What Should A Good Leader Do?

'Trump tweeted Wednesday that he “was not informed about anything having to do with the Navy Ship USS John S. McCain during my recent visit to Japan,” and told reporters at the White House on Thursday that whoever was responsible for the request was “well-meaning.”'

Oh sure, it's always "well-meaning" when the CiC can't pay attention to the basic norms of civility and the more straightforward restrictions on the military.Only Trump could see an attempt at insulting the memory of three generations of one Navy family as well-meaning. The John S. McCain was named after the late senator's grand-father and father and only posthumously was the Arizona senator's name included in the honor. The military is supposed to ignore all purely political actions or behavior. The draft dodger in chief wouldn't understand the core principles of the military any more than he would understand the core principles of manners in a civil society. He always operates on a third grade level of, "Well he did it first."

And make no mistake, while currently the message to hide the John S. McCain is only attributed to the White House,  electronic messaging is pretty easy to pin down to its source. No doubt some functionary at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue will lose a job over this (probably to resurface in the Trump campaign), the real miscreant is the man with the wild comb over.