A week that began with cheers at the White House for a new supreme court justice and ended with the release of an American pastor from jail in Turkey. The day after the inaugural there was a mass rally of leftwingers in which Madonna said she dreams of the White House being bombed.”Madonna later clarified that her remark at the women’s march about having “thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House” was a metaphor. Anthony Scaramucci, who spent an ill-fated 11 days at the White House last year as communications director, has written a book lionising the president. And opinion polls suggest that Democrats, fuelled by anti-Trump fervour, will win a majority in the House of Representatives, enabling them to bombard the White House with investigations and hearings. Obama bequeathed Trump a 4.7% unemployment rate (it is now 3.7%) and 75 consecutive months of job growth.

Source: The Guardian October 13, 2018 04:52 UTC