Just have time today for a short dump today…
- Eric Levitz says that for Trump, the biggest problem with the proposed strategy for fighting ISIS is not that it's not a good strategy but that it sounds too much like Obama's.
- Daniel Larison predicts what will come of Trump's second foreign trip. Most likely, he'll piss off some of the foreign leaders he missed on his first visit.
- Marie Brenner on the creepy/scary relationship between Donald Trump and Roy Cohn. It's all about destroying people you perceive, rightly or wrongly as a threat to you.
I continue to be fascinated that in his tweets, Trump seems to think that one of the worst things you can say about someone — an insult that discredits whatever they say — is that their business is not doing well. He also continues to usually be wrong on how well these businesses are doing. He tweeted that CNN's ratings were "way down," which is not so. But even if it were true, is this the wisest point of attack by a man whose approval ratings are down? And a man with so many failed businesses to his name? I do not get it.