First Read says President Trump’s cancellation of his trip to Denmark over them not being willing to sell Greenland shows the president’s “behavior in office isn’t getting better. Instead, it’s getting worse.”
“This is no way to run a country. Or to talk about its citizens. Or to treat an American ally.”
“Everyone who works in Washington knows this. Staff members at the White House know this. Top officials inside the Republican Party know this.”
“Yet here we are.”
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Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
Goddard is the owner of Goddard Media LLC.