A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to November.

Have you noticed? The media coverage today is overwhelmingly WWTD? What Would Trump Do?

Nevermind the lame-duck quacker laughing with Derek Jeter at the Rays-Cuba game this afternoon in Havana. Check out the headline tonight on this editorial in the Washington DC newspaper:

The horror in Brussels is a rebuke to Trump’s foreign policy

Belgium and other NATO allies are critical to the fight against terrorism.

It's almost as if they accept that Donald has been president these past 8 years. Except, Brussels is a screaming failure of the newly coined "Obama Doctrine", which advocates that the United States president stick his finger to the wind, and stealthily decide who to bomb and where. The world is our weapons-testing ground, it seems.

If someone in the US military dies, the mission becomes public. If not...

Whatever you choose to call it, can we all agree that for all the money spent thus far, it has not been effective? Is that fair to report?

I've never been more reminded of the mood of the country in the late 70s when Ronald Reagan came in to infuse the country with pride and a new fighting spirit. Just like the Washington media has bypassed the president now, and is looking to the candidates for leadership in the wars against terrorists -- on a day President Obama confidently proclaimed the Cold War over -- so too were we done with Jimmy Carter when the hostages were seized, and the world awaited new leadership.

Check out the headlines tomorrow and count them up: who is looking more and more like the US president today? Donald Trump, or Barack Obama?

Perhaps we could cut a deal: while the Obamas keep the seats warm, they could function as a symbolic first family, much like the royals do in Britain? We could have a separate leader for serious issues, like the ongoing wars and the need for defensive actions at home to secure America's porous borders before it happens here, again.