Welcome to your now-regular roundup of the day's Donald Trump news, a product of an election cycle so ridiculous that we are reduced to bullet points to keep track of it all. There's the makings of a bingo game in here somewhere, but we'll have to leave it to someone less sleep-deprived to come up with it.
The big news continues to be the outcry, or conspicuous lack of outcry, in some circles, over Donald Trump's implication that only "Second Amendment people" could stop a President Hillary Clinton from appointing the wrong sort of judges to the Supreme Court. This was widely taken by anyone not currently acting as spokesperson for Donald Trump as a reference to assassination, though the Trump campaign insists he was merely speaking about the fabulous unity that "Second Amendment people" have.
• "Words matter, my friends." Hillary Clinton responded personally to the comments, once again noting that Trump "does not have the temperament to be president."
• The NRA responded to Trump's comments with a $3 million ad buy on Trump's behalf. The topic? Blasting Hillary Clinton for having Secret Service protection. So it appears at least one "Second Amendment" group is in tune with Trump's message.
• Trump himself considers the uproar to be good news for him. "Because it's going to tell people more about me with respect to the Second Amendment." Well, it did just net him $3 million.
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• In fairness to Trump, those supporters supposing he is merely an idiot who is not good with his word-hole can find ample evidence to back their theory; Donald Trump saying horrible things that afterwards he says he didn't mean in the way everyone interpreted them to mean has been a staple of his campaign.
• But Trump also has an equally long campaign history of endorsing or appearing to endorse violent acts.
• Trump continues to side up to the worst conservatism has to offer; later this week he will be addressing the "American Renewal Project", a sub-effort of anti-LGBT hate group American Family Association, in a conference that features a who's who of far-right anti-LGBT extremists. Also speaking to attendees at the Orlando event: Marco Rubio, who re-entered the Senate race after Orlando's Pulse nightclub mass murder. (Apparently we were all misinterpreting his earlier remarks as sorrow for the victims, when what he really meant was that the shooting had given him the urgent need to attend to the needs of anti-LGBT hate groups. The man knows how to give back to his community, doesn't he?)
• Remember when Donald Trump and MSNBC's Morning Joe crew were bestest buddies? That was then, this is now, and now Trump is calling them "sad & irrelevant"—"I don't watch anymore." The man is a preschool child; you can buy him off with candy, but tell him it's bath time and suddenly you're the devil incarnate again.
• Trump's recent polling has gotten so bad that there's now murmurs even Utah could go Democratic. That's ... not likely. But it's an indication of just how widespread the damage from the Trump could be.
• The question for Republicans: How much of that damage will be down-ballot? Sen. John McCain's Democratic opponent isn't being shy about tying him to the Trump disaster, a likely sign of ads to come in a great many states.
• You may have missed this news from the weekend: At last, Donald Trump has gained the support of prominent conservative George Bush. No, not that one, the other one. No, I mean the other, other, one: Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush calls Trump "a bitter pill to swallow", but something-something Hillary Clinton. Not coincidentally, he is the only member of the George Bush trio who still wants to be elected to things.
• What does it mean to own "executive membership in Donald Trump"?