Trumps anti-gun violence program

In their reaction to the Florida high school shooting, Trump and his team have outdone themselves. Trump met with high school students from the Florida school and nodded sympathetically, consulting his notes which told him to act in that fashion. Then he had one of his show and tell meetings with legislators, Displaying a willingness to take several measures and showing no fear about the NRA. Then, of course he had a really good very very good incredible meeting with the NRA and started walking back his position. He seems nearly obsessed about videogames and whether they create a tendency towards violence. Apparently he is a Platonist and is worried about inflaming the passions. Just kidding, he probably thinks Plato is a gooey substance children play with just as he probably believes AI does not refer to artificial intelligence but is a steak sauce.

Firmly taking control of the situation, he is forming a commission to study the problem of gun violence. You won't believe who is heading it up so I'll tell you-none other than Betsy Devos. Now we knew after her confirmation hearing that she was totally ignorant about education policy but this Sunday on 60 minutes she demonstrated that not only is she ignorant she is really stupid. It was hard to watch her attempting to answer questions from Lesley Stahl. These were not difficult questions but she was totally clueless. It was embarrassing.

Meanwhile Trump launched his trade war. He will impose on the wholy fallacious grounds of national security tariffs on steel and aluminum. But maybe not on all of the exporters to the United States, but maybe on all of them. You may recall that during the campaign on the advice of Peter Navarro his primary bête noire was China and its currency manipulations. Navarro at that time claimed that all the economic problems of the United States, mainly imaginary ones, would be solved if there was no trade deficit with China. Navarro's most recent pronouncement was that his role as economic adviser was to provide a theoretical underpinning to whatever notion popped into Donald Trump's head. He is a sort of economic counterpart to kellyanne and Sarah in their roles of cleaning up messes. There was an interesting article in the recent issue of the economist about China and that what was needed was a concerted action by the Western democracies and our Asian Friends to put pressure on China to behave. Trump has decided to punish our allies rather indiscriminately when he should be consulting with them and maybe learning something although the odds are against that.

Trump has now announced he is off to have a sitdown with the fearless leader of North Korea. Rumor has it that he is asked  Corleone Family to arrange  secure place to have such a meeting. We await breathlessly further developments on this frolic.