The Wall Street Journal’s Joseph Epstein writes that every Friday he meets old high school friends for lunch. At these lunches, he instated a “no talking about Trump rule.” But that rule is consistently broken, because “no one, apparently, can stop talking about our president.” Epstein writes that liberals want to show their superior virtue by attacking Trump and conservatives want to show their strong sense of reality while defending him. But Epstein writes, neither is very convincing and the conversation really just ruins lunch. People have disliked presidents in the past, like Jimmy Carter or George W. Bush or Bill Clinton. But the Trump talk seems inescapable. Fire and Fury, the new Michael Wolff book about the Trump White House, has reignited the flames, especially since Wolff and Trump are now going head-to-head about whether it is factual. As the book tour and Wolff’s appearances on talk shows continue, Trump will have more tweets, anti-Trumpers will rejoice as Wolff’s confirms all their darkest ideas, and pro-Trumpers will prepare their defenses. Meanwhile, Epstein is canceling all his lunch dates for the next two weeks.
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