President Donald Trump continues to live an alternative world, that’s what is wrong. That exchange with a reporter who challenged the president’s utterly false boast and one that he has not hesitated to repeat even to visiting world leaders, about his electoral college victory was most illuminating. Trump asked Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu at their joint news briefing if he knew of his victory and how he beat the odds — “We were not supposed to crack 220. But the president probably needs to break that spell, no matter how heady that sensation may still be, so he can move ahead, and govern, as his voters would expect him to. He wants to talk to members of the Black Congressional Caucus but he asked a Black reporter who had asked about it to set up the meeting.

Source: Hindustan Times February 18, 2017 15:45 UTC