This weekend Donald Trump took a page out of the Pete Hegset playbook, I'm going to call it, and decided that the issue that deserved his attention the most was not the war in Iran itself but how the press was covering that war. And one unhinged post to the press after another, and there were a lot, Trump patched up an alternative universe. One where the press was intentionally misleading the public about the facts on the ground in the Middle East to make him look bad.Now, without missing a beat, Trump's FC ...

I think the mainstream media doesn't always talk about this. I think one of Trump's great geniuses, sort of the one of the things he's actually truly great at is getting the media to cover things he wants them to cover. Even if he can't always cover, he can't always get the kinds of coverage that he wants. He can almost always get the topics covered that he wants.And so because of that, I think some of the ways in which he is at a profound moment of weakness in his presidency have just kind of slipped by an ...