Idiocracy

Jezebel reports: In an interview with Time, Kellyanne Conway discussed the lack of leadership roles in the Republican party—can you believe it?—when she got her start in politics, describing working for the GOP as a woman in the 1990s as like “walking into the men’s locker room at the Elks Club holding a bachelor party.” She credits her “comfort level” …

Starting any minute: White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders will brief reporters Friday just hours after the House approved President Trump’s deal with Democrats to fund the government through mid-December, raise the debt limit and offer aid to victims of Hurricane Harvey. Lawmakers voted 316-90 for the package that includes more than $15 billion in disaster recovery aid for …

The Associated Press reports: It started out cold as ice, and then turned warm and friendly. Now the tortured relationship between President Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan has gone cool again, with the Republican president making clear he has no qualms about bucking the GOP leader to cut deals with his Democratic foes. The two men dined at …

USA Today reports: Saying the Obama administration “weaponized” the U.S. Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights to work against students and schools, U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Thursday said she would replace the current approach to addressing sexual misconduct on college campuses with “a workable, effective and fair system” that more explicitly takes into account the rights of the …

Via Breitbart: Kid Rock delivered a defiant political speech from behind a podium during his concert Tuesday night in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in which he blasted “deadbeat dads” and “f*cking bigots” and the KKK, telling them to “stay the f*ck away.” “And if you want to take a knee, or sit during our Star-Spangled Banner,” he continued. “Call me a …

The Hill reports: Republican leaders on the Hill were “visibly annoyed” that Ivanka Trump joined an Oval Office meeting to “say hello” during their Wednesday meeting with President Trump on a must-pass spending bill, according to reporters who spoke with an aide. Democrat and Republican Congressional leaders met with Trump on Wednesday to discuss a plan to increase the debt …

The Daily Beast reports: Sheriff David A. Clarke just lost out on yet another Trump administration job—and he has the president’s chief of staff to thank. Officials in the West Wing tell The Daily Beast that Clarke had been in consideration for a White House post over the past seven weeks. But on Tuesday, the controversial former Milwaukee County lawman …

“It’s not coldhearted for the President to uphold the law. We are a nation of law and order and the day that we start to ignore the fact that we are that, then we throw away everything that gives these people a reason to want to come to our country. If we stop becoming the country that we were envisioned …

Raw Story reports: White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is holding a press briefing Tuesday. Reporters are expected to question Sanders about the Trump administration’s decision to phase out the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, an Obama-era policy that protects immigrants who came to the United States illegally as children from deportation.

Oh brother. Politico reports: Sean Spicer is cashing in on “candor.” President Donald Trump’s first press secretary – who ceded his high-profile post to Sarah Huckabee Sanders in July but celebrated his official last day in the West Wing on Aug. 31 – has signed with Worldwide Speakers Group, the company confirmed to POLITICO. “Audiences around the world will benefit …

Mediaite reports: President Trump recently returned from his visit to flood-ravaged Texas and Louisiana, so he decided to get back on his phone and retweet another random Twitter supporter. This one provided him with a new way to make fun of Hillary Clinton. In a few days, Clinton will release What Happened, a collection of memoirs which is expected to …

The Independent reports: Donald Trump has joked that his hands are “too big” while helping to serve food to victims of storm Harvey at a shelter in Houston. Video broadcast by US networks of President Trump’s visit to the NRG Center shows him putting on gloves to help with the hand-out at a food serving line before turning to where …

The New York Times reports: John Kelly cannot stop Mr. Trump from binge-watching Fox News, which aides describe as the president’s primary source of information gathering. But Mr. Trump does not have a web browser on his phone, and does not use a laptop, so he was dependent on aides like Stephen K. Bannon, his former chief strategist, to hand-deliver …

Talking Points Memo reports: Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Friday afternoon that President Donald Trump would announce his decision concerning the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA) on Tuesday, Sept. 5 — the deadline that 10 Republican attorneys general set for Trump before they promised to sue the government to end the program. Earlier Friday, Trump said he would announce …

Via Mediaite: Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders will hold a briefing today to discuss the White House’s latest plans and administrative agenda. The meeting is scheduled to begin at 2:30 p.m. EST. Much of the discussion is likely to revolve around how Hurricane Harvey relief efforts will transition from rescue to recovery. Sanders says the president will personally donate $1 …

The Washington Post reports: Some of Trump’s friends fear that the short-tempered president is on an inevitable collision course with White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly. Trump chafes at some of the retired Marine Corps general’s moves to restrict access to him since he took the job almost a month ago, said several people close to the president. …

The New York Daily News reports: The White House cafeteria has chicken fingers — but they’re not on the menu. Recent White House guests were baffled by rather large and unappetizing photos of the President posted along the hallway leading to the “White House mess” that seem to emphasize the President’s famously little hands. “Maybe they wanted to make his …

Mediaite reports: After Donald Trump claimed he witnessed the “horror and devastation” of Harvey “first hand” in Texas, a photo was posted to his Instagram account that shows the president staring at a screen with a map — an exact opposite of what one would describe as “first hand.” As the internet is known to do, Twitter roasted the president …

Fox News reports: Voter satisfaction with the direction of the nation is down by double digits, as a majority says President Donald Trump is tearing the country apart. That’s according to the latest Fox News Poll. The number of voters happy with how things are going in the country is down 10 percentage points since April and stands at just …

The Hill reports: President Trump on Wednesday praised the 1986 Tax Reform Act while unveiling his administration’s plans on tax reform, marking an apparent reversal from his previous criticism of the law. “Our last major tax rewrite was 31 years ago,” Trump said to a crowd of supporters in Springfield, Missouri, on Wednesday, referring to the 1986 Tax Reform Act. …