OPINION: Trump just keeps digging
It’s the first rule of crisis communications: When you’re in the hole, the first thing you do is to stop digging.
But if you’re President Donald Trump, you equip yourself with a hardhat with a miner’s light, reflective gear, heavy-duty gloves, and fire up Mary Anne, the reliable steam shovel from “Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel,” and commence digging even deeper.
In the past week, Trump has plumbed new depths of indignity, visiting fresh humiliations on his already degraded office, by picking a fight with a pregnant war widow and accusing her of lying; escalating his feud with U.S. Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee, and issuing a stern warning to U.S. Sen. John McCain that the Arizona Republican should “be careful, because at some point I fight back.”