Live and nationwide, it’s Donald J. Trump on radio today

I have a great lead-in for my radio show today on most of my stations, including WRKO. Donald J. Trump. Everybody needs guest hosts occasionally. And sometimes, when you’re breaking in a replacement, you wonder if he’s going to be up to the task of carrying a show for three or four hours, hitting the hard breaks, taking just enough callers but not too many, etc. But Rush Limbaugh’s got nothing to worry about today. President Trump doesn’t even need to take a call. He could talk a dog off a meat wagon. It was still unclear Thursday just exactly how the “virtual rally,” as Rush called it, is going to work. Will Trump be hosting or co-hosting with Limbaugh at noon? Will POTUS be on for the whole three hours? Will he have any guests (say, Vice President Mike Pence, himself a former Indiana radio talk-show host)? However it plays out, this is a perfect time for Trump to try his hand at a new kind of campaign rally. The debate commission Thursday was trying to sabotage next week’s second presidential event by making it virtual, that is, making it easier for Joe Biden to read from a teleprompter, take directions in his earpiece and so on.