The Embattled President: A long NY Times story portrays President Trump as a man in daily combat to hold onto his office while he relives the election and fights perceived enemies trying to unseat him.

The story says, “He sees the highest office in the land much as he did the night of his stunning victory over Hillary Clinton — as a prize he must fight to protect every waking moment, and Twitter is his Excalibur. Despite all his bluster, he views himself less as a titan dominating the world stage than a maligned outsider engaged in a struggle to be taken seriously, according to interviews with 60 advisers, associates, friends and members of Congress.”

The story goes on, “For Mr. Trump, every day is an hour-by-hour battle for self-preservation. He still re-litigates last year’s election, convinced that the investigation by Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, into Russia’s interference is a plot to delegitimize him. Color-coded maps highlighting the counties he won were hung on the White House walls.”

And it says “Before taking office, Mr. Trump told top aides to think of each presidential day as an episode in a television show in which he vanquishes rivals. People close to him estimate that Mr. Trump spends at least four hours a day, and sometimes as much as twice that, in front of a television, sometimes with the volume muted, marinating in the no-holds-barred wars of cable news and eager to fire back.”

Dept. of Corrections: CNN made an egregious reporting error Friday bolstering President Trump’s claim that they are “fake news.” The president tweeted, “Fake News CNN made a vicious and purposeful mistake yesterday. They were caught red handed … Watch to see if @CNN fires those responsible, or was it just gross incompetence?”

The network reported that during the political campaign Donald Trump Jr. had received an email providing a web address and decryption key that would allow access hacked documents from WikiLeaks before the documents were publicly available. The report suggested cooperation. CNN first reported that the email to the Trumps arrived Sept. 4, but later corrected to say it was Sept. 14^th, one day after Wikileaks made the documents public.

Trump tweeted, “There are many outlets that are far more trusted than Fake News CNN. Their slogan should be CNN, THE LEAST TRUSTED NAME IN NEWS!”

Civil Rights: Protesters turned out and some civil rights leaders refused to attend yesterday when President Trump appeared in Jackson, Miss. for the opening of two civil rights museums.

Georgia and Mississippi Democratic representatives John Lewis and Bennie Thompson skipped the event, as did Derrick Johnson, president of the NAACP. They cited Trump’s racially divisive speeches and spotty civil rights record. Early in his real estate career, Trump refused to rent apartments to black tenants.

Monumental: A uranium mining company lobbied with the Trump administration to reduce the size of the Bears Ears National Monument in Utah to gain mining access, The Washington Post reports.

The monument established by President Obama is being reduced by 85 percent, more than a million acres.

The Post says, “The documents show that Energy Fuels Resources (USA) Inc., a subsidiary of a Canadian firm, urged the Trump administration to limit the monument to the smallest size needed to protect key objects and areas, such as archeological sites, to make it easier to access the radioactive ore.”

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, who is diminishing the influence of his own agency, has said the reduction of Bears Ears has nothing to do with energy development.

The Sports Page: Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield was awarded the Heisman Trophy last night in New York City, beating out Stanford running back Bryce Love and Louisville quarterback Lamar Jackson.

Mayfield is the first senior to win the award in 10 years and the first ever “walk-on” player. Imagine that. He arrived on campus as a student. — Army beat Navy for the second year in a row after having gone 14 years without winning the annual rivalry. Trailing 14-13, Navy missed a last-second 48-yard field goal. — A pitcher who can also hit has barely been seen in the major leagues since Babe Ruth 100 years ago. Now, a Japanese pitcher who purportedly can hit has chosen to join the Los Angeles Angels this coming season.

Shohei Ohtani, 23, picked the Angels from seven teams that wanted him. He spurned both the Yankees and the Red Sox for a smaller city, and possibly an airport closer to Japan. He gets a $2.31 million signing bonus and the rookie minimum wage of $545,000.

Yeah, but can he point over the fence and put it there?

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