NY Giants Co-Owner Steve Tisch on national anthem protests: Trump ‘has no understanding of why they take a knee’!

Dear Commons Community,

The National Football League (NFL) and the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA) are in the throes of a negotiation over whether players can take a knee during the playing of the national anthem.  President Trump embroiled himself in the controversy on Friday by tweeting:

 “The NFL national anthem debate is alive and well again — can’t believe it!” Trump tweeted. “Isn’t it in contract that players must stand at attention, hand on heart? The $40,000,000 commissioner must now make a stand. First time kneeling, out for game. Second time kneeling, out for season/no pay!”

In response, New York Giants co-owner Steve Tisch said he will not punish his players for any anthem displays of protest and hopes that President Donald Trump will focus on other issues, he told The Hollywood Reporter:

“Hopefully he’ll have much more going on that he’s going have to deal with and should deal with and must deal with than worrying about what NFL players do,” Tisch told The Hollywood Reporter Tuesday night at the premiere of The Equalizer 2. “He has no understanding of why they take a knee or why they’re protesting. When the new season starts, I hope his priorities are not criticizing the NFL and telling owners what to do and what not to do.”

Tisch added a statement of support for his players:

“We support our players,” Tisch said. “They are not going to be punished. There is not going to be any punitive action taking place against them.”

His comments come during a week when issues surrounding the anthem have resurfaced in part due to a joint statement released by the NFL and NFPA Thursday. That statement included that there will be no new rules issued relating to the national anthem, and that none will be enforced over the “next several weeks” while they continue to have “confidential discussions.”

His comments also come a day after the Associated Press obtained an internal document saying that the Miami Dolphins could suspend players up to four games for kneeling.

NFL owners voted in May on a new anthem policy for the upcoming season, and the NFLPA has since filed an official grievance. The policy gives players the option of staying in the locker room during the national anthem if they don’t want to stand, and players who choose to remain on field will be required to stand.

But if a player or team employee is on the field during the anthem and chooses not to stand, that player’s franchise will be fined. Additionally, players and employees who choose to attend the anthem ceremonies but do not stand will also be eligible for a fine by their franchise, if the team chooses to levy one.

Tisch isn’t the only team official to say that he won’t punish players: New York Jets chairman Christopher Johnson said shortly after the new rule passed that he will pay any fines incurred by players who kneel.

Congratulations to Mr. Tisch, the NFl, and the NFLPA for trying to come to a mutually agreeable solution.

Tony

New White House Initiative on Workforce Development – Ivanka Trump Gets Skewered!

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This was a bad week for President Trump starting in Helsinki with a disastrous meeting with Russian President Putin and ending with the revelation that his former attorney, Michael Cohen,  taped some of their telephone conversations including one involving a payment to a former girlfriend.   However, on Thursday I thought with the announcement of a new workforce development initiative that there might be a positive blip for the President but it wasn’t to be.  He made the decision to have his daughter, Ivanka Trump be the point person for this new initiative. 

In response, the Democratic Party issued a scathing takedown of Ivanka Trump for gushing about the creation of American jobs while her own products are made exclusively overseas.

“While Ivanka Trump is busy writing op-eds calling on American companies to ‘create more jobs’ … workers in countries like Indonesia, China, Vietnam, Bangladesh, and India are busy, too — working in conditions below industry standards to manufacture clothing and shoes for the first daughter’s namesake brand,” said the statement issued Thursday by the Democratic National Committee.

The DNC statement, titled “Ivanka Trump Is A Hypocrite,” attacked the first daughter’s “faux feminism” and the reportedly poor working conditions and low wages at her overseas factories, which employ mostly women.

I hope the Trumps have a good weekend on the golf course.

Tony

Senate in 98-0 Vote Condemns Putin’s Request to Interview U.S. Officials!

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In a symbolic gesture of support, the U.S. Senate yesterday unanimousy (98-0) rejected Vladimir’s Putin’s request to question American officials including former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul.  The resolution is non-binding and has no force of law but sent a message to President Trump who had been considering the request since Monday. As reported by the Huffington Post.

