President Trump is trying to get the economy going again, or as he says: “open up the economy.” The day before yesterday, he said that he was appointing Ivanka and Jared to the Council to Reopen America. Yesterday he said that Larry Lindsey was going to be on the team saying, “The names that are, I think, the best and the smartest, the brightest, and they’re going to give us some ideas.” This is the same Lawrence Lindsey that was the director of the National Economic Council in the Administration of President Bush – The Younger – and who, according to Politico : said Trump has no long-term plans or ability to think ahead. He said the president has the long-term decision-making ability of an “empty chair.” adding that the Chinese see President Donald Trump as a “total narcissist” — “a 10-out-of-10 narcissist,”.

One of the things we know about Trump is that he does not like people who bad mouth him, it’s not a secret, Trump explicitly Tweets out his anger all the time and nothing makes him angrier than being dismissed as incompetent. And Trump has made it very clear that he holds a grudge.

Now here is my question, do you think Trump said to himself or his staff, “I know the guy bad-mouthed me but he’s the best and the smartest, the brightest, he has a fine mind and I want him on the Council ” or do you think he just forgot that Lindsey said “he has the long-term decision-making ability of an “empty chair.”?

Sterling Moss died yesterday of natural causes at the ripe old age of 90. He was a childhood hero, my first childhood hero, and, now, he is gone and I am at a loss for words. Sterling Moss was probably the greatest racing driver to never win a championship and he wasn’t just my hero, he was a superstar. Patrick Stewart said it better than I can in a movie he made about Moss a couple of years ago, “A man I always envied and respected. I was seduced by Sterling’s world of speed and glamor. He was the man teenage boys wanted to be and teenage girls wanted to be with.”

Reading that quote makes me a little jealous, I thought Moss was my hero and now I read that he was everybody’s hero, in England at least. He was young and beautiful and carried himself with a grace that people don’t favor today (it is one of the few things I miss about the 50s). When notices of Moss’s death starting popping up, I kept going to the New York Times to see what they had to say and there was nothing there, but today I see there is an excellent obituary if you are curious.

About three days ago, I ran a copy of a Tweet, Quarantine, day 14. Me and my boyfriend spent the whole day setting up an art gallery for our gerbil, if your interested, here’s a short article about it in ArtNet News that was sent to me by Mike Moore. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/gerbil-art-museum-london-1827057?utm_content=from_&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=EU%20afternoon%20newsletter%20for%204/8/20&utm_term=EUR%20Daily%20Newsletter%20%5BAFTERNOON%5D

I cannot in good conscience continue to mount a campaign I cannot win and which would interfere the important work required of all of us in this difficult hour, Bernie Sanders.

No one is perfect. He was nowhere near perfect but he was phenomenal. He was the best of us, Cenk Uygurout.

Today, our movement faces a setback. But every single setback is an opportunity to push for progress. Ilhan Omar

Today, Bernie Sanders dropped out of the Primary race and I am sad, angry, scared, and feeling sort of hopeless. Maybe Biden will be a better candidate than he was in 1988 or 2008, maybe the time is right. Maybe. Right now, all I fedel is loss, all I want to do in mourn.