let s bring in phil wegmann. this is bilateral bonding before business, if you will, if i were a headline writer. the headline has been picture perfect so far. so far. i think we are seeing this is the beginning of the beautiful friendship between president trump and president emmanuel macron. it would not surprise me at the end of the visit that trump may be a francophile. he is an old business guy. he is used to dealing with the same people that trump has dealt with in business. by talking about cutting deals like business men and not p politicians, i think this could lead to policy changes from
the golf courses he s developed. so you ve got to think he s a headline writer going way back. twitter is his version of tabloid newspaper headlines. so he produces it. he wants to appear in the media constantly. and i think until the presidency, this was a measure of success for him. the problem, as senator collins mentioned in your previous piece, is that he has to learn how to be the president now and achieve actual things, and that s a much different thing from ginning up a fake time magazine cover or seeking awards, which he also did avidly, from organizations that he created. so it s a steep learning curve for a man whose background is promotion. we mentioned that time magazine asked the trump organization to take them down. do we know, have they? i heard from a trump club in virginia, that one has been taken down. i don t know about the rest.
once in 1989. so he might have been counting this fake cover as a real one. so it s possible that trump was not even in on the joke that he thought it was real and somebody fooled him. michael, do you think as some are saying that this just underscores howpresident wants and praise of the media? despite all the anti-media rhetoric, he consumes more media than anybody i ve ever heard of. you think about the activities of his life, they involve around publicity seeking that far exceeds the developments that he s built or the golf courses he s developed. so you ve got to think he s a headline writer going way back. twitter is his version of tabloid newspaper headlines. so he produces it.
to that because you re trying to make the case trump is to blame. david, is he or not? the easiest job in america right now is the headline writer for the new york times because every day you come in to write a headline that question the ability of president trump to govern or as we saw the past weekend his whole agenda is up in the air because of what happened last week with health care. nothing really about the number of jobs that have are being created in america, or what he s trying to do to make america more secure or nothing about the increased defense spending and no positive headlines on the infrastructure bill he s looking to do. none of that. bill, let me say this bill: it s remarkable. thomas jefferson would be proud of his democratic party because he had to go by a newspaper but has political operatives to report on the
it is logic. by definition, you want their opponent to lose. new definition to political football. red raiders trying to keep the chains moving. the football program tweeted this out. not sure what s going on, but we want the red raiders to win and our opponents to lose. #comeyhearing. if that wasn t enough, president trump talked about colin kaepernick in louisville. bizarre day. sports are everywhere. i love the political football. you could be a headline writer. spring may be here, but the icy blast for the northeast by the end of the week. meteorologist pedram javaheri. dave and christine, across the northeast, big changes in the forecast the next couple days. winter trying to hang in there although we are in spring. a couple shots of cold air on wednesday night into thursday. extremely short lived.