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Donnie’s Daily Soap Opera

“Before taking office, Mr. Trump told top aides to think of each presidential day as an episode in a television show in which he vanquishes rivals. People close to him estimate that Mr. Trump spends at least four hours a day, and sometimes as much as twice that, in front of a television, sometimes with the volume muted, marinating in the no-holds-barred wars of cable news and eager to fire back.” 

—Maggie Haberman, Glenn Thrush and Peter Baker, “Inside Trump’s Hour-by-Hour Fight for Self-Preservation,” The New York Times, Dec. 9, 2017.

• Editorial Comment: I have a disturbing image I can’t shake of the Leader of the Free World in a floral housecoat and curlers in front of “Days of Our Lives.”

• WORDmeister CORRECTION: Friday’s WORD (Revised: My Truth) referred to presidential “truth” extending back to FDR. The source, historian David Greenberg, reports from Rutgers that he actually said TEDDY, not Franklin, Roosevelt. The error appears in the Christian Science Monitor story.







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