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TOP OF THE DAY by Howard Polskin

May. 5, 2026

Greetings! Tonight, Barack Obama appears as a guest on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” on MAGA-friendly CBS. I’m hoping for a fiery interview filled with jokes and cutting criticism of the Trump regime.  Colbert’s last show is slated Thursday, May 21, and the late-night host has made it clear he wants to exit in a blaze of humorous free speech fury… Does Kamala Harris have a “fake Black woman accent?” The National’s Review’s  editor-in-chief Rich Lowry thinks so.  On Megyn Kelly’s podcast, this is what Lowry said about Kamala’s recent address at The Root’s “Rising Power” summit: “She is a Black woman who does a fake Black woman accent. If you do fake accents, almost by definition, you’re a bad politician”…The Philadelphia Museum of Art is in the right-wing crosshairs.  The Washington Free Beacon takes aim at the museum’s current exhibit tied to the nation’s 250th birthday, because in its view, there is too much focus on “guilt mongering” especially as it relates to the country’s history of slavery and broken treaties with indigenous people.  “Maybe the curators figure any country that elected Donald Trump president must be irredeemable,” wrote reporter Ira Stoll. “(T)hey hate the president so much that they hate the country that elected him”… Because he is term-limited, Ron DeSantis leaves office in January.  Insiders say the GOP governor of Florida has his eyes on one of three top posts in The Donald’s administration: Attorney General of the United States, Secretary of Defense (sorry Pete), or a  seat on the Supreme Court, reports  TownhallMore Trump bashing from the right today: The Wall Street Journal concedes that German Chancellor Friedrich Merz insulted Trump, but states that’s no reason for Trump to pull U.S. troops from the country and undermine NATO.  The WSJ headline nails it: “How to Make Vladimir Putin’s Year”…If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard