The trophies from the US Open's men's and women's singles championships gleam against the backdrop of the Brooklyn Bridge and Lower Manhattan. Tim Camuso/USTA
From left to right: Michael Cohen, President Donald J. Trump and Michael Cohen as they appeared on money.cnn.com.
It’s hard to tell which movie we’re watching nowadays. Is it “All the President’s Men,” with some speaking of President Donald J. Trumpet as an “unindicted co-conspirator,” implicated by former personal lawyer Michael Cohen in payoffs to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal to influence the election? Is it “The Godfather,” with Donnie Two Scoops speaking of former campaign manager Paul “Paulie Smart Suits” Manafort as if he were a loyal capo (as opposed to that weasel Cohen)?
Read MoreCaption: A typically low-key Veterans Day Parade in the U.S. of A., this one in Baltimore in 2016. Photograph by Elvert Barnes.
Cue Babs Streisand and all the other great Dollys going back to Carol Channing.
Or perhaps a song from another Streisand musical would be more appropriate.
President Donald J. Trumpet has been forced to cancel a parade for himself, er, veterans due to costs that have been estimated to run as high as $92 million….
Read MoreCaption: Omarosa Manigault Newman plugging her Trump tell-all on “Today.” Photograph by Eduardo Munoz Alvarez for Getty Images.
Some members of the San Francisco 49ers kneeling during "The Star-Spangled Banner" before a game against the Washington Redskins at FedEx Field in Landover, Maryland on Oct. 15, 2017. Photograph by Keith Allison.
Wildfires still burning out of control in California. Some border babies still not reunited with their parents. Markets reeling from Turkey’s plummeting economy, pushed further down by Trumpian tariffs.
But thank God President Donald J. Trumpet has made us safe from kneeling NFL players….
Read MoreAaron Rodgers, seen here in action against the Carolina Panthers on Oct. 19, 2014, is one of the latest people to respond to President Donald J. Trump's criticism of LeBron James. He thinks we should take a stoic approach. But should we? Photograph by Mike Morebeck.
Francisco Goya’s “The Third of May 1808,” an 1814 oil on canvas in the Museo Nacional del Prado, commemorates the horrific response to Spaniards resisting Napoleonic rule
