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Analyzing one of the worst sentences an American president has ever spoken

This morning, President Trump published one of the worst sentences ever verbalized by an American head of state. “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” he posted. And from there the statement continued:

Even by Trump’s basement standards, it is an appalling, lawless, barbaric statement — launched by that chilling first s…