What ethics?  Trump’s “newsconference” proves, as if there were any doubt, that he has no idea of ethics.  He’s the spoiled child who insists on having his cake and eating it too, both the Presidency and his business, all for the glory of Trump, and to the sorrow of all those Americans who thought he would be their savior.  Seems to me that he would rather have his business than be President, and it may possibly happen that he will get his choice.  How long will Americans put up with the kind of childish behavior he showed on Wednesday – piles of papers so we’d see how impossibly complicated divestiture would be for him, a baseless attack on a CNN reporter, and an imported audience of employees who cheered and applauded like those at his rallies.  Not all of us are stupid enough to be fooled.

It wouldn’t hurt to remember the history lessons we once knew about state sponsored propaganda and the kinds of skepticism needed when approaching performances like Trump’s Wednesday news conference.  I wonder if it will be as easy or easier even to stage such performances once in the Whitehouse.  Common sense says we’d best be on our guard against manipulation by TV performance by a man who is something of an expert showman and manipulator.