What Trump’s Ego Means for Our Witness

Our nation is on a path with no guardrails. But there are some things that people of faith should remember.

Illustration by Alberto Miranda

WHEN DONALD TRUMP sat down in the Oval Office with four reporters from The New York Times for two hours in January, he was asked if there were any restraints on his global actions. “Yeah, there is one thing,” the president replied. “My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.” That unvarnished truth came as many were wondering what was signaled by Trump’s military operation in Venezuela to extract President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, and what to expect next. The answer? It was a prototype, and we should expect more.

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