(2) That Delta’s computer outage is the real culprit here, even though, as Bloomberg points out, the computer outage at Delta “occurred more than 48 hours after the president’s order and lasted only three hours.”

One for you, two for me

As you may have heard, President Trump is not a big fan of regulation, a point he underscored by appointing investor Carl Icahn, noted regulation foe, to serve as his special adviser on regulatory matters. Last week, Trump told business executives he plans to cut regulations by 75 percent or “maybe more,” declining, of course, to go into any further detail. Now, as he as he seems to be to trying to sign more executive orders in his first 100 days in office than any other presidents signed in all of their terms combined, he’s introduced a new measure to help get the job done. Per CNBC:

The measure will expand regulatory review with the goal of revoking two regulations for every new one put forward, according to a senior administration official. Under the order, federal agencies will propose rules they want to drop and the White House will review them.

While the order is likely worrisome to employees who work at agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency, you have to at least give the president credit for coming up with a plan that reads like a Groupon deal.

Gird your loins, Dodd-Frank

Speaking of using the nuclear codes to destroy regulation, Trump told reporters Monday that he plans to do “a big number on Dodd-Frank,” the financial reform legislation created in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. (In related news, you’ve got to love a commander in chief who routinely uses such presidential phraseology as “We’re going to be doing a big number on Dodd-Frank.” He might as well have said, ”We’re gonna screw Dodd-Frank real good,” which would likely win applause from his base.)

This news presumably pleases Elliott Management’s Paul Singer, who recently wrote a letter to clients, declaring, “The financial system needs to be freed from the dysfunctional dictates of this ineffective law and properly and efficiently regulated instead.” We’re not sure about the “efficiently regulated” part, but the financial sector is definitely about to be “freed.” It worked out so well last time!

Is this real life?

After he was elected president, in response to the outcry from killjoys shouting about his many conflicts of interest, Donald Trump cleared things up by proclaiming “The president can’t have a conflict of interest.” But because he cares so much about doing the right thing, even though he doesn’t have to, Trump announced that he would stop running the Trump Organization on a day-to-day basis, handing the keys to his eldest sons, Don Jr. and Eric Trump (while retaining his financial stake in the company, of course). Don and Eric—who doubled the price of a Mar-a-Lago membership on their father’s fifth day in office—then hired a team to help them “navigate potential ethical conflicts” (like, for instance, cashing in on your father’s new job in the White House). You’ll be shocked, we’re sure, by their exceptional pedigrees. Per Bloomberg: