The “Crazy/Stupid” Republican of the Day blog usually can just make a daily post where we talk about a member of the GOP who has run for, held, or currently holds office who is a bit extreme or unhinged, and cover it in a few hundred words. Donald J. Trump, is beyond most Republicans, and has spent decades running to the media to say racist, sexist, bigoted, and completely ignorant things. We covered his downright selfish and narcissistic tendencies from the first 69 years of his life in our first deep dive of this series…
Donald Trump- Full Timeline Part One: The Beginnings to his Presidential Run
Our second look featured events taking place from Donald Trump announcing his candidacy for president, to accepting the GOP nomination at the 2016 Republican National Convention…
Donald Trump- Full Timeline Part Two: The Path to the 2016 Nomination
In our third chapter, we covered the absolutely bonkers final four months leading to Election Day 2016, including all the collusion:
Donald Trump- Full Timeline Part Three: The Final Run to Election Day 2016
In the fourth part in this series, where we discuss the Trump transition, a roughly three month period that any sane person who follows politics might have blocked out of their memory for the good of their own sanity.
Donald Trump- Full Timeline Part Four: The Trump Transition
We discuss a great deal of stupid and sometimes illegal things done as Trump prepared to go to Washington, D.C., as well as his assemblage of his “Cabinet of Horrors”.
Donald Trump- Full Timeline Part Five: The First 100 Days
From an anemic inauguration, to the initial panic of having a moron running the country, the first hundred days.
Donald Trump- Full Timeline Part Six: Days 101-200
We continue as Trump blunders and fires FBI Director James Comey, the Mueller investigation begins, and Trump threatens “Fire and Fury” upon North Korea.
Donald Trump- Full Timeline Part Seven: Days 201-300
We continue as Trump blames “both sides” after Charlottesville, tells a Gold Star Widow “her husband knew what he signed up for”, freaks out as Paul Manafort gets indicted, and trusts the word of Vladimir Putin over the entire United States intelligence community about Russian election hacking.
Donald Trump- Full Timeline Part Eight: Days 301-400
Trump signs the GOP Tax Plan/Scam, talks about “s***hole countries”, flips out after Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury” book is released, continues to see record turnover from his White House Staff, is revealed to have paid off a porn star who he had an affair with to stay silent about it, and keeps attacking the FBI and the Mueller investigation.
And… regrettably, the tale goes on:
- February 24th, 2018: Mexican president Pena Nieto cancels a planned trip to meet Donald Trump at the White House after a tense phone call where Trump would not shut the f*** up about trying to get Mexico to pay for his stupid border wall.
Trump speaks about the proposed military parade he ordered for Washington, D.C. on Veteran’s Day, saying he wants “lots of flyovers” and claiming “the generals would love to do it”.
Congressional Democrats release their own 10 page rebuttal to the Nunes memo, and it backs the FBI’s work while pointing out a lot of folks in the Trump campaign were really cozy with Russia. On Twitter, Trump responds by declaring the Russia investigation is a “WITCH HUNT” and that the Democrats’ memo is a “political and legal bust” before making an unscheduled appearance on Jeannine Pirro’s Fox News show to further attack the Mueller investigation’s findings and calling Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff “a bad guy”.
- February 25th, 2018: Per Axios, Trump heaps praise in meetings to the Chinese and Filipino governments for applying capitol punishment to drug dealers, saying the countries don’t have a drug problem because “they just kill them”.
Trump puts his own personal pilot, John Dunkin on the short list of candidates to be the new head of the FAA, a $16 billion dollar agency with 45,000 employees based on his qualifications of flying Trump around.
The Trump 2020 campaign uses a photo of a Parkland survivor recovering in a hospital bed surrounded by family members without their consent as an image in a fundraising e-mail. Because that’s not evil.
Per a CNN Poll, Trump’s approval rating falls back to 35%, tying the lowest it has been recorded since he took office.
- February 26th, 2018: During a meeting with Republican governors, Trump claims that he would have rushed into Stoneman Douglas High School to save students during the Parkland mass shooting, saying, “I really believe I’d run in there even if I didn’t have a weapon.” Everyone calls bulls***, based on how willing Trump was to run into the line of fire in Vietnam because of his supposed bone spurs.
- February 27th, 2018: During a Senate hearing on Russian election hacking, NSA chief Mike Rogers confirms that Trump has issued no orders on measures to be taken to disrupt Russian hacking.
Lehigh University revokes an honorary degree they issued to Donald Trump in 1988. Let’s not just pass by that… an accredited American university is so embarrassed by the sitting president that they wanted to retroactively take back the honorary award they gave him.
HUD Secretary Ben Carson becomes the latest Trump Cabinet member to be harangued by tales of corruption, revealing that HUD employees spent $31,000 on a new dining set for Carson. Carson’s defense is to blame it on his wife.
The Atlantic posts screen shots of Twitter conversations between Wikileaks and Trump adviser Roger Stone, confirming that they were in communication with the Trump campaign about the release of information hacked from the DNC by Russian hackers.
Jared Kushner finally has his security clearance downgraded. He continues getting access to the President’s Daily Brief anyway from the Trump White House.
- February 28th, 2018: Trump alarms the gun lobby when he’s recorded at the White House saying, “I like taking the guns early, like in this crazy man’s case that just took place in Florida ... to go to court would have taken a long time. Take the guns first, go through due process second.”
On Twitter, Trump angrily posts insults at his own Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, calling him “DISGRACEFUL”. The Washington Post reports Trump often derides his own Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, by calling him “Mr. Magoo” and griping about his recusal in the Mueller investigation.
Hope Hicks resigns as White House Communications Director. For those keeping count, she becomes the fourth Trump White House Communications Director to resign.
Paul Manafort is arraigned in court, and set to go to trial in September on a five count indictment.
- March 1st, 2018: Trump meets with Vice President Pence and NRA Lobbyist Chris Cox, announces that on Twitter, and then immediately backtracks on any consideration of a single gun control measure after the Parkland shooting.
Trump announces 25% tariffs on steel and 10% on aluminum, without a legal White House review, against the advice of Gary Cohn and several other business leaders.
Roberta Jacobsen, the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, resigns because it’s obviously impossible to do her job while a man so bigoted against Mexicans is in the Oval Office.
- March 2nd, 2018: It is revealed that the Stormy Daniels hush money payment was not made until October 27th, 2016, and Daniels was about to go public just before the election because without the check clearing, her silence was not guaranteed. Go figure, another case of Trump trying to weasel out of a contract.
After actor Alec Baldwin comments in an interview that doing an impression of Trump is “agony” for him, Trump flips out on Twitter, and writes, “Alex Baldwin, whose dieing mediocre career was saved by his terrible impersonation of me on SNL, now says playing me was agony. Alex, it was agony for those who were forced to watch. Bring back Darrell Hammond, funnier and a far greater talent!” Yes, the president cannot spell “dying”.
Also on Twitter, Trump posts that “trade wars are good, and easy to win”, leading to a great majority of economists to explain why they aren’t either.
- March 3rd, 2018: CNN gets leaked audio from Mar-a-Lago where Trump whine about his perceived double standard that his presidential campaign is being investigated by the FBI and Hillary Clinton’s is not. He would also insult President George W. Bush, and the entire United States intelligence community in the recording. Most terrifying, is the part where Trump praises Chinese president Xi Jinping for doing away with his country’s term limits to become “president for life”.
The New York Times begins detailing how the Mueller investigation is also looking into how the United Arab Emirates may have used George Nader to buy influence with the Trump administration.
Trump spends the 100th day of his presidency at one of his golf courses, roughly 1 in 4 days are spent doing so.
- March 4th, 2018: The New York Times reports that the Trump State Department, under the authority of Rex Tillerson, has spent $0 of the $120 million in additional funding provided to counter Russia’s ability to meddle in American democracy.
- March 5th, 2018: If anyone was wondering how Trump campaign officials are handling the pressure of the Muller investigation, for an entire afternoon, Sam Nunberg goes to every media outlet after being subpoenaed by Mueller, and starts frantically talking about how much he hates Trump, how Trump knew about the meeting with Don Jr. and Trump’s top campaign staff with Russian agents in Trump Tower, how Mueller likely has the goods in the investigation, how Carter Page is guilty, and otherwise insulting other Trump campaign officials like Steve Bannon and his own mentor, Roger Stone. It does not paint a picture of mental of stability for those in Mueller’s crosshairs, especially because within twelve hours, Nunberg recanted about not honoring Mueller’s subpoena and saying he’d be cooperating with the investigation.
On Twitter, Trump goes back to conspiracy-mongering and trying to paint himself as the victim in the Mueller investigation, writing, “Why did the Obama Administration start an investigation into the Trump Campaign (with zero proof of wrongdoing) long before the Election in November? Wanted to discredit so Crooked H would win. Unprecedented. Bigger than Watergate! Plus, Obama did NOTHING about Russian meddling.”
In Panama, the Trump Organization is evicted from of Trump International Hotel in Panama after mismanaging the property and leaving almost no tenants other than their own staff in the building.
- March 6th, 2018: Gary Cohn resigns as Trump’s top economic adviser, citing Trump’s insistence to begin levying tariffs and starting a trade war (Without any understanding of what he’s doing.)
During Congressional testimony, Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao states that Trump personally ordered a project scrapped that would have built a third tunnel into Manhattan from New Jersey.
