Summer Kamp: Just a day after President Trump announced he would keep detained immigrant families together, The NY Times  reported that the Pentagon is under orders to prepare for housing up to 20,000 unaccompanied children on military bases in Texas and Arkansas.

The Times said it isn’t clear where the parents figure into the plan.

The fury continues over the 2,300 children already being held separate from their parents. They’ve been shipped all over the country. Among many questions, journalists and immigrant advocates are asking what’s been done with the girls. No one has reported seeing or visiting them.

Neither the White House nor Justice or Homeland Security have announced a plan for reuniting separated children with their parents, if they have such a plan at all. Some of the children are so young they don’t know their parents’ names other than “Mami” and “Papi.” Many of the parents don’t know where their children are.

CBS News reported this morning that officials say 500 children have been re-united with their parents since May.

Unless the parents and children have been stamped with a barcode — and they haven’t — getting them back together is going to take a while.

In his continuing rampage against illegal immigrants and people seeking asylum, Trump tweeted, “We shouldn’t be hiring judges by the thousands, as our ridiculous immigration laws demand, we should be changing our laws, building the Wall, hire Border Agents and Ice and not let people come into our country based on the legal phrase they are told to say as their password.”

Political Graffiti: Melania Trump made a quick visit to Texas yesterday to visit immigrant children held in a federal holding pen and managed to upstage her own message of compassion.

Leaving the White House and boarding a jet, she wore a long green Zara jacked the back of which was scrawled with the words, “I really don’t care, do u?” The $39 jacket was made for teenagers and what is clear about Melania Trump is that what she really does care about is what she wears. So was it carelessness or a message, and if so, to whom?

Her spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham, said in a statement, “It’s a jacket. There was no hidden message. After today’s important visit to Texas, I hope the media isn’t going to choose to focus on her wardrobe.”

That’s one explanation, but from this White House there’s always another, and it came from the President. He tweeted, “I REALLY DON’T CARE, DO U?” written on the back of Melania’s jacket, refers to the Fake News Media. Melania has learned how dishonest they are, and she truly no longer cares!”

Our guess is that’s not at the top of the list of things she doesn’t care about.

Add to Basket: Online shopping is about to get more expensive in a lot of states. The Supreme Court ruled that internet retailers can be required to collect sales taxes even in states where they have no stores.

The decision, in South Dakota v. Wayfair Inc., is a big win for storefront businesses that have to charge sales taxes while many online competitors don’t. Of course it also means the states can rake in billions more in sales taxes.

Spinoff: ABC  is replacing its revival of “Roseanne” with a spinoff called “The Conners” to include every character in the show except Roseanne Barr, who imploded making a racist tweet. The network signed the new show for 10 episodes. They did not explain how they will make the original show’s title character disappear.

The Obit Page: Less than two weeks after he announced his death was imminent, conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer has died of cancer at age 68. A former psychiatrist and once a “Great Society” Democrat, Krauthammer morphed to become a leading writer and thinker in American conservatism.

Little known about Krauthammer outside of Washington was that he spent his life in a wheelchair after a diving accident in his 20s.

He once wrote, “Longevity for a columnist is a simple proposition: Once you start, you don’t stop. You do it until you die or can no longer put a sentence together. It has always been my intention to die at my desk, although my most cherished ambition is to outlive the estate tax.”

Sign for Sadness: Koko the gorilla, who became famous in her youth for her ability to learn and communicate with American Sign Language, has died in her sleep at age 46.

Koko learned 170 words by the age of four. She learned to make up new words and developed a sense of humor. By the time she died she knew 2,000 words.

A statement from the American Gorilla Foundation said, “Koko touched the lives of millions as an ambassador for all gorillas and an icon for interspecies communication and empathy.”

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