Last Man Standing: John Katich’s departure from the  Presidential race yesterday left Donald Trump as the only survivor of a political battle royal that started with 17 contestants. While Trump still needs to campaign and win 40 percent of the remaining delegates to hit the required 1,237, he is freer to attack Hillary Clinton, putting her in a crossfire with Bernie Sanders on the other side.

The NY Times reports that, in a series of interviews, Trump has laid out his plans for his first 100 days in office. They include, but are not limited to:

-Nominating a Supreme Court justice in the ultra-conservative mold of the late Antonin Scalia.

-Ordering a ban on visits by all foreign Muslims.

-Rescinding Barack Obama’s executive orders on immigration.

-Threatening corporate executives with sanctions if they move jobs out of the US.

-Moving to repeal Obamacare.

-Designing the wall for the Mexican border.

Breaking: The Rolling Stones have ordered Donald Trump to stop using their music at his events.

Reality Check: While Donald Trump came from political nowhere, that may also be where his journey ends. If current polling holds, Hillary Clinton would win the most populous states and take 347 Electoral College Votes to Trump’s 191. Clinton is trailing President Obama’s 2012 performance only in New York State.

Of course no one expected Trump would be where he is today. The orange-faced, yellow-haired candidate is like one of those translucent monsters in a Japanese B movie that absorbs every artillery shell and keeps coming.

Downfall of a Prince: In the last days of his life, the pop star Prince was so badly addicted to opioid pain medications that his staff sought emergency help from a noted addiction doctor, only to have it arrive the day of his death. A lawyer for Dr. Howard Kornfeld of California says that Kornfeld sent his son on a red-eye flight to meet with Prince about treatment. It was Andrew Kornfeld, who is not a doctor, who called 911 from Prince’s home to report than a man was dead in the elevator.

Prince was a vegetarian who did not use drugs or alcohol, and didn’t approve of the people around him using them either. The devout Jehovah’s Witness evidently harbored a fatal secret about his addiction.

Oh, Canada: With wildfire threatening the town, all 80,000 residents of Ft. McMurray in Alberta Canada were evacuated. There actually were walls of flame in the forests around the town and at least 1,600 structures, including homes, have burned.

Bathroom Break: The Justice Department has warned the State of North Carolina that its new “bathroom law” allowing discrimination against transgender people who need to pee is in violation of the federal Civil Rights Act. Title VII of the act prohibits discrimination by sex. The state could lose millions of dollars in federal funding if the law is not altered or repealed.

The Kool-Aid: President Obama took a drink of the public water from Flint, Mich., yesterday to demonstrate that it’s safe and he’s still alive. The contaminated water of the Flint River leached lead into the public water system. Of course, the question is not what the water does to the president with one sip, but what it does to a baby’s brain in a year.

Concrete Shoes: Killing a mob rival by encasing his feet in concrete and throwing him into the bay is probably more myth than fact. Of course, it’s hard to say. The bodies of people killed that way are not meant to be found. But a student walking along Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn the other day actually found a washed up body with its feet in concrete. The body had on its back a large tattoo of the Virgin Mary holding a rose. So far, no one claims to have known him.

High Counsel: In dropping out of the presidential race, John Kasich said “the Lord will show me the way forward” would show him the way forward in his life, although by that logic it was the Lord who showed him to the political exit.

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