Trump’s gone from sitting in court getting sued to suing.

At the Cannes Film Festival a filmmaker played his movie, The Apprentice, a biography  about Trump as a young man building his real estate empire in Manhattan, his first marriage to Ivana, his friendship with Roy Cohn. Who knows how much was true. But it wasn’t flattering, parts sounded downright nasty.

That film landed Trump in an odd spot. No one hates gag orders more than Donald Trump – he’s said over and over judges, prosecutors, and Biden, trying to gag him is a dirty trick, a way to silence him.

But when the filmmaker made that movie about him – Trump tried to gag him. Threatened to sue if he distributed the film.

Back when Jim Hunt ran against Jesse Helms, Jesse once quipped, You can’t have it both ways, Jim – put a hole in Hunt’s boat. We now live in a new era.

Trump being against gag orders that silence him but for gagging someone who attacks him sure sounds like straddling a fence. But times have changed. Neither gag orders nor fence straddling seem to matter much these days.