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President Trumps former campaign manager said Sunday that retired Marine Gen. John F. Kelly, the incoming White House chief of staff, would do well to avoid trying to change Mr. Trump through his new role.

The thing that Gen. Kelly should do is not try to change Donald Trump, Corey Lewandowski said on NBCs Meet the Press.

You have to let Trump be Trump, Mr. Lewandowski said. That is what has made him successful over the last 30 years. That is what the American people voted for. And anybody who thinks theyre going to change Donald Trump doesnt know Donald Trump.

In an abrupt shake-up, Mr. Trump announced late last week that Mr. Kelly would be replacing outgoing chief of staff Reince Priebus, who reportedly clashed with new White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci.

I think Gen. Kelly is going to restore order to the staff. His title is chief of staff, not chief of the president, Mr. Lewandowski said.

Mr. Lewandowski said he would expect Mr. Kelly to bring the kind of discipline to the staff to make sure that leaks stop, that the presidents agenda is made the top priority, and that there will be no more backbiting and stabbing each other in the back.

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Talk radio host Michael Savage points out that President Trump has an interesting mix of political and cultural forces which help shape his personal ideology a mix that includes family influences, an urbane and metropolitan background, and other factors. How do voters judge him?

On the one hand, they think that Trumps a conservative. On the other, they think hes not a conservative. They dont know what to make of him. That is a problem for him. He needs to clearly define his policies, Mr. Savage noted in a newsletter to his national radio flock published Sunday.

I think he needs to sit down with a 10-point agenda. Make it the Ten Commandments of Trump. Just make it simple. Thats how God did it. God could have written a thousand commandments, and people wouldnt remember any of them, the host added.

CHAOS BECOMES THE OPERATIVE WORD OF THE DAY

The latest press narrative against President Trump and his administration is to suggest that there is chaos in the White House. This hostile narrative is so strong and well organized that even the Democratic National Committee cited the phenomenon, identifying 11 news organizations which pushed dramatic chaos headlines. The White House is in chaos. The GOP is in chaos. Maybe chaos is in chaos too. Its all strategic.

Word of the week: Chaos, the committee said in an outreach to Democratic voters, adding that condemnation of the president for one reason or another was also a preferred term.

But that is not how White House counselor Kellyanne Conway sees things. In a conversation with Fox News Sunday, she pointed out that the media conveniently has ignored such good news as the soaring stock market, or that levels of illegal immigration are dwindling with Mr. Trump at the helm. Its the dramatic tales of chaos, condemnation or untoward behavior in the Trump administration that take precedence instead.

This president should be respected and regarded as somebody who was always welcomed a diversity of viewpoints, ideas, individual backgrounds. And he will continue to do that, Ms. Conway said, dismissing the fact that Mr. Trump prefers a bunch of yes-men and women on his staff.

That is just not true. What he wants is to receive all of the input and ideas, she continued.

I appreciate the fact that the president surrounds himself with strong personalities. I mean, one of the dumbest criticisms I hear, particularly on TV from people who have never worked in a White House, let alone this White House its this idea that the president has nobody around him to tell him no, to disagree with him. That is simply not true. He invites disagreement and dissension. He also invites polite discussion, research and data and he weighs all the consequences and hes always willing to learn, Ms. Conway noted.

REINCE HAS A SAY

Outgoing White House chief-of-staff Reince Priebus had a gracious thing or two to say about President Trump, pointing out that the president has already appointed 27 federal judges, and signed 42 bills into law since taking office.

I could tick of for an entire 10, 20 minutes the facts of whats hes accomplished and the amazing amount of work hes done, Mr. Priebus told Breitbart News on Saturday on SiriusXM. The amount of bills hes signed is more than any president in the last 50 years.

EIGHT HOURS PLUS

Lawmakers might struggle with a persistent do-nothing image. But somebody in the nations capital is working. A lot.

The traditional eight-hour workday may soon be the exception rather than the rule, and Washington, D.C. is paving the way for change, says some new research from CareerBuilder, which operates multiple job recruitment sites in the U.S. and abroad.

