At the Border: The refugee caravan from South America that President Trump has been ranting about has reached the Mexico-US border, setting up a test of the President’s anti-immigrant rhetoric. Will he deny sanctuary to people who claim to be the targets of political and criminal violence?

The 150 migrants, winnowed down from an original 1200, were told yesterday that the US could not process their claims.

The President sees the migrants as a national threat. He asked an admiring crowd in Michigan Saturday night, “Are you watching that mess with the caravan coming up? Are you watching this?” He went on, “But to protect our families, we must secure our borders.”

The Morning After: The morning coffee talk all over Washington yesterday was about the mean and sometimes crude speech comedian Michelle Wolf delivered to the White House Correspondents dinner the night before. This wasn’t the first time the clueless WHCA didn’t know who they hired.

Molly Roberts writes for The Washington Post that, “Wolf, according to the commentariat, violated a sacred standard of decency that defines the correspondents’ dinner every year. The comedian should roast people, yes, but she should do it at a suitably low temperature for this town’s all-too-tender egos. Wolf broke protocol by turning on the broiler. Yet the figures she scorched have shattered norms that are far more important than an unspoken prohibition on vagina jokes.”

The correspondents’ dinner is an annual self-celebration by the press corps, many of who whom wish they were movie stars, and some who think they are. What they want is an event that honors the special relationship between the President and the press, even though they get no honor from the current president, who refuses to attend.

Trump tweeted, “The filthy “comedian” totally bombed (couldn’t even deliver her lines-much like the Seth Meyers weak performance). Put Dinner to rest, or start over!”

Roberts says, “That Wolf’s performance was not “normal” for the correspondents’ dinner is a testament to its timeliness and necessity — nothing is “normal” right now and pretending otherwise out of a false sense of the fourth estate’s friendship with the executive would have been the real disgrace.”

Busy Signal: Sprint and T-Mobile have reached an agreement to a merger that would reduce the number of national mobile phone service providers to just three. That leaves the question of whether anti-trust regulators will allow it. The new T-Mobile would have 100 million customers, putting it into heavyweight competition with Verizon and AT&T.

As always, the companies say this will result in lower prices and better service and that almost never turns out to be the reality.

Dear Landlord: The Guardian has been digging into the personal investments of Fox News host Sean Hannity and finding a landlord who kicks people out of their apartments. The paper reports that since Hannity bought an apartment complex in Perry, Ga. Four years ago, 61 residents have been kicked out of the 152-units.

Hannity’s lawyer says the management only kicks out people who are seven days overdue on their rent. The Fox mouthpiece has claimed to be practically performing a public service by sinking $90 million into 870 homes in the past 10 years. “I believe in putting my money to work in communities that otherwise struggle to receive such support,” Hannity has said.

The White House Mess: The Doctor/Admiral Ronny Jackson will not return as the White House physician after his disastrous nomination to head the Dept. of Veterans Affairs, Politico reports. Sean Conley, a Navy officer who replaced Jackson after his nomination, will stay on.

Permawar: Shah Marai, a noted photographer for Agence France-Presse, was among eight journalists killed by a suicide bomber in Kabul, Afghanistan. A total of 29 people were killed.

Marai was among reporters who rushed to the scene of a bombing and were hit by a second disguised as a television cameraman. A second bomb targeting gathered responders is a terrorist technique that goes all the way back to the Vietnam War.

The Weekend Box: The movie “Avengers: Infinity War,” based on Marvel comic characters, set a box office record for an opening weekend, raking in $250 million. That puts it a few million above the previous record holder, “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.”

What is “Avengers” about? It’s about 2 hours and 40 minutes.

Art News: The primary cultural attraction in the quaint French village of Elne near the border with Spain is a museum dedicated to the works of hometown Catalan painter Étienne Terrus, who died in 1922. He was a landscape artist and friend of Henri Matisse.

The museum just got a $360,000 makeover and was about to re-open when a guest curator thought that some of the Terrus works were fakes. A lot of them. Ultimately it was determined that 82 of the paintings thought to be done by Terrus, as well as some by other artists, are fakes.

The sharp-eyed curator noticed several anomalies. In some cases buildings appearing in the Terrus paintings didn’t exist when he was alive.

The museum spent $200,000 over 20 years snapping up what turned out to be largely fraudulent works. They now have 52 authentic Terrus paintings, and a lot of wall space.

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