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CREATURES IN THE GREEN LAGOON

President Donald Trump had a dream. Maureen Dowd of the New York Times published an op-ed about Creatures from the Green Lagoon .  A few quotes: A historian once told me that the presidency would distill Donald Trump to his essence.  That essence, it turns out, is trillions of microscopic organisms that suck up all the oxygen and endanger life around them. The algae is a perfect metaphor to reflect on our unreflective president and his impulsive and solipsistic style of governing. This is the hallowed site where Marian Anderson serenaded a throng after getting banished from Constitution Hall for her race, and where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech to an even bigger crowd around the 2,028-foot pool. Reports of Trump victories, with the knotty issues of Iran and the reflecting pool, are premature. Iran is gloating about Trump’s bad deal. Senate Republicans who normally don’t have the temerity to challenge Trump are deriding it. And the hydrogen peroxide t...