Seventy-three percent of workers in the nations capital think the traditional 9 to 5 work day is a thing of the past. This compares to 68 percent in both Boston and Los Angeles, and 66 percent in New York, the organization notes.

And in other cities, 60 percent of Chicago workers say 9-5 days are a thing of the past, along with workers in Dallas (62 percent), Houston (58 percent), Miami and Philadelphia both at 55 percent.

Many companies fear that without a set schedule, employees will be distracted, not as engaged and less productive, but the opposite is often true. A trusting work environment breeds more-loyal employees and increases efficiency as long as theres structure around it, advises Rosemary Haefner, chief human resources officer at CareerBuilder.

CNN ADDRESSES WHY TRUMP WON

Programming of note for Monday: CNN will air a special report at 10 p.m. ET simply titled Why Trump Won, hosted by Fareed Zakaria, who promises to explore the cultural factors involved in President Trumps historic 2016 victory.

The program offer the details on how Mr. Trump has worked toward closing the ultimate deal winning the White House for decades, CNN explains in advance notes. Zakaria reports on families falling apart: depression, drugs, desperation, and finally resentment taking root in some American communities, supplanting what had been flourishing middle class optimism.

Some of the fare is bound to annoy Mr. Trumps bedrock supporters. An interview with David Betras, chairman of Mahoning County Democratic Party in Ohio, reveals that the official is frustrated that a man who uses gold-plated toilets had such appeal to middle Americas voting public.

But Betras feels Hillary Clinton and the Democrats lost as definitively as Donald Trump won in 2016, CNN continues, noting that New York Times columnist David Brooks, Trump ghost writer Tony Schwartz and statistician and author Nate Silver are also among those who will weigh in.

POLL DU JOUR

71 percent of U.S. college and university business officers agree that higher education is in the midst of a financial crisis.

71 percent say their institutions would seek to increase overall enrollment.

64 percent agree that new sources of spending in the coming year will have to come from reallocation.

56 percent are confident their own institution would be financially stable in five years.

44 percent will try to reduce administrative positions at their campus.

23 percent say they are trying to curb tuitions discounts at their school.

Source: An Inside Higher Ed survey of 409 chief business officers from U.S. public and private colleges and universities conducted May 2-June 11 and released Friday.

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Seven years ago, the President of the United States and his communications director lobbied to appear in an anti-capitalist Oliver Stone movie starring Shia LaBeouf.

Only one of them made it into the final cut.

The film, Wall Street: Money Never Sleepsa sequel to the 1987 originalfollows a reformed Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) who, after serving eight years in prison for securities fraud, attempts to warn banking bigwigs of the impending financial crisis. When his pleas fall on deaf ears, the douchebag-Cassandra opts to repair his relationship with his estranged daughter (Carey Mulligan) and help her fianc (LaBeouf) exact revenge on a cutthroat investment banker in the Gekko mold, Bretton James (Josh Brolin).

Unfortunately, in addition to the heaps of obnoxious pre-release press on the projectincluding LaBeoufs outlandish claim that he turned $20,000 into $300,000 in two and a half months day trading and was prepping for the Series 7 examthe film failed to match the originals enticing mlange of perverse luxury and corporate cynicism, with its plot marred by CNN-mimicking split-screens, distracting celebrity cameos, and an eyeroll-inducing denouement.

One of the more organic cameos in Stones film comes courtesy of Anthony Scaramucci, whom President Trump recently installed as White House communications director. Back then, before he accused Trumps senior strategist Steve Bannon of indulging in autofellatio, the tough-talkin Long Island native was best known as the founder of SkyBridge Capital, an investment firm managing billions in assets, as well as the Wall Street guy who posed a question to President Obama at a CNBC town halland was subsequently eviscerated for it by Jon Stewart on The Daily Show (just three days prior to Money Never Sleeps theatrical premiere).

Scaramucci, who goes by the nickname The Mooch, pops up briefly in two interstitial scenes of Money Never Sleeps as an unnamed short seller working for Churchill Schwartz, the investment firm run by Brolins villain.

