Personal news flash!  I indicated that I gained 7 pounds on our 5-week trip to Japan.  Made sense because we ate and drank way too much, but did so, for we deserved this extravagance.  I'm getting old, and would like to maximize my enjoyment of life. Well, I weighed yesterday, five days after returning, and was stunned to read 153 pounds.  I left Honolulu at 153 and weighed in at 160 when I returned from that trip.  How do I explain this?  I can't.  The best I can do is to suggest that my body is like a camel.  It stores water when on long trips.  But I checked, and, apparently  many do gain weight when on trips, and it is mostly water. Before I provide my thoughts on what will happen to Donald Trump, here is a more credible viewpoint of  Trumping History  by Michael Kazin in  Foreign Policy Magazine : Some see the orange-maned billionaire as a fascist akin to Hitler or   Mussolini   or compare him with such bygone American demagogues as Father Charles Coughlin, Wisconsin   Sen

About the   Lahaina Apocalypse , some better news, in that the death toll of 115 was reduced to 97, with now only 31 missing.   Also, that historic banyan tree, once thought to also be a victim, is sprouting green leaves.   Watch a video of this growth . Meet the Press has a new moderator, Kristen Welker.  She yesterday interviewed Donald Trump.   Read about the 11 most newsworthy moments.   However, you know that Trump needs fact-checking.  Here are  11 points were he flubbed numbers, misstated facts and omitted critical context.   You got to admit that he makes life more interesting.  Yet you wonder how and why so many Republicans still support him. Next, President Joe Biden? I worked in the U.S. Senate for three years.  That was more than 40 years ago.  Everyone dressed formally.  Now: Senate’s dress code:   Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has changed the Senate’s informal dress code to allow senators   to wear whatever they want on the floor, which will go into effect