“The Senate on Thursday rebuked President Donald Trump for considering Russian President Vladimir Putin’s request to allow Russian prosecutors to question U.S. officials, including veteran diplomat and former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul.

The unanimous 98-0 vote approving a resolution introduced by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) came shortly after the White House issued a statement saying that Trump disagreed with the proposal that he’d called an “incredible offer” just three days earlier at a summit with Putin in Helsinki.

“It is a proposal that was made in sincerity by President Putin, but President Trump disagrees with it,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in the statement. “Hopefully, President Putin will have the 12 identified Russians come to the United States to prove their innocence or guilt.”

On Wednesday, Huckabee Sanders told reporters that Trump was considering the exchange, despite swift backlash from diplomats and Democratic lawmakers.

“The president is going to meet with his team, and we’ll let you know when we have an announcement on that,” Huckabee Sanders said. “There was some conversation about it, but there wasn’t a commitment made on behalf of the United States.”

During his summit with Trump, Putin proposed allowing the U.S. to question the 12 Russian officials indicted in special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe in exchange for letting Russia interview 11 Americans, including McFaul and outspoken Kremlin critic Bill Browder.

In a joint press conference with Putin, Trump said that the Russian leader “offered to have the people working on the case come and work with their investigators with respect to the 12 people. I think that’s an incredible offer.”

Members of both parties roundly criticized Putin’s suspicious request and Trump’s refusal to decline it outright. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), a Trump ally, told CNN on Thursday that it would be “absurd” to allow Russia to question Americans over unfounded charges of financial crimes.

“The concept of letting American citizens being investigated for crimes that are just, I think, jokes is absurd,” he added. “The administration to even entertain this shows to me how naive they are about what’s actually going on in Russia.”

The resolution the Senate passed overwhelmingly on Thursday is nonbinding and has no force of law. Nevertheless, it sends Trump a message “against the making available of current and former diplomats, officials, and members of the Armed Forces of the United States for questioning by the government of Vladimir Putin,” according to the resolution text.”

One small step for the U.S. Senate!

Tony

Teachers College Study:  “Americans’ Views of Higher Education as a Public and Private Good!”

 

Dear Commons Community,

Researchers at Teachers College have just released the results of a national survey that examined Americans’ attitudes of the value of higher education.  Entitled Americans’ Views of Higher Education as a Public and Private Good, it reports that adults see higher education as a good investment. More than three‐quarters of respondents (76%) say public spending on higher education in the United States has been an excellent or good investment, with nearly half viewing public spending as an excellent investment. Some 17% say public spending on higher education has been a fair investment, and only 7% say it has not been a good investment.  However, there are differences across gender, race/ethnicity, age groups, parental status, and political ideology in respondents’ views towards public investment in higher education.  Summary of key findings are below.

Tony

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AMERICANS’ VIEWS OF HIGHER EDUCATION  AS A PUBLIC AND PRIVATE GOOD

Noah D. Drezner                        Oren Pizmony‐Levy                           Aaron Pallas

July 2018

American higher education sets itself apart from higher education in other countries based on its mission to contribute to the common good of society. Since their inception, American colleges and universities have been charged both with enabling talented individuals to advance through higher education and with enhancing the quality of American life through scientific discoveries and the invigoration of the American economy. Do Americans believe these promises have been met? Over the past decade, researchers have found a diversity of opinions across the political spectrum, but the evidence comes from a narrow set of public opinion questions.

This research brief seeks to extend our understanding of public views of American universities and colleges. We build on previous studies by distinguishing the role of colleges and universities in advancing our collective well‐being from the contributions of going to college for the particular students who attend. Americans may believe that college is good for society, but does not transform individual students and their life chances. Or, perhaps, they may believe that colleges and universities help their students get ahead, but don’t do much for the rest of us. These views about how higher education contributes to the public good and to private interests may shape their willingness to support public investment in higher education.

We consider three related issues: (a) Americans’ views towards public investment in higher education; (b) perceived contributions of higher education to American society (a public good) and to graduates (a private benefit); and (c) attitudes towards public spending on 2‐ and 4‐year institutions.

