It's very tiring watching the circus at the White House. So many unforced errors, such bad and amateurish messaging. The Mooch fiasco. The daily trainwreck of the Mueller investigation. But every so often, there's a bit of cleverness that gives me hope again. Like Stephen Miller's press conference on immigration. Or Seb Gorka, on the rare occasions that he speaks out.

Now there's this. Trump did indeed like this guy's tweet, accusing Trump of raping a 12-year-old on Epstein's private island. And as much as I cringe at stuff Trump says sometimes, this does read to me like 4D chess. This isn't random, it isn't "covfefe" type blundering. This is Trump laughing at his critics and winking at the crowd, very deliberately.

There's a story Winston Churchill told about the London blitz in 1940, that seems especially appropriate to this moment. London was being bombed by the Germans every night. Tens of thousands of people died, big parts of the city were burned down. Churchill emerged one night from his bunker after the all-clear and stood in a doorway with some of the workers who had come up for a little air. One fellow looked over at his Prime Minister and remarked, "It's a grand life, if we don't weaken."

Nothing is ever certain, especially when it comes to this kind of horror. But I confess, Trump really raised my spirits with this. I'm not going to weaken. Onward and upward.

EDIT: Wow, this is the first comment I've ever made that got two downvoats. Not sure why unless it's for calling the White House a circus. But it is one, much of the time. I can be pro-Trump and still admit when things aren't going well.

EDIT2: @AHamiltonSpirit, the guy whose tweet Trump liked, has put up evidence at archive.is proving that Trump did actually like (and then un-like) his tweet.

EDIT3: Trump liking the tweet was written up in New York Magazine.