MANY OF President Donald Trump's supporters animatedly insist that he opposes only illegal immigration, but gladly opens his arms to immigrants who enter the country lawfully.

It isn't true. Trump and his inner circle oppose all immigration, legal and illegal alike. During his first term as president, he oversaw more than 400 regulatory changes that slashed legal immigration in half.

Now he has picked up where he left off.

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ONE OF the advantages of finding myself in recent years without a political home is that I feel no temptation, let alone an obligation, to justify or minimize unsavory behavior from either side of the political aisle. My disenchantment with both the Republican and Democratic camps has its drawbacks, but one advantage is that it inoculates me against the mote-and-beam double standards that partisan loyalists regularly succumb to.

It is easy and satisfying to point the finger of condemnation when the other party says or does something disagreeable; when your own team does the same thing, the compulsion to make excuses for it, to sugarcoat it, or to ignore it can be irresistible.

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DONALD TRUMP'S comments about Greenland at his rambling Mar-a-Lago press conference on Jan. 7 were bizarre, menacing, and unforeseen. In an hourlong session that featured his views on everything from shower heads that don't deliver enough water to changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to how electric heaters cause itching, the president-elect made the biggest splash by telling reporters that he would not rule out using military or economic power to gain control of Greenland, which has been a sovereign Danish territory for centuries.

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FOR THE past 15 months, Israel has fought with brilliance and tenacity to crush Hamas and ensure that an unspeakable atrocity like the one the terrorist group unleashed on Oct. 7, 2023, never recurs. Yet now it is on the point of making a grievous blunder — of repeating a grievous blunder — that all but guarantees that more Israelis will be killed, maimed, and abducted in future atrocities.

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IT IS often forgotten that Martin Luther King Jr. was a deeply patriotic American.

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