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It says, &#x201C;FLOTUS.&#x201D; Unlike her husband&#x2019;s hat, it is not yet available for sale at the Trump-Pence campaign website.</p><div data-reactid="220"><div class="embed block row social-twitter"><blockquote class="embed twitter-embed-component twitter-tweet twitter-tweet" lang="en" data-type="twitter" data-url="https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/902570317528276992"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/902570317528276992">https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/902570317528276992</a></p></blockquote></div></div><p data-reactid="221"><em>The original article continues below.</em></p><p data-reactid="222">A curious photo was taken outside the White House Tuesday morning, as <strong><a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/people/donald-trump#intcid=dt-hot-link">Donald Trump</a></strong> and <strong>Melania Trump</strong> boarded a flight to Texas, where they were to be briefed on the devastation of Hurricane Harvey in nearby Houston. The President&#x2018;s clothes&#x2014;khakis, windbreaker, and sturdy shoes&#x2014;say, &#x201C;I know what&#x2019;s going on, at least.&#x201D; And then there&#x2019;s Melania. Her aviator sunglasses and army green jacket say, &#x201C;Business,&#x201D; and, &#x201C;Let&#x2019;s get down to business,&#x201D; and, &#x201C;Hello, my name is <strong>Tom Cruise</strong> and I&#x2019;m here to give you the business.&#x201D; The heels scream, &#x201C;Who&#x2019;s in for brunch?&#x201D;</p><div data-reactid="223"><div class="embed block row social-twitter"><blockquote class="embed twitter-embed-component twitter-tweet twitter-tweet" lang="en" data-type="twitter" data-url="https://twitter.com/aravosis/status/902520081481129986"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/aravosis/status/902520081481129986">https://twitter.com/aravosis/status/902520081481129986</a></p></blockquote></div></div><div data-reactid="224"><div class="embed block row social-twitter"><blockquote class="embed twitter-embed-component twitter-tweet twitter-tweet" lang="en" data-type="twitter" data-url="https://twitter.com/MatthewSchneier/status/902524120650395650"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/MatthewSchneier/status/902524120650395650">https://twitter.com/MatthewSchneier/status/902524120650395650</a></p></blockquote></div></div><p data-reactid="225">This is an unprecedented moment. Hurricane Harvey has inundated the Houston area with <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/28/us/houston-flooding-harvey.html">30 inches</a> or more of rain fall in some areas. Texas Governor <strong>Greg Abbott</strong> called &#x201C;one of the largest disasters America has ever faced.&#x201D; Thousands have lost all they have. At least ten have lost their lives. It&#x2019;s times like these that what a politicians or their entourage wears matters the least, but ironically, when it matters the most. Just think of <strong><a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/people/george-w-bush#intcid=dt-hot-link">George W. Bush</a></strong> in the instantly iconic &#x201C;Mission Accomplished&#x201D; flight suit, or the fact that something called &#x201C;tanghazi&#x201D; emerged when <strong><a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/people/barack-obama#intcid=dt-hot-link">Barack Obama</a></strong> wore a tan suit to a White House press briefing. The optics of leadership has not been this administration&#x2019;s strong suit, despite the self-proclaimed marketing genius at its helm.</p><div data-reactid="226"><div class="embed block row social-twitter"><blockquote class="embed twitter-embed-component twitter-tweet twitter-tweet" lang="en" data-type="twitter" data-url="https://twitter.com/eveewing/status/902545197980160000"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/eveewing/status/902545197980160000">https://twitter.com/eveewing/status/902545197980160000</a></p></blockquote></div></div><div data-reactid="227"><div class="embed block row social-twitter"><blockquote class="embed twitter-embed-component twitter-tweet twitter-tweet" lang="en" data-type="twitter" data-url="https://twitter.com/MiriamElder/status/902547410018291712"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/MiriamElder/status/902547410018291712">https://twitter.com/MiriamElder/status/902547410018291712</a></p></blockquote></div></div><p data-reactid="228">To be fair, did Melania have any other option? 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It says, &#x201C;FLOTUS.&#x201D; Unlike her husband&#x2019;s hat, it is not yet available for sale at the Trump-Pence campaign website.</p>","isEmbed":false,"type":"p"},{"content":"<div class=\"embed block row social-twitter\"><blockquote class=\"embed twitter-embed-component twitter-tweet twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" data-type=\"twitter\" data-url=\"https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/902570317528276992\"><p><a href=\"https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/902570317528276992\">https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/902570317528276992</a></p></blockquote></div>","isEmbed":false,"type":"div"},{"content":"<p><em>The original article continues below.</em></p>","isEmbed":false,"type":"p"},{"content":"<p>A curious photo was taken outside the White House Tuesday morning, as <strong><a href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/people/donald-trump#intcid=dt-hot-link\">Donald Trump</a></strong> and <strong>Melania Trump</strong> boarded a flight to Texas, where they were to be briefed on the devastation of Hurricane Harvey in nearby Houston. The President&#x2018;s clothes&#x2014;khakis, windbreaker, and sturdy shoes&#x2014;say, &#x201C;I know what&#x2019;s going on, at least.&#x201D; And then there&#x2019;s Melania. Her aviator sunglasses and army green jacket say, &#x201C;Business,&#x201D; and, &#x201C;Let&#x2019;s get down to business,&#x201D; and, &#x201C;Hello, my name is <strong>Tom Cruise</strong> and I&#x2019;m here to give you the business.&#x201D; The heels scream, &#x201C;Who&#x2019;s in for brunch?&#x201D;</p>","isEmbed":false,"type":"p"},{"content":"<div class=\"embed block row social-twitter\"><blockquote class=\"embed twitter-embed-component twitter-tweet twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" data-type=\"twitter\" data-url=\"https://twitter.com/aravosis/status/902520081481129986\"><p><a href=\"https://twitter.com/aravosis/status/902520081481129986\">https://twitter.com/aravosis/status/902520081481129986</a></p></blockquote></div>","isEmbed":false,"type":"div"},{"content":"<div class=\"embed block row social-twitter\"><blockquote class=\"embed twitter-embed-component twitter-tweet twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" data-type=\"twitter\" data-url=\"https://twitter.com/MatthewSchneier/status/902524120650395650\"><p><a href=\"https://twitter.com/MatthewSchneier/status/902524120650395650\">https://twitter.com/MatthewSchneier/status/902524120650395650</a></p></blockquote></div>","isEmbed":false,"type":"div"},{"content":"<p>This is an unprecedented moment. Hurricane Harvey has inundated the Houston area with <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/28/us/houston-flooding-harvey.html\">30 inches</a> or more of rain fall in some areas. Texas Governor <strong>Greg Abbott</strong> called &#x201C;one of the largest disasters America has ever faced.&#x201D; Thousands have lost all they have. At least ten have lost their lives. It&#x2019;s times like these that what a politicians or their entourage wears matters the least, but ironically, when it matters the most. Just think of <strong><a href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/people/george-w-bush#intcid=dt-hot-link\">George W. Bush</a></strong> in the instantly iconic &#x201C;Mission Accomplished&#x201D; flight suit, or the fact that something called &#x201C;tanghazi&#x201D; emerged when <strong><a href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/people/barack-obama#intcid=dt-hot-link\">Barack Obama</a></strong> wore a tan suit to a White House press briefing. The optics of leadership has not been this administration&#x2019;s strong suit, despite the self-proclaimed marketing genius at its helm.</p>","isEmbed":false,"type":"p"},{"content":"<div class=\"embed block row social-twitter\"><blockquote class=\"embed twitter-embed-component twitter-tweet twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" data-type=\"twitter\" data-url=\"https://twitter.com/eveewing/status/902545197980160000\"><p><a href=\"https://twitter.com/eveewing/status/902545197980160000\">https://twitter.com/eveewing/status/902545197980160000</a></p></blockquote></div>","isEmbed":false,"type":"div"},{"content":"<div class=\"embed block row social-twitter\"><blockquote class=\"embed twitter-embed-component twitter-tweet twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" data-type=\"twitter\" data-url=\"https://twitter.com/MiriamElder/status/902547410018291712\"><p><a href=\"https://twitter.com/MiriamElder/status/902547410018291712\">https://twitter.com/MiriamElder/status/902547410018291712</a></p></blockquote></div>","isEmbed":false,"type":"div"},{"content":"<p>To be fair, did Melania have any other option? She&#x2019;s rarely seen in flats. Have we confirmed whether or not her foot is part stiletto? That sometime in the early aughts, exhausted by the whole putting shoes on and taking shoes off rigmarole, she just installed a five-inch steal rod in her heel? Can someone check, please?</p>","isEmbed":false,"type":"p"},{"content":"<p>Regardless, with Melania having <a href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2017/08/melania-trump-michelle-obama-j-crew\">taken a style cue from <strong>Michelle Obama</strong> just days ago</a>, now is an auspicious time for the First Lady to find even more inspiration in her predecessor. 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A gifted broadcaster and hallowed comedian, Letterman’s series promised to be a rich meal where, often, the late-night sphere from which he departed in 2015 can feel like a series of ephemeral snacks. On traditional televised talk series, the interviews are shorter and more promotional: politicians looking for exposure with a certain audience; actors promoting movies or, more recently, defending themselves against allegations of unsavory conduct; and, occasionally, authors hawking a book. Letterman’s show, on the other hand, promised to go deeper: intimate, in-depth interviews with whomever Letterman deemed interesting, regardless of the topic of the day. Unfortunately, the series fails to live up to that mission with its first episode, which debuted on Netflix Friday. Letterman’s sit-down with <strong>Barack Obama</strong> revealed very little that has not been widely known about the former president for years&#8212;and although their conversation yearned to be topical, flitting from Russian interference with American politics, to racism, to voting rights, neither mentioned <strong>Donald Trump</strong> by name.</p>\n<p><em>My Next Guest</em>’s format is largely what fans likely expected: Letterman and his guest speak on a sparse, unadorned stage before a live audience. Their talk is interwoven with a field piece Letterman did, in which he walks across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama with Georgia Congressman <strong>John Lewis.</strong> The closest Letterman came to calling out the current president was when he asked Lewis, “Without being just flat-out specific about it, how big a setback is the current administration [to civil rights]?” At times like these, Letterman’s avoidance of the “T” word verges on awkwardness. It’s unclear whether Letterman and his guests agreed beforehand not to mention the president or not, but if referencing Trump was always off the table, one has to wonder why Letterman chose to focus on the subjects that he did.</p>\n<p>Apart from a few more personal discussions of subjects already widely covered, such as Obama’s childhood and his book, <em>Dreams from My Father,</em> the bulk of the interview centered on current events and issues. For instance, the two discussed Russian interference in American media and politics; as Obama put it, “One of the biggest challenges we have to our democracy is the degree to which we don’t share a common baseline of facts. . . What the Russians exploited, but it already here, is we are operating in completely different information universes. If you watch Fox News, you are living on a different planet than you are if you listen to NPR.” As Letterman asked Lewis how big of a setback he thinks we’re enduring, a photo of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia appeared on screen&#8212;but Letterman never directly referenced it. As Obama discussed how voter suppression is, in many ways, built into American democracy, neither mentioned, say, the <a href=\"http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/12/reports-of-voter-suppression-tactics-pour-in-from-alabama-election/\">reports</a> of voter suppression during Alabama’s recent election&#8212;or current Attorney General <strong>Jeff Sessions’s</strong> <a href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/08/07/jeff-sessions-this-time-its-personal\">record</a> in that vein. Although Letterman is too experienced and too wry by nature to engage in outright platitudes, his series’s premiere feels like a lot of generalities and old news masquerading as something more profound.