Revisiting My Predictions for the Week That Was

Even during the weekend before the big “fake” news week, the President created a series of mini-crises.  Among them:  reneging on a promise to sign the rather benign declaration ending the G7 meeting; tweeting at Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for repeating a bunch of complaints about the President’s policies, and shunning Angela Merkel.  Again.  As a million tweets noted, “Who needs enemies when you’ve got friends like that?”