The U.S. Office of Special Counsel rules that on two occasions in late 2017, Kellyanne Conway, while working for the White House, violated the Hatch Act for making endorsements or political statements during the special election for the U.S Senate seat in Alabama. The Trump White House counters by not enforcing the law, and saying, “Nuh uh.”
- March 7th, 2018: Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, fires a restraining order to try to again, silence Stormy Daniels. Michael Cohen reminds everyone that he’s not that good of a lawyer.
Trump’s Department of Housing and Urban Development Director, Ben Carson, changes to organization’s mission statement so that it excludes the wording, “build inclusive and sustainable communities free from discrimination.”
NPR reports that 43% of the top positions in the Trump White House have seen turnover during his first 13 months in office. Which is, y’know, not normal.
- March 8th, 2018: It is announced by a South Korean official visiting the White House that Donald Trump is planning to meet Kim Jong Un for unilateral talks on nuclear weapons. This proposed meeting would be the first time a U.S. leader met a North Korean dictator on the world stage, and could potentially legitimize them. It is confirmed that the State Department was in no way involved in Trump’s decision to do this. The South Koreans were shocked when Trump absent-mindedly agreed to the meeting.
As documents continue to be released in the Stormy Daniels case, the name of another woman who accuses Trump of sexual assault but was paid to stay silent is revealed… April Ryan. April Ryan, however, is a pseudonym for adult film actress Jessica Drake, who reported being sexually assaulted by Trump at a golf tournament years ago, detailing that account in October of 2016.
Trump, in a Cabinet meeting, continues to show a fascination, but lack of understanding of space exploration, musing about Elon Musk’s SpaceX program and saying, “Rich guys… they love rocket ships and that’s good.”
A Wall Street Journal article details how Russian bots flooded online traffic on sites like Twitter when Trump was interviewing Mitt Romney to be Secretary of State to sabotage Romney from getting the job (Romney is openly critical of Vladimir Putin). A reminder, Trump ended up agreeing with the sentiment of those Russian bots.
Trump signs an executive order to put further tariffs on every country other than Canada and Mexico. A Council on Foreign Relations report estimates that Trump’s steel tariffs could result in 40,000 auto industry jobs being lost by the end of 2019, which is one third of the American auto industry’s workforce.
Paul Manafort is indicted in a Virginia court on 18 tax and fraud charges. The trial is set for July 10th, 2018. Trump cannot pardon Manafort for any of these state crimes.
- March 9th, 2018: It is confirmed that Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, violated election law in trying to pay $130,000 to silence Stormy Daniels with a hush payment, since such a payment qualifies as an undisclosed campaign contribution.
Trump’s Department of Homeland Security begins to acknowledge for the first time that they are separating immigrant families detained by immigration services, specifically taking children from their parents.
Trump’s Department of Justice and Domestic Policy Council begin discussing plans to see if the death penalty can be applied to drug dealers.
Trump issues a pardon to Kristian Saucier, whose lawyer had the unique legal strategy of going on Fox News at a time of day Trump is known to watch it to campaign for the pardon. Saucier was convicted of obstruction of justice after destroying evidence linked to his taking classified photos on an American nuclear submarine, and his lawyer showed loyalty to Trump by mentioning Hillary Clinton’s e-mail server in the Fox News interview.
- March 10th, 2018: Trump goes to Moon Township, Pennsylvania to supposedly campaign on behalf of Rick Saccone, a Republican running for Congress in a special election against Democrat Conor Lamb in a traditionally conservative district. And by “campaign for Saccone”, we mean that Pappy Sundown talked primarily about himself and went on a delusional rant for 73 minutes. Trump lied, even by a modest estimate, at least 30 times during the speech and during it, c alled MSNBC’s Chuck Todd “a sleeping son of a bitch,” and mocked Rep. Maxine Waters for calling for his impeachment, referring to her as “a low-IQ individual.”
- March 11th, 2018: Trump goes on a Twitter rant about how his approval ratings are higher than being reported by the “FAKE NEWS”, and singles out the New York Times’ Maggie Haberman for his ire, saying she is a “Hillary flunky”.
- March 12th, 2018: On Twitter, Trump tries claiming that naming a school a “gun free zone” actually makes it more of a target for a shooting.
After two British spies are poisoned by Russian operatives and British PM Theresa May publicly condemns Russia and Vladimir Putin for the act, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders condemned the attempted assassination, but refuses to acknowledge Russia carried out the attack.
- March 13th, 2018: Trump visits California where he looks at construction prototypes for his border wall, as if he’s just shopping for home furnishings.
Trump fires Secretary of State Rex Tillerson via Tweet. Trump’s plan is to replace Tillerson with his CIA Director, former Congressman Mike Pompeo, and replace Pompeo as CIA Director with the Deputy Director, Gina Haspel, who oversaw the torture of two suspects by the CIA during the Bush administration. Tillerson’s firing was oddly timed, as he had just acknowledged that Russia had poisoned British spies and was ready to condemn them for it. Also, Trump fired his Secretary of State prior to meetings he agreed to with Kim Jong Un, which is a perfect script for a diplomatic disaster.
The House Intelligence Committee, controlled by Republicans, releases a report of their findings in the probe into election hacking and contradicts the United States’ Intelligence community’s assessment that Russians hacked the 2016 election. Trump immediately posts on Twitter in all caps, “FOUND NO EVIDENCE OF COLLUSION OR COORDINATION BETWEEN THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN AND RUSSIA.” The next day, soon-to-be-retired South Carolina Congressman Trey Gowdy, a Republican famous for being so partisan on that committee that he led the Benghazi inquiry… even Gowdy admits the GOP’s dismissal of Russian hacking isn’t accurate, and the man running the committee, Rep. Mike Conaway, concurred with Gowdy.
Trump’s personal assistant, John McEntee, is fired from the White House unceremoniously after being unable to get permanent security clearance because of gambling debts.
- March 14th, 2018: After Rick Saccone, a man Trump campaigned for loses in the special election in Pennsylvania to Conor Lamb, Trump tries to take credit for Lamb’s victory, lying and saying Lamb campaigned that he was “like Trump” to win. (HINT: He didn’t.)
Trump thanks the “Marine Core” on Twitter, because he’s too stupid to use spellcheck.
Trump continues calls for the Pentagon to build a sixth branch of the military, the “Space Force”.
Trump picks CNBC’s Larry Kudlow, a man who incoherently prognosticates on cable television about the stock market, to be his new Director of the National Economic Council to replace the departed Gary Cohn.
- March 15th, 2018: As the revolving door of people resigning or being fired by the White House continues, Trump tries to pretend he’s still on a reality show, teasing more firings and pretending that staffers attacking each other behind the scenes to try and compete for vacated posts is a good thing. “I like conflict. I like watching it.” he mutters, still somehow in charge of well-being of our nation.
Audio of Trump from a fundraising speech emerges where he brags about lying about the US having a trade deficit with Canada, and boasting about lying to Canadian PM Justin Trudeau. On Twitter, Trump reacts to the news reporting on the story by repeating the lie that we have a trade deficit with Canada. (that he’s on tape admitting is a lie).
Six months after Hurricane Maria, 10% of Puerto Rico still does not have electricity, and people are still dying from health problems stemming from conditions on the island in the wake of the storm.
- March 16th, 2018: The Trump administration announces Ivanka Trump, who still does not have permanent security clearance, will serve in the stead of Rex Tillerson and meet the Foreign Minister of South Korea.
The Associate Press reports that Trump has stocked the Wildlife Preservation Council with men who are trophy hunters, some of whom are associates of his sons.
Facebook bans Cambridge Analytica from its website after it used data analytics stolen from Facebook to help the Trump campaign plant stories from Russian sources and steal the 2016 election on the site.
- March 17th, 2018: At the behest of Donald Trump, Jeff Sessions fires Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe the day before he’s scheduled to retire to screw him out of being able to collect his retirement pension. Trump, of course, celebrated McCabe’s firing on Twitter, calling it “a great day for democracy”.
- March 18th, 2018: Trump goes on a delusional Tweetstorm where he accuses James Comey of “lying under oath”, insists Andrew McCabe “never took notes when he was with me”, claims the Mueller investigation is being “carried out by 13 hardened Democrats, some Crooked Hillary supporters”, and insists there was “NO COLLUSION” in all caps.
- March 19th, 2018: Trump again violates ethics norms when he uses his Twitter account to plug Sean Hannity appearing on Fox and Friends that morning.
Trump hires lawyer Joseph diGenova to be his lawyer in the Russia case, who has been more famous of late not as a lawyer, but as a Fox News guest who spreads conspiracy theories about “the deep state”.
NPR reports that the Trump White House has the highest turnover rate of any presidential administration in over a century.
- March 20th, 2018: Trump calls Russian PM Vladimir Putin to congratulate him on winning in the honestly rigged Russian elections, even though Trump received a memo from White House staff that read, “DO NOT CONGRATULATE”. He also ignored requests to condemn Putin over the phone about the Russians poisoning British spies with nerve gas, reportedly told Putin “If you want to have an arms race, we can do that, but I’ll win”. Trump also invited Putin to come visit him at the White House, which would be the first time the Russian dictator was invited to do so since 2005.
Trump tries to add top DC lawyer Theodore Olson to his legal team. Olson effectively says he’ll be washing his hair for the next century or so.
Karen McDougal files a lawsuit against AMI, the company that owns the National Enquirer, to be released from her NDA, because her lawyer conspired with Michael Cohen to see her story buried by the Enquirer.