Views towards public investment in higher education

Overwhelmingly, American adults see public spending on higher education in the United States as a good investment. More than three‐quarters of respondents (76%) say public spending on higher education in the United States has been an excellent or good investment, with nearly half viewing public spending as an excellent investment (see Figure 2.1). Some 17% say public spending on higher education has been a fair investment, and only 7% say it has not been a good investment.

There are significant differences across gender, race/ethnicity, age groups, parental status, and political ideology in respondents’ views towards public investment in higher education (see Figure 2.2).

  1. Women are more likely than men to view public spending on higher education as an excellent investment. About half of women (48%) and approximately two‐fifths of men (39%) say public spending on higher education has been an excellent investment.
  2. Black and Latinx respondents are more likely than Whites to view public spending on higher education as an excellent investment. More than half (52%) of Blacks and about half (49%) of Latnix say public spending on higher education has been an excellent investment. Among Whites and Asian Americans, this figure drops to 41%.
  3. Younger adults are more likely than older adults to view public spending on higher education as an excellent investment. Approximately half (48%) of adults aged 18‐44 say public spending on higher education has been an excellent investment. Among respondents aged 50‐65, this figure drops to 40%.
  4. Liberals are more likely than conservatives to view public spending on higher education as a good investment. More than half (56%) of liberals say public spending on higher education has been an excellent investment, compared to 32% of conservatives and 45% of moderates.
  5. Respondents living in urban communities are more likely than respondents living in rural communities to view public spending on higher education as a good investment. More than half (52%) of residents of urban communities say public spending on higher education has been an excellent investment, compared to 41% of residents of suburbs and 32% of residents of rural communities.

 

 

George Will:  Donald Trump is a“sad, embarrassing wreck of a man!”

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Conservative columnist George Will in his column in today’s Washington Post, skewered President Trump after “the Donald’s” press conference with Vladimir Putin on Monday and referred to him as a “sad, embarrassing wreck of a man.”  Below is the entire column.  There is nothing I would add other than thank you, Mr. Will.

Tony

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“This sad, embarrassing wreck of a man.”

George Will

Washington Post – July 17, 2018

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America’s child president had a play date with a KGB alumnus, who surely enjoyed providing day care. It was a useful, because illuminating, event: Now we shall see how many Republicans retain a capacity for embarrassment.

Jeane Kirkpatrick, a Democrat closely associated with such Democratic national security stalwarts as former senator Henry Jackson and former senator and former vice president Hubert Humphrey, was President Ronald Reagan’s ambassador to the United Nations. In her speech at the 1984 Republican National Convention in Dallas, she explained her disaffection from her party: “They always blame America first.” In Helsinki, the president who bandies the phrase “America First” put himself first, as always, and America last, behind President Vladimir Putin’s regime.

Because the Democrats had just held their convention in San Francisco, Kirkpatrick branded the “blame America first” cohort as “San Francisco Democrats.” Thirty-four years on, how numerous are the “Helsinki Republicans”?

What, precisely, did President Trump say about the diametrically opposed statements by U.S. intelligence agencies (and the Senate Intelligence Committee) and by Putin concerning Russia and the 2016 U.S. elections? Precision is not part of Trump’s repertoire: He speaks English as though it is a second language that he learned from someone who learned English last week. So, it is usually difficult to sift meanings from Trump’s word salads. But in Helsinki he was, for him, crystal clear about feeling no allegiance to the intelligence institutions that work at his direction and under leaders he chose.

Speaking of Republicans incapable of blushing — those with the peculiar strength that comes from being incapable of embarrassment — consider Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (S.C.), who for years enjoyed derivative gravitas from his association with Sen. John McCain (Ariz.). Graham tweeted about Helsinki: “Missed opportunity by President Trump to firmly hold Russia accountable for 2016 meddling and deliver a strong warning regarding future elections.” A “missed opportunity” by a man who had not acknowledged the meddling?

Contrast Graham’s mush with this on Monday from McCain, still vinegary: “Today’s press conference in Helsinki was one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president in memory.” Or this from Arizona’s other senator, Jeff Flake (R): “I never thought I would see the day when our American president would stand on the stage with the Russian President and place blame on the United States for Russian aggression.”

