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Is a Boring Tweet From Trump Too Much to Ask?
Spoiler: It’s not. Plus, Jonathan Bernstein’s morning links.
Not even a little?
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David Frum had one of the better rants about Memorial Day, taking on the president after Donald Trump’s highly inappropriate Memorial Day tweet, which read more as a campaign message. Here’s Frum:
Frum attributes it to a lack of empathy. That’s certainly plausible. It may also be that Trump just can’t stop selling no matter what the situation. Or he can just never pass up a chance to stoke controversy, because in business any publicity was (or at least might have been) good publicity. Or perhaps he just entirely misunderstands the job of president of the United States.