Roseanne Barred: The revived sitcom “Roseanne” went from most popular to cancelled in a matter of hours yesterday after comedian Roseanne Barr posted a racist tweet about former White House adviser Valerie Jarrett.

The ABC television network killed the show and Barr’s talent agency ICM also dropped her.

The 65-year-old Barr had tweeted, “muslim brotherhood and planet of the apes had a baby=vj.” Jarrett, who is black, served as a close adviser to President Barack Obama.

ABC’s entertainment president, Channing Dungey, said in a statement that “Roseanne’s Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values.”

ABC already knew Barr was inconsistent with their values when they put her back on the air. She is a racist, anti-Semitic conspiracy nut.

Barr issued an apology for what she claimed was just a bad joke, but she was already done. She later blamed it on the sleep drug Ambien.

ABC wrote off some big money. Just two weeks ago “Roseanne” was the headliner in ABC’s pitch to advertisers for the fall season. The show made $45 million last year and could have done even better next year.

There was no choice for ABC, which is owned by the Walt Disney Company. Disney is trying to put a multi-colored face on its entertainment to mirror its customers and viewing audience.

In a public appearance yesterday Jarrett said, “Bob Iger, who’s the CEO of Disney, called me before the announcement. He apologized. He said that he had zero tolerance for that sort of racist, bigoted comment, and he wanted me to know before he made it public that he was canceling the show.”

Uncounted: The official death toll from Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico last fall is 64, but a Harvard study says the number of people who died in the hurricane and its aftermath is multiples of that.

The Harvard study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that people died in the months following the hurricane because of the lack of power, emergency communications, and drinkable water. By interviewing a sample of the population, researchers found a 62 percent increase in the death rate following the hurricane and estimate that the real number of deaths that can be attributed to the storm is  4,645 and possibly even more.

Angry and In Charge: Speaking at a campaign rally in Nashville last night President Trump railed against his usual targets; Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, MS-13 gangsters, John McCain, and what he claims were spies planted in his 2016 campaign. He asked the crowd, “So how do you like the fact they had people infiltrating our campaign? Can you imagine? Can you imagine? People infiltrating our campaign.”

They … meaning the FBI … did not infiltrate his campaign. They had an informant who did not work for the campaign ask a few people some questions to find out if Russians were influencing the campaign.

While blustering for devoted followers, Trump acts like a worried man. Yesterday he tweeted, “The Fake Mainstream Media has, from the time I announced I was running for President, run the most highly sophisticated & dishonest Disinformation Campaign in the history of politics. No matter how well WE do, they find fault. But the forgotten men & women WON, I’m President!”

His online rant included, “Sorry, I’ve got to start focusing my energy on North Korea Nuclear, bad Trade Deals, VA Choice, the Economy, rebuilding the Military, and so much more, and not on the Rigged Russia Witch Hunt that should be investigating Clinton/Russia/FBI/Justice/Obama/Comey/Lynch etc.”

International Ups and Downs: A top aide to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has flown to the US for talks about reviving direct talks between Kim and President Trump.

You never know which way things are going with Trump foreign policy. Despite a previous announcement that there’s a detente in the trade war between the US and China, the Trump administration announced yesterday it will proceed with tariffs placed on imported Chinese goods.

Rogues Roundup: Facing continuing investigation and possible impeachment, Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens has resigned. Although he was clearly involved in a lurid sex scandal, the decorated Navy SEAL and rising Republican star blamed his enemies for his downfall. — The NY Times reports that President Trump demanded that Attorney Gen. Jeff Sessions reverse himself days after his decision to recuse himself from the Russia investigation. Sessions was required by law to recuse himself. — The video game “Active Shooter” in which players rack up points killing kids and cops in a school has been withdrawn from the platform Stream because the game is … well, because it exists.

The Obit Page: Democratic political operative Dick Tuck, whose name was once synonymous with political dirty tricks played against Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and other Republicans has died at age 94.

Starting in the 1950s, Tuck was the Democrats’ merry trickster, doing his best to make fools of Republicans. He sent infiltrators to campaign stops, issued phony press releases, and started damaging rumors.

The morning after the famous Nixon/Kennedy television debate, Tuck paid a woman to sidle up to Nixon in front of reporters, give him a hug and say, “That’s all right, son. Kennedy beat you last night, but don’t worry. You’ll get him next time!”

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