It came in the form of a review by Washington Post critic Paul Hume after Margaret gave a concert in 1950 to a full house at Washington’s Constitution Hall. Armed with a pleasant voice but not nearly enough classical training, Margaret was inevitably headed for a rendezvous with reality. The debut performance of the president’s daughter with the Detroit Symphony was broadcast nationally on radio, an honor not normally awarded to fledgling concert performers. Margaret Truman Daniel fancied herself a coloratura soprano. Such is what passes for truth in Talking Points America. To Rush Limbaugh and company, Trump’s use of a White House Twitter account to excoriate a department store chain was the equivalent of Truman threatening a music critic over a scathing review of his daughter Margaret. So when the president targeted Nordstrom for the unforgivable sin of not continuing to stock Ivanka Trump goods, it suddenly became time to blame Harry Truman. For no matter what Trump does amid his dizzying daily assaults on White House decorum, there will always be claims - no matter how ludicrous - of a Democratic presidential precedent. It has taken less than three weeks of the Donald Trump presidency to establish the “A Democrat Did It First” principle of aggressive right-wing defense.
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