In both of the scenes, presented in split-screen, Scaramucci is talking to clients by phone, and in the later one, at around the films 40-minute mark, he even appears to channel his new boss, using one of Trumps favorite made-up words.

Churchill Schwartz has a yuge position in this thing and I want to get you in that stock, he says.

The Moochs brief cameos, which amount to less than fifteen total seconds of screen time, didnt come cheap. According to sources close to the production, in exchange for the cameosand the SkyBridge Capital logo being displayed prominently during a charity gala sequence in the filmScaramucci ponied up around $100,000. Former president George W. Bush didnt nickname him Gucci Scaramucci for nothing.

That, of course, is more screen time than Donald Trump received.

The Donald, then a real estate magnate turned reality television host, was fresh off the third installment of Celebrity Apprenticea show where C- and D-listers such as Gary Busey and Tom Green (remember him?) competed in tasks like who can raise the most money auctioning off bling from Ivanka Trumps upscale jewelry line. During the previous season of the show, Trump infamously sexually harassed contestant Brande Roderick on national television, musing, It must be a pretty pictureyou dropping to your knees.

In the deleted scene, Trump (playing himself) runs into Gekko at a barbershop in London (though eagle-eyed viewers will recognize it as Tommy Guns Salon on the Lower East Side of Manhattan). It came toward the end of the film, with Gekko back on top again running a successful hedge fund.

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Hey, is this the one and only Gordon Gekko? offers a very stiff Trump, to which the conman replies, Hey, Donald! What are you talking about? Youre the one-and-only! The two, apparently old friends, make small talk, with Trump repeatedly referring to Gekko as Gordo. Near the end of the one-minute scene, Trump even pokes fun at his inventive hairstyle, telling Gekko, Has anyone ever told you that youd look greatreally greatin a combover?

Its a better performance than his pouty, Razzie-winning turn in the dreadful 80s rom-com Ghosts Cant Do It, but not by much. And though it didnt make the final cut of Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, the Trump-Gekko scene did wind up in the films DVD extras.

According to Stone, Trump was good but came with two pages of prerequisites for his scene. The list of demands, which were obtained by Newsweek, read as follows:

The preferred camera angle is Mr. Trump sitting front face to camera slightly favoring his right side, while avoiding left hair part and back and sides of hair and head. Camera eye level or above. If any angle shots need to be taken, please only use Mr. Trumps 3/4 right side angle shot, while still avoiding the back and sides of hair/head. Lighting, warm golden lighting (no red tones please). Can you please include an eye light (if shooting in high definition, eye light needs to be even more powerful). Also, we had more success with being front lit and avoiding strong lighting behind top of hair/head). The result is golden blond hair, warm golden (even tone) tan skin and a more defined jaw-line. A great reference for Mr. Trumps look is always the boardroom scenes in Celebrity Apprentice. Can you please provide a monitor for Mr. Trump to see the shot before he starts.

Furthermore, the New York Daily News reported that those involved with Trumps barbershop scene had to sign a contract stating that they would not touch his cotton candy hair.

They made everyone sign this contract that you couldnt touch his hair, an insider told the Daily News. The two hairdressers and the production team had to sign this contract.

Not everyone was happy about Trumps diva-like demands. It was absolutely absurd, the films producer, Eric Kopeloff, told Newsweek. You can look and see the movies Ive made. [Ive worked with] all these movie actors. Never, ever, have I seen anything like this. Not from the biggest movie stars in the world.

Oliver Stone, the films director, was more diplomatic, telling The Hollywood Reporter that Trump was stunning as an actor.

You know, we did take one with Michael and [Trump] talking in a barbershop. And he jumped up after the take and he said, Wasnt that great? You know, he kept doing it. And we kept going because I was deepening the scene as we went. And he didnt understand nine takes. Hed just done eight, nine takes, hed never understand it. But every scene, hed just jump up. He was the same way every time. He didnt change. But I knew that, recalled Stone.

The Oscar-winning filmmaker added that he decided to cut out Trump because it was a writing issue in terms ofit was too late and too little for where we were, at that point in the movie. And I wasnt thinking about his future presidency or anything like that. I was just dealing with an editing issue.

