In this time of medical, financial and existential crisis, Melania Trump is overseeing construction of her safe house, er, tennis pavilion on the White House grounds. She’s urging others to do something for their communities as well. Needless to say, the Twitterati didn’t take to that too well.

Many compared this to Marie Antoinette saying, “Let the eat cake” in response to French citizens starving prior to the French Revolution. Actually, the sentence translates “Let them eat brioche.” Regardless, the French queen probably never uttered these words. But the idea that she did underscores how out of touch the public thought she was.

when you think you’re free to blog about something fun like the new tennis pavilion Melania Trump is building at the White House for her, Novak Djokovic-like husband — not— or the new movie “The King,” starring Timothée Chalumet as a real leader, Henry V , President Donald J. Trump does something else stupid on the road to IM, impeachment meltdown. If it’s not Rick Perry being thrown under the bus one day, it’s the Syrian Kurds watching the bus filled with American soldiers pulling out the next, leaving these staunch American allies in the fight against ISIS to fend for themselves against their longtime enemies, the Turks, in what has already become a humanitarian crisis.

Let them play tennis

Trump and our road to Damascus