5 October—The subject line of today’s first email from The Telegraph read “A quiet reshaping of the monarchy,” so it was only natural to assume the story was about machinations within Donald Trump’s corrupt court (euphemistically called his administration) to give the scummy tyrant king even more power than he already has. Because it’s no secret that he craves even more power than his supporters who bring unprecedented shame to the Supreme Court majority have given him.

And it’s also no secret among the unbenighted that while Trump and his court flunkies (judicial and otherwise) profess unprecedented transparency, the scumbag ruler and his courtiers are in reality as opaque as the Black Hole. To his credit as a performer and demagogue, however, Trump’s journalistic hangers-on famously ignore and manipulate facts to support the myth of their hero’s transparency. In fact, just yesterday a minor typically xenophobic Trump votary called Joe Guzzardi wrote:

“Even President Donald Trump’s millions of critics cannot deny one central aspect of his character that has kept him at the forefront of U.S. presidential politics for more than a decade: Trump takes all questions, even from the most hostile reporters who have written bias [sic] stories about him. When Trump finishes his reply, everyone in the room knows exactly where he stands.

“Most politicians, as they climb the political ladder, encourage questions but then do their best to dodge actually answering them. Trump breaks this mold.”

Yeah, right. Like all Trump admirers and/or defenders, Joe Guzzardi obviously has his head up where the sun don’t shine. Because Trump has a well-documented history of, among other things, controlling which questions he answers as well as insulting, ignoring, and dismissing reporters. If he doesn’t feel like answering a question, for instance, he’ll call it “stupid” or “nasty” and/or change the subject. And of course he’ll insult the reporter who asks it.

Getting back to “A quiet reshaping of the monarchy,” then, the Telegraph story turned out to be about the British monarchy. And who cares about that? The Telegraph is a British rag, after all. At least the British royal family isn’t malignant and spiteful. And it wouldn’t matter if it were, because it’s even more powerless than it is useless . . .