Would that it were so simple.

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This week was a tumultuous one in the West Wing, even by the drama-laden standards of President Donald Trumps White House.

White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus resigned on Thursday after newly appointed White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci publicly singled him out in an ill-informed crusade against leaks to the news media, describing Priebus in one interview as a fucking paranoid schizophrenic. Trump, never one to shrink from a grudge match, was reportedly disappointed in Priebus for not punching back at the hedge fund manager-turned-spokesman informally known as the Mooch.

Amid that kind of surreal palace intrigue, it is easy to forget just how many top administration officials, most of them in the White House, have either left or been forced out since Trump took office in January.

It is common for presidents to shuffle staff over time, especially after major political setbacks. But the sheer number of high-profile dismissals and departures in Trumps orbit so early in his presidency speaks to the unique chaos he has wrought with his management style, behavior and judgment.

Long before Priebus left, Trump pushed out several of the former Republican National Committee chairmans allies in the administration. The president transferred Deputy Chief of StaffKatie Walsh to his political group in March. Earlier this week, Michael Short, an assistant press secretary with apparent ties to Priebus, resigned after Scaramucci hinted at plans to fire him.

Trumps stinging criticism of Attorney General Jeff Sessions suggests he will churn through still more of his loyal deputies in the near future.

What follows is a list of some of the biggest casualties of the Trump administration prior to Priebus exit, in the order they occurred. We have not included the dismissals of acting Attorney General Sally Yates and Preet Bharara, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, both of whom were holdovers from former President Barack Obamas administration.

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Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynnlasted all of three weeks as Trumps national security adviser before being pushed out. A leak in February revealed that Flynn, an early Trump supporter, had discussed American sanctions on Russia with Sergey Kislyak, then-Russian ambassador to the United States, prior to Inauguration Day.

The revelation contradicted Flynns previous statements to the contrary, as well as the similar assurances of other top administration officials, including Vice President Mike Pence. Flynn has since attracted scrutiny for accepting a significant cash payment from Russian state-sponsored TV network Russia Today and for sitting next to Russian President Vladimir Putin at a gala for the network in Moscow.

The discoveries about Flynn, who advocated for stronger ties with Russia, fueled suspicion about possible collusion between Trump campaign officials and the Russian government in its efforts to influence the November election. Former FBI Director James Comey confirmed in June that Flynn is one of the Trump officials whose ties to Russia are the subject of a criminal investigation. (The inquiry is specifically focused on whether Flynn lied to FBI agents.)

Flynns brief White House career included bizarre episodes such as reportedly fielding a late-night call from Trump about whether a strong dollar was preferable. Prior to joining Trumps team, Flynn won praise as an innovative military leader while serving in Iraq, but Obama forced out Flynnfrom his position as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2014 amid concerns about Flynns bellicose attitude toward Iran and fractious relationships with colleagues.

During the 2016 presidential campaign, Flynn was criticized for espousing anti-Muslim views and leading attendees of the Republican National Convention in a chant ofLock her up!aimed at Democratic candidateHillary Clinton.

Given Flynns controversial history, one would think that letting him go would have been one of Trumps easier decisions. But Trump reportedly had more difficulty giving Flynn his walking papers than other senior staff members hes canned, and the presidentstayed in touch with him for months afterward. In fact, Trumps frustration with the pressure he felt to get rid of Flynn seems to have contributed to his decision to sack Comey in what became the most infamous of his firings.

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When Trump got rid of FBI Director James Comey in May, he apparently thought it would be uncontroversial. Comey, after all, had drawn the ire of Democrats for revealing in the final stretch of the presidential campaign that the FBI had reopened its investigation into Democratic nominee Hillary Clintons use of a private email server. At the time, Democrats attacked Comey for breaching agency protocol on keeping inquiries secret, and they have since saidthe negative press it generated at the last minute clinched the election for Trump.

But the timing of Trumps decision led to suspicion from the outset. Comeys ouster came less than two months after the FBI director confirmed that his agency was investigating Trump campaign associates ties to Russia and mere days after testimony to Congress in which he said the idea that his campaign disclosure about Clinton had influenced the election made him mildly nauseous.

