Welcome to Friday’s Washington Secrets, where we are gearing up for the United States Men’s National Team (is that the worst nickname in soccer?) to take on Paraguay (La Albirroja or “The White and Red”) at the World Cup tonight. As usual, we bring you our review of the president’s week with our two political strategists.You can always rely on New York sports fans. When Donald Trump was shown on the Madison Square Garden jumbotron at Game 3 of the NBA Finals on Monday, he was roundly booed. He was the first sitting president to attend the Finals. But none of that mattered to a Knicks fan base that now blames him for ending a 13-game winning streak.It was that sort of week. Trump was able to indulge some his passion for sports (with his UFC fight coming this weekend) while Iran exploded and then fizzled in the background, and the president flexed his muscles in Washington with mixed results.
Work was completed on the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool last weekend, with attention turning to other bits of the president’s construction projects, such as his triumphal arch. The work generates plenty of headlines, but as Secrets reported earlier this week, it may not move the dial much with voters.
