Here are some before/after pictures of the south side of the White House before Trump’s birthday fight between the Christians and the Lions and after.

What more can one say?

My memory was that the UFC head said that the company would repair all damage. Today, I read that Miracle-Gro said they will do it. Will anyone? And when?

Of course, the restoration of the ground will not end the disrepair at the White House. Hete is how the former East Wing looks today.

Well, not really today. This photo was taken before the UFC fiasco. Trump wanted to live in a construction site, I guess, but he is stuck in the muck of a demolition site. And of course he has more plans. I certainly have not heard him say that “the muck stops here”.

And even before he starts construction on the Arc d’Drumpf, we have the continuing fiasco of the Reflecting Pool, made unbelievably worse by the arrest of five citizens who dared to put their hands in the water, by his threats against ABC and its reporter Jonathan Karl (“I love their money”, says the Supreme Grifter), and the plight (rather than the flight) of three dead ducks.

And then there is the Kennedy Center, whose physical destruction is only its surface problem, where there is apparently no plan to remove the tarp covering up the destruction caused by the removal of the Mr. Trump’s illegal spoilation of the facade.

Well, today is Tuesday and four more states have their primaries, including Maryland and New York. I am interested in New York’s 10th where 2 term Congressman Dan Goldman is running against former NYC controller Brad Lander. I feel for Goldman because he has done a fine job, but will probably be soundly defeated.

Here are the candidates, first Goldman, then Lander.

I have no problem with either candidate, although Lander’s foreign policy views and mine are not completely aligned, but I fully support his courageous actions regarding Dump’s immigration policies. And we have (sort of) a connection. As you may know, Brad is from St. Louis. I have known Brad’s uncle since pre-bar mitzvah Sunday School, and we were college roommates and remain friends today. Through him, I met Brad’s father, and we became friends as well, although it has now been a while since we have seen each other.

Decades ago, I received a phone call at my office from a young Brad Lander (at the suggestion of his father, who was thinking about going to work for a housing non-profit in Brooklyn. In that this was by field, he thought I might have some advice for his son. We had a nice conversation. I don’t recall most of the specifics, but I remember telling him that I thought the job would be a good one as a career starter. But I warned him against New York City. I tolld him it was a very unique and provincial place, and that a young guy from the midwest would never really be accepted as a New Yorker. Once again……

Of course, Brad Lander is no longer a young guy. He is 56. It reminded me of a conversation at the Lane and Edson reunion last Friday. Bruce Lane told me his son Chuck (former Washington Post reporter Charles Lane) was now 65. I view Chuck as still a young journalist with his entire career ahead of him. After all, I was already a practicing lawyer when I attended his bar mitzvah.