Idiocracy

Newsweek reports: “The Mooch is toast. The front-stabber has been backstabbed.” Anthony Scaramucci’s hasty exit from his role as President Donald Trump’s communications director dominated the topic of conversation on late-night television Monday. On The Late Show, Stephen Colbert paid a musical tribute to the Mooch’s 10-day occupancy in the White House, inspired by the similarities between his last name …

SURE JAN: Just hours after ousting his newly appointed communications director, President Trump tweeted that Monday was “a great day at the White House.” Trump expressed the sentiment in a single tweet, which came just hours after the ouster of White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci, who had took the job just 10 days ago. Earlier Monday, Trumo hosted his …

Law Newz reports: President Donald Trump raised eyebrows Friday when he suggested cops get rough with suspects, but White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Monday that he shouldn’t be taken literally. “I believe he was making a joke at the time,” she said at a press briefing, after a reporter asked if it was just a joke. Trump …

UPI reports: White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is scheduled to give the daily press briefing on camera Monday. She is set to answer questions on a variety of developments at 3:45 p.m. EDT. Since her last press briefing on Thursday afternoon, the U.S. Senate failed to replace the Affordable Care Act early Friday morning. President Donald Trump on …

The New York Times reports: President Trump has decided to remove Anthony Scaramucci from his position as communications director, three people close to the decision said Monday, relieving him just days after Mr. Scaramucci unloaded a crude verbal tirade against other senior members of the president’s senior staff. Mr. Scaramucci’s abrupt removal came just 10 days after the wealthy New …

Mediaite reports: Rasmussen Reports’ poll Monday puts President Donald Trump‘s approval rating at 39 percent, the first time the right leaning polling agency has reported Trump at below 40. Rasmussen polls 500 U.S. voters every night by phone and publishes their “Daily Presidential Tracking Poll” every weekday morning. They are known to report more favorably to Republicans and have consistently …

Twitchy is thrilled: We still don’t know if Kid Rock is running for Senate in Michigan or not, but he’s doing all the right things to reach out to voters. Like this greeting to his fans over on Twitter. When will we see him campaign with President Trump? And notice the male-to-female ratio on the plane? That means Mr. Rock …

ABC News reports: There’s a new chief of staff in town. Retired Gen. John Kelly was sworn in today as President Trump’s most senior staffer in the White House. Trump replaced Reince Priebus with Kelly last Friday. Kelly had left his post as secretary of homeland security to assume his new White House role. “He will do a spectacular job, …

The ad is just insane. The Poke reports: Despite sounding like a spoof advert, it seems “Trumpy Bear” is a hideously real thing – and the commercial for it features patriotism, golf and motorbikes. According to the website when you’re done rolling around the floor wrapped in the blanket of patriotism, or sticking Trumpy up a flag pole, you can …

After what was arguably the most chaotic week of his relentlessly chaotic presidency and an hour before his new chief of staff will be sworn in, this morning Trump declared that everything is totally not chaotic. Trump also doubled-down on his threat to stop stop subsidizing health insurance for members of Congress. From the Washington Post: The Affordable Care Act …

Mediaite reports: Arthur Schwartz, a friend of Anthony Scaramucci who has been referred to as his publicist, warned Reince Priebus that he would “start dropping oppo” on the former White House chief of staff, adding “Mistress much?” in a Sunday morning tweet. The tweets have since been deleted, but of course, screenshots live on forever. The tweet was in response …

The Hill reports: President Trump visited his golf course in Virginia on Sunday morning. The presidential motorcade arrived at the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Va. shortly after 9:30 a.m., according to a White House pool report. This marks Trump’s 43rd trip to one of his golf properties since taking office, according to a NBC News tracker. Trump also …

Wherever Trump is today, it’s obviously too rainy to play golf since he just posted his tenth whining tweet of the day. NBC News reports: After a series of GOP failures to pass any health care legislation this week, President Donald Trump tweeted on Saturday that the plan to repeal and replace Obamacare was not dead — “unless the Republican …

From the Hollywood Reporter: Anthony Scaramucci seems plenty busy with his duties as communications director for President Donald Trump’s White House, but apparently he’s got time enough to help make an upcoming HBO movie. The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed that Scaramucci, when he’s not trading inappropriate barbs with hostile reporters or former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus, is …

The Hill reports: President Trump on Saturday threatened to end key payments to insurance companies made under Obamacare if a repeal and replace bill is not passed. Trump has previously threatened to withhold the payments, known as Cost Sharing Reduction (CSR) payments, which lower the amount individuals have to pay for deductibles, copayments and insurance. The White House announced earlier …

Last night Propaganda Minister Kellyanne Conway took to Fox News to defend the shitcanning of Reince Priebus, saying that the relentless chaos in the White House is to Trump’s credit, because he’s an “unconventional president.” More from Raw Story: “The fact is, that every place of work, I believe has to understand the rules, the structure, the protocol, the pecking …

Talking Points Memo reports: The former White House chief of staff insisted in a Friday night interview that his ouster by President Donald Trump “is actually a good thing.” “I’m feeling good about the fact that he’s making a change that makes him comfortable with moving forward,” Reince Priebus told Fox News’ Sean Hannity in what has become a routine …

Yesterday the wife of brand new White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci filed for divorce, reportedly fed up with his “naked political ambition” and his sucking up to Donald Trump, whom she despises. And today the man who is so far most famous for a wildly obscene attack on his coworkers is warning the press that it’s not classy to …

USA Today reports: After his party’s stinging defeat over health care legislation, President Trump tweeted Saturday that the Republicans in the Senate “look like fools” and should do away with the filibuster, even though scrapping a 60-vote requirement would still not have saved the doomed bill. The president’s morning tweetstorm comes barely a day and a half after Republicans in …

Reince Priebus just gave his first post-shitcanning interview to CNN, which some Twitter wags consider an implicit jab at Trump. Wolf Blitzer asked Priebus point-blank about the Mooch’s accusation of being the White House leaker, which Priebus called “ridiculous.” Mediaite reports: Priebus told Blitzer that he simply wasn’t going to comment on Scaramucci calling him a “f*cking paranoid schizophrenic” during …