Donald Trump continues to say stuff that is not necessary to say. And yesterday he was asked about four U.S. military killed in Niger in Africa in an anti-terrorist situation and he said: 

"The toughest calls I have to make are the calls where this happens. Soldiers are killed. It's a very difficult thing. Now, it gets to a point where, you know, you make four or five of them in one day, it's a very, very tough day. For me, that's by far the toughest. So, the traditional way, if you look at President Obama and other presidents, most of them didn't make calls, a lot of them didn't make calls. I like to call when it's appropriate, when I think I'm able to do it." 

All right. So now he gets into all kinds of trouble. Who called, who didn't call. The cable people go nuts because anything Trump says can and will be held against him, as I said in the Message of the Day. But it was not necessary. I mean, he was on the right track. This is the hardest thing a president has to do.  

Now, I know a little bit about presidents and how they conduct themselves. Most of the time, correspondence to KIA families is through a presidential letter. That's true. Sometimes there are calls, sometimes there are meetings, but most of the time this tradition is to do it through the mail. All right, but what does it matter? Nobody is going to assert that Barack Obama or Bill Clinton or Bush the younger or Bush the elder or Donald Trump is insensitive to the families who lose people in war. 

Come on. So what is it? It's just a waste of everybody's time. And I know President Trump doesn't understand yet that anytime he mentions Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton he's going to get smashed.

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