SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:55 P.M. ET:  I

FEEL SO SORRY FOR THEM – FROM THE NEW YORK POST:   Posh New Yorkers headed to the Hamptons and beyond this weekend were “freaking out” since private flights out of town were delayed by Donald Trump.  The president was headed to Bedminster, NJ, on Friday. But that meant other private fliers were grounded for a time.  Chopper service Blade sent out a Friday alert to riders announcing “epic weekend weather in the Hamptons, Nantucket, Newport and Jersey coast.”  But it also warned, “flights 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. will be impacted by frozen airspace due to Trump arrival in NYC.”  Some of the poshest probably called teams of lawyers to deal with the stress.

SELF-DELUSION – FROM THE HILL:  Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (I) continued his praise of Jeremy Corbyn and the U.K.'s Labour Party Saturday, saying the left-leaning party gained seats in Parliament by standing up to British elites.  While speaking Saturday at The People's Summit in Chicago, Sanders said Labour supporters were successful "not by moving to the right, not by becoming more conciliatory - they won those seats by standing up to the ruling class.”  The anti-establishment senator praised his British counterpart before and after the U.K.’s general election. While Labour did not get a majority of seats in Parliament, they surpassed pollsters expectations and put the Conservative Party in a considerably weakened position  "We may not have won the campaign in 2016, but there is no question that we have won the battle of ideas,” he said.  Bernie, Bernie, Labour made progress because the Conservatives waged such an awful campaign.  American will not fall in love with socialism.  Oh, and by the way, congratulations on making more than a million dollars last year.

FEEL THEIR PAIN, THEIR ANGST – FROM ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY:    A collection of TV creators say worries about Donald Trump’s presidency is making their jobs to create entertainment much more challenging.  A panel at the ATX Television Festival in Austin, Texas, on Friday, titled “Trumped Up TV,” was assembled to analyze the impact of the president on the industry. The consensus of the group is that Trump has been rather distracting, to say the least.  “How can I possibly focus?” said Javier Grillo-Marxuach (Lost). “There’s a lot of stress eating involved … more than anything else, the torrent of news and information is about the stuff you do to mitigate your stress to be effective.”  Royal Pains producer Michael Rauch agreed, noting he has a rule that no computers or cell phones are allowed in his writers’ room while the team is working. But the moment there’s a break “the next hour all we’re talking about is how horrendous and depressing it is, then we’re back to work trying to be funny.”  And we think soldiers in combat zones have it rough.  They should only know the stress of Hollywood comedy writers.

June 10, 2017