A Manhattan judge rules that being president would not preclude Trump from facing a defamation lawsuit filed by former Apprentice contestant Summer Zervos over Trump calling her a liar after she accused him of sexual assault.
- March 21st, 2018: The Washington Post reported on the Trump White House having, for about the past year, tried to make White House staffers sign non-disclosure agreements to prevent leaks to the media. White House Counsel Don McGahn knew such a thing would not be legally enforced.
A Trump golf course near NYC petitions the government for the ability to hire more migrant workers on visas, rather than hire American workers.
A report from the Intercept details that Saudi Arabia’s crown prince brags that he has Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner “in his pocket”, and that Kushner may have leaked classified details from the president’s daily briefing about critics of the crown prince, and shortly thereafter those individuals were rounded up on dubious charges by the Saudi Arabian government.
- March 22nd, 2018: H.R. McMaster resigns, the second time Trump has already seen a National Security Adviser leave the White House in 14 months. Trump picks highly unstable and over-aggressive former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton to be his third National Security Adviser, because of course he found the guy who calls for war in Iran and North Korea even more than Trump does
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John Dowd resigns as Trump’s top legal counsel in the Mueller investigation because Trump keeps ignoring all his legal advice and dig himself into a deeper hole.
CNN reports that Trump is now feuding with his own National Security Team because someone leaked that he ignored the “DO NOT CONGRATULATE” memo.
Trump, on Twitter, feuds with former Vice President Joe Biden, insinuating that he would win in a fight if the two threw down. Because that’s political discourse from “stable genius”.
- March 23rd, 2018: Trump makes an empty threat to veto a $1.3 trillion spending bill because it does not include funding for his stupid border wall.
Karen McDougal grants an interview to CNN to discuss her 10 month affair with Donald Trump.
On Twitter, Trump again claims that he’s been cleared in the Mueller investigation.
The Dow Jones Industrial closes out what is the worst two week stretch for the American economy in two years.
And again, against the wishes of the Pentagon, the Trump White House announces a ban on transgender troops serving in the military.
- March 24th, 2018: The March for Our Lives takes place around the country, drawing hundreds of thousands of protesters. Trump, for once, does not comment on something happening, orders his motorcade to detour far around the Florida rally, and stays at Mar-A-Lago golfing.
- March 25th, 2018: Trump, on Twitter, called for the military to begin building his border wall, which isn’t a thing the military is allowed to do legally.
Laywers Joseph DiGenova and Victoria Toensing say that actually, they will not be representing Donald Trump due to conflicts of interest. Trump posts about how so many lawyers DO want to work for him on Twitter, adding a “NO COLLUSION” as if that’s how he punctuates sentences these days.
Stormy Daniels is interviewed on 60 Minutes, and discusses details of her first time sleeping with Trump, and how she was later threatened by an unknown man in a parking lot to remain silent about Trump shortly after the birth of her daughter. It is the highest rated episode of 60 Minutes in over a decade.
- March 26th, 2018: The New York Times reports Trump is trying to find a way to bring back Tom Porter, the aide fired from the White House earlier in the month for domestic abuse, back into the fold.
Politico reports that Trump’s White House is panicked about how much Rick Gates is telling Robert Mueller and his team of investigators. Gates is believed to have knowingly communicated with Russians connected to the GRU during the fall of 2016 while working for the Trump campaign.
Tom Buchanan and Tom Webb, another two top shelf DC lawyers, refuse to take on Donald Trump as a client.
Public Citizen files 30 separate lawsuits against the Trump administration over ethics complaints.
- March 27th, 2018: Trump fires VA Secretary David Shulkin and reports are he wants to replace him White House physician Ronny Jackson. Jackson, you’re remember, gave an absurd evaluation of Trump after his physical in January of 2018. He has no experience in public health, and would be asked to run the biggest agency in the federal government, in terms of employees.
At the White House daily press briefing, Sarah Huckabee Sanders angrily chastises reporters for asking questions about Trump’s affair with Stormy Daniels, and the hush money paid by Trump’s lawyer to keep her silent.
- March 28th, 2018: On his Twitter, Trump posts a photo of 2009 showing parts of fencing along the U.S./Mexico border being repaired, and claims it’s construction building on his stupid idea for a border wall.
A federal judge in Baltimore rules that a lawsuit against Trump for violating the emoluments clause of the Constitution has merit, and allows it to proceed in court.
David Shulkin, on his way out the door, tells the media that Trump wants to privatize the VA and allow some of his friends to turn it into their own money-making operation. Time would reveal that Shulkin wasn’t lying.
On this date, a month has passed since White House Communications Director Hope Hicks has resigned, and her post has not been filled. The White House Communications department hires Caroline Sunshine, a 22 year old former Disney star to work at the White House. Sunshine has no experience in communications.
Per reports within the agency, the Trump administration’s HUD has abandoned enforcing fair housing laws.
The New York Times reports Trump and his lawyers are discussing presidential pardons for Paul Manafort and Michael Flynn.
The NAACP sue the Trump administration over their plans for the 2020 Census.
- March 29th, 2018: Trump was supposed to give a speech on infrastructure in Ohio, but couldn’t stay focused, and started rambling about Roseanne Barr and North Korea at different points in yet another incoherent speech, discussing the latter’s border with South Korea and seeming to indicate he wanted something similar to the demilitarized zone between the two to be more like the U.S./Mexico border. He also contradicted Mike Pompeo and John Bolton on U.S. policy in Syria, and denigrated community colleges in the United States.
On Twitter, Trump again attacks Amazon, complaining about how they “pay little to no taxes” and “Use the Postal System as their delivery boy”. Trump’s attacks on Amazon caused the company’s stock to drop by about 4%.
Trump reluctantly approves a policy to sell arms to Ukraine, but asks White House Staff not to announce it or discuss it privately for fears of angering Vladimir Putin.
A particularly noteworthy corruption scandal surrounds Trump EPA Director Scott Pruitt, who is living in a condo owned by environmental lobbyists at an extremely discounted rate of $50 per night. Further scandals include Pruitt using his own security detail to run errands for him like going to hotels to pick up certain kinds of lotion he likes.
- March 30th, 2018: Trump, a man who has been accused by 15 women of sexual assault, proclaims that April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
A judge rules in favor of the ACLU in a lawsuit against the Trump administration, who had been denying immigrants access to abortions.
- March 31st, 2018: On Twitter, Trump mocks California Gov. Jerry Brown while stoking anti-immigration fears, writing, “Governor Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown pardoned 5 criminal illegal aliens whose crimes include (1) Kidnapping and Robbery (2) Badly beating wife and threatening a crime with intent to terrorize (3) Dealing drugs. Is this really what the great people of California want?”
- April 1st, 2018: On Twitter, shortly after Trump posts, “HAPPY EASTER”, he spends the rest of the holiday complaining about immigrant “caravans” and threatening to end NAFTA, because he’s that inspired by the story of the Resurrection. Trump’s sudden interest in immigrant caravans is likely because, only minutes prior to his Twitter post complaining about them, Fox News ran a segment on them, and Trump echoed their rhetoric almost verbatim.
China announces its plans to begin placing duties on 128 different kinds of U.S. Products in response to Trump’s tariffs on steel and aluminum.
- April 2nd, 2018: The White House hosts its annual Easter Egg Roll bizarrely the day AFTER Easter, and while children are just trying to work with eggs and get some candy, Trump starts bragging about the economy (which had a terrible month, in reality, having its worst second quarter since The Great Depression) and tearing into Democrats.
On Twitter, Trump again attacks the company Amazon and its relationship with the U.S. Postal Service, sending Amazon’s stock dropping another 5%.
He also defended Sinclair Broadcasting, in light of recent developments that Sinclair was trying to buy up local network stations to create a wave of conservative media viewpoints on local news broadcasts.
Trump also places a phone call to congratulate authoritarian Egyptian dictator Abdel Fattah-al-Sisi, who won an obviously tainted election with 97% of the vote.
- April 3rd, 2018: Trump hosts the leaders of three Baltic nations that were formerly part of the Soviet Union at the White House, and tries to alleviate their fears that he won’t honor treaties if they are attacked by Russia by insisting “Nobody has been tougher on Russia” than he has. In a joint press conference, he also told the President of Latvia to “Pick a reporter please. You can pick a reporter -- a Baltic reporter, ideally. Real news. Not fake news.”
DJ Gribbin, Trump’s top aide on infrastructure, resigns, admitting that there is no way that any infrastructure bills will pass through Congress before the 2018 mid-terms.
Amidst multiple scandals, Trump continues to stand by EPA Director Scott Pruitt, telling him The White House has “got your back.” (Pruitt’s doomed.)
Alex van der Zwaan becomes the first person to be sentenced to jail by the Mueller investigation, getting 30 days for lying to investigators.
- April 4th, 2018: CNN reports Trump became irritated with his own National Security team for disagreeing with his wishes to pull the military completely out of Syria, which they warn would only allow ISIS to regain strength if left unchecked.
Trump also continued talks of sending the U.S. military to the U.S./Mexico border to the delight of Stephen Miller and Kirjsten Nielsen, and threatened to withdraw humanitarian aid funding from Honduras because migrants were still coming to the United States from there. He signed a proclamation to send the National Guard to the border, only to have the move rejected by several Governors.
