Frosty in Florida

#Wall @realDonaldTrump’s built is the one between him and @FLOTUS.” And who can forget the hand swat in Israel or her wish to spend Christmas on “a deserted island”?

After the Stormy Daniels story broke – about Trump cavorting with the porn star and telling her not to worry about Melania, at home with a new baby, and then having his lawyer allegedly pay $130,000 to hush her up – a wintry Melania cancelled her plan to accompany her husband to Davos. Instead, she made a solo visit to the Holocaust Museum for Remembrance Day.

Afterward, she slipped out of Washington. As Daniels began her media tour on Inside Edition and on Jimmy Kimmel, Melania was landing in Florida on an Air Force plane.

Trump could humiliate his wife by being a big, horny pig, but he is the one who comes off as the embarrassment. Barack Obama was always calling to our better angels. Trump is paying off porn stars and denigrating struggling countries that send minorities here as “shitholes”. How did we drop so fast from class to crass?

Partly, it was because the Democrats passed over people who might have beaten Trump, like Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden, and gave the nomination to Hillary Clinton, a flawed feminist icon. The New York Times reported on Friday that Clinton protected a senior adviser on faith in her 2008 campaign who was accused of repeatedly sexually harassing a young female aide. She ignored the advice of her campaign manager to fire the man, Burns Strider, and docked him several weeks of pay and made him undergo counseling. The aide was given a new job.