Mr. President: It’s a Southern thing, y’all

Georgia U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson took notice of at least one nugget from reports about Bob Woodward’s new book looking at President Donald Trump’s White House: the president’s treatment of Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

In the book, “Fear,” Woodward describes Trump as calling Sessions a “traitor.” Then it gets nasty.

“This guy is mentally retarded. He’s this dumb Southerner . ... He couldn’t even be a one-person country lawyer down in Alabama,” Trump is quoted as saying.

Isakson, in an interview with The Washington Post, had a message for Trump, delivered with a Southern accent. “I’m a Southerner, people can judge my intellect, my IQ, by my product and what I produce rather than what somebody else says,” Isakson told the Post.

“We’re a pretty smart bunch. We lost the Civil War, but I think we’re winning the economic war since then . ... I’m not gonna get into name calling because I don’t think you should be allowed to call names — including the president,” he added.

Trump apparently recognized the damage that section of the book could have on his strong support in the South, highlighting it in a tweet attacking the book.

“The already discredited Woodward book, so many lies and phony sources, has me calling Jeff Sessions ‘mentally retarded’ and ‘a dumb southerner.’ I said NEITHER, never used those terms on anyone, including Jeff, and being a southerner is a GREAT thing,” the president wrote. “He made this up to divide!”

He said “good job”: The president did take his dispute with his attorney general to a more public arena — Twitter, of course.

This time, he was apparently referring to recent indictments against U.S. Rep. Chris Collins of New York on charges of insider trading and U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter of California on allegations that he misused campaign funds.

“Two long running, Obama era, investigations of two very popular Republican Congressmen were brought to a well-publicized charge, just ahead of the Mid-Terms, by the Jeff Sessions Justice Department,” Trump wrote in a tweet. “Two easy wins now in doubt because there is not enough time. Good job Jeff ...... ”

Atlanta’s Sally Yates, the former acting U.S. attorney general, saw a need for rebuttal and also took to Twitter.

“Repeatedly trying to pervert DO J into a weapon to go after his adversaries, and now shamelessly complaining that DO J should protect his political allies to maintain his majority in the midterms, is nothing short of an all-out assault on the rule of law,” she wrote.

Wray and wrath: Longtime Atlanta resident Christopher Wray, now the FBI director, has apparently joined Sessions on the president’s naughty list for not protecting him.

Trump is “in the worst mood of his presidency and calling friends and allies to vent about his selection of Sessions and Wray,” an insider told NBC News.

Wray, who used to make his living at King & Spalding, has drawn attacks from the president in the past, but he’s made a great effort to avoid the public eye during his first year as head of the FBI.

Does this need to be addressed? If you go to the internet and type “briankemp.com,” you find it’s a shortcut to Democratic candidate for governor Stacey Abrams’ campaign website.

It belonged to another Brian Kemp, a public relations strategist in California, who bought the domain around 1999, before the current Republican candidate for governor ever ran for public office. Earlier this year, the California Kemp redirected it to Abrams’ site.

If you want to see the Georgia Kemp’s campaign website, type in “kempforgovernor.com.”

An honor with a time limit? U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell slammed the brakes on an effort to rename the Russell Senate Office Building after John McCain, but Bloomberg’s editorial board advanced a new idea: the 50-year do-over.

Every five decades, structures on Capitol Hill — like the Russell Building, which was named to honor Georgia U.S. Sen. Richard B. Russell Jr. — could be renamed. Or not. “A 50-year sunset clause would allow for more new greats to be recognized,” the board wrote.