It's Monday, June 1st.
I'm Erin Ryan, in for Jane Koston, and this is What A Day.
School's out, or almost out, for summer.
And what have we learned this year, class?
Because most people don't know that, you know, dumb ends with a B, but most people don't know.
And all I do is I switch the E with a U, and you have a Democrat.
This is what happens when you don't hire union writers for your portion of the roast.
On today's show, President Donald Trump's walk back weekend had not very much winning, but a lot of whining and waste.
We're also going to cover escalating protests
and government crackdowns outside of an immigrant detention center in New Jersey.
And Congress returns this week.
Whether or not its members have found their respective spines hiding in their home districts is TBD.
But let's start with a conversation about a piece of long form journalism
that confirmed what a lot of us suspected about what we see on social media.
It's all.
We're each the star of our own micro Truman Show.
Well, kind of.
Writing for New York Magazine,
Lane Brown's piece uncovers the world of artificial hype that drives what we perceive as buzz.
The piece dominated the group chats these last few days, and for good reason.