</p>\n<p>In all fairness, interviewing a person like Obama is tricky; it can be difficult to find subjects that others have not thoroughly explored multiple times over. It will be worth sticking around to find out how Letterman relates to his upcoming subjects: <strong>George Clooney,</strong> <strong>Malala Yousafzai,</strong> <strong>Jay-Z,</strong> <strong>Tina Fey,</strong> and <strong>Howard Stern.</strong> But this is Obama’s first televised interview since leaving office. Surely, there should have been <em>some</em> new material to be mined from this. The expectations will likely be a little different, as will the range of topics the interviews can cover. 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Wahlberg, who likely had no idea what Williams earned before the controversy erupted, ended up <a href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/01/mark-wahlberg-donated-his-hefty-all-the-money-in-the-world-reshoot-salary-to-times-up-michelle-williams\">donating his re-shoot salary</a> to Time’s Up.</p>\n<p>Missing from the scrum, though, was a simple fact: actor remuneration often comes down not only to an entrenched gender bias, but also to the quote system&#8212;i.e. how a star’s initial salary is calculated in the first place. And often that quote is only the beginning of what determines how much an actor makes on a given movie.</p>\n<p>In Hollywood parlance, an actor’s “quote” means the base amount of zeroes it will take to get above-the-line talent&#8212;shorthand for a film’s creatives&#8212;to show up on set. (Below-the-line workers, i.e. crew members and those who work on technical aspects like hair, makeup, and special effects, receive a salary based on union rates.) In a communication leaked during the 2014 Sony Pictures e-mail hack, then-Columbia Pictures co-president of production <strong>Hannah Minghella</strong> mused about what to offer Wahlberg for an un-produced film called <em>Uncharted.</em> “Mark was paid 17M on <em>Transformers</em> but before that his highest quote was 12M (which we paid him on <em>The Other Guys</em>),” the e-mail reads. “We think 12M is the number.” The “M,” naturally, stands for million.</p>\n<p>But blockbusters with a $210 million production budget, like <em>Transformers: Age of Extinction,</em> are quote anomalies due to simple box-office math: <em>Transformers</em> brought in more than $1 billion worldwide, while <em>Guys</em> topped out at $170 million. That’s why in this case, Wahlberg was being offered his previous high-water mark of $12 million. Michelle Williams&#8212;who favors artier fare and has yet to star in a franchise&#8212;likely has a quote well below Wahlberg’s, despite her reputation and four Oscar nominations. Prestige and awards don’t necessarily equal a raise for actors.</p>\n<p>No matter how high it is, a quote is a number that an actor’s representation is constantly trying to jack up&#8212;a never-ending cache of money and extras to be forever bested. “Agents build quotes and fight for things in each successful deal that then become bedrock,” says one veteran producer. This is also how agents, who skim 10 percent of their clients’ takes, earn more themselves.</p>\n</section><section class=\"content-section\" data-type=\"section\"><p>Early screen artists barely got paid at all. During Hollywood’s so-called Golden Age, i.e. the 1920s through the early 1960s, every studio cultivated a “star system”&#8212;a process of grooming and exploiting actors with long-term contracts at a base salary. Moguls referred to contracted performers as “properties”&#8212;which left no doubt where the balance of power lay. Case in point: Marilyn Monroe, under contract with 20th Century Fox, reportedly made $18,000&#8212;her usual contracted $1,500 per week&#8212;for 1953’s <em>Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.</em> Monroe’s co-star Jane Russell, who was a freelance player, banked $100,000.</p>\n<p>By the late 1950s, the studio system was in free fall, a vacuum soon filled by the rise of the agent. Figures like Lew Wasserman, chairman of the once-omnipotent M.C.A. talent agency, worked to re-write legal fine print for their clients’ benefit. In 1959, up-and-comer Paul Newman found himself chafing under his studio’s leash and its $17,500 salary&#8212;especially when he was <a href=\"http://variety.com/2008/film/markets-festivals/film-icon-paul-newman-dies-at-83-1117993013/\">“lent out” to other studios</a> for $75,000. Wasserman, Newman’s agent, encouraged him to buy out his contract for $500,000 in a bid for creative and financial freedom&#8212;and the strategy worked. Wasserman helped Newman land $200,000 for <em>Exodus.</em> Soon, entire stables of stars bucked loose from studio back lots, quotes replaced contracts, and actors were no longer properties, but “talent.”</p>\n<p>Still, Hollywood never readily surrenders favorite tropes&#8212;and though star-system salaries vanished along with klieg lights, moguls have retained some control. Rival studios are notoriously competitive, yet every single one has a low-key “business affairs” division that keeps its counterparts on speed dial. “They’re usually lawyers responsible for understanding the nuances of where the money goes,” the producer explains. The job also includes ascertaining the total salary an actor earned for his or her last role, numbers that business-affairs executives at each studio readily share.</p>\n<p>Studio collusion in the quote system could be seen as akin to price-fixing. The motive for collaborating, whether it’s above board or not, can be chalked up to collective job security; an executive can’t get fired for paying an actor what another studio paid. They can, however, get sacked for giving talent a vast raise if the movie ends up tanking. (This happened in 1995, when former Sony Pictures boss <strong>Mark Canton</strong> gave <strong>Jim Carrey</strong> a $13 million quote increase for the flop <em><a href=\"https://film.avclub.com/20-years-ago-today-jim-carrey-blew-up-his-image-with-t-1798248485\">The Cable Guy</a></em>&#8212;a move that contributed to Canton’s demise at the studio.)</p>\n<p>But there’s another way to add money to an actor’s bottom line. When the quote won’t budge and an agent wants more for their client, the negotiation usually includes securing a percentage of a movie’s “backend,” the pot of box-office gold amassed after a film’s release. The Holy Grail is something called “gross points,” a Wasserman brainchild that made Jimmy Stewart nearly six figures in 1950, when he became the first actor to reap 4 percent of the gross profit from the western <em>Winchester ’73.</em> Gross points have largely gone the way of westerns, though; now, actors instead wrangle for a chunk of the “pool,” which is an amorphous post-release amount of money subject to creative Hollywood accounting.</p>\n<p><strong>Jennifer Lawrence</strong> and <strong>Amy Adams</strong> famously <a href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/03/amy-adams-american-hustle-pay-gap\">received fewer points</a> of <em>American Hustle</em>’s pool than their male co-stars, <strong>Bradley Cooper, Jeremy Renner,</strong> and <strong>Christian Bale,</strong> who each <a href=\"https://www.thedailybeast.com/exclusive-sony-hack-reveals-jennifer-lawrence-is-paid-less-than-her-male-co-stars\">procured 9 percent</a>; Adams and Lawrence got just 7 percent. Still other stars level up beyond quotes and points. Another leaked Sony e-mail negotiating <strong>Will Smith’s</strong> total compensation for the movie that became <em>Concussion</em> broke down his points, citing a $15 million quote and an additional $5 million in bonuses tied to various worldwide box-office benchmarks. And then there’s his “2m perks.”</p>\n<p>Perks are “a litany of things&#8212;from assistants to four-star hotel rooms&#8212;that agents can then horse trade off of,” explains the producer. But if an actor doesn’t get certain perks&#8212;say, access to a private jet&#8212;a studio may have to add $200,000 more to their quote, which is known in industry jargon as getting “a bump.” Those extra six figures then added to the quote, which becomes a star’s de rigueur baseline for subsequent projects.</p>\n<p>Despite the staggering payouts that result, the financial impetus for rewarding a hot actor via quotes, points, and perks is simple. 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Per Wolff, an e-mail “purporting to represent the views of Gary Cohn” circulated the White House in April and <a href=\"http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/juiciest-lines-michael-wolff-trump-book-article-1.3735541\">read</a>, in part:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>“It’s worse than you can imagine. An idiot surrounded by clowns. Trump won’t read anything&#8212;not one-page memos, not the brief policy papers; nothing. He gets up halfway through meetings with world leaders because he is bored. And his staff is no better. Kushner is an entitled baby who knows nothing. Bannon is an arrogant p---k who thinks he’s smarter than he is. Trump is less a person than a collection of terrible traits . . . I am in a constant state of terror and shock.”</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Cohn <a href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/video/2018/01/05/white-house-gary-cohn-denies-ridiculous-quote-on-trump-in-wolff-book.html\">denied the comments</a>. Meanwhile, Republicans outside the White House have shown even less restraint, particularly if they are no longer seeking office.</p>\n<p><strong>Bob Corker</strong></p>\n<p>The Tennessee Senator, who announced last year that he would not run for re-election, called the White House an <a href=\"https://twitter.com/SenBobCorker/status/917045348820049920\">“adult day care”</a> after a <a href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2017/09/15/politics/bob-corker-donald-trump-timeline-relationship/index.html\">long series of skirmishes</a> over whether Corker had asked Trump for his endorsement or not. 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Though he hasn’t gone as far as calling Trump an idiot or thereabouts, he has dinged Trump’s human-rights rhetoric as <a href=\"https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-duterte-mccain-sad-human-rights-talk-apec-meeting-latest-a8052876.html\">“sad”</a>, acalled “America First” mentality <a href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/17/politics/john-mccain-trump-spurious-nationalism/index.html\">“half-baked, spurious nationalism”</a>, so perhaps it’s only a matter of time.</p>\n<p><strong>Steve Bannon</strong></p>\n<p>Bannon, who spent his brief employ in the White House mixing effusive praise for the president with occasional backbiting to the press, was just as candid about Trump’s limitations before he joined the campaign. 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That might seem like a great deal for the federal government, except for the fact that by allocating a mere $200 billion&#8212;when you take <a href=\"https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-budget/three-key-questions-about-the-trump-infrastructure-plan\">the White House’s proposed infrastructure cuts</a> into account, it comes out as even less&#8212;they’ll have to prioritize corporate profits over the actual needs of the public.</p>\n<p>In order to get a return on their investment, which is&#8212;understandably!&#8212;the only reason private companies will want to get involved here, the government will naturally offer them lucrative tax breaks. 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Taxpayers could shell out nearly as much in tax incentives to the private company as we would have spent to just build the bridge, and then on top of that you’ll have to pay tolls to cross it&#8212;<em>forever.</em> As long as the bridge stands, people are paying extra so PriveCo Equity Partners can make a profit.”</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>And because Trump &amp; Co. will pay for no more than 20 percent of any given project, states and localities that don’t have the extra funds will most likely be shit out of luck. As the <em>Post</em>’s <strong>Paul Waldman</strong> notes, “the focus on private investment . . . will naturally privilege projects that can generate a profit for private companies, which probably won’t be the most sorely needed upgrades.” According to a <a href=\"https://democracyforward.