US President Donald Trump gives a thumbs-up to a visitor leaving the White House.(Reuters / Carlos Barria)
“Trump’s approval rating has risen to the highest point
in his presidency…according to a Washington Post-ABC
News poll.”—Front page, The Washington Post
“Accounts from a child detention complex in Texas are
the stuff of nightmares.”
—Front page, The New York Times (same day)
A way to pump the ratings up? Trump found one that is for the ages: You separate folks from their kids, And cram the kids in squalid cages.
Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”