- April 5th, 2018: While boarding Air Force One, Trump claims he never knew about Michael Cohen’s $130,000 hush payment to Stormy Daniels. (HINT: He’s lying, and we would eventually learn this because Cohen recorded conversations with Trump discussing the payment.)
Arriving in West Virginia for another one of his rallies, Trump reads a few lines of prepared remarks, and then throws the prepared pages of the speech aside to give a maniacal, deranged rant to the crowd. Without evidence, Trump claims that there were millions of people voting multiple times in the 2016 elections, insisting it is “not a conspiracy theory” (It is.). He also fanned anti-immigrant flames, claiming that immigrant women were “raped at levels that nobody has seen before”.
ICE begins ignoring the Secretary of Defense, James Mattis, and starts deporting immigrant veterans and immigrants currently serving in our armed forces.
Trump’s Department of Homeland Security announces plans to monitor 290,000 journalists, bloggers, and foreign correspondents to monitor “media influencers”, because that doesn’t sound sinister, at all.
- April 6th, 2018: Trump signs a memo to end the supposed “catch and release” program for immigration, asking Secretary of Defense Mattis if there were military facilities that could be used to detain any more immigrants.
Trump announces that he will again skip the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner, but will send Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders in his stead.
Trump publicly defends EPA Director Scott Pruitt, even in the light of MORE scandals that continue to cloud his tenure saying Pruitt is “doing a great job but is totally UNDER SIEGE”.
The Dow Jones Industrial drops another 550 points over fears regarding Trump’s tariffs. New National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow tries to throw cold water over fears regarding Donald Trump’s insistence of having a trade war with China, saying that Trump’s tariffs hadn’t begun and were only ideas. Trump continued to talk of creating an addition $100 billion in tariffs anyway. Experts also note that clothing would not be subject to Trump’s tariffs which conveniently would not affect his daughter Ivanka’s clothing company, or any of the places in China where Trump’s “MAGA” hats or other campaign propaganda were made.
- April 7th, 2018: Trump criticizes his own Department of Justice and FBI on Twitter, whining about FISA warrants and asking what the organizations “have to hide”.
The Washington Post publishes a report that White House Chief of Staff John Kelly has threatened the president that he would resign multiple times, and that Trump has confided in some staff that he enjoys his rallies because Kelly cannot control him during them.
- April 8th, 2018: Trump responds to the Washington Post’s story from the previous day by calling it “made up garbage” in another attack on the media.
A fire breaks out on the 50th floor of Trump Tower, killing a tenant. Trump Tower does not have a modern sprinkler system. Trump offers no condolences to the deceased when he posts about it on Twitter. Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, called a friend in the building named James Shields just prior to the start of the fire, and suspiciously advised him to get out of the building ASAP.
Yet again, Trump defends embattled EPA Director Scott Pruitt as even MORE scandals keep surrounding him.
Michael Anton, Trump’s National Security spokesman, resigns.
- April 9th, 2018: FBI investigators raid the offices of Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, seizing hundreds of pages of documents, as well as several recordings made by Cohen in the surprise raid, based on evidence provided by the Mueller investigation that criminal activity was being conducted from the office. In this instance being bank fraud, wire fraud, and campaign finance violations.
Trump, at the White House, rages at the news of the Cohen raid, saying that it is a “disgraceful situation,” an “attack on our country in a true sense” and “a total witch hunt.” Trump refers to the raid as “a break in”, and muses about potentially firing Robert Mueller. He would go on to criticize Attorney General Jeff Sessions for recusing himself in the Mueller probe, and blundered into admitting he would not have chosen Sessions for AG if he knew he would recuse himself in the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign.
On Twitter, Trump complains about “STUPID TRADE” with China, making stock investors nervous about what still may come with Trump’s insistence on tariffs. At the White House, he reassures farmers that his trade tariffs will not harm them financially, promising “will be better off than they ever were” under Obama.
The New Yorker further expands on the story of the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia using Jared Kushner as his proxy within the American government.
- April 10th, 2018: On Twitter, Trump explodes in anger about the Cohen raid the previous day, writing that the Mueller investigation is “A TOTAL WITCH HUNT” and that “Attorney-Client privilege is dead!” During the daily White House press briefing, Sarah Huckabee Sanders admitted that Trump thought he had the power to fire Robert Mueller. CNN reported Trump was considering firing Mueller, Rosenstein, and Jeff Sessions.
Trump cancelled a planned trip to the Summit of the Americas in Peru, the first time in a quarter century that a president would not be in attendance. Instead, they send VP Mike Pence.
Trump meets with the conservative media group, Sinclair Broadcasting’s TV chairman, David Smith, and Smith tells Trump “we are ready to deliver your message”.
Trump signs an executive order to make work requirements for the poor in order to receive government assistance, including Medicaid.
The Associated Press reports that ever since Trump’s Budget Director, Mick Mulvaney, began overseeing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau four months earlier, it has made zero actions on enforcement.
Tom Bossert resigns as Homeland Security Advisor, at the behest of new National Security Advisor Jon Bolton. Bolton continues to purge senior staff throughout National Security office.
- April 11th,2018: On Twitter, Trump threatens to again conduct airstrikes in Syria, but much like the first raid in his presidency, he makes it a point to warn Russia he’s going to do it.
Trump orders the Department of Justice to hire Ezra Watnick-Cohen, an aide fired from the National Security Council for leaking classified information to Congressman Devin Nunes.
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan announces he will not run for re-election in November, among the reasons the lunatics in the House Freedom Caucus, and a president that’s even crazier than they are.
Former FBI Director James Comey gives an interview with ABC News where he compares Donald Trump to a crime boss.
- April 12th, 2018: A day after Trump threatened to conduct airstrikes in Syria, he posts a gem of an insane Tweet, writing, “Never said when an attack on Syria would take place. Could be very soon or not so soon at all! In any event, the United States, under my Administration, has done a great job of ridding the region of ISIS. Where is our “Thank you America?””
A day after James Comey’s interview, Trump went on a Tweetstorm against him, calling Comey a “proven LEAKER & LIAR”, and a “weak and untruthful slimeball”, among many other insults not based in reality.
Trump also attacked the New York Times, and claimed that if he had wanted to fire Robert Mueller back in January, “he would have done so”.
As Trump’s Cabinet is mired in corruption scandals across the board, he assures in a speech that “Sometimes it doesn’t look like it, but believe me, we’re draining the swamp.”
NPR reported that through the first three months of 2018, the Trump administration had only admitted 11 Syrian refugees into the country, down from the over 15,000 admitted in 2016 by the Obama administration.
Trump signs an executive order asking Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to conduct an investigation into the U.S. Post Office’s finances, presumably in order to try to produce data to properly sabotage the relationship between Amazon, one of Trump’s main targets, and the Post Office.
Trump proposes rejoining the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade deal he backed out of days after he took office.
Ronan Farrow, in the New Yorker, publishes a report regarding details learned from the Michael Cohen raid, including the number of times Cohen handled “catch and kill” news stories with David Pecker, the owner of AMI, publisher of the National Enquirer. One such tale was from a former Trump doorman, Dino Sajudin, who had a story regarding Trump fathering a child out of wedlock with an employee in the 1980s bought, and then never published.
- April 13th, 2018: People within Trump’s circle begin to realize how bad the Cohen raid was, realizing that Cohen often recorded conversations with clients, and that the FBI now likely had those tapes. It is confirmed that there are tapes with Cohen talking to Stormy Daniel’s original lawyer, Keith Davidson. Trump then called Cohen to discuss the raid, against the advice of the rest of his legal team.
McClatchy also published a report that the Mueller investigation confirmed part of the Steele dossier regarding Michael Cohen, and that he did make a trip to Prague in 2016 (despite Cohen denying it by showing a passport without “Prague” on it that ignores he could have arrived there after first stopping in another European country, in this case, Germany).
After an inspector general’s report into former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe concludes McCabe showed “a lack of candor” during his investigation into Hillary Clinton’s e-mail server, Trump flips his s*** on Twitter, and raves, “DOJ just issued the McCabe report - which is a total disaster. He LIED! LIED! LIED! McCabe was totally controlled by Comey - McCabe is Comey!! No collusion, all made up by this den of thieves and lowlifes!" That… isn’t anything like what was in the report.
For reasons only believed to be Trump trying to send a message to Robert Mueller, he pardons Scooter Libby, a man convicted of obstruction justice and perjury in 2007 in an investigation conducted by Mueller.
A federal judge blocked Trump’s latest attempt at banning transgender citizens from serving in the military.
- April 14th, 2018: Trump orders airstrikes in Syria, after all. The Syrian government confirms, however, that like during Trump’s first airstrike there, Russia was informed of the targets ahead of time, allowing them to warn Syria to minimize the damage done by them and evacuate military targets. He does so without consulting Acting Secretary of State John Sullivan, who is in Peru for the Summit of the Americas.
On Twitter, Trump praised himself for the airstrikes and declared, “Mission Accomplished! ” which drew mockery for its resemblance to events in 2003, when President George W. Bush landed on an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf to give a speech declaring victory a month into the conflict with “Mission Accomplished” on display behind him.
- April 15th, 2018: On Twitter, Trump attacks the media for their coverage of his “Mission Accomplished” tweet, defending his inability to know even a modern history of prideful hubris by a president, and calling them the “Fake News Media”.
He also continued his attacks on former FBI Director James Comey, calling him a “slimeball”, “Slippery James Comey”, and “the WORST FBI Director in history- by far!” He also returned to conspiracy theories about a meeting between Loretta Lynch and Bill Clinton in the fall of 2016.
