The most despicable thing the Left has done to President Trump has been its refusal to treat him with the respect due any President of the United States.  Trump never has been accorded the respect that the other 43 Presidents were accorded.  Instead, this President has been treated as a criminal ever since he came down the elevator in 2015.  Democrat politicians treat Trump as a criminal, the media treats him as a criminal, and we now know that the CIA, the FBI and the Obama Justice Department treated Trump as a criminal.  What’s more, even after a two year anal examination by Bob Mueller’s 17 Hillary loving persecutors, a probe that found Trump had not violated any law, he remains a prime suspect of the Left.  I submit to you gentle readers that the fault lies not with the President, but with the Leftists, who are so blinded by hate, that they are forced to interpret any incident, no matter how trivial, as proof positive that Trump is a fascist, racist, sexist, homophobe.  But they’ve outdone themselves now.  In a recent tweet, far-left New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman suggested that the song Edelweiss, which recently was played at the White House by the Marine Corps Band, was a pro-Nazi anthem.  The NYT twit tweeted, “Does anyone at that White House understand the significance of that song?”  Really?  Is it any wonder that Twitter contains the word “twit?” Haberman is the NYT White House correspondent.  There was a time when the White House correspondent was an experienced, intelligent journalist; people like Helen Thomas, or Hugh Sidey, who was the White House correspondent for Time Magazine.  I met Hugh Sidey in 1977.  He covered every President from Eisenhower to George W. Bush.  He was smart, he was funny, and he was a master storyteller.  Which brings us back to Maggie Haberman.  She grew up in New York City, and she is a 45 year old graduate of Sarah Lawrence College.  One might expect that such credentials carried with them at least a modicum of intelligence, and if not intelligence, then at least a degree of practical experience in the real world.  And even failing those qualifications, one might expect that at least Maggie Haberman had, at some time in her life, seen the movie, The Sound of Music.  I know, the picture was released before she was born, but it’s on television all the time. Then again, as a sophisticated New Yorker, maybe Haberman doesn’t watch TV, except for MSNBC, of course.  But then again, as a sophisticated New Yorker, there is the theater, and The Sound of Music has been brought back to the stage many times.  Maggie Haberman felt compelled to tweet out her disgust that President Trump dared to have Edelweiss playing as she entered the White House.  She suggested that her disgust came from the “fact” that Edelweiss is “a pro-Nazi song.”  Let’s put aside for the moment Maggie’s insulting suggestion that the U.S. Marine Corps Band would play a pro-Nazi song, and put further to the side the notion that President Trump himself chose the program for the Band to play because, of course, as a latter-day Nazi, he was determined to put his Nazi pedigree on full display.  The real insult is that Haberman, who occupies a high position on a publication which claims to contain, “All the news that’s fit to print,” could exhibit such stunning ignorance.  Haberman likely connects the song Edelweiss only to Amazon’s television series, The Man In the High Castle, a fictional drama set in an alternate universe where the Nazis and the Japanese won World War II and now occupy different parts of America.  The Edelweiss song is played during the opening credits of The Man In the High Castle.  Obviously, Trump is a fan of any show that has Nazis in it, so he must have ordered the Band to play that song as a tribute to his Nazi forebears.  Edelweiss is a lovely song that sounds as though it was written long ago.  It is an iconic tune that brings people (well, normal people), back to the innocence of watching The Sound of Music since childhood.  Edelweiss actually is a brilliantly subversive anti-Nazi tune penned by two German Jews, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, for their 1959 Broadway smash The Sound of Music.  World War II was fresh in the minds of Rodgers and Hammerstein, and for that matter anyone around in 1959.  The older folks had lived through it, and the younger crowd had heard of it, as history was still being taught in America in those days.  The Anschluss was the March 12, 1938 Nazi annexation of Austria.  If Maggie Haberman didn’t learn the history of Nazi Germany at Sarah Lawrence, you’d at least think that she might, at some point in her life have read a book or seen The Sound of Music.   If she had, then she might have known that it is the semi- factual account of the Von Trapp family singers.  In it, Baron Von Trapp is an Austrian Navy Captain who is being involuntarily commissioned into the German Navy.  The Baron is a patriotic Austrian who hates  fascism in general and the Nazis in particular.  Edelweiss is a patriotic Austrian song whose lyrics include the line, “Bless my homeland forever.”  When the Baron sings the song in public, he is defying the local Austrian Nazi official who is trying to force him to work for Adolph Hitler’s Kriegsmarine (Navy) against his will.  The real facts don’t matter, however.  With the advent of “if true” “journalism,” no real facts matter.  Maggie Haberman knows all she needs to know about it.  If that song was played in the Trump White House, it was played to honor the Nazis.  Then again, the Edelweiss lyrics do expose a nasty streak of nationalism among Austrians, and in this progressive age, all nationalism is prohibited, even when its purpose is to prevent a genocide.  To paraphrase George Orwell’s Snowball, “Reporters good, Trump bad.”  Hey, maybe “Snowball” is the forefather of the progressive Snowflakes.  Nah, more likely Rodgers and Hammerstein were just crypto-Nazis.