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly, Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats and others might believe that they must stay in their positions lest there be no adult supervision of the Oval playpen. This is a serious worry, but so is this: Can those people do their jobs for someone who has neither respect nor loyalty for them?

Like the purloined letter in Edgar Allan Poe’s short story with that title, collusion with Russia is hiding in plain sight. We shall learn from special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation whether in 2016 there was collusion with Russia by members of the Trump campaign. The world, however, saw in Helsinki something more grave — ongoing collusion between Trump, now in power, and Russia. The collusion is in what Trump says (refusing to back the United States’ intelligence agencies) and in what evidently went unsaid (such as: You ought to stop disrupting Ukrainedowning civilian airlinersattempting to assassinate people abroad using poisons, and so on, and on).

Americans elected a president who — this is a safe surmise — knew that he had more to fear from making his tax returns public than from keeping them secret. The most innocent inference is that for decades he has depended on an American weakness, susceptibility to the tacky charisma of wealth, which would evaporate when his tax returns revealed that he has always lied about his wealth, too. A more ominous explanation might be that his redundantly demonstrated incompetence as a businessman tumbled him into unsavory financial dependencies on Russians. A still more sinister explanation might be that the Russians have something else, something worse, to keep him compliant.

The explanation is in doubt; what needs to be explained — his compliance — is not. Granted, Trump has a weak man’s banal fascination with strong men whose disdain for him is evidently unimaginable to him. And, yes, he only perfunctorily pretends to have priorities beyond personal aggrandizement. But just as astronomers inferred, from anomalies in the orbits of the planet Uranus, the existence of Neptune before actually seeing it, Mueller might infer, and then find, still-hidden sources of the behavior of this sad, embarrassing wreck of a man.

 

Former President Obama on Truth – No Basis for Cooperation without Facts!

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After President Trump’s jaw-dropping joint press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday, former President Barack Obama yesterday spoke  in Johannesburg, South Africa, and bemoaned the “utter loss of shame among political leaders who won’t quit lying.”

“Politicians have always lied, but it used to be if you caught them lying they’d be like, ’Oh, man,’” Obama said in a speech marking the 100th anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s birth. “Now they just keep on lying.”

“Unfortunately, too much of politics today seems to reject the very concept of objective truth,” he said. “People just make stuff up.”

The former president said such true-bending behavior can be seen in the “growth of state-sponsored propaganda” and “internet-driven fabrications”.

Obama never mentioned Trump or Putin once but his message was quite clear.  Check out the video above.   

Tony

Michelle Goldberg:  Trump is Putin’s “Lackey!”

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The fallout from President Trump’s disastrous meeting yesterday with President Putin is continuing fast and furious.  Above is the front page of today’s New York Daily News.  In an accompanying article, the conservative-leaning Daily News referred to Trump as “Benedict Donald.”  Below is an excerpt from a New York Times column written by Michelle Goldberg entitled,   “Trump Shows the World He’s Putin’s Lackey.”

“No matter how low your expectations for the summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin on Monday, it was hard not to be staggered by the American president’s slavish and toadying performance.

On Friday, the Justice Department indicted 12 members of Russia’s military intelligence service for a criminal conspiracy to interfere with the 2016 election and hurt Hillary Clinton’s campaign. The same day, Trump’s director of national intelligence, Dan Coats, gave a speech about America’s vulnerability to cyberattacks, particularly from Russia. “I’m here to say, the warning lights are blinking red again,” he said, comparing the threat to the one that preceded Sept. 11.

But standing beside Putin in Helsinki on Monday, Trump sided with the Russian president against American intelligence agencies while spewing lies and conspiracy theories. “He just said it’s not Russia,” he said of Putin’s denials. “I will say this. I don’t see any reason why it would be.” Continuing in a free-associative fugue, he asked, “What happened to the servers of the Pakistani gentleman that worked on the D.N.C.?” referring to a debunked right-wing claim about a former Democratic I.T. staffer. “What happened to Hillary Clinton’s emails? Thirty-three thousand emails gone, just gone. I think in Russia they wouldn’t be gone so easily.”