Trump asks a federal judge to kindly show him all of the evidence the FBI got in their raid on Michael Cohen’s office. The answer is a firm “no”.
Stephen Mollo becomes the latest high profile lawyer to refuse to take Donald Trump on as a client.
- April 16th, 2018: On Twitter, Trump continued his paranoid accusations directed at James Comey, writing, “Comey drafted the Crooked Hillary exoneration long before he talked to her (lied in Congress to Senator G), then based his decisions on her poll numbers. Disgruntled, he, McCabe, and the others, committed many crimes!”
Meanwhile, Michael Cohen’s client list is revealed in full. The public knew he paid hush money for Trump, and former RNC fundraiser Elliott Broidy, with mistresses. But the third client was revealed to be Fox News host Sean Hannity, who had a nice little freak-out of his own that interrupted his usual defense of Trump’s malice and incompetence.
After UN Ambassador Nikki Haley had publicly made calls for further sanctions against Russia for election meddling and their poisoning of two citizens of the United Kingdom using nerve gas, Trump grew angry and blocked the move, because of course.
- April 17th, 2018: Politico reports that the Trump administration is preparing to no longer accept domestic violence or sexual abuse as reasons to accept asylum seekers who are fleeing their home countries.
Trump continues his feud with Amazon, posting on Twitter about “online retailers” taking advantage of “very unfair tax policies”.
Trump returns to Mar-a-Lago to meet with Japanese PM Shinzo Abe.
Trump files for an extension to not pay his taxes until October.
- April 18th, 2018: At Mar-a-Lago, Trump is in a joint press conference with Shinzo Abe where he repeats that “no one has been tougher on Russia than me.” Trump also referred to the Mueller probe as “a hoax created largely by the Democrats as a way of softening the blow of a loss,” and said there had been no collusion five times.
Trump goes full Fuehrer on Twitter while criticizing California’s sanctuary cities, writing, “There is a Revolution going on in California. Soooo many Sanctuary areas want OUT of this ridiculous, crime infested & breeding concept. Jerry Brown is trying to back out of the National Guard at the Border, but the people of the State are not happy. Want Security & Safety NOW!” (The “breeding” part is right out of Nazi propaganda about Jews.)
He also tries reversing course in an earlier Tweet where he admitted firing James Comey because of the Russia investigation, writing, “Slippery James Comey, the worst FBI Director in history, was not fired because of the phony Russia investigation where, by the way, there was NO COLLUSION (except by the Dems)!”
In another Tweet, Trump responds to Stormy Daniels having released a sketch of the man who threatened her to remain silent about her affair with Trump, saying it was “about a nonexistent man, a total con job”.
- April 19th, 2018: A federal judge rules that the Trump administration’s cuts to the Teen Pregnancy Prevention program were unlawful.
AMI settled its lawsuit with Karen McDougal, freeing her from her NDA to remain silent about her affair with Trump.
A coffin opened at sunset, and from it, former New York City Mayor and homely nosferatu Rudy Giuliani emerged to announce he would be joining Trump’s legal team. (He would not help his case through the coming months.)
- April 20th, 2018: A New York Times report reveals that over 400 children have been separated from their parents at the United States border by ICE, including over a hundred who are under the age of four.
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The NYT also runs a story detailing several accounts from people close to Michael Cohen about how abusive Trump, his client, was to him, and theorizing that Cohen may, at some point, flip and cooperate with Mueller.
The Associated Press gains access to 15 pages of James Comey’s memos, that even with redactions, show Trump was a paranoid lunatic who was obsessed with the stories about Russian hookers from the Steele Dossier, the size of his inauguration crowd, and paranoia about other government agencies and employees trying to undermine him.
Vox reported that Trump, in January of 2017, had pressured Jeff Sessions to fire Peter Strzok and Lisa Page for being “disloyal”, and asked Sessions to get derogatory information about them to smear their names in public.
On Twitter, Trump goes back into conspiracy theory mode, trying to find some leak in logic to claim that Robert Mueller’s appointment as Special Counsel was illegal, writing, “James Comey illegally leaked classified documents to the press in order to generate a Special Council? Therefore, the Special Council was established based on an illegal act? Really, does everybody know what that means?”
He also again, attacks the “Fake News Media” on Twitter, and claims that they had “just about our highest poll numbers”. (They didn’t.)
- April 21st, 2018: Trump unleashes another Tweetstorm, raging against the New York Times for their story about Michael Cohen from the previous day, and insisting that Cohen would not flip on him. (He did.) He posted this from Mar-a-Lago, where he spent almost a week straight golfing, while the rest of the living Presidents and First Ladies were attending the funeral for former First Lady Barbara Bush without him, including his wife, Melania.
- April 22nd, 2018: After Chuck Todd commented on the Trump administration’s handling of North Korea on “Meet the Press”, Trump attacked him on Twitter, calling him “Sleepy Eyes Chuck Todd”. While it is not the first time Trump has called Todd this, it is this time that people become aware that the term “Sleepy Eyes” has a history as an Anti-Semitic insult.
- April 23rd, 2018: A report in the Intercept reveals that under the Trump administration, that U.S. Border Patrol had faked statistics to show an uptick of violence against Border Patrol agents that wasn’t happening.
CNN reports Trump has been ramping up usage of his personal cell phone to contact outside adviser recently. Sources said that Trump has also used his cell phone for direct outreach to GOP lawmakers. Experts say Trump’s cell phone usage makes his communications vulnerable to eavesdropping from foreign governments. Also, Trump’s private calls will not be captured for government accountability and history.
- April 24th, 2018: French President Emmanuel Macron visits the White House, and in another bizarre display, Trump walks up to him to brush what he calls “dandruff” off of Macron’s shoulder saying that the French leader needed to look “perfect”.
Reports emerge about White House physician Ronny Jackson drinking while on duty, overprescribing medication to White House staff, and generally being hostile towards other military physicians, jeopardizing his nomination to be the new Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
A third federal judge rules that Trump’s termination of DACA was unlawful.
- April 25th, 2018: Emmanuel Macron had about enough of Trump’s s***, and gave a blistering speech to Congress condemning Trump for his decision to make the United States the only nation to not participate in the Paris Climate Accords, and his isolationist policies. He received a standing ovation for his remarks.
An annual report on FISA warrants being issued reveals that the Trump administration had more requests rejected in 2017 more than any year in the history of FISA warrants, over 40.
- April 26th, 2018: Ronny Jackson withdraws his nomination to be the next head of the VA.
Trump has a 30 minute interview on Fox News where he goofs and admits that Michael Cohen did represent him in his dealings with Stormy Daniels, but spends most of the interview trying to pretend he really doesn’t know Michael Cohen that closely. He also had several other insane moments, such as a veiled threat towards Sen. John Tester’s political fortunes for opposing Ronny Jackson to be the next VA Director, admitted he only got the First Lady a card for their birthday, that Iran’s people have stopped screaming “Death to America” because Trump is president, and that the mainstream media were somehow trying to “suppress the vote” by reporting negative things about Trump.
After only six months on the job, Brian Rice resigns as Director of Indian Affairs.
- April 27th, 2018: German Chancellor Angela Merkel visits the White House, and Trump rambles in front of the media about the myriad of scandals plaguing his administration while she looks on, bewildered.
On Twitter, Trump again argues that Robert Mueller should have never been appointed special counsel, writing, “House Intelligence Committee rules that there was NO COLLUSION between the Trump Campaign and Russia. As I have been saying all along, it is all a big Hoax by the Democrats based on payments and lies. There should never have been a Special Counsel appointed. Witch Hunt!”
Natalya Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer who met with Trump Jr, Manafort, and Kushner in Trump Tower admits she’s an agent for the Kremlin in an interview with NBC News.
- April 28th, 2018: Trump, on Twitter, continues his newfound feud with Sen. John Tester, calling on him to resign for blowing the whistle on White House physician Ronny Jackson’s instability.
- April 29th, 2018: Rather than attend the White House Correspondent’s Dinner, the cowardly Trump held an 80 minute rally in Michigan, and among the highlights were when he asked the crowd, “Are they any Hispanics here?”, leading to boos, so he went right in on talking about his stupid border wall.
On Twitter, Trump then claims that the host of the Correspondent’s Dinner, Michelle Wolff, was “filthy” and “bombed” when in reality, she delivered a shocking and hilarious takedown of the administration’s lies and Sarah Huckabee Sanders, in particular.
- April 30th, 2018: Stormy Daniels files a defamation lawsuit against Donald Trump for questioning her account of the man who threatened her on Trump’s behalf in 2011.
Trump’s acting Director of ICE since November of 2017, Thomas Homan, announces he will retire in June, without ever having had to face a confirmation hearing.
- May 1st, 2018: Trump’s former personal physician, Howard Bornstein, finally admits that his medical assessment of Trump was dictated by Trump himself, and that in February of 2017, Trump’s bodyguard came to his offices, and removed all files and references to Trump from the doctor’s office.
After media reports detailing questions that are believed to be asking of Trump by Robert Mueller arise, Trump, on Twitter, writes, “So disgraceful that the questions concerning the Russian Witch Hunt were “leaked” to the media. No questions on Collusion.” Either Trump didn’t read the report, or was just lying about it, because there were more than a dozen on collusion. He later added, “you have a made up, phony crime, Collusion, that never existed, and an investigation begun with illegally leaked classified information,” and “It would seem very hard to obstruct justice for a crime that never happened! Witch Hunt!” (Note: That isn’t how obstruction of justice works.)
