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When Trump says fake news, he means journalism that makes points with which he disagrees, usually about him.

Gene Weingarten

International politics is not my strong suit. The older I get the less certain I am that I even HAVE a strong suit.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Certain Strong Suits
Allowing a non-lawyer to be on the Supreme Court strikes me as a very American thing, in a good way. Another is that the speaker of the house doesn’t have to be a member of congress.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Constitution Court House Supreme
The intelligent Trump supporter will be someone who is so cynical about politics that he wants the world blown up, and doesn’t care if the person doing the blowing up is an obnoxious, infantile vulgarian. I don’t know where to find these people. Do you?
GENE WEINGARTEN

Cynical Intelligent People
One thing I am learning from the kitten is that everything he is doing seems to be in preparation for murder.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Kitten Murder Preparation
The odd thing is that Trump’s hand movements don’t seem to coordinate with the topic at hand. Most pols manage to make their hand movements correspond with the message, so a slash will accompany emphasis, etc.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Eye Make Movements Moving Notable
Reporters are not merely recording devices that take down what people say and repeat it in print; we are expected to use our knowledge and experience both for triage – deciding what’s important to cover and what isn’t – and for contextualizing, analyzing and such.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Important People Use
I think I might prefer women without makeup. Though I don’t really know, because I am not good at identifying makeup.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Eye Girl Good Makeup Women
Donald Trump’s humor is hostile to a fault.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Faults Hostile Trump
Hillary Clinton rubs people the wrong way, for valid reasons.
GENE WEINGARTEN

People Reason Way
Donald Trump is an awful loser.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Awful Loser Trump
The people who are voting for Trump are not voting rationally.
GENE WEINGARTEN

People Trump Voting
I think there are a good many Donald Trump voters who are sick of government as it is practiced in America and genuinely want to blow up the system and see what happens. They are stupid – or at least unwise – but not necessarily racist.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Blow Stupid Thinking
I believe the publisher is a member of the editorial board, and I think his vote would matter.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Believe Matter Thinking
When my daughter was a senior in high school, I remember noticing, almost in passing, that her friends were very cute. Which made me realize her friends’ fathers probably found Molly very cute.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Cute Daughter Senior
I don’t see a point in advertising my marital status when men don’t. Completely ridiculous.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Advertising Men Ridiculous
Trump cannot change because in his mind, he has ALWAYS been rewarded for his boorish, stupid, arrogant behavior.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Arrogant Mind Stupid

When Trump says fake news, he means journalism that makes points with which he disagrees, usually about him.

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