Tweet-a-Lago:President Trump spent the fourth day of his declared national emergency playing golf. From the White House press pool, “After uneventful ride, motorcade arrived at the Trump International Golf Club at 9:12 am.”

  At 2:24, “President Trump was at the club for 5 hours.We’re rolling.” Then he went to lunch until 5:30.

  Trump evidently woke up on the wrong side of the golf course after a skewering by “Saturday Night Live.” He tweeted, “Nothing funny about tired Saturday Night Live on Fake News NBC! Question is, how do the Networks get away with these total Republican hit jobs without retribution? Likewise for many other shows? Very unfair and should be looked into. This is the real Collusion!”

  He wants an investigation of “Saturday Night Live.” He’ll find out that they’re funny and he’s not.

  The President also tweeted that his press coverage is “REALLY BAD” even though he has a 52 percent approval rating. Of course, that’s in the Rasmussen poll which finds a silver lining in anything Republican. Trump wrote, “THE RIGGED AND CORRUPT MEDIA IS THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!”

  He considers himself to be “the people.”

 Update: Sometime after lunch Trump tweeted, “The Mueller investigation is totally conflicted, illegal and rigged! Should never have been allowed to begin, except for the Collusion and many crimes committed by the Democrats. Witch Hunt!”

  He’s at his best when playing golf. He can’t tweet and swing at the same time.

Hacking Around:Iranian and Chinese hackers emboldened by deteriorating relations with the US have targeted businesses and government agencies in the United States, The New York Timesreports. Dozens of corporations and multiple United States agencies have been hit, the paper says.

 The Timesreports that, “The Iranian attacks coincide with a renewed Chinese offensive geared toward stealing trade and military secrets from American military contractors and technology companies, according to nine intelligence officials, private security researchers and lawyers familiar with the attacks who discussed them on the condition of anonymity because of confidentiality agreements.”

That Toddlin’ Town: Actor and singer Jussie Smollett paid $3,500 to Nigerian brothers Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo to stage what was described as a racist and homophobic attack in Chicago late last month, the local CBS television station reports. The CBS report says the three men even rehearsed.

  Smollett reported to police that he was beaten, doused with a chemical, and had a noose tied around his neck. The brothers are cooperating with the cops, but Smollett’s lawyers say he is “angered and devastated” by claims he staged the attack.

Early Release:The sexting former New York congressman Anthony Weiner, who was convicted of illicit contact with a 15-year-old, has been granted early release from federal prison. He’s been staying in a halfway house in Brooklyn.

  He got out for good behavior, so we know he’s capable of that.

  Weiner’s 21-month sentence was to have ended May 14. He was a rising star in the Democratic Party after serving nearly 12 years in Congress, but he was a foulmouthed abuser of his staff and had a penchant for online contact with young women.

Water Rights: On the theory that corporations are people too, as presidential candidate Mitt Romney once said, residents of Toledo, Ohio, will vote next month on whether Lake Erie has the right “to exist, flourish, and naturally evolve”   — as if it were a person. Environmentalists have been fighting threats to the lake including algal blooms in summer, fertilizer runoff, and invasive fish.

  The basis of the ballot proposition is that if the lake is given rights similar to those of a person, people can sue on the lake’s behalf to defend it. 

 The Obit Page:Patrick Caddell, the political pollster who helped make Jimmy Carter president, has died at age 68 from complications of a stroke. He was physically notable for a white streak that ran through the right side of his beard. 

  A self-taught wunderkind of polling, Caddell by the 1980s became disillusioned with the Democrats and ended up helping Republicans. He was a fan of Donald Trump.

  Caddell was a tad crazy. He once greeted a black cameraman from ABC Newswith a shotgun in his driveway.

Let Freedom Ring:An 11-year-old Florida student has been charged with a misdemeanor after refusing to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance in class.

  The sixth-grader refused to recite the pledge, telling a substitute teacher in Lakeland, Fla. that he believes the flag is racist and America’s national anthem is offensive to black people. 

  The teacher called the front office and an officer was sent to the class. District spokesman Kyle Kennedy said thestudent was arrested for being “disruptive and refusing to follow repeated instructions” from an officer and school officials, and not for refusing to recite the pledge.

  Of course, what was the instruction he was disobeying? The Supreme Court ruled in 1943 in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette that schools cannot require students to salute the flag or recite the pledge. They don’t teach civics in school anymore.

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