- May 2nd, 2018: Trump continued his attacks on the Mueller probe on Twitter, writing that the legal system was “rigged,” and threatening, “At some point I will have no choice but to use the powers granted to the Presidency and get involved!”
Trump adds former Clinton lawyer Emmett Flood to his legal team, and all the Trump supporters who irrationally hate the Clintons don’t sense the irony.
Lawyers for Summer Zervos subpoenaed MGM for the raw tapes of “The Apprentice” to help prove that Trump groped her.
- May 3rd, 2018: On Twitter, Trump posts about three hostages being held by North Korea, and blames President Obama for not negotiating their release during his presidency. There’s just one problem… two of the three became hostages during the Trump administration, so it would have been hard for Obama to have time-traveled to negotiate on their behalf.
Trump, in a series of tweets, acknowledged the payment to Stephanie Clifford, saying a non-disclosure agreement was “used to stop the false and extortionist accusations made by her about an affair.” He went on to change his story, given his prior statement that he knew nothing of the payment, by saying that these agreements are “very common among celebrities and people of wealth,” adding he “played no roll in this transaction” — misspelling the word “role.”
- May 4th, 2018: After Rudy Giuliani spent several consecutive days on a media blitz saying a number of things that seemed to incriminate his client, including that he repaid Michael Cohen for the $130,000 hush payment, Trump told reporters Giuliani needed more time to “get his facts straight,” adding “virtually everything said has been said incorrectly,” and noting Giuliani “just started a day ago.”
Trump then flies to Dallas to speak at the annual NRA convention, and he goes off script and starts mocking former Secretary of State John Kerry for falling off a bicycle and injuring himself while Secretary of State.
Trump’s Department of Homeland Security ends protections for 57,000 Hondurans who have been living in the United States since 1999.
Trump chooses his Presidential Council on Sport, Fitness, and Nutrition Council, and puts discredited celebrity “doctor” Mehmet Oz on it. Rounding it out are Patriots coach Bill Belichek and former Mr. Universe and Incredible Hulk star Lou Ferrigno.
- May 5th, 2018: In an incoherent moment with the press, Trump starts rambling about his proposed stupid border wall, and says “we may have to close up the country”, as if it’s a mom and pop store that just doesn’t open on a Sunday.
Trump’s lawyers continue to try and prevent Robert Mueller from interviewing the president, knowing he will almost certainly perjure himself. For the first time, Mueller warns them that he will have Trump subpoenaed if that’s what it takes.
A report in The Guardian covers how the Trump administration hired an Israel private intelligence agency to dig up dirt on the Obama administration diplomats who negotiated the nuclear peace treaty with Iran.
Senator John McCain, fighting brain cancer, instructs family members that under no circumstances does he want Donald Trump attending his funeral.
- May 6th, 2018: Rudy Giuliani argues that you can’t serve the President of the United States with a subpoena on Fox News.
- May 7th, 2018: After a week of Rudy Giuliani “helping” his client, Trump takes to Twitter to continue not helping his case, either, writing “The Russia Witch Hunt is rapidly losing credibility. House Intelligence Committee found No Collusion, Coordination or anything else with Russia. So now the Probe says OK, what else is there? How about Obstruction for a made up, phony crime.There is no O, it’s called Fighting Back” and “The 13 Angry Democrats in charge of the Russian Witch Hunt are starting to find out that there is a Court System in place that actually protects people from injustice...and just wait ‘till the Courts get to see your unrevealed Conflicts of Interest!” (Remember, Rod Rosenstein is a Republican appointed by Trump, and Mueller was a Republican appointed by George W. Bush.)
Jeff Sessions makes it official and announces that the Trump administration is now separating families at the border as a matter of policy.
That kind of outweighed the announcement from Melania Trump about her “Be Best” campaign, the closest anyone actually ever sees to her desire to do anything about cyberbullying.
- May 8th, 2018: Trump unilaterally pulls the United States out of the Iran nuclear deal, calling it “a great embarrassment to me as a citizen and all citizens of the United States.” Our European allies pledge to honor it anyway, Trump and the United States be damned. As a result of Trump’s decision, Boeing loses out on a $39 billion deal they had to manufacture commercial airliners to update Iran’s commercial airline fleet, because sanctions are re-established against Iran.
Stormy Daniels’ lawyer, Michael Avenatti, releases information online that details the business dealings of the company Michael Cohen created to offer hush money to clients, Essential Consultants LLC. Laid bare, it is even worse, because Cohen was also discovered to be receiving payments from Russian oligarchs, a South Korean aerospace company already being investigated in South Korea, as well as American corporations like AT&T and Novartis who were seeking to pay Cohen in order to potentially gain access to the president.
Buzzfeed runs a report about how Trump has only offered condolences to the families of victims of the Parkland shooting who are among his supporters.
Critics note that it seems like Melania’s “Be Best” campaign seems a lot like it plagiarized remarks from Michelle Obama’s speech from late in the Obama presidency about how men need to “Be Better” and that other content is cribbed from an Obama era booklet by the Federal Trade Commission.
NPR reports that with six months to go before the 2018 mid-term elections, the United States’ election system was still vulnerable to Russian cyberattacks.
- May 9th, 2018: Trump’s National Security Advisor, John Bolton, makes moves to eliminate a post that oversees our nation’s cybersecurity.
After years of seeing the uninsured rate drop after the passage of the Affordable Care Act, Donald Trump’s sabotaging of the ACA through executive orders results in it rising to 12.2%.
On Twitter, Trump posts a citation from the right-wing Media Research Center that 91% of stories about him are negative, and threatens to revoke the press credentials of “Fake News Media” who write articles about him that he doesn’t like.
Homeland Security Kirjsten Nielsen almost resigns after being humiliated by Donald Trump in a meeting at the White House where, in front of other staff, Trump berates her for “not protecting the border.”
At a White House discussion where it is discussed whether or not Trump’s new pick for the CIA, Gina Haspel, can still be confirmed in the Senate after Sen. John McCain announced he opposed her for the pick due to her links to the Bush era torture program, White House aide Kelly Sadler says, “It doesn’t matter, he’s dying anyway.”
- May 10th, 2018: The Trump White House hosts an event for Mothers Day with 52 military spouses and mothers that a photo released from the event shows completely consisted of white people, even though statistics show that 40% of those military spouses and mothers are people of color. At the event itself, Trump lied to those gathered and claimed he had raised the pay of those in the military.
At a White House Cabinet meeting, Trump tells reporters that “everyone thinks” he deserves a Nobel Prize for negotiating the release of 3 hostages from North Korea.
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Later in the day at a rally in Elkhart, Indiana, Trump implies his presidency should be “extended” past the two-term, eight-year limit. He later tried walking down this comment after the rally, saying that “ratings are going to sink” if he wasn’t president, because he’s a moron who only can think in terms of a reality show.
- May 11th, 2018: As twelve separate scandals surround Scott Pruitt and senior White House staff advise Trump to fire him, he continues to publicly defend Pruitt.
Stormy Daniels’ lawyer, Michael Avenatti, releases information about Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, that shows he was peddling influence as far back as December 12, 2016, and made the pitch to government officials from Qatar to pay him $1 million for access to Trump.
- May 12th, 2018: Trump falls all over himself to fight for a Chinese phone company, ZTE, in trade talks with China. Apparently, by Trump having pulled out of the Iranian nuclear deal, companies that do business in Iran can be sanctioned, and after the nuclear treaty was signed, ZTE cut a deal with Iran. By ending the treaty, Trump jeopardized ZTE’s deal, and then had to fix the crisis he himself created. Anyway, the POTUS again unsettles the nation with the less-then-reassuring statement on Twitter, “Be cool it will all work out”.
In the face of reports regarding White House aide Kelly Sadler’s remarks mocking dying Senator John McCain, the Trump White House never apologizes for them, just deems them “unacceptable”, and proceeds to try and find out who leaked Sadler’s comments to the press.
- May 13th, 2018: Rudy Giuliani continues to blunder about in the service of the president on cable news, admitting that it was Trump who tried to block the AT&T and Time Warner merger.
The New Yorker runs an article about how Trump doesn’t start his day at the White House until 11 AM, and most nights, calls Sean Hannity from bed after his show at 9 PM to discuss talking points for the next day’s show.
Axios reports that the Trump White House has more leaks to the press in the average week than the Bush White House did in its first entire year.
It is Mothers Day. Trump makes no acknowledgment of First Lady Melania Trump on Twitter, or anywhere else on the holiday.
- May 14th, 2018: Trump responds on Twitter to the article from the previous day from Axios about White House staff leaking to the press, writing, “The so-called leaks coming out of the White House are a massive over exaggeration put out by the Fake News Media in order to make us look as bad as possible. With that being said, leakers are traitors and cowards, and we will find out who they are!” That really inspires confidence, you know?
Trump sends Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner to be at the opening of the new U.S. Embassy in Jersualem, where the two are wildly criticized for their diplomatic efforts by the international media for grinning like idiots over a move that jeopardizes peace in the Middle East for generations to come. Trump also sent Pastor Robert Jeffress to give the blessing at the opening of the embassy, ignoring Jeffress’ history of making both anti-Semitic and anti-Islamic remarks to send him on an Israeli diplomatic mission.
