Trumpany's coming / Electriscooted / Massive newspaper layoff

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Trumpany’s coming. The president arrives in Illinois Thursday for the first time since his inauguration—to visit a U.S. Steel plant that’s reopening.

■ Updating coverage: In an ALL-CAPS Twitter rant, the president warns Iran not to threaten the United States.
■ Neil Steinberg on Trump supporters’ immigration fears: “Democrats, in their crowded cities, throw out the welcome mat, while Republicans, living where you have to drive 30 miles to find a Walmart, yearn for a giant wall to keep out anybody who doesn’t look like them.”
■ Two years ago, filmmaker Michael Moore wrote: “Donald J. Trump is going to win in November.”
■ In 1984, a KGB defector defined ideological subversion: “To change the perception of reality of every American to such an extent that despite … the abundance of information no one is able to come to sensible conclusions.” (Cartoon: Keith Taylor.)
■ If this weren’t labeled “satire,” could you tell?
■ CUNY journalism professor Jeff Jarvis: “Facebook should take down Infowars.”

‘There’s no truth to that at all.’ Chicago mayoral candidate Willie Wilson rejects suggestions he was buying votes at a South Side church Sunday as he gave away hundreds of thousands of dollars—a big chunk of which he says came from Gov. Bruce Rauner.
■ Lori Lightfoot’s mayoral campaign has been hiring veterans of progressive national and local campaigns.
■ Mayor Emanuel’s campaign has blown $120,000 defending itself against charges of violating the state’s open records law.

Electriscooted. Lime, the company behind one of Chicago’s bike-sharing services, is demoing its electric scooters at neighborhood festivals over the next five weekends.
■ A Tribune editorial: “We’re not giddy about adding traffic to already-clotted city streets and sidewalks.”
■ Repairs are in the works for three of the CTA’s Blue Line stations.

‘Leslie Dennison helped save her only granddaughter, but she didn’t survive.’ The Tribune reports a 12-year-old from Illinois credits her grandmother with saving her life in that Missouri tour boat accident that left 17 others dead.
■ A former National Transportation Safety Board chairman is calling for a ban on amphibious duck tours like that one.
■ Live at Square’s publication deadline: Video of the boat’s recovery from the bottom of Table Rock Lake. (Link updated.)

Massive newspaper layoff. Chicago-based Tronc—parent to New York’s ballsy Daily News, which it bought last year for just $1—today laid off half that paper’s newsroom staff, including its top editor …
■ … just a day after Daily News columnist Harry Siegel filed this: “Why we need local journalism.”
■ The New York Times reports some News employees started packing last week.
■ In a 19-minute song, “I Admit,” singer R. Kelly responds to charges of sexual misconduct—and calls out a Chicago journalist who’s been investigating him for years.
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