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Infrastructure-Report.pdf\">new report</a> released this week by the left-leaning Democracy Forward, under the rubric for judging grant applicants, a whopping 70 percent of a project’s score “would be based on the availability of non-federal revenue,” whereas the “economic and social returns” it could generate make up 5 percent. Sorry, Flint, Michigan! You don’t really need new pipes, right?</p>\n<p>Of course, this was all by design. Less scary than the fact that Trump’s friends might <a href=\"https://www.bondbuyer.com/news/who-benefits-from-trumps-infrastructure-plan\">financially benefit from the plan</a> is the promise (threat?) he made last night that “any bill must . . . streamline the permitting and approval process,” by which he means <a href=\"https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/green/news/2018/01/28/445496/trumps-infrastructure-scam-will-gut-environmental-protections-benefit-corporate-polluters/\">gut environmental protections and put public health</a> at risk. On the bright side, no one actually believes that President Hard Hat’s plan will come to fruition, at least not in its current form. “Not to be morbid, but an infrastructure catastrophe could move the needle . . . and spur congressional action,” political strategist <strong>Chris Krueger</strong> <a href=\"http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-infrastructure-plan-dead-on-arrival-2018-1\">told</a> Business Insider. “Barring some kind of morbid catalyst, [the plan’s passage] seems extremely unlikely.”</p>\n<p><em><strong>If you would like to receive the Levin Report in your inbox daily, <a href=\"http://tinyletter.com/besslevin\">click here</a> to subscribe.</strong></em></p>\n<p><strong>Judge rules Mick Mulvaney will have to work hard to destroy the C.F.P.B.</strong></p>\n<p>Since the day the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was formed, Republicans have been raving about how it’s an unconstitutional menace that must be stopped. 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And <em>you</em> get a Twinkie!</strong></p>\n<p>Hostess Brands is using its tax bill savings to reward employees with <a href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-31/twinkie-maker-s-response-to-the-trump-tax-overhaul-free-snacks\">snacks</a>:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The company, which makes Twinkies, Ding Dongs and Ho Hos, is providing its employees one-time payments of $1,250&#8212;with $750 in cash and $500 in the form of a 401(k) contribution. In taking the step, Hostess cited last month’s tax legislation, which slashed the rate for U.S. corporations.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It’s also offering a year’s worth of free food to workers&#8212;though they won’t be able to eat all the Ding Dongs they like. A representative from each of Hostess’s bakeries will choose a product each week, and the employees will be able to take home a multipack of that item. 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Graff said the company did Trump “no [favors],” though the current president was “a pleasure to do business with.” Company’s C.F.O. <strong>Nicholas Paine</strong> reiterated, “We don’t sell items for publicity value.” A third source with knowledge of the transaction told <em>Forbes,</em> “He paid for [the ring] in full, and he paid immediately.” The great dealmaker has struck again.</p>\n<p>Graff did place its product on <em>The Apprentice</em> in November 2004. A winning team of second season contestants <a href=\"http://ew.com/article/2004/11/12/apprentice-most-unfair-episode-ever/\">received $50,000</a> to spend at the New York location as a reward at the end of an episode (the top end of sponsorship for the show could cost <a href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=HZgUCgAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PA71&amp;lpg=PA71&amp;dq=graff%20jewelry%20second%20season%20apprentice&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=8sk979kK04&amp;sig=ha0_qmo0DQHJCndWAycHEtNV6sQ&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwiguNPg75bZAhUNON8KHeyFCY0Q6AEITTAK#v=onepage&amp;q=product%20placement%20and%20the%20apprentice&amp;f=false\">up to $25 million</a> so knocking a bit off the retail price of a diamond actually sounds like a steal).</p>\n<p>Neither Graff nor <em>Forbes</em> specifies why the jeweler is commenting on the purchase 15 years later. In 2004, when the news of the exchange originally grabbed headlines, Graff <a href=\"http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3613530/The-Donald-the-mystery.html\">declined</a> to comment, and as recently as a month ago, a company rep told <em><a href=\"http://www.townandcountrymag.com/style/jewelry-and-watches/a14783066/celebrity-free-jewelry/\">Town &amp; Country</a></em> that “it is not our practice to comment on client relationships.” (After the <em>Forbes</em> report, <em>Town &amp; Country</em> repackaged the story around the new information, and removed the “no comment” from Graff. The quote still appears in a cached version of the article.) Though the company now denies a special deal, they still won’t specify how much Trump paid for the diamond in the end.</p>\n<p>The story did change a couple times over the years. In 2004, while Trump was chastising his son <strong>Don Jr.,</strong> who had accepted an offer for a free diamond ring in exchange for a public proposal at a mall in New Jersey, on <em><a href=\"http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0411/24/lkl.01.html\">Larry King</a>,</em> Trump admitted he “negotiated” a “great price” for Melania’s ring. “Hey, I bought a ring,” he said. “I got it from Graff. You negotiated hard. I said you’re going to get a lot of publicity and I want a great price blah, blah, blah. But I don’t do a big stunt over it.” (Why he decided to knock his kid on national television for largely doing what he did on a daily basis is another Trumpian mystery, but the Juniors got theirs later. 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This year’s theme, “Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World,” drew lofty speeches from various leaders who made the case for a “renewed commitment to international collaboration as a way of solving critical global challenges.” German Chancellor <strong>Angela Merkel</strong> <a href=\"https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/01/angela-merkel-at-davos-we-need-global-cooperation-not-walls/\">cautioned</a> against unilateralism: “Ever since the Roman Empire, ever since the Chinese Wall, we know that shutting ourselves off doesn&#39;t help to protect your borders,” she said. “You also need good cooperation with your neighbors, you need good agreements, valid agreements that are respected.” Indian Prime Minister <strong>Narendra Modi</strong> <a href=\"https://qz.com/1186666/davos-2018-indias-modi-says-climate-change-protectionism-and-terrorism-are-the-worlds-greatest-threats/\">warned</a> that protectionism, terrorism, and climate change are the biggest threats facing the globe, and urged leaders to “back their words with their resources to help developing countries to adopt appropriate technology.” French President <strong>Emmanuel Macron</strong> <a href=\"https://www.politico.eu/article/angela-merkel-emmanuel-macron-davos-speeches/\">called on</a> fellow heads of state to agree to concrete actions on climate change, and Canadian Prime Minister <strong>Justin Trudeau</strong> <a href=\"https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/01/pm-keynote-remarks-for-world-economic-forum-2018/\">blasted</a> gender inequality, saying that companies must not only pay women as much as men, but must address the “whole host of barriers facing women in the workplace.”</p>\n<p>Then, it was the president of the United States’ turn. But rather than take inspiration from the sweeping proclamations of his fellow world leaders, <strong>Donald Trump</strong> did his best impression of a middle manager pitching regional investors on a fast-food franchise. Declaring that there has “never been a better time” to invest in America, Trump, as expected, touted his yuge corporate tax cut, gains in the stock market, and a surge in economic growth&#8212;a phenomenon that is, in fact, being felt <a href=\"https://www.ft.com/content/4b9e6190-f55e-11e7-88f7-5465a6ce1a00\">worldwide</a>. He emphasized his administration’s focus on gutting regulations, referencing his two-for-one deal wherein for every new regulation proposed two must be scrapped. One of his lines, verbatim, was, “We have tremendous amounts of money.”</p>\n<p>Somewhat counterintuitively, he was forced to frame the U.S. prior to January 20, 2017, as some kind of backwater economic basket case, if only to serve the narrative that he, Trump, had swooped to its rescue: “The world is witnessing the resurgence of a strong and prosperous America,” he reassured the crowd. He also claimed that “America First” policies deliver a net positive, explaining that when he, for instance, pulls out of trade agreements and slaps tariffs on imports, it’s because he’s rooting out “unfair economic practices” that “undermines us all.”</p>\n<p>Because the bar had been set so low and Trump didn’t, like drop trou or threaten nuclear war, reviews have been largely positive. “I was glad to hear him say it is ‘America First’ but not America alone,” Cardinal <strong>Peter Turkson,</strong> who heads up the pope’s initiatives on migration and the environment, <a href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-to-promote-u-s-as-open-for-business-in-davos-speech-1516962420\">told</a> <em>The Wall Street Journal.</em> “Certainly he was very successful in presenting his successes,” <strong>Stephan Gemkow,</strong> chairman of investment firm Haniel, <a href=\"http://money.cnn.com/2018/01/26/news/trump-davos-reaction-wef/index.html\">acknowledged</a>. Others were less enthused at his “America First” report card. “It was a speech about what he has done,” said Danish finance minister <strong>Kristian Jensen.</strong> “I would have liked to hear more about how he will renew international cooperation. I miss America on the international scene.” U.K. designer <strong>Pippa Small</strong> took issue with the fact that “there were so many issues omitted, climate change obviously being a huge one. . . . It was just all about money,” adding, “it’s almost making me cry.” <strong>Renat Heuberger,</strong> chief executive of Swiss environmental group South Pole, was blunter, telling the <em>Journal,</em> “It’s a disaster. What he’s calling for is global egoism. It’s the survival of the fittest . . . He believes that by destroying the environment, business will thrive. That will create jobs in the short term, but in the long term it will crash.”</p>\n<p>But hey, if we’re grading on the world’s steepest curve, let’s give some credit where credit is due: Trump didn’t rage about the “global power structure” that he <a href=\"https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump-rolls-out-anti-semitic-cosing-ad\">claimed</a> on the campaign trail had “robbed” the working class. He didn’t shove any world leaders into a snowbank <a href=\"https://twitter.com/SteveKopack/status/867758571882258432\">so he could be front and center for a photo-op</a>. He didn’t <a href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/05/donald-trump-germany-evil\">lecture allies about shirking their bills</a>, and he didn’t describe even <em>one</em> country as a “shithole.” Of course, whatever “best behavior“ serum aides had injected him with couldn’t have been expected to last the whole time, or overcome <a href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/01/26/trumps-slap-fake-media-draws-boos-hisses-davos-crowd/1068671001/\">the strongest of urges</a>:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>During a question-and-answer session with the forum’s founder after his main speech to the group, Trump said it wasn’t until he became a politician that he realized “how nasty, how mean, how vicious and how fake the press can be.”</p>\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The comment prompted some scorn from the room.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em><strong>If you would like to receive the Levin Report in your inbox daily, <a href=\"http://tinyletter.com/besslevin\">click here</a> to subscribe.