The Political Page, T+95 -- April 26, 2017

Boom. Coming. Oil companies "say" EV car boom is coming and is "real." Says the surge will cause demand for oil-based fuels to peak in the 2030s.

Trump effect: Twitter monthly users beat forecasts; shares spike. Twitter shares surged more than 11% today. Meanwhile, this is The Washington Post headline today: Trump tweets don't help: 1st Twitter revenue drop since IPO. No one has any idea how Twitter will do going forward but Amazon.com did not show any profit for years after it went public. The Wall Street Journal has a nice article on this story also.

Ryan: GOP will fund Planned Parenthood; won't fund the wall.

Just doesn't "get it." Steve Liesman's views on Trump not attending this year's White House Correspondents' Dinner. Trump has it right. To call this one night of detente between the press and the president suggests Liesman has not been paying attention. He certainly is not watching YouTube. Thirty-eight seconds into this video: detente? Hardly think so.