Aside from destructive tweets, Donald Trump can't create news like Ronald Reagan could. Remember (if you're old) Reagan going into the Eire Pub in Boston for a beer and that made news for days? It was a late example of a president "having a beer with regular [white] folks." Bill Clinton also went there and couldn't match the attention it got.

Wasn't Trump's pose with the bible strange? He held it like it was an alien artifact. He was experimenting with awkward poses in front of his all-white staff. And where did they get it from? The church? A hotel? Trump didn’t answer a reporter’s question about the bible ownership. And that was supposed to send a strong message to his base that "he's got this," and "he's a real christian"? The White House later called the images of a strongman holding a bible to be “iconic.” No. it was very bizarre.

Trump’s attempt to control the news cycle has only supported what we already know. Trump is a failure of a leader. This nation doesn’t have a president. But not just that, the vast majority of our leaders have failed us. We are a failed state.