</strong></em></p>\n<p><strong>Shares of Wynn Resorts slide on report founder is an alleged serial sexual abuser who taught his dogs German</strong></p>\n<p>There are many horrifying aspects to <em>The Wall Street Journal</em>’s <a href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/dozens-of-people-recount-pattern-of-sexual-misconduct-by-las-vegas-mogul-steve-wynn-1516985953\">article</a> about casino tycoon <strong>Steve Wynn</strong>&#8212;that he allegedly forced a manicurist at the Wynn’s on-site spa to have sex with him; that a former massage therapist claims “masturbating him became a frequent part of the massage sessions for several months”; that female employees allegedly took to hiding in the bathroom or backrooms when they heard he was headed to the salon&#8212;but one stands out as uniquely creepy:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Some said that feeling was heightened at times by the presence in a confined office space of one or more of his German shepherds, trained to respond to commands in German.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>In a statement to the <em>Journal,</em> Wynn said, “the idea that I ever assaulted any woman is preposterous” and that “we find ourselves in a world where people can make allegations, regardless of the truth.” But investors have not taken kindly to the allegations:</p>\n<div class=\"embed block row social-twitter\"><blockquote class=\"embed twitter-embed-component twitter-tweet twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" data-type=\"twitter\" data-url=\"https://twitter.com/akaneotani/status/956938516285575168\"><p><a href=\"https://twitter.com/akaneotani/status/956938516285575168\">https://twitter.com/akaneotani/status/956938516285575168</a></p></blockquote></div><p>Separately, Wynn <a href=\"https://twitter.com/edatpost/status/956979600290131968\">reportedly</a> has no plans to step down from his position as finance chair of the Republican National Committee.</p>\n<p><strong>The tax bill is encouraging companies to replace humans with robots</strong></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/tax-incentive-puts-more-robots-on-factory-floors-1516962600\">Oops</a>!</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>New tax rules are hastening automation and modernizing in U.S. factories, giving manufacturers an incentive to buy machinery and boost productivity in a tight labor market. For the next five years, the revised tax code allows companies to immediately deduct the entire cost of equipment purchases from their taxable income. Previously, companies generally were allowed to write off only a portion of the cost in a single year. The change is encouraging manufacturers to install robots and replace aging machines sooner than planned.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Without the incentives provided by the bill formerly known as the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,” <strong>Ken Mathas,</strong> Cornell Forge Co. president, says his company “probably would have put it off another year.” Now, he plans to spend a minimum of $1.5 million to add at least three robots to a production line, in place of human workers. JOBS!</p>\n<p><strong>Larry Summers sees you, companies sucking up to Trump with tax-bill bonus stunts</strong></p>\n<p>“I think it’s a gimmick,” Summers <a href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/26/employee-bonuses-are-a-tax-reform-gimmick-larry-summers-says.html\">told</a> CNBC on Friday. “I think in many cases the firms have to raise wages because labor markets are tight, and so why not curry some favor with the White House by linking it to the tax cuts?” <a href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/12/corporate-americas-big-tax-bonus-giveaway-is-a-giant-scam\">Why not, indeed</a>.</p>\n<p><strong>Steve Mnuchin throws a snowball at Andrew Ross Sorkin, embarrasses everyone</strong></p>\n<div class=\"embed block row social-twitter\"><blockquote class=\"embed twitter-embed-component twitter-tweet twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" data-type=\"twitter\" data-url=\"https://twitter.com/andrewrsorkin/status/956895850998960128\"><p><a href=\"https://twitter.com/andrewrsorkin/status/956895850998960128\">https://twitter.com/andrewrsorkin/status/956895850998960128</a></p></blockquote></div><p><strong>Elsewhere!</strong></p>\n<p>Burgers and coffee will all be bought with cryptocurrency in five years, said <strong>Tim Draper</strong> (<a href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/26/tim-draper-burgers-and-coffee-will-be-bought-with-crypto-in-5-years.html\">CNBC</a>)</p>\n<p>Wall Street could be facing a #MeToo tsunami (<a href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/26/tcw-harassment-case-could-hit-all-of-wall-street-commentary.html\">CNBC</a>)</p>\n<p>Dollar talk adds to fears of trade war (<a href=\"https://www.ft.com/content/30e77026-0288-11e8-9650-9c0ad2d7c5b5\"><em>Financial Times</em></a>)</p>\n<p>Three states are suing the government over the G.O.P. tax bill (<a href=\"https://www.axios.com/new-york-high-tax-states-sue-federal-government-gop-tax-code-6419629e-8f82-40f4-bf30-3fca9508c8ca.html\">Axios</a>)</p>\n<p>What Companies Are Really Doing with Their Tax Windfall (So Far) (<a href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-26/what-companies-are-really-doing-with-their-tax-windfall-so-far\">Bloomberg</a>)</p>\n<p>Blame the Shutdown for the U.S. GDP Miss (<a href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-26/blame-the-shutdown-for-extent-of-miss-on-fourth-quarter-u-s-gdp\">Bloomberg</a>)</p>\n<p>Inside Amazon’s new “Spheres” office building&#8212;which has a rainforest inside (<a href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/26/amazon-spheres-indoor-rainforest-opens-monday.html\">CNBC</a>)</p>\n<p>What’s a Ping Pool? 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A certain degree of paranoia is, of course, nothing new for an administration under siege from all quarters. Whether the memo will actually vindicate the president is another matter. In recent weeks, conspiratorial thinking has overtaken parts of the G.O.P., which has whipped itself into a frenzy over unreleased allegations by Rep. <strong>Devin Nunes</strong> of a plot against the president. Now that House Republicans have voted to make the memo public, Trump’s spin machine will face the ultimate test: whether a partisan document, designed to cast the F.B.I. in the worst possible light, will actually live up to the hype.</p>\n<p>At this point, anything short of the Pentagon Papers or Operation Valkyrie would be a letdown. <strong>Sean Hannity</strong> <a href=\"https://www.axios.com/release-the-memo-mueller-russia-effects-552b2b97-93ca-4036-8b36-29aa54cc9b3e.html\">told</a> his prime-time Fox News audience that the document, which allegedly exposes wrongdoing by F.B.I. and D.O.J. officials in <a href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/01/carter-page-finally-realizes-he-should-stop-talking\">the decision to surveil</a> former Trump foreign-policy adviser <strong>Carter Page,</strong> would expose “the biggest political scandal in American history,” and that it will “shock the conscience” of Americans everywhere. “We’re talking about potential crimes. We’re talking about people being charged, going to jail,” he added. “It’s a scary night.” Hannity’s fellow pundits piled on, with <strong>Tucker Carlson</strong> declaring that the allegations in the memo&#8212;which he has not seen&#8212;are “more troubling than the underlying crime in Watergate” and <strong>Sebastian Gorka</strong> calling it “100 times bigger” than the abuses of power that led to the Revolutionary War. “This is our government spying on political adversaries,” he <a href=\"https://mailchi.mp/cnn/rs-jan-29-2018?e=0795cd3100\">said</a>. “This is federal law-enforcement officials obstructing justice.”</p>\n<p>Monday’s vote triggered a five-day window during which Trump will either reject the memo’s release or approve it, but signs point to the latter. Last Wednesday, Chief of Staff <strong>John Kelly</strong> <a href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/how-a-classified-four-page-russia-memo-triggered-a-political-firestorm/2018/01/29/42f94628-0516-11e8-94e8-e8b8600ade23_story.html\">reportedly</a> informed Attorney General <strong>Jeff Sessions</strong> that the White House supports the memo’s release, and Trump has <a href=\"https://www.axios.com/release-the-memo-mueller-russia-effects-552b2b97-93ca-4036-8b36-29aa54cc9b3e.html\">reportedly</a> already made up his mind to publish. As sources told Axios, Trump “believes [the memo’s contents] will solidify in the public’s mind that there’s a Deep State out to get him,” and sees its release as “vindication, despite Justice Department resistance.”</p>\n<p>In addition to approving the memo’s publication, Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee voted late Monday to <a href=\"https://twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/status/958299400886996992\">forgo</a> a briefing from F.B.I. Director <strong>Christopher Wray</strong> on the memo’s underlying sourcing, and blocked the public release of a competing report compiled by the Democrats, which has been described as a point-by-point rebuttal of the Nunes document. The panel did, however, vote to allow other House lawmakers to view the Democratic report. Democrats, who view the memo as a partisan effort to undercut the bureau’s Russia probe, expressed dismay at the ruling. “We have crossed a deeply regrettable line on this committee,”  <strong>Adam Schiff,</strong> the committee’s top-ranking Democrat, told reporters after the vote. “We had votes today to politicize the intelligence process, to prohibit the F.B.I. and the Department of Justice from expressing their concerns to our committee and to the House, and to selectively release to the public the majority’s distorted memo.”</p>\n<p>But the G.O.P.’s own stratospheric buildup could backfire. “They have so hyped this . . . that they’ve led their echo chamber into thinking that this is something extraordinary,” Schiff told Axios. “It’s incredibly misleading. 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We&#39;ll now see if they&#39;ll slowed the perilous advance of his exaggerations and outright falsehoods.</p>\n<p>As Trump spoke for nearly 90 minutes, with Vice President <strong>Mike Pence</strong> and House Speaker <strong>Paul Ryan</strong> sitting behind him and serving as the traditional nodding bobbleheads, a notable partnership of <em>The Washington Post</em>, PolitiFact and FaceCheck.org combined for a running dissection of Trump statements.</p>\n<p>What&#39;s called FactStream was under the aegis of the Duke University Reporters&#39; Lab. 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It is the 8th largest cut since 1918 as a percentage of gross domestic product, and the 4th largest in inflation-adjusted dollars.&quot;</p>\n<p>In obvious ways, the hour-long instant analysis was remarkable in its speed and sophisticated concision. I thought back to sitting in the House of Representatives for many State of the Unions, in the balcony above the rostrum, a paper copy of speech in hand, jotting notes in margins, underlining phrases, sticking question marks here and there. And waiting to make calls later at the office, perhaps assisted by an Associated Press analysis of certain claims.</p>\n<p>Now a confluence of forces&#8212;most accelerated by Trump&#39;s pugilistic battle with veracity&#8212;prompts new systems melding journalists and technology. There&#39;s no need to wait hours until morning newspaper editions, or initial wire service stories. Cadres of single-minded analysts are in place, unleashed on every presidential declaration.</p>\n<p>For sure, this was never likely to be a Trumpian atrocity, and it was not. Dozens in the White House and across multiple cabinet departments typically vet the State of the Union Address. The new armies will be better off dissecting spontaneous Trump tweets and interviews in coming days, as underscored in the eviscerations by <strong>Stephen Colbert</strong> and others of his most recent unbridled interview, in Davos, Switzerland, with bombastic British talk host <strong>Piers Morgan</strong>.</p>\n<p>“This speech was way too pre-filtered for fact-checking to play an important early role in its analysis. MSNBC did a fact check segment at 8:50 pm. They make a few good points, but they’re not really helpful in assessing the speech,” said <strong>Bruno Cohen</strong>, a retired broadcast network executive who ran major network stations.</p>\n<p>“Trump’s writers managed to keep him on task&#8212;i.e. reach for some form of  unity.  The truly divisive stuff was minimized.  Only a short mention of the wall.  No attacks on the press. But, of course, he couldn’t help himself&#8212;and so we get the lines like standing for the National Anthem.”</p>\n<p>But there remained grist for the new candor-driven mills now personified by the rollout of FactStream. Had Trump eliminated, as he claimed, more regulations in just a year than any administration in history? Well, not necessarily.