The Trump House(™)

Trump is like a rutting animal, wanting to impose, to mark, to conquer.

In a world where the sweeping scandals, rampant cruelty and corruption, economic arson, and international betrayals at Trump’s hands are eroding our institutions, I read today about the removal of an ancient magnolia tree from the White House grounds and found it unspeakably sad.

It is, to be sure, an old specimen, tired and battered by time and fate. Th…