Rob Horowitz

1 month ago | golocalprov.com | Rob Horowitz

As we mark the 100th day of President Trump’s new term, Americans don’t like what they have seen so far. At an approval rating of only 41%, according to the average of seven national polls timed to measure public opinion after the new administration’s first 100 days, he is the most unpopular president at this point in his term in the history of modern polling; the president is exceeding his previous unpopularity record, set at the 100-day mark in his first term.

1 month ago | golocalprov.com | Rob Horowitz

Admirably choosing to fight back against President Trump’s unprecedented and unconstitutional attack on academic freedom-- rather than bend the knee –Harvard University last week said no to a list of absurd administration demands that, taken together, would surrender the private university’s independence to the arbitrary and ideologically-driven dictates of the federal government.

1 month ago | golocalprov.com | Rob Horowitz

Continuing to bulldoze his way through the post-Watergate norms and procedures designed to keep the president’s “personal and political interests” from unduly influencing decisions on individual criminal and civil matters, President Trump ordered the Justice Department to investigate two officials from his first term on Friday. He did so without offering a better reason than they said and did things he didn’t like.

2 months ago | golocalprov.com | Rob Horowitz

President Trump unveiled his sweeping, disastrous tariffs this past Wednesday with the same dishonest, flim-flammery that he used to bamboozle people into signing up for Trump University: a chart with phony numbers based on trade deficits--not the tariffs that other nations' put on our exports --and a made-up tariff history that would earn him an F in a high school history class.

2 months ago | golocalprov.com | Rob Horowitz

“No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people,” famously said HL Mencken. That is apparently the view of President Trump and his national security team as they shamelessly serve up a shifting series of nonsensical and blatantly false claims, attempting to minimize, shift the blame, and explain away the serious security breach, resulting from discussing upcoming military action as well as specific attack plans during a Signal chat on their cell phones.