Political Fun House: Now that former reality show host Donald Trump is in reality the Presumptive Republican Presidential Nominee, President Obama yesterday asked journalists to take The Donald seriously. “This is not entertainment. This is not a reality show,” Obama said at the White House. “This is a contest for the presidency of the United States. Every candidate, every nominee, needs to be subject to exacting standards and genuine scrutiny.”

Obama said reporters need to stop focusing on “the spectacle and the circus” instead of the serious issues. He said Trump has “a long record that needs to be examined.”

Jennifer Steinhauer writes in the NY Times that House Speaker Paul Ryan’s reluctance to endorse Trump for president may be less a warning shot than his final word. She says, “It is likely that only substantial changes in Mr. Trump’s language and tenor, not just minor calibrations on policy positions, will be needed to bring Mr. Ryan to his camp.”

The hemorrhaging of support continued yesterday. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham said they would not vote for Trump. It may not matter. Trump got to where he is by defying political gravity and the stodgy white men who run the party.

Econ 101: The stock market dipped yesterday then recovered after the Labor Department announced that the number of new jobs in April hit a seven year low. Non-farm jobs grew by 160,000; the smallest gain since last September. The unemployment rate held at five percent.

Having nothing to do with the job market, the tech companies Twitter and Square have lost a combined $3.7 billion in value over the past two weeks. Founder Jack Dorsey has lost $355 million, but don’t feel bad for him. There’s more where that came from.

Nation: Alabama’s Chief Justice Roy Moore has been suspended from office for urging probate judges to ignore the law and refuse to issue same-sex marriage licenses. Alabama’s judicial oversight body says Moore “flagrantly disregarded and abused his authority.” It’s the second time for Moore. In 2003, he lost the chief justice chair for ignoring a federal court order to remove a two-ton version of the Ten Commandments he had installed in the rotunda of the state judicial building.

Unfashionable: The shopping mall clothing chain Aeropostale has filed for bankruptcy, joining other big chains, as the crisis continues for retailers that focus on teenagers. It’s like, uuuh, I mean, no one wants to go to the mall anymore. Other chains that have filed in recent years include Pacific Sunwear, Quicksilver, and Wet Seal.

Evidently, teenagers are not shopping as much as they used to, and when they do, they do it online. And vacant stores spell further doom for shopping malls.

Changing Guard: The city of London has for the first time in its history elected a Muslim mayor. The Labour Party’s Sadiq Khan replaces the colorful and outspoken mayor Boris Johnson, who with his mop of hair, has been a bit of the Donald Trump of London. The city has 8.6 million residents, a million of them Muslim. Khan has been a bus driver and a human rights lawyer.

Working: “Prostitute” or “sex worker? A lengthy article in tomorrow’s NY Times Magazine poses the question of whether voluntary prostitution should be legal. As Emily Bazelon writes, advocates of the trade say legalization will bring sex professionals out of hiding and the oppression that goes with doing something illegal for a living. Changing the name of the job from prostitute to sex worker puts a stamp of respectability on it.

Feminists have traditionally campaigned to “free” women from prostitution, but the advocates say women should also be free to make their living their own way. Bazelon writes, “It’s a pragmatic argument. But the sex-workers’ movement also hinges on an ideological conviction — the belief that the criminal law should not be used here as an instrument of punishment or shame, because sex work isn’t inherently immoral or demeaning. It can even be authentically feminist.”

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