</p>\n<p>Have three million workers received tax cut bonuses? Yes, “with most getting $1,000 or less,” said the Duke trio. That construction (as opposed to perhaps saying “nearly $1,000”) might prompt an inference that it constitutes small potatoes. Many Americans, if not the same elite journalists who by and large missed the partly economics-driven unrest propelling Trump&#39;s stunning election victory, would surely dispute that.</p>\n<p>Had the Empire State Building been constructed in one year? Well, no, it was actually 13 months, but that check seemed a difference without a real distinction. Is Diversity Visa a program that randomly distributes green cards without regard for skill? Not quite since, among green cardholders, a high percentage holds professional jobs and has a low unemployment rate.</p>\n<p>Had Trump quickly responded when street protests broke out in Iran against the government? True, said the trio, the administration quickly and strongly condemned the arrests of protesters.</p>\n<p>The impact? It might be negligible, given these ideologically charged times and the paucity of the beyond-the-pale sentiments that can be uttered by Trump. One was reminded early of those as Trump entered the chamber and shook hands, with at least superficially mutual conviviality, with Illinois Sen. <strong>Dick Durbin</strong>, who was at the famous “shithole countries” meeting and was unrelenting in his subsequent derision of Trump.</p>\n<p>It is thus also worthy of note that, as FactStream did its thing, the White House press office was cranking out its own stream of press releases on multiple Trump statements with divergent, supporting arguments.</p>\n<p>It does, one is reminded, still have a pretty big megaphone as it seeks to drown out the dissonant refrains of the fact checkers in a time of unsettlingly low approval ratings for the press. And, of course, one watched the speech and inspected the fact-checks while confronting the likelihood, <a href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/01/why-trump-state-of-the-union-will-be-utterly-meaningless\">nicely distilled</a> by <strong>Peter Hamby</strong> in <em>Vanity Fair</em>, that the whole affair was somewhat meaningless.</p>\n<p>Nothing that Trump would say, Hamby notes, would be as memorable as one of many Trump tweets. He&#39;s probably right: Even more in the Age of Trump, an increasingly inconsequential ritual is even more hollow. Dissections, no matter how well-intentioned and accurate, may go for naught.</p>\n<p><strong>Bipartisan, unifying?</strong></p>\n<p>No sooner had President Trump concluded than the cascade of State of the Union analysis began. Dozens and dozens of voices, many so predictable and akin to some rapid-fire mix tape of political jabber, and unavoidably raising a question broached at a recent Chicago event by MSNBC&#39;s <strong>Lawrence O&#39;Donnell</strong>: are we better served by political coverage today compared to 1968 (the subject of a new book of his) when there were no cable news channels, internet, laptops and cell phones? 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Why not just take a few people&#8212;including <strong>Jake Tapper</strong>, <strong>John King</strong> and <strong>David Axelrod</strong>, among others&#8212;and focus on their takes? The few really informative moments included Tapper&#39;s interview of California Sen. <strong>Kamala Harris</strong>, touching on Black Caucus reaction and what&#39;s up in the Senate Intelligence Committee</p>\n<p>If you had doubts about the new media competition, you just had to turn to <strong>Stephen Colbert&#39;s</strong> show, which is usually taped in late afternoon-early evening, and Comedy Central, which both had live shows. Colbert&#39;s effort was especially impressive in quickly and satirically editing speech video to mock Trump, then his mocking it all in a seamless monologue that came off as if meticulously rehearsed multiple times. Even for a professional stand-up comic, this error-free performance was rapier-sharp and impressive.</p>\n<p>One of many examples came as he showed Trump noting some of the natural disasters experienced in the past year, notably &quot;floods, fires and storms.&quot; Colbert then declared, &quot;And Stormys. Don&#39;t forget her. 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Angel, 44, and his wife, Mary, realized, “My son is probably not going to walk, probably not going to speak, probably not going to have any mental capacity beyond the level of a 2-year-old,” as he tells People magazine in an upcoming story. Imagine to returning to your seat in a convoy after that news even if the saga involves a dictator with dangerous weapons dueling with a mercurial U.S. president.</p>\n<p>“It was the middle of the night, and the public affairs officer was talking to keep us awake, telling us about her son joining the football team, and taking the SATs. I was thinking, ‘There’s going to be no football team. There’s going to be no SATs.’ I started to really mourn the future I thought we were going to have with Henry.”</p>\n<p>A genetic draw has dealt them an awful card. You may know people in a similar situation. We should mull those cases more often. I was pissed at a bunch of ultimately insignificant matters yesterday when an NBC publicist brought this tale to my attention. I realized how damn lucky I am.</p>\n<p>If you do want to reach out to Engel, or just learn more about the topic, <a href=\"https://www.duncannri.org\">go here</a>. And next time you see one of his inevitably solid reports, you might just mull his incredible challenge in compartmentalizing so much personal pain.</p>\n<p><strong>Now there&#39;s counter-programming!</strong></p>\n<p>Oh, click the clicker during the State of the Union and, la voila!, one found <em>King Kong</em> (1933) on TCM. You could now watch it knowing the Empire State Building that Kong scaled was built in 12 months. 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PBS, our 350 member stations and our legions of local supporters will continue to remind leaders in Washington of the significant benefits the public receives in return for federal funding, a modest investment of about $1.35 per citizen per year, which include school readiness for kids 2-8, support for teachers and homeschoolers, public safety communications and lifelong learning. PBS is focused on providing high-quality content and universal public service to the American people, which is why we enjoy strong support in every region of the country, in both rural and urban areas, and across the political spectrum.”</p>\n<p><strong>Patricia Harrison,</strong> president and C.E.O. for Corporation for Public Broadcasting, echoed Kerger’s sentiments in <a href=\"https://www.cpb.org/pressroom/statement-cpb-president%E2%80%99s-fy-2019-budget-proposal-eliminating-funding-public-media\">her own statement</a>, writing, “Americans place great value on having universal access to public media’s educational and informational programming and services, provided commercial free and free of charge. Since there is no viable substitute for federal funding that would ensure this valued service continues, the elimination of federal funding to C.P.B. would at first devastate, and then ultimately destroy public media’s ability to provide early childhood content, life-saving emergency alerts, and public affairs programs.”</p>\n<p>The G.O.P.’s battle against Big Bird dates back decades; Republicans have been trying, unsuccessfully, to fully defund public-media funding since the <a href=\"http://money.cnn.com/2017/03/16/media/public-media-pbs-npr-budget-cuts/index.html\">1970s</a>. 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On Thursday, billionaire investor <strong>George Soros,</strong> whose investment fund, as of November, owned <a href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/15/george-soros-dumps-apple-and-snap-stock-boosts-stake-in-amazon-microsoft.html\">several thousand shares of Facebook</a>, offered a full-on dystopian conspiracy theory, indicting both the social network and Alphabet’s Google. <a href=\"https://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/george-soros-just-launched-a-scathing-attack-on-google-and?utm_term=.bqYjDm2J4#.ul4vLbPK5\">According</a> to BuzzFeed News, Soros said that both companies would “compromise themselves” in order to enter the Chinese market. That, he said, could lead to “an alliance between authoritarian states and these large, data-rich I.T. monopolies that would bring together nascent systems of corporate surveillance with an already developed system of state-sponsored surveillance. This may well result in a web of totalitarian control the likes of which not even Aldous Huxley or George Orwell could have imagined.”</p>\n<p>He went on to compare Google and Facebook to <a href=\"https://twitter.com/nkulw/status/956622022116806656\">mining and oil companies</a>, saying that both “earn their profits by exploiting their environment . . . Mining and oil companies exploit the physical environment; social-media companies exploit the social environment.” Soros added that “this is particularly nefarious because social-media companies influence how people think and behave without them even being aware of it.” He also voiced concerns about the monopolistic nature of tech companies, warning that it’s “only a matter of time before the global dominance of the U.S. I.T. monopolies is broken . . . Davos is a good place to announce that their days are numbered.”</p>\n<p>Soros is far from the only Davos attendee who has embraced the techlash. 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The arguments against the latter interpretation are almost too numerous to recount: <strong>Carter Page,</strong> the Trump campaign adviser placed under surveillance by the bureau in 2016, had already been a high-profile intelligence target for years. The FISA warrant for Page, which allegedly cited the Steele dossier, explicitly <a href=\"https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/05/fbi-footnote-carter-page-warrant-390795\">disclosed its political origins</a>, a fact that Nunes initially declined to mention. The same F.B.I. that supposedly conspired with <strong>Hillary Clinton</strong> to overturn the results of the election also torpedoed Clinton’s campaign by publicly reopening her e-mail server case while declining to make public that it was also investigating the Trump campaign for collusion with Russia. If this was a coup attempt, it was the most boneheaded, incompetent, and confused conspiracy in history.</p>\n<p>When Nunes finally released his four-page memo on Friday, the mania surrounding the document disappeared everywhere except the fever swamps of the far right, where the only debate was over the exact size and scope of the horror. “This political scandal is almost identical to Watergate in multiple respects, and it’s 10 times bigger,” Trump “voter fraud” czar <strong>Kris Kobach</strong> told <em>Breitbart News Saturday</em> on SiriusXM. Iowa Rep. <strong>Steve King</strong> initially described it, somewhat metaphysically, as <a href=\"https://www.mediaite.com/tv/steve-king-brawls-with-chris-cuomo-over-nunes-memo-earth-shaking-deeper-than-watergate/\">“deeper than Watergate”</a>; after its release, he <a href=\"https://twitter.com/SteveKingIA/status/960260283431256064\">called it</a> “a component of what looks like a much larger conspiracy involving the #Obama DOJ &amp; FBI &amp; more.”</p>\n<p>Fox News host <strong>Sean Hannity,</strong> who had <a href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/02/sean-hannity-donald-trump-nunes-memo\">predicted</a> that the memo would make “Watergate [look like] stealing a Snickers bar from a drugstore,” later said it was “Watergate times a thousand,” and <a href=\"https://www.mediaite.com/tv/hannity-on-memo-if-we-care-about-the-constitution-the-mueller-probe-must-be-disbanded-immediately/\">demanded</a> that the <strong>Robert  Mueller</strong> probe be disbanded immediately. “The F.B.I. misled and purposefully deceived a federal court while using an unverified, completely phony opposition research bought and paid for by Hillary Clinton to spy on an opposition campaign during a presidential election!” said Hannity. “Now that type of abusive power, that type of corruption, that shredding of the Constitution&#8212;it is unprecedented in American history.” (Fox News host <strong>Chris Wallace,</strong> for his part, <a href=\"https://www.mediaite.com/tv/chris-wallace-on-nunes-memo-i-wouldnt-say-its-worse-than-watergate/\">sagely suggested</a> that it was neither “worse than Watergate” nor “nothing, as some have said.”)