I was quite the baseball player, you wouldn't believe, said Donald Trump, suddenly wistful as he recalled his the salad days when his mother would tell him, Son, you could be a professional baseball player, and he would reply, Thanks, mom. Carpe diem! Not for the first time on Tuesday, the US president had veered wildly off topic. The point of this story was a big building that loomed over the park in Queens, New York, where he used to play little league baseball.
The White House press corps hit a stunning new low by allowing Vice President JD Vance to rant and rave virtually unchallenged, justifying a woman's death like a wild-eyed carnival barker at a briefing on Thursday. As a community reels after the shooting death of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, Vance had an opportunity to cool temperatures and divisions with a sobering, healing message from the White House podium.
I don't know if there's a criminal investigation. If there was, I wouldn't be able to comment on it from up here, to be honest with you. But I think Tim Walz probably dropped out of the race because he realizes he no longer has the support of the people of his own state, which is a remarkable downfall considering he was the number two on the Democrat Party's ticket just about a year ago, replied Leavitt, clearly glad to have been asked the question.