(Dobbs) Messing Up Trump's Day

It feels good to see the other two branches of government acting for what’s right.

Just a quick question:

As sound-minded judges and legislators do their best to restrain and reverse Donald Trump’s corrupt, amoral, and ego-driven excesses, how many Big Macs dripping with ketchup do you think he splattered yesterday against the White House walls?

Sure enough, after the ruling to remove his cherished name from the Kennedy Center, he did hurl a metaphorical Big Mac at the walls, in his social media post at about half-past midnight. It was enough to remind us of the proverbial schoolyard crybaby who says if he can’t play by his own rules, he’ll take his ball and go home.

He will fight them all tooth and nail as he always does, but it feels good to see courts and congressmen acting for what’s right. It’s a safe bet, his own toadies won’t.

Over more than five decades Greg Dobbs has been a correspondent for two television networks including ABC News, a political columnist for The Denver Post and syndicated columnist for Scripps newspapers, a moderator on Rocky Mountain PBS, and author of two books, including one about the life of a foreign correspondent called “Life in the Wrong Lane.” He also co-authored a book about the seminal year for baby boomers, called “1969: Are You Still Listening?” He has covered presidencies, politics, and the U.S. space program at home, and wars, natural disasters, and other crises around the globe, from Afghanistan to South Africa, from Iran to Egypt, from the Soviet Union to Saudi Arabia, from Nicaragua to Namibia, from Vietnam to Venezuela, from Libya to Liberia, from Panama to Poland. Dobbs has won three Emmys, the Distinguished Service Award from the Society of Professional Journalists, and as a 40-year resident of Colorado, a place in the Denver Press Club Hall of Fame. He also has been a consultant for the Counterterrorism Education Learning Lab.

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