You can’t come to my party

More news from nursery school:

The National Governors Association (NGA) has canceled its annual White House meeting after President Trump only invited Republican governors to the gathering. 

The yearly meeting is traditionally bipartisan and offers a chance for state leaders to convene with one another and the president. 

Sigh. It’s a meeting of governors, not a meeting of Republican governors. It’s not for him to change that.

“Because NGA’s mission is to represent all 55 governors, the Association is no longer serving as the facilitator for that event, and it is no longer included in our official program,” Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) wrote in a Monday letter announcing plans to forgo the meeting, according to The Associated Press.

Stitt said the Trump administration’s decision to exclude Democratic governors would not divide the association. 

Political affiliation is not all there is to people. It’s not that simple. Nothing is that simple. There’s a lot of life that has nothing to do with political affiliation, so it’s not always necessary to sort people into BigEnders at this end and LittleEnders at the other end. Furthermore, it’s healthy for people with different political views to talk, because they can learn from each other.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt defended Trump’s move to not invite Democratic governors to the meeting during Tuesday’s briefing.  
 
“I just spoke with the president about this,” Leavitt told reporters. “It is a dinner at the White House. It’s the ‘People’s House.’ It’s also the president’s home, and he can invite whomever he wants to dinners and events here at the White House.” 

No it isn’t. When he’s playing host at official events he’s not in his “home”; he’s at work, in a house that belongs to the government, or the country as a whole if you prefer. Part of the White House is his temporary “home” but the rest of it is his and other people’s workplace, and a government building that belongs to all of us. No he cannot invite whomever he wants, not morally or legally.