</p>\n<div class=\"embed block row social-twitter\"><blockquote class=\"embed twitter-embed-component twitter-tweet twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" data-type=\"twitter\" data-url=\"https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/959486486587457536\"><p><a href=\"https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/959486486587457536\">https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/959486486587457536</a></p></blockquote></div><p>For others, the Watergate scandal was an insufficient metric for the atrocity Nunes had unearthed. “It has to be put in the context of the history of our great nation,” former White House staffer <strong>Sebastian Gorka,</strong> who is <a href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/01/sebastian-gorka-arrest-warrant-hungary\">wanted on gun charges</a> in Hungary, told Hannity, shortly before the memo was released. “Remember, why was America created? It was created because of the use of power by a leader thousands of miles away,” he explained, outlining the grievances that led to the American Revolution. “This is 100 times bigger.” He was still fuming days later, having examined the contents of the memo. This was a “propagandized information operation,” Gorka <a href=\"https://www.c-span.org/video/?440579-5/washington-journal-sebastian-gorka-discusses-house-intelligence-committee-memo&amp;start=1011\">argued</a> on C-SPAN over the weekend, led by individuals “desperate” to prevent <strong>Donald Trump</strong> from becoming president. “That is all you need to know about the veracity of the dossier.”</p>\n<p>As to how the Clinton-Obama-Comey-McCabe-Lynch conspirators ought to be dealt with, there was likewise a broad spectrum of opinion. 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Others lashed out against it; while homophobic viewers decried the series for normalizing homosexuality, <em>Queer Eye</em> also sparked debate among progressives who faulted the show for what they saw as promoting gay stereotypes. “We even got notes from <strong>Barney Frank,</strong> who was actually our congressman,” says executive producer <strong>Michael Williams.</strong> (Scout Productions, co-founded by Williams and <em>Queer Eye</em> co-creator <strong>David Collins,</strong> was located in Boston at the time.) “He was criticizing the show, saying, ‘You’re stereotyping. You have a designer and a cook.’”</p>\n<p>Williams thinks the criticism was off base. “We weren’t saying, ‘We’re doing a show about typical gay men, and they all happen to be experts in interior design and cooking!’” he says. “It’s a makeover show. 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He’s happy to have moral support from the show’s new “Fab Five”: <strong>Tan France</strong> (whose focus is fashion), <strong>Antoni Porowski</strong> (food and wine), <strong>Jonathan Van Ness</strong> (grooming), <strong>Bobby Berk</strong> (interior design), and <strong>Karamo Brown</strong> (culture).</p>\n<div class=\"embed cneembed\"><div class=\"embed block cneembed\" data-url=\"//player.cnevids.com/script/video/581cffc3b57ac305cf000022.js?muted=1\"></div></div><p>Anyone who watched <em>Queer Eye</em> in the aughts will recall that the original five&#8212;<strong>Carson Kressley,</strong> <strong>Ted Allen,</strong> <strong>Kyan Douglas,</strong> <strong>Thom Filicia,</strong> and <strong>Jai Rodriguez</strong>&#8212;were larger-than-life figures. “They were superheroes that swept in to save the day,” says Collins. “It was part of the format.”</p>\n<p>And it was an entertaining approach&#8212;but as dynamic as that first group was, the show never traveled very far beneath the surface. Its stars often felt more like characters than fully-rounded people: “I don’t think America was ready to hear one of the Fab Five refer to their husband or their boyfriend,” Collins continues. “I think had Carson and Kyan said that, there would have been a pretty strong backlash.”</p>\n<p>But in the new <em>Queer Eye,</em> the group is more than a wish-fulfilling machine. They reveal more of their own lives to the audience: France, who is Muslim, talks about being married to a Mormon, and Brown, whom viewers might remember from MTV’s <em>The Real World: Philadelphia,</em> discusses fatherhood.</p>\n<p>“What’s so beautiful now is that our guys not only get to be themselves, but they get to tell their stories. They get to share who they are, where they came from, and how they’ve gotten where they are today,” Collins says. “That’s the beauty of equality.”</p>\n<p>It’s also something that’s expected&#8212;demanded, even&#8212;in today’s more progressive media environment. The producers wanted to present a more nuanced portrayal of the Fab Five, one that could stand up to the increasingly three-dimensional portrayals of queer people viewers have seen on television and in film over the last decade&#8212;an idea they say Netflix fully supported. “For me, that’s a big change. The world has evolved,” Collins says.</p>\n<p>Collins and Williams, who are both gay&#8212;and were once married to each other&#8212;say the positive feedback received by the show greatly outweighed any negative reaction from <em>Queer Eye</em>’s early days. Williams still has a letter that the Fab Five received 14 years ago from a then-36-year-old gay man whose relationship with his sister was strained because she wasn’t comfortable telling her young daughter about her uncle’s sexuality. 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Both were young men brashly confident beyond their qualifications; both were feverishly trying to prove themselves to superiors inside the Trump presidential campaign. And both eagerly pursued the same angle that could instantly deliver the respect they craved: Russian-supplied “dirt” that would damage <strong>Hillary Clinton.</strong></p>\n<p>So one question that intrigues investigators is whether Papadopoulos and Don Jr. ever combined their efforts. Papadopoulos, as <em>The New York Times</em> reported, was not shy about discussing his Russian connections, most notoriously during a barroom conversation with Australia’s top diplomat in London, a chat that eventually triggered the F.B.I.’s investigation. “<strong>Bob Mueller</strong> and his team will be very carefully following up to see exactly what Papadopoulos’s favorite watering holes were and who else he might have talked to,” said <strong>Joyce Vance,</strong> a former U.S. attorney for Alabama. “But they won’t simply be looking at his social activities. This is someone inside of the campaign who was promoting Russian contacts. Who else in the campaign knew that it was going on? They’ll definitely want to know what sorts of conversations he had with <strong>Jeff Sessions,</strong> who was Papadopoulos’s boss on the national security committee. But this campaign didn’t always follow the lines of the chain of command.”</p>\n<p>That’s an understatement. Papadopoulos’s approach seems to have been to try to get the attention of as many Trump campaign officials as possible, in an attempt to promote what he called an “open invitation” from <strong>Vladimir Putin</strong> to meet with Trump. It’s clear, from his plea agreement with Mueller, that the outreach included e-mails to <strong>Sam Clovis,</strong> Trump’s national campaign co-chairman; <strong>Paul Manafort,</strong> for three months the campaign’s chief; <strong>Stephen Miller,</strong> senior policy adviser in the campaign and now in the White House; and <strong>Corey Lewandowski,</strong> who managed the campaign early on and remains a Trump confidant.</p>\n<p>Trump Jr., meanwhile, was operating on a parallel track. In early June 2016, he received an e-mail from publicist <strong>Rob Goldstone</strong> offering to broker the delivery of “official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia.” “If it’s what you say I love it,” Don Jr. replied, and less than a week later he was meeting with a woman billed as a “Russian government attorney” in a Trump Tower conference room one floor below his father’s office, with <strong>Jared Kushner</strong> and Manafort also representing the campaign.</p>\n<div class=\"embed cneembed\"><div class=\"embed block cneembed\" data-url=\"//player.cnevids.com/script/video/5a2807d02d1ca04ce6000002.js?muted=1\"></div></div><p>Perhaps Goldstone’s e-mail alone was enough to stoke Don Jr.’s excitement about the gathering. But weeks earlier, Papadopoulos had been told that the Russians possessed “dirt” on Clinton in the form of “thousands of e-mails.” Did that tempting offer make its way from Papadopoulos to Don Jr.? And did Don Jr. expect the Russians to deliver the material at the Trump Tower meeting?</p>\n<p>“At this point we don’t have hard evidence of that,” said <strong>Seth Abramson,</strong> a former state attorney, current University of New Hampshire professor, and indefatigable analyst of the Russia investigations. “The person on the administrative side of the campaign who would have been most likely to pass things on from Papadopoulos to Don Jr. is Lewandowski, because he saw himself as close to the family. But Don Jr. went to the meeting with Manafort, who we know received Papadopoulos’s e-mails about Russia, though Manafort claims he showed up to the Trump Tower meeting completely blind and then never discussed it ever again with anyone.”</p>\n<p>Don Jr. later dismissed the Trump Tower meeting as “a waste of time,” saying that the Russians wanted to discuss adoptions. Which could well be true&#8212;the Russian ban on adoptions was imposed as retaliation for economic sanctions imposed by the Obama administration, restrictions that the Russians have pushed hard to repeal, something that candidate Trump hinted might happen if he were elected president. And maybe the paths of Papadopoulos and Don Jr. never crossed, even with their strong confluence of interests. (A lawyer for Papadopoulos declined comment; Lewandowski and a representative for Trump Jr. did not return calls.) Investigators, though, are continuing to sort out mere coincidence from possible conspiracy.</p>\n<p>“Who knew what was going on? That may be the central question Mueller is trying to answer,” says Vance, the former federal prosecutor. “That’s why prosecutors subpoena people’s phone records. That’s why they meticulously comb through e-mails to see who is on e-mail chains. And they’ll ask Papadopoulos, ‘Who did you talk to?’ We can assume this is a pretty vibrant path of inquiry for Mueller’s team. Because Papadopoulos clearly liked to show off and tell people what he knew. 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age 30 will remember how, back in 2003 and 2004, anyone with a pulse seemed to be getting scrutinized&#8212;with passion and panic&#8212;for potential to beat <strong><a href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2009/02/bush-oral-history200902\">George W. Bush</a>.</strong> Today, with a <strong>Donald Trump</strong> presidency, similar sentiments are in the air. The latest face to prompt such fever is <strong>Joe Kennedy III,</strong> grandson of Bobby Kennedy (R.F.K.), who delivered a <a href=\"https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/30/full-text-joe-kennedy-state-of-the-union-rebuttal-speech-transcript-379368\">forceful rebuttal</a> to Trump’s State of the Union and, despite some <a href=\"http://boston.cbslocal.com/2018/01/31/joe-kennedy-drool-chapstick-lip-gloss/\">misapplied ChapStick</a>, earned himself a flurry of puff pieces. “Kennedy Could Be the Democrats’ Best Hope,” <a href=\"https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/02/06/joe-kennedy-2020-democrats-off-message-216942\">mused</a> a Politico headline. As even the Politico article noted, Kennedy himself has expressed no inclination to run for higher office just yet, but it’s worth pausing to consider him all the same. Is Kennedy, whether he’s running or not, the sort of candidate that Democrats will need?</p>\n<p>In answering this, we should separate the man from the message. Regarding the former, you might be inclined to hate him, because he’s a Kennedy, and he’s rich, and the Kennedy family has become as polarizing as anything else in American life. But Joe III turns out to be hard to hate. He has a sense of humor and a winning self-deprecation. (“I’ve learned the tough lesson, too, that less ChapStick is more,” he <a href=\"https://twitter.com/amjoyshow/status/960174340057772032?lang=en\">said</a> in one recent interview.) He may look a little young and student-council-like, and his curly red locks atop his Kennedy-esque face might be a little over the top, but this is a generally agreeable guy.