More than a few "wag the dog" moments have occurred since the inauguration of Donald Trump.That idiom was popularized by the 1997 movie "Wag the Dog" about a Washington political operative, played by Robert De Niro, trying to distract attention from a president's sex scandal during an election campaign by trumping up a fake war in Albania.Sound familiar?Hit by a deluge of problems, Trump has attempted to sidetrack the public and media with his late-night Twitter rants -- sometimes successfully and sometimes not. In March, his at times rage-tinged and untruthful 140-character outbursts struc…READ FULL ARTICLE
