The the nation's First Old Lady Melania arrives in the Rio Grande Valley with a $39 overcoat with the crass sign on her back that states "I Really Don't Care, Do U?," and is led to a deluxe migrant shelter for minors without being exposed to the conveyor-line process for handling unaccompanied migrant minors.
And in the dead of the night, hundreds of these minors are shipped all over the United States and their parents are told nothing of their whereabouts. It took a lawsuit for one Guatemalan mother to be reunited with her child. Will it take thousands more?
Melania Trump left saying that the children were very happy and friendly. Trump later pitches in and contradicts Melania spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham. "It's a jacket," she told CNN. "There was no hidden message."
Trump Tweeted that indeed there was a message, but that it was for the "Fake News Media."
CNN's Chris Cillizza hit it right on the nose. Of course, Melania and her advisers knew what message she was sending us in the Rio Grande Valley. She just didn't care.
"There simply aren't coincidences like this in politics," Cillizza wrote. "Particularly in a situation like this one with this first lady. Melania Trump knew her surprise visit to the border would draw massive amounts of media attention. Given that, wouldn't you think she and her staff would be even more attentive to which signals she was sending?
"Of course you would think that. Because it's the only conclusion that a) makes any sense and b) comports with what we know about the first lady and her staff. In politics, as in life, the obvious answer is almost always the right one."
Sessions has shown that he is ready and willing to be his boss' whipping boy, as has just about every other Trump appointee. When they refuse, they are shown the door. The people of the United States can send a message to these insensitive clods occupying the White House starting in the November mid-term elections. Will they?)