Perhaps the most sinister part of the news conference was Trump’s seeming openness to a deal in which F.B.I. investigators could question people in Russia in exchange for letting Russians question Putin critics in America. Putin referred specifically to associates of his arch-nemesis Bill Browder, a businessman (and British citizen) who has succeeded in getting seven countries, including the United States, to pass laws punishing Russian oligarchs suspected of corruption. (The Russians who met with members of the Trump campaign at Trump Tower in June 2016 wanted to discuss this law, the Magnitsky Act.)

 “I’ve known for a long time that Putin has been trying to use every trick in the book to get me arrested in a foreign country and extradited back to Russia,” Browder told me after the news conference. It’s chilling that Trump appeared willing to help Putin with his vendetta.

The news conference left observers reeling. John O. Brennan, a former director of the C.I.A., tweeted that Trump’s display was “nothing short of treasonous.” Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, described it as “one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president in memory.” Even some Trump partisans were aghast. Newt Gingrich decried it as the “most serious mistake” of Trump’s presidency.

While I was as shocked as everyone else, I shouldn’t have been. Trump’s behavior on Monday recalled his outburst at Trump Tower after the violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, when he insisted there were “very fine people” among the racist demonstrators. Both times, everything Trump said was in keeping with things he’d said before. The shocking part was his frankness. Then, as now, it forced, if just for a moment, a collective apprehension of just what a repulsive abomination this presidency is.

It’s always been obvious that Trump does not hold Russia’s hacking of the 2016 election, which he publicly encouraged and gleefully benefited from, against Putin. None of us yet know the exact contours of Trump’s relationship with Russia, whether Putin is his handler, his co-conspirator or just his hero. But it’s clear that Trump is willing to sell out American democracy for personal gain. After all, on July 27, 2016, he publicly called for Russia to find Clinton’s emails, and, thanks to Friday’s indictments, we now know Russia started trying to hack the domain used by her personal office that very day. Trump’s collusion with Russia has always been out in the open, daring us to recognize what’s in front of our faces.”

No one could have predicted that this president could stoop so low.

Tony

President Trump’s Press Conference with President Putin is Being Characterized as “Disgraceful,”  “Treasonous,” “Disgusting”!

 

 

Dear Commons Community,

The media and political establishment are coming out with guns ablaze and criticizing President Trump’s Press Conference with President Putin.  President Donald Trump’s performance left critics of all stripes howling.  Here are samples as reported by CNN and the Huffington Post.  The full press conference can be viewed above.

Trump refused to blame Putin for Moscow’s interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and told reporters that “both countries” were responsible for the poor state of their relations.

“I think we’ve all been foolish. I think we’re all to blame,” Trump said.

He reiterated that there was no collusion between his presidential campaign and Russia, slammed special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference in the election as a “disaster” and shared conspiracy theories about why it’s important for the FBI to take the Democratic National Committee’s computer server.

Putin agreed with Trump on many points, and Trump’s comments drew fierce criticism from Republicans and Democrats alike.

John Brennan, a CIA director under Barack Obama, called Trump’s performance “treasonous.”

Moments after the press conference, CNN’s Anderson Cooper said it was “one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president at a summit in front of a Russian leader.”

On Fox News Business, several guests reacted by saying that Putin outmaneuvered Trump during the summit.  On the channel, the network’s Neil Cavuto termed Trump’s performance “disgusting.”

George W. Bush’s press secretary Ari Fleischer, who often defends Trump, said he can understand why some Democrats believe Putin must have compromising information on Trump.

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) called Trump’s trip to Europe, which included contentious stops in the U.K. and Belgium, as “one giant middle finger” to the U.S.

Meghan McCain, a co-host of ABC’s “The View” and a daughter of Sen. John
McCain (R-Ariz.), tweeted that: “I don’t have anything quippy to tweet. I’m horrified – and have never been more proud of the fact that Putin hates my father so much he personally sanctioned him on Russia’s enemies list.”

Former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, a Republican, said Trump
“failed America today.”

“It’s a sad day for America,” Hagel said Monday during an appearance
on CNN. “Sad day for the world.”

Sad day indeed.  

Tony

 

David Leonhardt: New Study on New Orleans and Charter Schools!

