Life Imitates Comedy (?)

Donald Trump's continued success in repelling Democrats' attempts to bring him down (25th Amendment, emoluments clause, Russian collusion, Ukraine, impeachment) and the fact that his policies have not, yet, resulted in disaster (tax cuts, regulatory rollbacks, immigration enforcement, tariffs, withdrawing from the Paris Accords and the Iran deal, talks with North Korea) have his reeling opponents imagining things, for example, that a public dispute between the President and Attorney General Barr is fake:

“Critics suggested Barr’s comments to ABC News were simply a coordinated attempt between him and Trump to defuse the outrage sparked by his Department of Justice’s botched sentencing recommendation for Trump’s longtime ally Roger Stone,” declared the Huffington Post, quoting a litany of liberals...

More amusing is the liberal depiction of Mr. Trump as a Machiavelli who is manipulating everyone in secret. Usually the line is that he’s an idiot.

The WSJ references an SNL skit from 1986, in which the doddering President Reagan reveals himself to be a mastermind in private.

Donald Trump isn't really that smart, right?