‘Trump just put me on his enemies list.’ Newly added to a White House roster of “media offenders,” author and columnist Brian Tyler Cohen vows not to follow the lead of law firms and TV networks that bent a knee: “If Trump wants to come after me and content creators, go for it. We’ll be even louder than before.”
■ The legal director at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression calls the White House list “shameful” but not yet a First Amendment violation.
■ Former USA Today editor-in-chief Ken Paulson, now director of the Free Speech Center at Middle Tennessee State University: “Some news companies have concluded that speaking truth to power is a bad business model.”
■ A Northwestern University researcher was among several diabetes experts kicked out of the American Diabetes Association’s annual meeting for passing out copies of a Trump-critical editorial published in the ADA’s own journal.
‘I traveled all the way to Wisconsin!’ The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart mocked those words from NBC’s Kristen Welker in her appeal to Trump as he walked out on their interview: “One of the worst pleas in the history of journalism. … ‘Mr. President, please! Wisconsin! Wheel of Fortune is on an hour earlier here!’”
■ Columnist Eric Zorn: “Oh, the sacrifice and suffering!”
Wail to the chief. Trump was booed by the crowd as he attended last night’s Knicks-Spurs NBA playoff at Madison Square Garden.
■ Wonkette’s Evan Hurst: “Trump’s presence caused his chosen team to lose, just as it does with wars.”
■ Columnist Jeff Tiedrich: “All this disruption, just so Donny could fall asleep in public … again.”
■ The Onion: “Trump Claims He Never Promised A Livable Country.”
‘Very troubling.’ More than a hundred former U.S. prosecutors in Chicago have released a statement condemning Trump’s U.S. attorney here, Andrew Boutros.
■ Their letter, which you can read here, says his actions in the “Broadview Six” case, among others, “have tarnished the reputation of the United States Attorney’s Office.”
■ Updating coverage: The U.S. House was set today to fund immigration enforcement for the rest of Trump’s term.
‘Lightning speed for a court.’ As the nation barrels toward Trump’s wrestling-match celebration of his birthday the nation’s 250th anniversary this weekend, law professor Joyce Vance updates the legal struggle over cage fights on the White House lawn.
■ Trump’s formally nominated his former personal lawyer Todd Blanche to be the U.S. attorney general.
■ Satirist Andy Borowitz: “Blanche Quits DOJ to Pursue Dream of Going to Law School.”
Siri, reborn. The Verge counts off the seven biggest announcements at Apple’s developer conference.
■ Apple historian David Pogue says the key is a deal with Google—and “what’s wild is that … Google agreed to use Apple’s privacy structures.”
■ Also: New child safety controls.
■ Here’s a list of all the iPhone models eligible for this fall’s operating system upgrade.
For sale—maybe: Nickelodeon or Cartoon Network. In its bid to buy Warner Bros. Discovery, Trump-compliant Paramount Skydance has indicated it would consider putting one of the companies’ kids’ channels on the block.
■ Axios: If the deal happens, embattled CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss could also oversee CNN’s editorial coverage.
■ A source close to the deal: “The Paramount brass loves Bari Weiss.” (Cartoon: Jack Ohman.)
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