In which Trump discovers some guy named Frederick Douglass

The following column by Dana Milbank was posted on the Washington Post website February 1, 2017:

President Trump is capable of many a miracle. On Wednesday, after just 12 days on the job, he raised the dead.

Addressing a small group of African American aides and supporters to kick off Black History Month, the new president not only offered pro forma praise for the usual suspects — Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Martin Luther King Jr. — but also singled out somebody who recently caught his attention. Continue reading “In which Trump discovers some guy named Frederick Douglass”