- May 15th, 2018: The Washington Post reports on communications from the Trump Department of Defense that indicate the Trump administration just isn’t content to separate families at the border, they’re also tasking the United States military with running internment camps from the children who are kidnapped from their families.
And, it’s official, the Trump administration eliminates the White House’s top cyber advisor role. While all reports are that Russia is still hacking into our election systems.
On Twitter, Trump posts his apparent daily affirmation to attack the press and the Mueller investigation, writing, “Can you believe that with all of the made up, unsourced stories I get from the Fake News Media, together with the $10,000,000 Russian Witch Hunt (there is no Collusion), I now have my best Poll Numbers in a year. Much of the Media may be corrupt, but the People truly get it!”
- May 16th, 2018: During a roundtable discussion at the White House, Trump says of undocumented immigrants “These aren’t people, these are animals,” in a chilling and super-racist moment. So racist, in fact, that historians can point out that it’s the same sort of rhetoric Hitler used to dehumanize the Jews.
Trump also called on Oakland mayor Libby Schaaf to be investigated for obstruction of justice by the DOJ after she gave a speech that the Trump administration and ICE would be conducting immigration raids in her city.
Melania Trump is admitted to the hospital with what the Trump White House calls “a kidney procedure”. Trump does not go to her bedside, and this will mark the beginning of a mysterious 24-day absence of the First Lady in the public eye for a medical procedure that Melania is supposedly only in the hospital for overnight.
On Twitter, Trump attacks CNN and the Washington Post for their coverage on Trump’s negotiations on ZTE and China.
- May 17th, 2018: On Twitter, Trump rings in the first anniversary of the Mueller investigation by calling it a “witch hunt”, and then positing a new conspiracy theory about the FBI planting a “spy” in his campaign, writing, “Wow, word seems to be coming out that the Obama FBI “SPIED ON THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN WITH AN EMBEDDED INFORMANT.” Andrew McCarthy says, “There’s probably no doubt that they had at least one confidential informant in the campaign.” If so, this is bigger than Watergate!”
At a White House meeting with NATO Secretary Jens Stoltenberg, Trump again threatened members of the alliance, saying that NATO members that do not contribute fully would be “dealt with”. Trump repeatedly has groused about this, seemingly without an understanding of how NATO funding is handled.
The Trump White House tries to institute a new rule under which clinics that provide abortions or refer patients to places that do would lose federal funding. The rule takes direct aim at Planned Parenthood.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders tries downplaying Trump’s remarks from the previous day where he called undocumented immigrants “animals” by claiming “he was only referring to MS-13 and adding, “I don’t think the term the president used is strong enough”.
It is revealed that Donald Trump Jr. closed out the meeting with Russians in Trump tower by offering to lift sanctions against Russia if Trump won the election.
- May 18th, 2018: The FBI has to confirm it did not put “a spy” in Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. It is, of course, nonsense. On Twitter, Trump responds by instead claiming the Department of Justice put a spy in his presidential campaign. Then he backtracked later and posted that it was the FBI, after all.
He also claimed that it was “Fake News” that he called undocumented immigrants “animals” when there’s video evidence of him doing it.
The Washington Post reports that Donald Trump personally called on the U.S. Postmaster General Megan Brennan to double the rates of postage on packages shippped by Amazon. None of the meetings between the two were ever listed on the White House visitor logs.
Another mass shooting takes place at a high school, this one at Santa Fe High School in Southeast, Texas that kills ten. The Washington Post notes that more children have died while shot at school in 2018 to this point than have been killed while serving in the military.
- May 19th, 2018: Trump continues posting on Twitter about insane conspiracy theories of how the FBI “infiltrated” his presidential campaign.
The New York Times reported on a meeting arranged by Erik Prince at Trump Tower on August 3, 2016 between Donald Jr., George Nader, and Joel Zamel, an Israeli specialist in social media manipulation. Nader, an emissary for Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan of the UAE and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, said the princes were eager to help Trump win the election. Zamel came to with a multimillion-dollar proposal for a social media manipulation. Reportedly, Donald Jr. responded positively to the offers for help, and Nader was embraced as a close ally by Trump campaign advisers. And now… Robert Mueller was investigating the whole meeting as further potential foreign interference in American elections by a second entity.
- May 20th, 2018: Trump rages on Twitter in a series of seven posts, deriding the “$20,000,000 Witch Hunt,” and attacking his political opponents, including Hillary Clinton, Andrew McCabe, Obama and the Podesta brothers. Later in the day, he still wasn’t done, with a last post for the day saying “I hereby demand….the Department of Justice look into whether or not the FBI/DOJ infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for Political Purposes,” and if the requests came from the Obama administration. Because “hereby demand” are two words together that don’t make you sound like a tyrant, or anything.
- May 21st, 2018: On Twitter, Trump attacks former CIA Director John Brennan in a series of tweets, saying he “has disgraced” himself, the country, and the entire intelligence community. His lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, goes on Fox News and tries using the nonexistent FBI agent who “infiltrated” the Trump campaign as the justification for Trump refusing to meet with Robert Mueller, until it is investigated.
The White House further digs in on Trump’s “animals” comments towards undocumented immigrants by issuing a statement saying, “The violent animals of MS-13 have committed heinous, violent attacks in communities across America.” (Remember, Trump never mentioned MS-13 in his original racist comments.)
Politico reports that against advisement, Trump continues to use unsecured iPhones to call friends and post on Twitter.
- May 22nd, 2018: NBC News reports the number of children separated from their parents at the border by the Trump administration has grown to over 700 kids, and they want to escalate the policy to do this even more.
The Arizona Republic also ran a report that in 2017, the Trump administration somehow “lost” 1475 migrant children who were under the care of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, out of the 7635 children who were placed in their care. No one knows what happened to these kids, if they’re dead, alive, victims of sex trafficking (some who were found, were found to be sex trafficking victims), or what country they’re in. The Trump administration just lost track of them.
Meanwhile, as if she wasn’t bad enough at her job, DHS Secretary Kirjsten Nielsen was asked about Russian interference in the 2016 election, and told a reporter she was “unaware” that the intelligence community had found evidence of such a thing.
On the same day, Rudy Giuliani seemingly thought his client was Schroedinger’s cat or something, changing position on whether Trump would speak to Mueller after telling the Wall Street Journal he opposed it, then the Washington Post he was for it. He also told the Washington Post, regarding potentially perjury by Trump, that “the truth is relative.” Giuliani later told BuzzFeed that he and Trump last talked a “couple weeks ago.” (Note, Rudy is not a good defense lawyer.)
- May 23rd, 2018: As Trump leaves the White House, the media asks for proof of the “FBI spy that infiltrated” the Trump campaign, and Trump provides none, just telling them “you’ll see it.” (They never would see it.) He then gets on Twitter and continues posting conspiracy theories about “SPYGATE” and the “Criminal Deep State” to get Alex Jones fans good and lathered up.
At a fundraiser in Manhattan, Trump brags to donors about classified information, that a skirmish occurred between U.S. troops and Russian mercenaries in Syria in February 2018.
NPR reports on Trump’s family separation policy on immigration and per an ACLU report, immigrant children who are detained by border patrol were suffering physical, verbal, sexual, and psychological abuse, including denial of drinking water and food. Allegations within that report cited incidents including denying a pregnant teen medical care, forcing a 16 year-old girl to forcibly spread her legs and be touched, and threatening a child with sexual abuse by an adult male detainee.
A Washington Post report shows a fundraising a letter disseminated to wealthy Chinese businessmen with Republican Committee letterhead offering a photo-op and a handshake with Trump in exchange for a $100,000 donation which may sound like selling access to the president, because it is.
On this date, a federal judge also rules that Trump, as president, cannot block people from his Twitter account, as it would be a violation of that citizen’s first amendment rights.
- May 24th, 2018: On Twitter, Trump posts that former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper had “admitted there was spying on my campaign.” (HINT: Clapper said no such thing.) Trump also started fabricating tales of imaginary payments to this super-spy within his campaign, with no evidence whatsoever.
Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal published a report to confirm that Trump advisor Roger Stone was soliciting Julian Assange of Wikileaks directly to try and get Hillary Clinton’s e-mails during the 2016 election. This also would mean Stone lied about this in testimony before Congress.
On Fox & Friends, Trump is a guest, and revisits his rivalry with the NFL over national anthem protests, saying of players who protest, “You have to stand proudly for the national anthem…maybe they shouldn’t be in the country.”
Trump posthumously pardons former heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson, because Sylvester Stallone contacted him and asked him to. (Johnson has been dead since 1946, so maybe eventually Trump might get around to doing something for living African Americans.)
Mark Inch, a retired Army major general who was appointed only nine months earlier to oversee the Federal Bureau of Prisons and its more than 180,000 inmates, resigned citing the Trump administration continually flouting “departmental norms.”
The Trump administration appoints Ronald Mortensen, an immigrant hard-liner who advocates for restricting legal and illegal immigration and is opposed to DACA, to a senior role in the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration.
- May 25th, 2018: Ina terse phone call with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau regarding Trump’s ill-conceived tariffs, Trump reportedly asked Trudeau, "Didn't you guys burn down the White House?" referring to the War of 1812. One problem… the British burned down the White House in 1812. Canada was not its own nation yet.
After days of the intelligence community and high ranking members of Congress having to confirm that there was no FBI spy within the Trump campaign, Trump continued to claim it was so on Twitter, and insist that the infiltrator was “paid a fortune”. Trump is not well.
