Senator Jon Tester attends the confirmation hearing for Jerome Powell, nominee to be chairman of the Federal Reserve, November 28, 2017.(Photo By Tom Williams / CQ Roll Call) (CQ Roll Call via AP Images)
“I know things about Tester… and if I said them he’d never be
elected again.” —Donald Trump
That Trumpian threat sounds familiar— That boast of what he can unearth. You think he was trying to tell us That Tester’s a Kenyan by birth?
Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”