His Dinner With André: In his book to be released next week, former FBI Director James Comey says President Trump runs the White House like a Mafia family and that he is “untethered to truth.”

The book has been released to the press in advance of hitting the bookstores on Tuesday. Comey’s kiss-and-tell has already set off raging debates about whether it’s appropriate for the former director of the FBI to write a dishy book about a sitting president.

Comey writes that Trump personally asked him to investigate and debunk the story that Trump paid Russian prostitutes to pee on a hotel bed once slept in by President Obama.

“He brought up what he called the ‘golden showers thing’ … adding that it bothered him if there was ‘even a one percent chance’ his wife, Melania, thought it was true,” Comey writes in his book, “A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership.”

Comey says Trump’s request came during a private dinner at the White House. He asks, “In what kind of marriage, to what kind of man, does a spouse conclude there is only a 99 percent chance her husband didn’t do that?”

Comey writes that Trump created “a cocoon of alternative reality that he was busily wrapping around all of us.” The Washington Post says, “Comey describes Trump as a congenital liar and unethical leader, devoid of human emotion and driven by personal ego.”

Silence is Golden: Some of the loudest noise in America today is coming from people paid to be silent about President Trump.

A former doorman at Trump Tower now confirms he was paid $30,000 by the National Enquirer for a story about Trump that was never published. The doorman, Dino Sajudin, said in a statement, “I can confirm that while working at Trump Tower I was instructed not to criticize President Trump’s former housekeeper due to a prior relationship she had with President Trump which produced a child.” The child would have been born in the 1980s.

Ronan Farrow writes for The New Yorker that, “When I reached out to the alleged daughter, she declined through a representative of her employer to answer questions.”

Sajudin was paid off in late 2015, making him at least the third person paid to squelch damaging information about Trump during the election season. Farrow says that a former employee of the Enquirer company told him, “There’s no question it was done as a favor to continue to protect Trump from these potential secrets. That’s black-and-white.”

Take a Letter:  President Trump suddenly last night issued an executive order demanding an examination of the Postal Service’s finances as he continues his rampage against Amazon’s use of USPS package delivery.  In the order issued just before 9 pm, Trump created a task force to evaluate what he called the service’s “unsustainable financial path.”

The Postal Service does not get any tax money. It does lose money, but that is partly because of some financial requirements placed on it by Congress.

Trump did not mention Amazon in the order, but he’s been on a tear against the online shopping service founded by Jeff Bezos, who now owns The Washington Post. Trump has been accused of trying to get back at Bezos for the Post’s unfavorable news coverage by attacking Amazon, the cash cow.

U-Turn: Reversing himself on one of his pet peeves, President Trump has asked his aides to look into re-joining the Trans Pacific Partnership, the Obama-era trade deal he condemned on the campaign trail and withdrew from after taking office.

The TPP was designed in part to counter the trading power of China. Now that Trump is knocking heads with China over trade, he seems to realize he might need to be part of the trade alliance.

Teacher Says: Oklahoma teachers have ended their strike after winning a $6,000 raise in that deep red, tax-cutting state. To pay for it, the state will raise taxes on oil and gas production, tobacco, motor fuels, and online sales.

The teacher uprising continues in states where they are woefully paid. Some school districts in Kentucky will be closed today as teachers demonstrate in favor of education funding. Teachers in Arizona are also demanding raises and more money for schools.

Condemned to Repeat It: In an indication that memory of history is fading, two-thirds of American millennials don’t know what Auschwitz was, according to a study conducted by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Not only are they unaware of the notorious Nazi death camp, 22 percent of millennials said they haven’t heard of the Holocaust or aren’t sure whether they’ve heard of it. That’s twice the percentage of US adults overall who said the same, which itself is pretty pathetic.

Because it’s There: Piles of trashed equipment, garbage, and even dead bodies have been growing on Mt. Everest for the past 62 years. What no one talks about, until now, is that every year climbers leave behind about 13 tons of human waste.

It’s gotten to the point that there’s concern about the environment and pollution of the water supply in populated valleys below. You know the old saying. It always rolls downhill.

Breaking Kardashian News: Khloé Kardashian of the reality television family, who used to be married to basketball player Lamar Odom, has had a baby with boyfriend Tristan Thompson of the Cleveland Cavaliers. It’s a bouncing baby girl.

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