Nanny State:Heather Nauert, the State Department spokeswoman nominated by President Trump to be ambassador to the United Nations, has withdrawn herself from consideration.

  Nauert revealed during her clearance for the job that she’d had a nanny working for her family who was in the country legally, but not legally working and or paying taxes. Although the back taxes were paid, it was becoming too much of an issue.

  Nauert said in a statement, “The past two months have been grueling for my family and therefore it is in the best interest of my family that I withdraw my name from consideration.”

  The former ABC News and Fox correspondent was a controversial nominee. She had no experience in actual government or international relations.

Golf Emergency:President Trump is so worried about the national emergency at the southern border that he went to Florida for the weekend to play golf. From the Saturday pool report, “Motorcade arrived at golf course at 842 am.” Later, someone tweeted a picture of Trump at the omelet bar at Mar-a-Lago.

Things Fall Apart:The liberal world order held together by the leadership of the United States is crumbling, claims the annual report of the Munich Security Conference, which says the Trump administration displays an “irritating enthusiasm for strongmen across the globe” and “disdain for international institutions and agreements.”

  The conference is a meeting of world leaders and defense chiefs in Germany that has been held every year since the Cold War.

  German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke of the increasing American isolation and expressed shock that even BMW cars are now considered a threat to American national economic security. She pointed out that BMW’s largest factory is not in Bavaria, but South Carolina, supplying cars to China. “Frankly, if you have a problem, if you have a headache, it is better to come and talk about it,” she said.

Gun Beat:The shooter who killed five people and wounded five cops in an Illinois warehouse opened fire when he was told he was being fired, police said.

Gary Martin,45, had been arrested six times in Aurora, Ill. As a convicted felon he was not allowed to own a gun in Illinois. Aurora police chief Kristen Ziman said they are trying to find out how Martin got the weapon because “absolutely he was not supposed to be in possession of a firearm.” Martin was killed by police gunfire.

Lawyered Up:Actor and singer Jussie Smollett, who claims he was the victim of a hate attack on a Chicago street, has hired the same criminal defense lawyer representing President Trump former lawyer/fixer Michael Cohen.

Smollett, who is openly gay, told the cops that he was beaten by two men who doused him with an unknown chemical and said, “This is MAGA country,” quoting the President’s Make America Great slogan.

  Smollett is in the cast of the television series “Empire.”

  The case has had an odor to it from the start. Victims don’t usually hire defense lawyers. Police had detained two Nigerian brothers who know Smollett, and searched their apartment, but then let them go. A Chicago news outlet is reporting that the two were paid to stage the attack.

Police confirmed now say the brothers were present at the scene of the attack provided evidence that “is now central to the investigation.”

The Obit Page:Lee Radziwill, the princess by marriage, socialite, and younger sister of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, has died at the age of 85. Married three times, Radziwill used to hang with the likes of Truman Capote and Andy Warhol. She and Jackie were the “It Girls” of the 1960s. — Swiss actor Bruno Ganz, who played Adolph Hitler in the movie “Downfall” spawning a thousand online parodies of the Fuhrer in a rage, has died at age 77. Ganz, a serious actor who had parts in “The Reader” and “The Manchurian Candidate,” became anonymously famous for a scene he played as Hitler in his last days in the Berlin bunker that’s been repeatedly appropriated for absurd scenarios. In one of them Hitler flies off when he’s told that the new iPod Touch doesn’t have a camera. In another, it’s because his friends aren’t going to the Burning Man festival.

  Ganz, as Hitler, slams his desk when he’s told his Twitter account is down. “Don’t they care about their users? Don’t they care about us Tweeple?”

  There’s already a video of Hitler finding out Bruno Ganz has died. It’s a memorial montage.

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