Friday, October 25, 2019

№ 712.1: EXTRA! The Well-Trod Path



Trump Cancels Subscriptions to The New York Times and The Washington Post (Paywall)

In 1962, John F. Kennedy, apparently fed up with the coverage of The New York Herald Tribune, decreed that copies of that newspaper would no longer be delivered to the White House. His press secretary, Pierre Salinger, after initially ignoring the president’s repeated requests to cancel the paper, eventually acquiesced and announced that Kennedy would instead read The St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

THE GOLD PATE HOUSE (October 25)

Just following President Kennedy's precedent
is what Donnie's doing as White House resident.
Jawboning  businesses and any others
until they back down and he has him his druthers.
If Times  and Post would stop being solemn
and paid a lot to Ivanka for a daily column. . .

Still, Donnie is right. Why should he read
anything, anytime, ANYWHERE  not guaranteed
to confirm his feeling he's better than best
lest he be left bereft and depressed?
(Though his body is agile, his ego is fragile.)
Let's let Donnie do his hat-tip/shout-out
and sit back and watch how it turns out.