Why Do Developing Countries Have New Airports?

Donald Trump, to borrow a phrase, is “dead to me.” Well, not exactly, but in a radio interview Wednesday with a San Francisco-based nutritionist, Trump did indulge in one of modern politicians’ most irritating habits: praising the airports in developing countries like China, and lamenting the “third world” airports we supposedly have here in the United States.

“Look at our airports,” Trump thundered, with his inimitable combination of contempt and braggadocio, “JFK, LaGuardia, Newark . . . they’re like third world airports.”