“I was quite the baseball player, you wouldn’t believe,” said Donald Trump, suddenly wistful as he recalled his salad days when his mother would tell him, “Son, you could be a professional baseball player,” and he would reply, “Thanks, mom.” Carpe diem!
Not for the first time on Tuesday, the US president had veered wildly off topic. The point of this story was a “big powerful building” that “loomed over the park” in Queens, New York, where he used to play little league baseball. When he asked his mother why it had bars on the windows, she told him it was a mental hospital.
