The president proceeded to whine about how “nobody mentions the fact that these [steel] plants are creating tremendous numbers of jobs—tremendous.” (In fact, the boost to the steel industry has come at the expense of just about everyone else, including the countless American industries that need steel and aluminum to make their own products, which are now more expensive—but we digress.) He whined about how nobody mentions the “billions of dollars” that are supposedly “pouring into the United State coffers,” or—and this is truly the best part—that the United States is winning “respect” abroad because of the tariffs.

Perhaps Trump has an alternative definition of respect. To most political observers, Trump’s tariffs have caused countries around the world—including our biggest allies—to come to the conclusion that the president of the United States is a simpleminded loose cannon who they can’t trust. His tariffs have hit farmers who don’t want the White House’s bailout, driven up prices for American consumers, sent U.S. manufacturing overseas, and resulted in job losses across the U.S. But who cares? Praise him, you ingrates! And be quick about it!

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Les Moonves is having a rough couple of months

In May, the CBS chief executive officer went to war with the company’s largest shareholder, Shari Redstone, who wants to merge the network with Viacom. With the backing of most of the board, Moonves attempted to issue a dividend that would shrink Redstone’s voting power to under 20 percent, but the move was blocked when she changed the company’s bylaws. That deeply awkward battle is expected to go to trial in the fall, and while Moonves seemingly had the board’s support up until, oh, 12 hours ago things may have changed:

CBS . . . will investigate claims of sexual misconduct expected to be leveled against Chief Executive Officer Leslie Moonves.

The allegations in a forthcoming New Yorker article by Ronan Farrow involve unwanted touching and kissing incidents that go back, in part, more than 20 years, the Hollywood Reporter said, citing people with knowledge of the matter it didn’t identify. Farrow was among the reporters who first broke news on the sexual-misconduct allegations against Harvey Weinstein last year.

In a statement, the directors said: “All allegations of personal misconduct are to be taken seriously. Upon the conclusion of that investigation, which involves recently reported allegations that go back several decades, the Board will promptly review the findings and take appropriate action.”