Day 2,033: buffoonery, supplant

DONALD TRUMP’S critics have often accused him of buffoonery and isolationism.

Mr Trump’s second term will not only be more disruptive than his first; it will also supplant a vision of foreign policy that has dominated America since the second world war.

Donald Trump will upend 80 years of American foreign policy

Artwork of the day 
Robert Macaire Bureau of Military Replacements
Honore Daumier
Date: 1839
Style: Realism
Genre: caricature
Media: lithography

Word of the day 
buffoonery: the behaviour of a person who does silly things, usually to make other people laugh:
supplant: to replace:

Quote of the day
“Shame on me for making such a mockery of myself. Blame it on my wounded pride. The fact is that my fear of being ridiculed is so intense I'd rather beat my critics to the punch. That's the epitome of cowardice.”
― Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery