Trump's D.C. Dinner Date
I am not one of those who are shocked that the Washington Post would invite Donald Trump as its guest to the White House Correspondents Dinner. The WHCA is the night of the year when the working press honors the nation's movie and television performers. Trump - who plays a businessman on TV and licenses his name as a form of real estate product endorsement - is nothing if not a performer.
On the contrary, I am actually impressed that the Washington Post, so often accused of liberal media bias, was able to choke down its liberalism long enough to invite Trump. Trump of course has gained a new dose of fame by accusing the nation's first black president of benefiting from - if not actually participating in - a multi-decade campaign of forgery and fraud in order to qualify for welfare benefits. Narrow-minded liberals might take offense at that. But not the cosmopolitans at the Post! For them, Trump remains eminently Salonfähig. Well done.