DON TALK NOT FIT FOR KING

Not everyone believes that our President is not only off-track but has gone off the rails completely. To get a view from the other side of the train, I turned to my favorite Republican, Congressman Pete King (photo).

“Tell me, Congressman, do you think President Trump is sane?” I asked.

“I think he’s sane,” he answered. “He’s iconoclastic. But by not having the discipline to say or not say what’s appropriate, he creates problems. He makes these tough-guy remarks, and you can’t do that as President. It’s 1960s bar humor.

“But the people who came here through TPS came here legally. I think I have the first- or second-highest number of Salvadorans in my district who came here under TPS. There is absolutely no issue — they have mortgages, their kids go to school, they work hard, pay taxes and are a very vibrant, active part of this community.

“Priests have told me that Catholic parishes on Long Island have been kept going strong by the Haitian (immigrants).”

But does the President appreciate this?

“I’ve been in a number of meetings with him and he’ll suddenly start talking about DACA and how we have to take care of these immigrants’ kids,” King said.

Then why does he project a different image to the public?

“I can’t explain it,” the congressman said. “When I hear him say this stuff I feel like I’m back in a bar in the 1960s. I can imagine him sitting in a bar in Queens back then.”

The problem is that Archie Bunker with the bar humor has become the President.