The Trump administrations divergent explanations for the termination only served to fan the flames. In an interview with NBC News shortly after the firing, Trump strongly implied that he fired Comey for aggressively pursuing the Russia investigation and accused him of being a showboat. Administration officials also claimed, rather implausibly, that Trump was punishing Comey for his treatment of Clinton and that Comey had lost the confidence of FBI agents.

Congressional Democrats seized on Comeys firing as evidence that Trump tried to obstruct efforts to learn the truth about Russian interference in the election and whether Trump campaign aides attempted to collude with the foreign power.

The fallout from Comeys firing has became one of Trumps biggest headaches. Later in May, the pressure prompted Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to appoint former FBI Director Robert Mueller as a special prosecutor to investigate Trump campaign associates ties to Russia. And in devastating testimony to Congress in June, Comey revealed, among other things, that Trump had pressed him to drop his investigation of Michael Flynn, something that many legal scholars believe is an impeachable abuse of power.

Now Trump is reportedly examining ways to undermine Mueller by either pre-emptively pardoning officials or firing him outright.

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Mike Dubke, who started as Trumps communications director in mid-February, resigned from the post at the end of May. In an administration known for its colorful characters, Dubke flew below the radar, rarely appearing on television or talking to reporters on the record.

Little is known about the circumstances surrounding his departure, but Dubkes background as head of an establishment GOP communications firm that worked against Trump during the 2016 primary elicited skepticism from Trump loyalists from the get-go. His struggle to build strong relationships with other senior staff members isolated him in the White House, according to The Washington Post. Notably, Dubke also left following the weekslong brouhaha over Trumps firing of Comey, during which Trump frequently contradicted his own communications team.

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White House press secretary Sean Spicer, who served as communications director of the Republican National Committee under Priebus, resigned abruptly on July 21. Spicer endured months of humiliation while defending Trumps lies and boosting his ego to a restive press corps.

His relationship with the media was rocky from the start, thanks to a rant on his first day on the job in which he declared that Trump had received the biggest Inauguration Day crowds in history and then refused to take questions.

Trump would go on to take issue not with Spicers comments that day but with the light color of his suit. Spicers daily televised press briefings became must-watch television thanks to his over-the-top explanations and inability to conceal his contempt for assembled journalists.

His irritable performances were quickly immortalized by Melissa McCarthys portrayal of him on Saturday Night Live, which Trump reportedly disliked. Spicers remarkable gaffes included his claim that Syrian President Bashar Assad was worse than Adolf Hitler, because Hitler, he erroneously said, had not used chemical weapons.

Ironically, the impossibility of Spicers job and the abuse he suffered for it were not what finally led him to part ways with Trump. Instead, Spicer left because he could not stand the idea of working under Scaramucci. He announced his departure after Trump shared news of the hedge fund managers appointment.

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Early last week, a friend who is generally supportive of President Trump offered his view that the president had only one move remaining firing special counsel Robert Mueller.

By weeks end, my friend had a different view: The president is in a box without a clear escape hatch. Im not sure how he gets out of this, he said wearily.

Those conversations bookend the worst week of the Trump presidency, which ended with another shake-up. By removing Reince Priebus as chief of staff and replacing him with Gen. John Kelly from Homeland Security, Trump aims to bring a semblance of military order and discipline to the White House.

Given Trumps respect for Kelly, the move could mark an important turning point in focusing the presidents time and efforts. Too many days have been squandered by leaks and conflicting and even contradictory messages.

But to understand the complexity of Trumps challenge and the limits of what Kelly can fix, it is useful to divide the presidents problems into two baskets.

The first basket includes the low moments of last week the collapse of the ObamaCare repeal effort, Anthony Scaramuccis profane attack on Priebus and Steve Bannon and the fact that Trumps declaration of a ban on transgenders serving in the military caught the Pentagon off guard.

Kelly, if Trump lets him, could fix or prevent all that.

Yet as significant as those events were, the problems in the second basket are potentially more serious. They center on the rupture between Trump and leading Republicans over Mueller and the presidents battering of Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

Trump repeatedly calls the probe a witch hunt and has discussed firing Mueller, while most Republicans trust Mueller and are willing to let his investigation run its course.

