Donald Trump swings and misses

| 11:40 pm EST March 9, 2018
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We’ve seen it before and we’ll see it again, as long as Trump is allowed to occupy the White House under false pretenses. How many times have we witnessed news stories that drive Donald Trump to conniptions, making him immediately label reports as fake news? Trump then goes into rope a dope mode with the media, feeding them a fresh news story that will temporarily top the news he doesn’t want out there. It’s the shiny object maneuver that worked so well in the early days of Trump’s White House, but now it’s become predictable and tiresome.

This latest dangling carrot is his proposed talks with North Korea and the super-hyped idea of denuclearization in North Korea, which was quickly dismissed by the “fool me no more” media, with an “I’ll believe it when I see it” stance. Let’s analyze this for a second. The Stormy Daniels scandal is dominating the Trump news lately and was made even more germane by blundering Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, or as I like to refer to her, The Lying Gargoyle of Dullness.

This Stormy Daniels story is growing with each passing day and digging a bigger hole for Trump, thanks to Huckabee Sanders and his attorney Michael Cohen, who is still waiting to get paid back. Cohen might as well write that off on his taxes as a bad personal loan, but more importantly it may become his paid vacation ticket to Club Fed Prison.

I guess it was a nice try by Donald Trump and The White House to again make Trump look good in the press and divert the attention from the damaging and daily breaking Stormy Daniels news. By breaking the “looky here” North Korea news late in the day, The White House was able to spin the dirt off the front page for a day, but I expect the focus to be right back on Stormy Daniels tomorrow. Since Trump likes to label all news he doesn’t like as fake, I think it’s time we and the media label these Trumped up false stories as Trump’s White House “Ruse News.” –– Frank V. D’Ambra is the author of the books Annihilation and The Pledge