Donald Trump is becoming increasingly unbuttoned. Last night, he tweeted referring to Kim Jong–un that: ‘I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my button works!’ To Trump, size matters.
Yesterday was a big—or bigly—day for Trump. He started it off by taking a swipe at Hillary Clinton’s former aide Huma Abedin, declaring that she should be locked up for email malfeasance, an old charge that he periodically resuscitates. For good measure, he fulminated about the ‘Deep State’ at the Justice Department that be believes, or purports to believe, is conniving to shield Hillary Clinton from prosecution and to undermine him. But the real newsmaker turned out to be the retirement of Utah senator Orrin Hatch, who has been one of Trump’s biggest champions. Hatch, who is 83 years-old, has now set the stage for former Republican presidential Mitt Romney to return to the stage as Trump’s greatest antagonist.
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