Similarly, GOP leaders like and respect Sessions and believe Trumps attacks on him are unfair. They dont believe Sessions deserves to be fired.

One sign of the rupture came from Sen. Charles Grassley, chairman of the Judiciary committee, who said in a Wednesday tweet that the panels schedule is set for the year and there is no time to confirm a new Attorney General.

The point was clear: Trump shouldnt even think about firing Sessions.

The next day, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina upped the ante, saying, any effort to go after Mueller could be the beginning of the end of the Trump presidency unless Mueller did something wrong.

He added that he will introduce legislation to block any attempts to fire the special counsel without judicial review and said he was certain all Democrats and many Republicans would support him.

The sense that Trump is being curbed and isolated was bolstered when bipartisan, veto-proof majorities in both houses agreed on legislation that requires congressional approval to lift the latest round of sanctions imposed on Russia. Until now, the president could unilaterally remove them.

Trumps predicament recalls a scene in Ernest Hemingways novel, The Sun Also Rises.

How did you go bankrupt, one character asks another, who responds: Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.

So it is with Trump. Problems, some of them self-inflicted, that looked temporary and manageable have been compounded over time and are reaching a crisis point. Most important, he is losing flexibility to act just as Mueller expands his probe into Trumps business empire as well as his 2016 campaign.

Various reports say the special counsel, who is amassing a small army of prosecutors, is going through Trumps career, including his taxes and property sales, to find any connections with Russians that might indicate collusion in the election.

I also believe Muellers aggressiveness helps explain Trumps stepped-up attacks on Sessions, whose recusal led to Muellers appointment.

When Sessions, citing Justice Department regulations, stepped aside from any matter involving the 2016 campaign, he put the power in the hands of his deputy, Rod Rosenstein, who appointed Mueller after Trump fired FBI director James Comey.

More than a month ago, I urged Trump to replace Sessions so he could have someone to oversee Mueller and keep him from going beyond the initial assignment. But the revolt by the former Alabamas Senators colleagues has blocked that path, and Sessions has rejected invitations to resign.

Hence, the conclusion that the president is trapped with no protection or escape from Mueller.

Trump, of course, has been counted out many times in the last two years, but always managed to bounce back. He could do it again because he retains enthusiastic support among most of those who voted for him, and less White House chaos and a big victory on tax reform could fuel another comeback.

As a bonus, strong public support would keep congressional Republicans in his corner.

But the uncertainty about where Mueller is going and what, if anything, he is finding adds a unique dimension to Trumps troubles. Thats what makes this situation so perilous.

Chicago killing itself

The bloody stat of the week, from the Chicago Tribune:

Chicago had 50 more homicides than New York and Los Angeles combined through mid-June, even though it is far less populous than both.

Aisle be damned

Dueling headlines from America the confused:

Americans arent getting married

Support for polygamy at all time high

Truth about DeBs lies

This time, and this time only, you can trust him. Mayor de Blasio is telling the truth when he says: Read my lips: I dont care.

That was his reaction when reporters caught him in yet another lie. After the Post reported that police had been ordered to sweep the homeless from subway stations before the mayor took a brief ride, he and his team denied it.

When The Post produced the NYPD memo to prove it, his press secretary said the memo was probably fake, and the mayor offered his I dont care response.

Perhaps it was a Freudian slip that he began with read my lips, which was the phrase President George H.W. Bush used when he pledged no new taxes.

Of course, tax hikes soon followed.

De Blasios habit of dishonesty is becoming legendary. Reporters are still waiting for the list of donors who didnt get what they wanted from his City Hall a list he first promised in May of 2016 and several times since.

My guess is there is no list because there are no donors who didnt get favors.

The mayors chronic deception presents the New York Times with a problem. The Gray Lady routinely calls President Trump a liar, but never uses the L-word for Democrats, including Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Andrew Cuomo.

Now that de Blasio clearly qualifies, will the Times play it straight and call him what he is?

Sure when hell freezes over.

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