Trumpworld’s seams haven’t come apart, but they’re getting looser now that Trump Co.’s CFO has been subpoenaed.
Mike Pompeo and John Bolton apparently see their job the same way their predecessors did: Damage control and toxic cleanup.
How did the Europeans talk Trump off the trade-war ledge? Apparently by using colorful cue cards to walk him through the complexities. Also, the EU president told him, “If you want to be stupid, I can be stupid as well.”
From the Schadenfreude files, grade-A dirtbag “Papa” John Schnatter has filed suit in Delaware Chancery Court against the company’s board of directors. He’s also claiming he didn’t “use” the N-word but was just quoting Col. Sanders, which might make more of a difference if he hadn’t quoted Sanders to try to exonerate his own bad behavior.
Despite the gay-panic response of Delaware politicians, the right of transgender people to use the proper school bathroom has been upheld again by a federal court.
Finally, in science news that could not possibly be any cooler, astrophysicists studying stars that orbit the massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy again affirmed Einstein’s theory of relativity.