Democracy Dies in Darkness

Trump suggested Johnny Carson wouldn’t poke fun at him. Watch him do just that.

President Trump is nostalgic. Ah, the good old days, he says, when America was great, coal was king and people still said “Merry Christmas.” And, the comedians weren’t so darn mean.

This week, the president has been particularly wistful about that last one, using a couple early-morning tweets to criticize the late-night shows — in particular, their “one-sided hatred” of him and his administration. On Thursday, Trump went on Twitter to lament the sad state of evening comedy and apparently quoted a guest on “Fox & Friends” talking about the way things used to be.