Trump Presidency: Wrapping Itself Around Its Own Axle

There's no keeping up any more. Trump and his guys are stonewalling the investigation into Russian collusion, and every day chunks of that stone wall crack, crumble, and silt down into a pile of useless dust. It'll be that slow process of dissolution that ultimately destroys this administration. Trump already seems well past his sell-by date. That Gallup tracking poll smells of soured and curdled milk.

Trump now seems desperate to distract people from the other truth: He's a loser. A loser with the magic touch: He turns others into losers too.

Sean Spicer.

Devin Nunes.

General Michael Flynn.

“If you’re not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for, right?”

--Donald Trump last September, at a campaign rally in Orlando 

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“Mike Flynn should ask for immunity...."

 --Donald Trump, yesterday morning

Devin Nunes is the perfect deer in the headlights. Leave it to Beaver to get called up to the White House to look at some secret papers that kind of, maybe, might suggest that Trump was spied on before the election and then trot back up to the White House to brief the White House on what the White House just showed him. Devin Nunes has ruined himself. When will he join Sean Spicer as a caricature on Saturday Night Live?

Seen on Facebook recently: "Dammit, Trump should not be allowed to appoint a justice his last year in office."

"First, We Get the Power, and Then We Ban the Press"

"We have a respect for the press," said Sean Spicer, soon after his boss had won the presidency but before the inauguration, and we would never ever not ever ban any press from its own government. That would just be wrong.

But that was then.