</p>\n<p>He also seems to have some backbone, showing a willingness to disappoint potential fans. Relative to his colleagues on the left, for instance, he’s a hard-liner on drug policy, <a href=\"https://newrepublic.com/minutes/146830/democrat-joe-kennedy-pot-problem\">even on marijuana</a>. He has embraced <strong>Bernie Sanders’s</strong> “Medicare for All” as a vision but dismissed it as practical policy, <a href=\"https://thepoliticsbeat.com/home/2017/10/3/interview-with-congressman-joe-kennedy-iii-healthcare-and-the-future-of-the-democratic-party\">saying</a>, “much as people don’t love incrementalism, this is I think how part of this debate is going to go.” He was unambiguously opposed to the <a href=\"http://www.thesunchronicle.com/news/local_news/kennedy-parts-ways-with-obama-on-free-trade/article_30857d2a-1b81-11e6-933b-7feae49d7751.html\">Trans-Pacific Trade Pact</a> and consistent in finding fault with both <strong>Barack Obama</strong> and Donald Trump for intervening abroad without Congressional consultation. Forget the merits of these individual stances; the point is that Kennedy <em>has</em> them, even when they hurt.</p>\n<p>As a spokesperson for his party, however, Kennedy reflects Democratic indecision. Kennedy could lay out complaints about a system rigged for the rich, but he wasn’t about to suggest uncomfortable remedies or trade-offs. “We are bombarded with one false choice after another,” said Kennedy. “Coal miners or single moms. Rural communities or inner cities. The coast or the heartland.” His rebuttal? “We choose both.” And “we choose both” was a telling approach that requires a deeper look.</p>\n<p>In a dual-party system like ours, coalitions are necessarily broad and fragile. Faced with the challenge of holding them together in the face of divisive issues, politicians usually seek refuge in platitudes. Phrases like “fair trade” or “control of the border” or “bold global leadership” are suggestive without being specific, and they prevent the internecine division from getting destructive. One lesson of 2016, however, was that such papering no longer works. Donald Trump and, to a lesser but significant extent, Bernie Sanders changed everything. The boldness of both was to drive a wedge straight through the weakest seams of their respective coalitions. On immigration and trade and war, Trump set aside wishy-washiness and put himself solidly on the side of self-containment (even if he reversed course on a lot once he took office). Sanders, for his part, drove right through the cobwebs binding the party to Wall Street and Silicon Valley and laid out a vision of stern progressive taxation and generous public services. What each man lost in breadth of support he gained in depth. Neither candidate chose both.</p>\n<p>As we know, Trump won that election, and his ideological clarity&#8212;real-life deviations from rhetoric notwithstanding&#8212;presents a challenge. It demands that opponents match him and make up their minds. It also demands something that might be even harder: to accept that you can’t help everyone in the world without, at some point, neglecting your fellow citizens. In this way, too, you can’t choose both. What seems to have caused so many voters to abandon the Democratic Party is precisely that the choose-both approach hasn’t been working for them.</p>\n<p>Kennedy deplored what he called a “zero-sum” mindset in the Trump White House, and in this he joined a large chorus. Leading publications have now spent a couple of years mourning the supposed intellectual limitations of Trump and his supporters. The zero-sum mindset is “intuitive,” a Harvard psychologist explained to <em><a href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/10/15/i-asked-psychologists-to-analyze-trump-supporters-this-is-what-i-learned/?utm_term=.a0c425b25d10\">The Washington Post</a></em> back in 2015, but those who know better take “a much-longer-term perspective.” At the start of Trump’s presidency, <a href=\"https://www.vox.com/a/donald-trump-books\">Vox</a> called Trump “ignorant of the economics” of immigration and trade for believing in protectionist ideas. “Zero-sum thinking apparently makes for good politics but bad policy,” <a href=\"https://www.ft.com/content/381f5888-88b0-11e7-bf50-e1c239b45787\">lamented</a> a <em>Financial Times</em> columnist last summer.</p>\n<p>If it’s a simpleton’s weakness to view everything as a zero-sum game, it’s a sophisticate’s weakness to view everything as a positive-sum game. The latter is often exacerbated by the smugness that can accompany good fortune. It may be true there aren’t finite numbers of inventions or jobs to be created. But there also aren’t infinite numbers of scholarships or sanitation jobs or public-school funds or hospital beds or autism-therapy openings at the county clinic. Responding to Kennedy’s speech, one writer for the <em>National Catholic Reporter</em> <a href=\"https://www.ncronline.org/news/opinion/young-voices/joe-kennedys-state-union-response-christian-response\">hailed</a> Kennedy’s rejection of zero-sum thinking and cited the story of Jesus multiplying of fishes and loaves. It seems almost churlish to point out that the Gospels categorize this event as a miracle, not a policy proposal.</p>\n<p>Kennedy’s point in his “choose both” rhetoric was that struggling Americans should reject Trumpian divide-and-rule gambits and come together as one to help one another. “The strongest, richest, greatest nation in the world shouldn’t leave anyone behind,” he declared, and it shouldn’t. But who’s “anyone” and “us” in Kennedy’s vision? In a world of over 7.6 billion people, many Americans on the losing side of the new economy want to see a more equitable sharing of blessings at home before they heed the call of the winners to relinquish their remaining defensive barriers and share with the rest of humanity. This is why immigration and trade and rhetoric about “millionaires and billionaires” are still such powerful and divisive issues. It’s why Trump, for all his betrayals, gets so far and Democrats can seem so feckless. “Which side are you on, boys?” asks the old union song. Some voters fear that when Trump answers, “Yours,” he is telling a lie. 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The president’s was done by renowned Brooklyn-based artist <a href=\"http://kehindewiley.com/\"><strong>Kehinde Wiley,</strong></a> while the the Baltimore-based <a href=\"http://www.amysherald.com/about/\"> <strong>Amy Sherald</strong></a> profiled the former First Lady.  Audience members included former vice president <strong>Joe Biden,</strong> (Michelle Obama said in her remarks that <strong>Jill Biden</strong> was stuck in traffic), <a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BfHM5FTHKlm/?hl=en&amp;taken-by=asherald\"><strong>Tom Hanks</strong></a> and his wife, <strong>Rita Wilson,</strong> <strong>Steven Spielberg</strong> and his wife, <strong>Kate Capshaw,</strong>  <a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BfGl-3kB2Vn/?hl=en&amp;taken-by=shondarhimes\"><strong>Shonda Rhimes,</strong></a> and <strong>Gayle King.</strong></p>\n<p>“How about that? That’s pretty sharp,” the former president remarked once his portrait was unveiled, while the First Lady said she was “a little overwhelmed, to say the least.” In what might have been an unintentional riff on the foliage in his portrait, President Obama noted, “no one in my family tree has ever had their portrait done.”</p>\n<p>The president joked that he and Wiley&#8212;dressed in a black-and-white, large-checkered suit&#8212;“beg to differ on sartorial decisions,” but do share some important elements of their lives.</p>\n<p>“We had certain things in common. Both of us had American mothers who raised us with extraordinary love and support,” he said. “Both of us have African fathers who have been absent from our lives; in some ways, our journeys involved searching for what that meant.”</p>\n<p>Above all, he said, he admired how Wiley’s work put people of color on a pedestal, in a way portraiture rarely does.</p>\n<p>“What I was always struck by whenever I saw his portraits was the degree to which they challenge our conventional views of power and privilege, and the way that he would take extraordinary care and precision and vision in recognizing the beauty and the grace and the dignity of the people who are so often invisible in our lives&#8212;and put them on a grand stage, on a grand scale, and force us to look and see them in ways that so often they were not.”</p>\n<p>Wiley, speaking after the unveiling, noted that connection between himself and the president, too. He said the painting “locates itself in very key features within its own narrative structure, and in a very strange way kind of mirroring his story and my story. So, the way that you read the painting has to be in this sort of, like, twin directional, narrative structure where it’s about the president&#8212;but strangely, for the first time, in the history of this type of presidential portraiture, it’s about the portraitist as well.”</p>\n<p>Wiley said he used the botanicals as the painting’s backdrop in order to reflect the president’s overall story, not just the “given,” which is his power. He used florals from Kenya, Illinois, and Hawaii to blend into the piece.</p>\n<p>“He’s shattering the glass in terms of the way portraiture gets made, shattering the glass in terms of first black president . . . we’re just breaking so many damn rules.”</p>\n<hr/>\n<p>Describing the immense task the artists had before them, Michelle Obama employed a somewhat elaborate metaphor in her remarks from the podium. “To  have to paint a portrait of Michelle and Barack Obama is like cooking Thanksgiving dinner for strangers. Everybody has an idea of what Thanksgiving dinner is supposed to taste like. The dressing you love is the dressing you love; you don’t want other stuff in it.&quot;</p>\n<p>Speaking after the unveiling, Sherald said she certainly felt the pressure&#8212;but it was an audience of one that truly mattered. “There was pressure of making this painting that mattered not only to every black and brown person in the world&#8212;I feel like it matters to everyone. What they do matters to everyone, what they represent is something that we are starved for now, and I think they have become symbols of hope and symbols of the world being a better place. I think it’s necessary for us that it still exists . . . I was like, ‘I can’t disappoint anybody,’ and I know I’m gonna disappoint <em>somebody.</em> Somebody’s gonna be [like], ‘I don’t like it.’ As long as she likes it, I’m O.K.”</p>\n<p>Sherald and Wiley are the first African-American artists to paint the Portrait Gallery’s official portraits. Sherald was the first woman to <a href=\"http://npg.si.edu/exhibition/outwin-2016-american-portraiture-today\">win the Outwin Boochever Portrait</a> Competition grand prize, given out by the Portrait Gallery in 2016, with a painting titled “Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance).” With this portrait, she has once again made history, as the First Lady noted in her remarks:</p>\n<p>“I’m also thinking about all the young people, particularly girls, and girls of color, who in years ahead will come to this place and they will look up and they will see an image of someone who looks like them hanging on the wall of this great American institution.“</p>\n<p>Sherald told <em>Vanity Fair</em> that, like many other women of color, she felt like she <em>knew</em> the First Lady on a personal level. After she and the First Lady’s stylist worked together to select the dress&#8212;a white, quilted Milly dress that reminded Sherald of the  African-American womenin the small rural quilting community in <a href=\"http://www.quiltsofgeesbend.com/quiltmakers/index.html\">Gee’s Bend, Alabama</a>&#8212;Sherald photographed the First Lady, and then worked from that photo for about the next six to seven weeks. 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A gifted broadcaster and hallowed comedian, Letterman’s series promised to be a rich meal where, often, the late-night sphere from which he departed in 2015 can feel like a series of ephemeral snacks. On traditional televised talk series, the interviews are shorter and more promotional: politicians looking for exposure with a certain audience; actors promoting movies or, more recently, defending themselves against allegations of unsavory conduct; and, occasionally, authors hawking a book. Letterman’s show, on the other hand, promised to go deeper: intimate, in-depth interviews with whomever Letterman deemed interesting, regardless of the topic of the day. Unfortunately, the series fails to live up to that mission with its first episode, which debuted on Netflix Friday. Letterman’s sit-down with <strong>Barack Obama</strong> revealed very little that has not been widely known about the former president for years&#8212;and although their conversation yearned to be topical, flitting from Russian interference with American politics, to racism, to voting rights, neither mentioned <strong>Donald Trump</strong> by name.</p>\n<p><em>My Next Guest</em>’s format is largely what fans likely expected: Letterman and his guest speak on a sparse, unadorned stage before a live audience. Their talk is interwoven with a field piece Letterman did, in which he walks across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama with Georgia Congressman <strong>John Lewis.