Morning Reads for Friday, February 10, 2017

The GOP’s best and brightest could do no better than phoning it in in identifying the seven countries in the immigration Executive Order. The administration’s argument that it need provide no evidence to a Court with respect to that order, other than it was the Great Trumpkin’s prerogative, exemplifies the nimble and sharp as a bowling legal arguments that will Make America Great Again.

Ivanka’s fashions were discontinued at Nordstrom’s because they weren’t selling, so naturally the businessman President was compeled to tweet that it was politics and not business and not fair. The tweet reassured Trump supporters that Trump has stepped away from his businesses, what with Ivanka being told the line was being discontinued last month, and Trump not tweeting about it until it until recently. It’s all good, since Ivanka’s fashions belong at Family Dollar, because all indications are that this Presidency is about generating Family Dollars.

Trump’s Nordstrom tweet cued Kellyanne Conway to act in her capacity as Presidential advisor to do a commercial for Ivanka’s fashions. Don’t underestimate Conway’s salesmanship. She just sold Trump rubes a line about a terrorist “Bowling Green Massacre” not getting covered when there wasn’t any Bowling Green massacre, in response to Trump complaining the media wasn’t choosing to report terrorist attacks earlier in the week.