Russians and those influenced by them, "Victory Day" falls in May. Trump follows the Russian practice, not the American.

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

I understand that there are crooks who claim Trump tariffs help the ordinary American. I cannot understand the mooks who believe the claim. www.wsj.com/business/hos...

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Interesting Canadian election polling news: Conservatives do better when pollsters ask, "How do you think your neighbors will vote?" It's the question that predicted the Brexit result when conventional polls missed it. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

The David Frum Show just made Apple's Top 30 podcasts. Thanks to all who listened/viewed

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

"I got worse" Trump told audiences in 2021 ... 8/x

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Trump ignored the COVID danger in late 2019-early 2020 because he sought a face-saving exit from the trade war he started in 2018. He deceived the American people when he should have been protecting them. 4/x

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Trump's eagerness for a China deal to save his re-election was a reason that he dismissed the gathering warnings of a new pandemic in China. He failed to protect the country because he was trying to protect himself. Here's Trump in January 2020: 3/x

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Trump worried that the bad stock market of 2018 might dim his re-election chances. He spent much of 2019 desperately pleading with the Chinese for an exit from the trade war he started the year before. 2/x

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

First-term Trump was also an economic idiot. He imposed escalating tariffs in first half of 2018, not only on China but on EU and Canada too. Trump bad policy triggered a big stock slump in second half 2018. 1/x

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

On-set over-my-shoulder flowers grown and arranged by my wife, Danielle Crittenden Frum

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

It's an illusion that a country can wall off the rest of the world - but still operate a free market at home. Protectionism breeds government favoritism and state control. Bloomberg today:

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

They have identified the core flaw in the Trump tariff plan: not enough uncertainty. Need more uncertainty, a lot more.

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

In a speech of January 1846, the great free-trader Richard Cobden said of the protectionists of his day:

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

One of the emperor Augustus's best tricks for legitimizing his authoritarian rule: he made a point of losing at games, joking about his bad luck, and paying his forfeits cheerfully. It made his reign look less arbitrary and terrifying to fellow members of the Roman elite.

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

In his statement about the call with Trump, PM Carney very properly corrects Trump's claim that the two men would meet after the Canadian election.

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Trump administration screwing up the economy too www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Every member of the Trump national security team shares Trump's standards of national security and patriotism. www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

It's an ironic PS to today's amazing Jeffrey Goldberg story that the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic is more responsible with US national security information than any of the principals of the Trump national-security team www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

The Usha Vance led delegation to Greenland was unsought by the Greenlanders and has been angrily rejected by them. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/u...

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Learning a lot from Wolfram Siemann's startlingly revisionist (in a positive direction) biography of Metternich.

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Here's the thing about Tesla stock. Its rise above $250 in November 2024 looks entirely a bet that Musk's role in Trump administration would redound to benefit of Musk's investors. Mr. Market has now decided that's not so.

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

The Trump economy. Not just inflation. Stagflation! Two kicks in the head instead of only one.

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

This seems ungood. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

It seems as if half the people in the MAGA/America First movement express open regret that Hitler didn't win World War II - and the other half don't know that if we'd listened to the America First movement of the day, he would have.

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