What does the title of this piece mean, and what does it imply?
To start a paraphrase from Lenin’s “There are decades when nothing happens, and then there are weeks when decades happen.” …
There are years when nothing happens, and then there is a month when years happen. To me this is an apt description of the comparison between four years of Joe Biden and four weeks of Donald Trump.
For example from C & C:
Joe Biden spoke to Russian President Putin exactly zero times in almost four years.
It wasn’t just President Biden. We didn’t even send a negotiating team to Russia. Yet the whole time, the Russians were practically begging us to negotiate.
So yesterday, Trump shattered all the nebulous anti-negotiating rules by picking up the telephone by himself and talking to his counterpart, Russian President Vladimir Putin. According to the Russian readout, they spoke for ninety minutes. You can imagine how, after almost four years of silence, they had a lot to discuss.”
Impressive!
Also in a similar vein (also from C & C):
“New Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent went to Ukraine Wednesday to deliver a “proposal” for continued U.S. support in Ukraine. Sources suggest that Trump wants payment for all our previous and future support, to the tune of $500 billion dollars, which would be secured by mineral rights in mineral-rich Ukraine.
Many commenters also think the proposal includes an audit of the money already provided.”
So while Joe Biden facilitated the U.S.A. sending $500 billion to Ukraine without knowing exactly what that $500 billion was spent on, President Trump is seeking mineral rights in Ukraine as well as some accounting as to how this money was spent.
Impressive!
So while this piece started with a Lenin quote, it seemed apropos to describe Trump’s day with three of John Lennon’s Beatle songs:
“A Day In the Life”
“Here Comes the Sun”
“Come Together”
2/14/25