</strong> The closest Letterman came to calling out the current president was when he asked Lewis, “Without being just flat-out specific about it, how big a setback is the current administration [to civil rights]?” At times like these, Letterman’s avoidance of the “T” word verges on awkwardness. It’s unclear whether Letterman and his guests agreed beforehand not to mention the president or not, but if referencing Trump was always off the table, one has to wonder why Letterman chose to focus on the subjects that he did.</p>\n<p>Apart from a few more personal discussions of subjects already widely covered, such as Obama’s childhood and his book, <em>Dreams from My Father,</em> the bulk of the interview centered on current events and issues. For instance, the two discussed Russian interference in American media and politics; as Obama put it, “One of the biggest challenges we have to our democracy is the degree to which we don’t share a common baseline of facts. . . What the Russians exploited, but it already here, is we are operating in completely different information universes. If you watch Fox News, you are living on a different planet than you are if you listen to NPR.” As Letterman asked Lewis how big of a setback he thinks we’re enduring, a photo of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia appeared on screen&#8212;but Letterman never directly referenced it. As Obama discussed how voter suppression is, in many ways, built into American democracy, neither mentioned, say, the <a href=\"http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/12/reports-of-voter-suppression-tactics-pour-in-from-alabama-election/\">reports</a> of voter suppression during Alabama’s recent election&#8212;or current Attorney General <strong>Jeff Sessions’s</strong> <a href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/08/07/jeff-sessions-this-time-its-personal\">record</a> in that vein. 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He opted instead to make sly references to “the dangers of the Internet” (read: Trump’s endless Twitter usage) and how he learned to develop a “thick skin” while in office (read: Trump’s <a href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/10/donald-trump-is-unraveling-white-house-advisers\">sensitive streak</a>).</p>\n<p>Harry, who has developed <a href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2017/12/obama-prince-harry-interview-preview\">something of a bromance</a> with the former U.S. president, conducted the interview in September during the Invictus Games in Toronto. The prince began the interview by asking Obama what he was thinking as he flew away on Marine One after Trump’s inauguration. Though it was an easy way to goad a response about the current state of affairs, Obama flipped the question and turned it into a fount of praise for his wife, former First Lady <strong>Michelle Obama.</strong> He recalled feeling grateful for having her as his partner throughout this political journey. “She is a spectacular, funny, warm person. She’s not someone who was naturally inclined at politics.”</p>\n<p>He continued, adding more broadly that he felt “a satisfying feeling that was mixed with all the work that was still undone.”</p>\n<div class=\"embed cneembed\"><div class=\"embed block cneembed\" data-url=\"//player.cnevids.com/script/video/58473701fd2e610e98000024.js?autoplay=0\"></div></div><p>Later in the interview, the pair discussed social media and its effect on the culture, particularly when it comes to cyberbullying and utterances of “fake news.” Obama addressed “fake news” head on, saying that when there were fewer media sources, everyone had “a common set of facts,” regardless of political affiliation. That’s over now that the Internet has become a boundless reserve of false information, he noted.</p>\n<p>“One of the dangers of the Internet is that people can have entirely different realities,” Obama said. “They can be cocooned in information that reinforces their current biases.”</p>\n<p>Obama’s response could be viewed as a thinly veiled way of addressing Trump’s proclivity for attacking media outlets, while also sharing <a href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/11/donald-trump-britain-first\">hateful, unverified information</a> on his Twitter page. His response also speaks to a larger problem with social media, something that giants like Facebook are <a href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/10/early-facebook-employees-regret-the-monster-they-created\">struggling to tackle</a>.</p>\n<p>The interview wasn’t all politics, however. 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The latter was based on a biography by former journalist and academic <strong>Samantha Power</strong>, who served as America&#39;s Ambassador to the United Nations from 2013 to 2017. Barker knew he wanted to film a president nearing the end of his second-term, and Power was his route into the West Wing. “These are ordinary people with extraordinary jobs,” he says. “The way we experience government is so removed and detached. Talking points and sit-down interviews can lose their way of breaking through that. That was my pitch. She was intrigued, but her staff thought she was crazy.”</p>\n<p>Presumably motivated by dutiful dedication to transparency (and the allure of legacy-building too), the team came round to the idea and Barker was granted extraordinary access. While Obama is regularly featured, there is no <a href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/01/david-letterman-barack-obama-interview-netflix-donald-trump\">starry interview</a> with the ex-president, whose slick demeanour resists releasing anything unguardedly candid, anyway. “I never wanted him to sit down one-on-one. Politicians at that level have a certain way of acting once they sit in a chair.</p>\n<p>“I wanted spontaneous moments, behind-the-scenes stuff, after speeches, in hallways. My gut feeling was that I can get something that is more authentic, and revealing about his character in those moments.”</p>\n<p>The primary focal points of <em>The Final Year</em> isn’t Obama, but the triumvirate of Power, <strong>Ben Rhodes</strong>, foreign policy advisor and speechwriter, and  <strong>John Kerry</strong>, Rex <strong>Tillerson’s</strong> predecessor as Secretary of State, who comes across as deeply impressive. “John Kerry is kind of extraordinary. 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Obama’s decision not to intervene in Syria cleaves an on-screen fissure between Rhodes and Power, an <a href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/22/land-possible\">ardent champion</a> of humanitarian intervention. “Syria was clearly kind of a wedge issue within the administration. And it also spoke to a larger issue, like the difference in world views between Ben and Obama and Samantha.”</p>\n<p>Barker knew from the outset that the film would finish with the team packing up their boxes and filing out from their offices. He just didn’t imagine they would be leaving the way they did. One of the most poignant moments of <em>The Final Year</em> is the transition over to the Trump administration, which is both hugely symbolic, and utterly prosaic. Barker describes the Trump staffers coming in on the last day, and being trained how to pick up the phone. “All that kind of stuff you have to learn. 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She’s a celebrity, not a lawmaker; a billionaire businessperson with no political experience; a champagne-swilling member of the coastal elite. She is, in other words, the Democratic <strong>Donald Trump,</strong> if Donald Trump was smarter, self-made, more popular, and empathetic. Oprah&#8212;her renown has made the use of her surname unnecessary&#8212;is likely <a href=\"https://finance.yahoo.com/news/oprah-boosted-weight-watchers-stake-now-richer-president-trump-164432737.html\">richer</a>, too. So let’s take the idea of her candidacy seriously, for a moment, rather than dismiss the prospect out of hand. 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That same month, when Public Policy Polling put Oprah in a <a href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2017/03/oprah-winfrey-presidential-poll\">matchup</a> against Trump, she beat him 47 to 40 percent. Absent a concerted effort by the K.G.B., there’s no reason why the 46th president couldn’t be a black woman from rural Mississippi.</p>\n<p>If you look at the electoral map, Oprah’s path to 270 electoral votes is surprisingly straightforward. Trump secured his electoral college victory with a little more than 75,000 votes in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. All things being equal, he has almost certainly lost support in all three states. And it shouldn’t be difficult for Oprah to outperform <strong>Hillary Clinton,</strong> who lost rural areas in those states, and won counties with cities, by much worse margins than <strong>Barack Obama</strong> in 2012. In the cities in particular, Oprah could be expected to find much stronger support from African-Americans and young people, who make up a larger share of the vote.</p>\n<h3>Video: 11 Things to Know About Oprah Winfrey</h3>\n<div class=\"embed cneembed\"><div class=\"embed block cneembed\" data-url=\"//player.cnevids.com/script/video/588a612efd2e616fa2000016.js?muted=1\"></div></div><p>To be clear, African-Americans and young voters overwhelmingly supported Hillary and remain some of the most reliable Democratic voters, but if you are losing rural areas by larger margins, you need urban voters to turn out at record levels. These voters didn’t vote for Trump; they merely stayed home, and while the reasons for their staying home may have been varied, they all amount to a <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/12/hillary-clintons-surprising-vote-deficit/509174/\">lack of enthusiasm</a>. To flip Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, into her column, Oprah would only need to reclaim half the 200,000 Obama voters in those states who didn’t vote for Clinton in 2016. Even if she only boosted African-American turnout to Obama levels in the counties that contain Detroit, Milwaukee, and Cleveland&#8212;something Oprah could undoubtedly do&#8212;she would secure an electoral college victory.</p>\n<p>It’s not just that Oprah is an African-American woman. For decades, Oprah has cultivated an extraordinarily intimate relationship with an audience that captures the entire Obama coalition. That includes two key groups where Hillary wasn’t as strong as she could have been: non-college-educated white women and suburban white women. Put these voters together and Oprah can be competitive in every state Obama won in 2012. It’s hard to overstate how she can access that group of voters, which we know is a winning combination. No other prospective 2020 candidate can make as clear a claim.</p>\n</section><section class=\"content-section\" data-type=\"section\"><p>Oprah does have liabilities as a media personality. In the wake of her electrifying Golden Globes speech, critics were quick to note Oprah’s history of elevating pseudoscience and <a href=\"https://nypost.com/2018/01/08/no-oprah-havent-we-learned-our-lesson-with-celebrity-candidates/\">spiritual hucksters</a>. There are few more prominent promoters of positive psychology, which promises that happy thoughts and visualization techniques can bring success and overcome disease. Still, it’s hard to argue that anything Oprah has done on television is worse than anything Trump says on a near daily basis. She’ll enjoy all the benefits that Trump had before he entered office&#8212;no defined politics, an outsider appeal, ubiquitous name recognition&#8212;with few of the liabilities. Where Trump relied on inflammatory rants to break through traditional media channels, Oprah would use her superhuman ability to connect to avoid trudging around in the snow in Iowa and New Hampshire. She’d be a natural retail politician, but could get by with a few well-placed diner appearances and big rallies.</p>\n<p>More moderate or independent voters, to say nothing of <strong>Bernie Sanders</strong> leftists, may be turned off by another television billionaire with no government experience. But in this tribal political environment, it’s difficult to see those objections mattering to more than a few Democrats in key electoral states in a general election against Trump. Oprah is perfectly suited to recapture the Obama coalition. The party’s bench&#8212;as the Oprah 2020 mania proves&#8212;is historically weak. And once she stepped up, there would only be a few other candidates who could survive on the oxygen she would leave in the room. 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