The Lede: Trump's Pentecostal Precursor, Bloomberg's Unflattering Comparisons

Today's front page. (newseum.org)

Bad Date: Bloomberg and UConn's Kemba Walker watch Knicks lose together. (NY Daily News)

Hertzberg on Trump:"The joke candidate of the present moment partakes of many of the qualities of those who have gone before, but the precursor he most strikingly resembles, perhaps, is the late Bishop Homer A. Tomlinson." (New Yorker)

Bloomberg on Birthers:“The Republicans are making a terrible mistake in making this a big issue." (NY Times)

Trump and Local GOP:"New York County already got him for their Lincoln Dinner." (WNYC)

Unflattering Comparisons:"Thanks to term limits...Bloomberg won't suffer the kind of humiliating electoral defeat that marked the final days of predecessors such as the notorious incompetent Abraham Beame or his legendary successor, Ed Koch." (American Spectator)

Client Disclosure Pushback:""The truth is that many of the lawyers/legislators do virtually nothing for their money and are only hired so the clients can gain access to their influence with their committees and their leaders," unnamed "insider" tells Dicker. (NY Post)

O to O:the Obamas visit Oprah before NYC visit on Wednesday. (NY Daily News)

A New, Conciliating Chancellor: “People will question spine,” Walcott says. (NY Times)

ROTC Is Back:"with the military preparing to end that ban later this year, institutions like Columbia are re-opening the campus gates to the military." (Wall Street Journal)

NY Freshmen on Debt Ceiling Vote:"I have to hold my ground because otherwise, I really believe...our economy will be destroyed," Grimm says. (NY Post)

Albany Romance:"Mr. Klein and Ms. Savino have become the Brangelina of New York state politics, complete with their own nickname, 'Klavino.'" (NY Times)

Schumer Weighs in on NYSE Deal:"threatened to withhold support for the Deutsche Börse deal if the name of the new company didn't start with "New York" or "NY." The name hasn't been decided." (Wall Street Journal)

On the Case: "Sen. Carl Kruger, a Brooklyn Democrat who was recently indicted on bribery and money-laundering charges, has introduced a bill that would fine New York City restaurants up to $1,000 for serving drinking water to a patron who didn't first request it." (Wall Street Journal)