The governor of Louisiana told Donald Trump that he could visit the flood-ravaged state on Friday as long as he didn't turn it into a cheap photo-op. Of course, that was Mr. Trump's intention all along. So he lands his huge Trump plane, exits the plane with his "Make America Great Again" ball cap, gets in a caravan of over a dozen jumbo black SUV's and is sure to be seen personally unloading a truck of supplies for, I'm guessing, no more than a few minutes ("Touring flooding, Trump moves ahead with campaign turnaround," Aug. 20).
I'm sure that he and his staff are gloating over how they out-foxed the governor. It's interesting that Mr. Trump has often read the "snake story" at his rallies. The gist of it is that a woman befriends an injured snake, nurses it back to health and then is given a fatal bite when the snake recovers. The snake turns to the woman and says, "Well, you knew I was a snake when you took me in." The governor should have listened to one of Mr. Trump's recitations before inviting him in.
Len Friedheim, Columbia