In a Tale of 2 Leaders, Good Day for de Blasio

Ordinarily, Mayor de Blasio’s decision June 20 to interrupt his own press conference announcing a paid-parental-leave deal with the United Federation of Teachers to decry the Federal Government’s zero-tolerance immigration policy would have been viewed as raining on his own parade to squirt cider in President Trump’s ear.

But it came during an extraordinary moment in a truly awful way for Mr. Trump’s vision of an America that could be mistaken for his pal Vladimir Putin’s Russia. And so the Mayor’s quick segue from announcing “something that will allow parents to be together with their babies at the beginning of their children’s lives” to deploring Mr. Trump’s ordering that other kids be “ripped away from their parents in this country by our government” had a certain logic.