| Donald Trump is the luckiest man alive. Unlike almost, well, everyone, he's been protected from the consequences of his own mistakes his entire life. Born into a wealthy family, he was insulated from lukewarm academic prospects and serial business crack-ups by his father's money. Emerging as a reality-TV star in the early 2000s, Trump discovered that fame allowed him to be as predatory as he pleased without repercussions. And his 2016 ascent to the White House opened his eyes to the presidency's legal armor — which he interpreted broadly and often inaccurately. Although Trump has over the years juggled, among other difficulties, ho-hum grades, the threat of personal bankruptcy, sexual assault accusations, an intensive federal investigation and an impeachment, he has plowed ahead relatively unwounded and unencumbered by regret. Wealth, celebrity and the presidency have kept him buoyant. All that insulation has also meant that he hasn't learned from his mistakes. Every personal and public reckoning has been postponed or shunted aside. Now, however, Trump is staring at two threats that loom after he leaves the White House in January. One is financial, the other legal. Neither is entirely under his control. Read the whole thing. What Is Trump Accomplishing Right Now? — Jonathan Bernstein Oil Prices Are Only Going in One Direction — Julian Lee World's Populists May Regret Their Embrace of Trump — Mihir Sharma The Biden Rally Has the Look of Fool's Gold — John Authers Biden's Big Climate Opportunity — Michael R. Bloomberg WFH Is Old News. The 'Near Home' Office Is the Next Trend — Marcus Ashworth and Elisa Martinuzzi Pfizer Vaccine Data Offers Real Pandemic Optimism — Max Nisen How Hydrogen Is and Isn't the Future of Energy — Andreas Kluth A Preview of Biden's Foreign Policy — James Stavridis This is the Weekend Edition of Bloomberg Opinion Today, a roundup of the most popular stories Bloomberg Opinion published this week based on web readership. | 
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