The cult of The Donald

Any day now, Donald Trump may walk back his Monday call for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on.”

If so, he won’t change his mind because he regrets insulting Muslim Americans — no small number of whom, unlike Trump, have served in the military — or that his rhetoric threatens to isolate this country when it needs allies, especially in the Middle East.

Remember when The Donald signed a pledge in September not to run as an independent candidate if he fails to win the GOP nomination?

By November, the billionaire scion was inching away from that pledge and hinting that it only applied if the party treated him “fairly.”

In the 2006 election, Politico reported, Trump donated $5,000 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign and $20,000 to the Democratic Congressional Campaign committees.

Only after the Washington Post did an analysis of Trump’s campaign contributions — and found most of his donations went to Democrats — did Trump start giving more money to GOP campaigns.

Every minute that the news media focus on Trump’s latest episode of verbal diarrhea is a minute not spent reporting on Syria and the San Bernardino terrorist attack — life-and-death stories.