Jan Psaki started her show last night with a very interesting segment to which I wish I had paid more attention. She went through a list of things that Trump rails against as horrific waste, fraud and abuse, and then she listed the people guilty of these exact activities whom he has pardoned. It was quite a list. I bet you can see it on YouTube or the MSNBC site. Worth watching.

I did not watch Lawrence O’Donnell last night, but I am sure he was rightfully gloating about Trump’s postponement, once again, of EU tariffs. As he says over and over, don’t believe Donald when he threatens high tariffs. He will back away just before they are scheduled to go on.

This is a lesson that the NYSE has not learned. The Dow climbed 740 points yesterday on the news.

For some reason, it reminds me of Michael Jackson, when one of his kids was a baby and Jackson dangled him/her out of an upper story window to the shock of the crowd below. (Do I have that right?) Everyone was sure he would drop his kid, but then he pulled him/her back. Dangling the tariffs is obviously different  but to my mind, it’s the same thing. Sort of.

Tired of me writing about the president? Okay, let’s move to RFK, Jr. We know his position on flourides and food dyes, and now we know it on Covid vaccines for children and younger adults, but what is this about medical journals? He is forbidding government scientists from publishing in respected journals?  The government will do its own publishing? What do you make of that? Is it a blow against the medical publishing business, or is it a blessing for them? Now, they won’t have to publish false news, and they will be able to criticize what the government publishes at will. But the government’s own published pieces won’t be peer reviewed before publication, just reviewed by Kennedy’s policy folks.

The reason I didn’t watch O’Donnell is that I was watching the pitiful Nats-Mariners game. Nats lost 9-1. Did I say it was pitiful? It was pitiful.

And while I was watching, I was preparing for my Wednesday morning Haberman Institute leadership meeting, for which I have to leave soon. Tonight at 7:30 EDT, we have a free Zoom program on Christian nationalism. You can register at http://www.habermaninstitute.org. We already have over 800 registrants.

And I didn’t even mention Elon Musk’s many failures with SpaceX or Tesla. And what about DOGE? Does it still exist? Who runs it?

And, as the Harvard saga goes on, what is this news about the government stopping all student visa applications. That isn’t just Harvard, you know. It’s everyone.

So, I leave you here for now. I am already late.