The Trumpster Fire: Today is the day unfortunately named by retailers as “Black Friday,” a day of shopping madness. But Donald Trump is still President and that’s always the most important item in the news.

President Trump has dismissed the CIA conclusion that the Crown Prince ordered the killing of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, saying the spy agency only had “feelings” that Mohammed bin Salman was responsible.

The President has said he plans to take no action against the Kingdom. Trump asked reporters yesterday at Mar-a-Lago, “Do people really want me to give up hundreds of thousands of jobs?” He made an “everybody does it” excuse. “Frankly, if we went by this standard, we wouldn’t be able to have anybody as an ally.”

Asked who should be held accountable for the murder, Trump said, “maybe the world should be held accountable, because the world is a vicious place.”

Interestingly, a Turkish newspaper has reported that the CIA has a wiretap recording of the crown prince telling his brother, the Saudi ambassador to the US, to “silence Jamal Khashoggi as soon as possible.”

The President seems unable to give up on the things that bug him, even in making Thanksgiving calls to troops on the other side of the world. Yesterday he asked one commander how the troops were feeling about trade issues and he told another, “It’s a terrible thing when judges take over your protective services,” referring to a federal judge’s rulingthat the administration must resume accepting asylum claims anywhere along the border. “When they tell you how to protect the border, it’s a disgrace,” he said.  The officer on the other end of the line said nothing.

With reporters watching, Trump threatened to close the whole southern border.“When they lose control of the border on the Mexico side we’ll just close the border,” he said. “The whole thing.” He said he would refuse to sign a federal budget that doesn’t include money for his border wall.

Trump and his family then joined friends and club members for an extravagant dinner. On the menu; Florida seafood, whipped and sweet potatoes, vegetables, traditional stuffing, a carving station with turkey, beef tenderloin, lamb, salmon, and a romaine-free salad bar.

Brrrr: It’s 41 degrees in Atlanta and 17 in Boston. This is one of the coldest Thanksgiving weekends on record. Buffalo, NY, 25; NYC, 20; Windsor, Ct., 14; Baltimore, 24; Pilot Knob, NY, 9.

Nation: The House Judiciary Committee, controlled by Republicans only until January, has subpoenaed fired FBI Director James Comey and former Attorney Gen. Loretta Lynch to testify in private about the Hillary Clinton email investigation. — A bus carrying the University of Washington marching band overturned on a highway last night. Amazingly, no one was seriously hurt. — A gunman opened fire at a shopping mall in Hoover, Ala. late yesterday, wounding an 18-year-old man and a 12-year-old girl. The 21-year-old shooter was killed by a police officer. — Searchers have now found 84 bodies in the ashes of the Camp fire in Northern California. More than 500 people are still listed as missing.

Footbrawl: The game between Ole Miss and Mississippi State devolved into a bench-clearing brawl yesterday after a disputed touchdown in the third quarter. Four players were ejected.

In a game that’s a traditional rivalry, sometimes bitter, Ole Miss appeared to score a touchdown on the final play of the quarter. A fight broke out in the end zone and both benches emptied. The referee called “Unsportsmanlike conduct by all players on both teams.”

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