Today's Bad News for Donald Trump
The death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the founder and leader of the Islamic State, should have been sorta Good News for Trump but he managed to ruin that by (a) being on the golf course when it happened (b) faking a photo later of himself with the military leaders to look like he was seriously involved, (c) trying hard to take the same credit he argued should be denied to Obama for the death of bin Laden and (d) reviving his old claim that he predicted 9/11. He made that prediction, he claimed, in one of his books — you know, the ones written by others, the ones he probably never read. Those who've searched the books cannot find quite what he is claiming.
And Fred Kaplan explains why killing the ISIS leader is a big deal but not in the way Trump tried to make it out to be.
Today's First Runner-Up Bad News for Donald Trump
He was also greeted with boos and chants of "Lock him up!" at the World Series game he attended. I'm sure he heard it all as cheering and demands for "Four more years! Four more years!"
Today's Outrage by Donald Trump
Trump keeps claiming that his administration will eliminate AIDS within ten years and that the previous administration spent no money on this problem. As FactCheck.org notes, the previous administration spent about the same amount of money on it as this one and no one working on the problem thinks they can eliminate that awful disease. The real goal is just to make it not as common.
Bonus Link About Donald Trump
The Wall Street Journal is still apparently in the White House despite its "defense" of Trump which basically came down to "He's too inept to commit a high crime or misdemeanor." Gene Healy of the Cato Institute explains why that ineptness is even more reason to toss the guy outta office.