More Americans (56% to 37%), think Obama was a better president than Trump has been, according to a new CNN poll.
Americans also think Hillary Clinton *would have been* a better president than Trump has been, but by a much smaller margin (47% to 44%).https://t.co/mrZOPL9xpe
— FiveThirtyEight (@FiveThirtyEight) May 12, 2018
A great column on our addiction to Trump
This is one of the best columns I have read this year. It points out the media obsession with Trump. It states:
“Yet I worry that our national nonstop focus on Trump is helping to usher America into a hole: a Trump obsession. The danger is that Trump sucks up all the oxygen, so that other issues don’t get adequate attention.”
Kristof is 100% right. The media does not focus enough on other issues. The panel discussions are all in Washington and New York and don’t discuss the rest of the country enough.
Trump exploited the release of the prisoners
It’s great that the three prisoners were released and I’ll give Trump some credit for it but as usual Trump used it to boost himself.
Sad!
A great tweet
Only in Dundalk
This is in a Baltimore suburb.
Trump’s Midwest voters
This is an excellent article by Dan Balz on Trump voters in the Midwest and what they think of him now.
John McCain
The “joke” about John McCain made by a White House staffer was disgraceful. The White House reaction is even worse – the employee is still working there. Trump’s attitude encourages this behavior. Remember how he said McCain was not a war hero,
This is an excellent column by Chris Cillizza. It also covers Hatch’s comment (which he later apologized for) that Trump should be invited to McCain’s funeral and a remark by a former general who called McCain “Songbird” with no basis.
The only Republican, as far as I know, who has criticized the joke and White House reaction was Lindsay Graham.
An opinion column: How many more funerals will Trump have to skip?
I don’t agree with John McCain on many issues but I have enormous respect for him as a person. The way he has been treated by many in his own party is disgraceful.
Sad!
The White House is treating this as a leak scandal.
It gets worse:
Covers: Wooly Bully
“Wooly Bully” was originally recorded by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs in 1965. It was their biggest hit but they have many other songs worth listening too, the best of which are collected on Pharaohization.
It was covered (in French!) by Michael Doucet and Cajun Brew in 1987.
Tax cuts for the top 0.1%, SNAP cuts for the poor
Trump only cares about his base
Sad!