So much so, that Trump, at the White House, was asked by a reporter why no one had seen First Lady Melania Trump in two weeks. Trump pointed to a window of the White House and said, “She’s doing great. She’s looking at us right there.” She was not, in fact, there.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo began testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by reading a letter from Trump to Kim Jong Un cancelling the Singapore summit. The letter thanked Kim Jong Un for releasing three prisoners, but included a threat, “You talk about your nuclear capabilities, but ours are so massive and powerful that I pray to God they will never have to be used.”
Speaking at a Naval Academy commencement, Trump told graduates, “our ancestors tamed a continent,” adding “We are not going to apologize for America. We are going to stand up for America.”
The Washington Post reports that Trump is continuing to berate his own head of the Department of Homeland Security, Kirjsten Nielsen, for not creating a sense of “shock and awe” on immigration policy. The Houston Chronicle noted in its own story on family separation that little to no system was in place to account for where the parents and their children were being taken to later reunite them.
The president of the National Border Patrol Council union, Brandon Judd, which represents 15,000 agents, called Trump’s National Guard deployment to the border a “colossal waste.”
- May 26th, 2018: As criticism of Trump’s family separating policy grows, Trump gets on Twitter, and claim that the policy is to blame on “a horrible, horrible law created by Democrats” He doesn’t name this law, of course, because it doesn’t exist. Also, how Democrats could have created such a law when they haven’t controlled the House since 2010… yeah, he’s a f***ing liar.
Trump took his practical daily swipe at the Mueller probe, saying, “whole Russia Probe is Rigged,” and attacking the “13 Angry Democrats,” a reference to Mueller’s team. Just a reminder, Mueller is still a Republican and others on his team owe their jobs to Republican presidents.
He also falsely accused the New York Times of making up sources while they were reporting an unnamed White House staffer citing Trump’s chaotic personality making negotiations difficult.
- May 27th, 2018: Rudy Giuliani goes on CBS’ State of the Union Rudy Giuliani and straight up admits that Trump’s use of “Spygate” is a PR tactic to sway public opinion and avoid impeachment, because “Members of Congress…are going to be informed a lot by their constituents.”
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In a series of tweets, Trump attacked Obama for doing nothing “about the so-called Russian Meddling” because Obama thought Hillary would win. Note, Trump says “so called” even though it’s been almost universally confirmed to have happened by the intelligence community. He went to ask why the “13 Angry Democrats” have not investigated “Crooked Hillary Clinton” and her “many crimes, much Collusion with Russia?” adding, “Rigged Investigation!” (Because it makes sense that Hillary would work with Russians to rig the election so she couldn’t win it.) Perhaps his last post in this Tweetstorm was the most insane, as he wrote, “Who’s going to give back the young and beautiful lives (and others) that have been devastated and destroyed by the phony Russia Collusion Witch Hunt? They came to Washington DC with stars in their eyes and went back home in tatters!”
- May 28th, 2018: It’s Memorial Day, a holiday to honor those who died serving in our military, defending our freedoms. And Trump, on Twitter, decides to say that those honored dead would be “very happy” with how things were going. No, really, he wrote, “Happy Memorial Day! Those who died for our great country would be very happy and proud at how well our country is doing today. Best economy in decades, lowest unemployment numbers for Blacks and Hispanics EVER (& women in 18years), rebuilding our Military and so much more. Nice!” Veterans groups blasted him for he tone deaf post.
- May 29th, 2018: At a rally in Tennessee, Trump again pretends he’s at Nuremberg. After mentioning MS-13, Trump actually led the crowd in chants of “Animals”, again insisted he would build his border wall and Mexico would pay for it, furthered the conspiracy theory that the FBI infiltrated his presidential campaign, and made the sorts of outlandish and insane statements that you’d expect.
The Washington Post reports the number of migrant children held in custody without their parents has surged 21% in the past month up to 10,773 under the Trump administration’s new policy of “zero tolerance” and that shelters are at 95% capacity.”
Politico reports Trump bashed his own Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, saying he’s “past his prime” and “no longer a killer.” Ross has been increasingly marginalized by Trump, and barred from making trade deal decisions.
Trump also attacked Sally Yates in a tweet, quoting Jonathan Turley on Fox News, “Sally Yates is part of concerns people have raised about bias in the Justice Dept. I find her actions to be really quite unbelievable.”
- May 30th, 2018: Trump threatened sweeping tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from Canada, Mexico, and the European Union, saying those U.S. trading partners failed to agree to a range of demands.
He also held an audience with Kim Kardashian West to discuss a potential pardon for Alice Marie Johnson, a woman sentenced to life in prison in 1996 for a first-time, non-violent drug arrest.
On Twitter, Trump was outraged when Disney CEO Ralph Iger issued an apology to Valerie Jarrett over comments made by Roseanne Barr, because Iger had not apologized for “HORRIBLE” statements supposedly made by Trump on ABC.
Ivanka Trump conveniently dropped out of a conference call in advance of “White House Sports and Fitness Day”, fleeing after reporters asked her about the suspicious Chinese trademarks awarded to her fashion brand.
National Security Advisor John Bolton picks Fred Flietz to be his new chief of staff, fresh off of Flietz’s previous stellar performance working for an ant-Islamic hate group.
- May 31st, 2018: Trump pardons conservative filmmaker and conspiracy theorist Dinesh D’Souza of previous charges of campaign finance violations that he plead guilty to. Experts opine that this is a veiled message to Michael Cohen, that Trump will pardon him for any campaign finance violations he might be indicted on for illegally paying $130,000 to Stormy Daniels as hush money on Trump’s behalf.
On Twitter, Trump contradicts his previous statements, and says that he did not fire James Comey in the Russia investigation, despite having said that was the reason in an interview with Lester Holt a year earlier.
An Axios report details that on four occasions to date, Trump has tried to force Attorney General Jeff Sessions to recuse himself in the Mueller probe.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders feigned outrage over a comment by Samantha Bee, the host of TBS’ Full Frontal, where Bee commented on Ivanka Trump being clueless and posting a picture of herself holding up her child during a time when parents and children were being separated at he border, and calling her a “feckless c---“ for not doing anything while her father implemented the monstrous policy. Bee apologized before Sanders had even commented on it.
- June 1st, 2018: Trump broke decades of protocol, tweeting about the jobs reports before their official release. Trump was briefed on the numbers Thursday night, and couldn’t be bothered to wait a few more days to crow about numbers that were just about the norm for any month during the last six years of the Obama administration.
He also showed little respect for the First Amendment, calling on TBS to fire Samantha Bee for calling Ivanka Trump a “feckless c---“.
With little public notice, Trump met with North Korean four star general Kim Yong Chol in the Oval Office for over an hour. He was given a personal letter written by Kim Jong Un on a giant envelope and told the press it was “a very nice letter” before immediately admitting to the press he had not opened it yet. Afterwards, Trump told reporters that the June 12 summit in Singapore was back on.
Responding to Trump’s tariff threats, Mexico and the European Union announced steps to retaliate. European leaders also vowed to proceed with a complaint to the World Trade Organization.
Trump leaves for Camp David without First Lady Melania Trump, whose whereabouts or medical status still remain unknown.
Forthe second straight year, Trumpfails to recognize LGBTQ Pride Month.
- June 2nd, 2018: On Twitter, Trump yet again attacks the Mueller probe, citing Fox News sources (that are as always, potentially not accurate) that the Mueller investigation was costing taxpayers $17 million. (That’s still less than Trump’s golf trips, and well under the $52 million Kenneth Star spent on the Lewinsky investigation back in 1998.)
He also renews insults directed at former CIA Director John Brennan, referencing statements made my Dan Bongino on Fox News. Yes, THAT Dan Bongino.
Canada follow the lead of European leaders, and also files a complaint with the World Trade Organization over Trump’s tariffs, and Canadian PM Justin Trudeau calls them an “affront” and the idea that Canada could be a national security risk in Trump’s statements “inconceivable”.
- June 3rd, 2018: From Camp David, Trump continues to post conspiracy theories on Twitter about the Mueller probe, tries pretending Paul Manafort really wasn’t all that involved in his presidential campaign, and that the FBI should have told him that they were investigating Paul Manafort while he worked for Trump’s campaign.
On Fox News, Rudy Giuliani argues that a president cannot be subpoenaed or indicted while in office, leading to legal experts to almost universally come out to point and laugh at him.
Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley, meanwhile, exposes a Trump immigrant detention center in Brownsville, Texas, being run out of an abandoned Wal-Mart where migrant children are being kept in cages. After originally being denied entry, Merkley was let in to show the inhumane conditions.
- June 4th, 2018: Trump abruptly cancels a visit to the White House for the Super Bowl Champion Philadelphia Eagles after learning less than ten players and barely any coaches would be coming, because the great majority of the team would be embarrassed to be seen with him. In his Twitter proclamation, Trump insists the cancellation is because the Eagles kneeled during the National Anthem during the 2017 season. Thing is… no Eagles players kneeled during the anthem all season.
On Twitter, Trump calls the appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller “UNCONSTITUTIONAL” and also declares his “absolute right to pardon myself”. Oh, and he flailed about remarking about the “Fake News Media” and the “Russian Witch Hunt”, but that’s par for the course now.
CNN reports tensions between French President Emmanuel Macron and Trump grew worse in a heated phone call over Trump’s ill-conceived decision to slap tariffs on U.S. allies as part of his trade war.
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