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New York Times Op-Ed columnist, David Leonhardt has a piece this morning commenting on the success of charter schools in New Orleans.  The timing of his column coincides with the release of a new study coming out of Tulane University.  Here is an excerpt from the column.

“After Katrina’s devastation, New Orleans embarked on the most ambitious education overhaul in modern America. The state of Louisiana took over the system in 2005, abolished the old bureaucracy and closed nearly every school. Rather than running schools itself, the state became an overseer, hiring independent operators of public schools — that is, charter schools — and tracking their performance.

This month, the New Orleans overhaul entered a new stage. On July 1, the state returned control of all schools to the city. The charter schools remain. But a locally elected school board, accountable to the city’s residents, is now in charge. It’s a time when people in New Orleans are reflecting on what the overhaul has, and has not, accomplished.

So I decided to visit and talk with students, teachers, principals, community leaders and researchers. And I was struck by how clear of a picture emerged. It’s still a nuanced picture, with both positives and negatives. But there are big lessons.

New Orleans is a great case study partly because it avoids many of the ambiguities of other education reform efforts. The charters here educate almost all public-school students, so they can’t cherry pick. And the students are overwhelmingly black and low-income — even lower-income than before Katrina — so gentrification isn’t a factor.

Yet the academic progress has been remarkable.

Performance on every kind of standardized test has surged. Before the storm, New Orleans students scored far below the Louisiana average on reading, math, science and social studies. Today, they hover near the state average, despite living amid much more poverty. Nationally, the average New Orleans student has moved to the 37th percentile of math and reading scores, from the 22nd percentile pre-Katrina.

This week, Douglas Harris — a Tulane economist who leads a rigorous research project on the schools — just released a new study, with Matthew Larsen, another economist.*  It shows that the test-score gains are translating into real changes in students’ lives. High-school graduation, college attendance and college graduation have all risen.”   

As New Orleans enters its next phase of charter school public education, it will be watched closely by other cities around the country.

Tony

*NOTE:  Figure 1A above comes from the Harris-Larsen Study.

Maureen Dowd: “Donald Trump will be a sad aberration in American history, a mere blip. But, thanks to the cheeky citizens of London, he will always be a blimp.”

Dear Commons Community,

Maureen Dowd, New York Times columnist, today again set her sights on Donald Trump.   She referred to him as a “Manchurian candidate”.  To quote:

“Trump hugging Putin even as Putin stabs at our democracy is an incomprehensible mystery.

Flummoxed and craven Republicans scramble to go along with a president who has turned the traditional heroes and villains of the G.O.P. topsy-turvy, berating our European allies, NATO, the N.F.L., the F.B.I. and the C.I.A., and canoodling with the mendacious and scheming Russians.

On the eve of the Helsinki summit, which Trump has arranged as a very intime pas de deux, it is still befuddling and alarming to watch him kowtow to Putin.

Maybe he is the Manchurian candidate, in need of a hypnotic tuneup. “Will Trump be meeting with his counterpart — or his handler?” Jonathan Chait asks in his New York cover story.

Perhaps it’s an Oedipal thing, that Putin reminds Trump of his authoritarian father. Possibly it’s blackmail or his fear of people suspecting that Russia saved his businesses.”

Dowd’s best lines were her last:

“It’s hard to believe that the British have found someone to despise more than they despise George W. Bush and his poodle, Tony Blair. But they have. With their flair for satirical wit, they perfectly lampooned the loathed American president with “Trump Baby,” a 19-foot floating balloon in the shape of a wailing orange baby in a diaper holding a cellphone with Twitter on the screen.

There were dueling Trump babies — the real one and the blimp — when the president sucker punched his hostess. Trump gave Rupert Murdoch’s Sun an interview criticizing Prime Minister May on Brexit, threatening her on trade, praising her rival, Boris Johnson, and throwing in some white nationalist dog whistles as clotted cream on the crumpet.

Ever the Ugliest American, Trump tried his own version of crazy damage control at the Chequers news conference, declaring his taped Sun interview fake news and buttering the battered May with belated praise.

It is up for debate whether Donald Trump will be a sad aberration in American history, a mere blip. But, thanks to the cheeky citizens of London, he will always be a blimp.”

Ouch!

Tony