Idiocracy

Talking Points Memo reports: Arizona GOP chairwoman Kelli Ward promised to stop Mark Kelly — husband of gunshot victim former Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-AZ) and Senate candidate – “dead in his tracks.” “Support the Republican Party of Arizona today and, together, we’ll stop gun-grabber Mark Kelly dead in his tracks,” Ward wrote in a fundraising email. Neither the Arizona Republican …

CNBC reports: If President Donald Trump wants to keep his strong stock market gains, he may want to stay off Twitter. Days when Trump tweets a lot are associated with negative stock market returns, Bank of America Merrill Lynch said Tuesday in a report. The brokerage’s chief equity strategist, Savita Subramanian, wrote in a note that “since 2016, days with …

The Guardian reports: Donald Trump has once again attacked Sadiq Khan, after the London mayor criticized the president for his handling of Hurricane Dorian. Khan also criticized Trump in a column for the Observer this weekend, calling him “the global poster-boy for white nationalism”. Trump has repeatedly attacked Khan, a member of the Labour party who is the first Muslim …

The Hill reports: President Trump on Monday lashed out at the news media and the Democratic party, two of his favorite targets, in a set of Labor Day morning tweets. Trump seemed to be referring to an article published Sunday in the Washington Post that detailed the president’s summer. Among other incidents from the summer, the report covered Trump’s attacks …

The Guardian reports: During a briefing on the category 5 Hurricane Dorian sweeping across the Bahamas and toward the US coast, Donald Trump said: “All we know is that it’s possibly the biggest. I’m not sure I’ve even heard of a category 5, I knew it existed. And I’ve seen some category 4s. I don’t even think I’ve heard the …

The New York Post reports: President Trump tore into actress Debra Messing in a Sunday tweet after the “Will and Grace” star called for outing those who ​show up for the president’s​ big-money fundraiser ​later this month in ​Beverly Hills. Messing and her NBC co-star Eric McCormack ​said they would shame the Trump supporters in Hollywood who attend the fundraiser, …

The Hill reports: President Trump on Saturday renewed his attacks on former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman, calling her “disgusting and foul mouthed” and accusing her of going “for some cheap money” in publishing a book last year about her time in the Trump administration. Trump’s attack on Manigault Newman came after he praised his former personal assistant, Madeleine …

The Chosen One began his weekend of “closely monitoring” Hurricane Dorian with a flurry of self-congratulatory retweets (31 at this writing) as well as renewed attacks on James Comey and Fox News. According to Glorious Leader, the only way to get good television ratings is to shove your entire head up his rear end, as Sean Hannity does on his …

The Washington Post reports: In his upcoming memoir, newly appointed Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III describes the private tour he gave President Trump of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, recalling that Trump’s reaction to the Dutch role in the global slave trade was, “You know, they love me in the Netherlands.” Before the president-elect arrived, …

The Independent reports: Donald Trump has suggested “we” should be given “our stolen time back” due to “how unfairly” he has been treated by the FBI and its investigations into him. “The disastrous IG Report on James Comey shows, in the strongest of terms, how unfairly I, and tens of millions of great people who support me, were treated,” Mr …

Law & Crime reports: Attorneys for Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) filed a notice of removal on Thursday in the defamation case filed against her and others by 10 Covington Catholic teens. The filing represents an attempt to remove the pending case from the Kenton County Circuit Court in Kentucky to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, …

Courthouse News reports: The Trump administration announced Wednesday new citizenship rules for some children of U.S. service members serving abroad, creating confusion among legal scholars and immigration attorneys until clarifying late last night. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services released an 11-page memo Wednesday that initially implied children of American citizens would no longer have automatic citizenship if born in another …

Law & Crime reports: Former Trump communications staffer and ex-CNN commentator Jason Miller has lost his legal battle with Gizmodo Media Group for reporting that he tried to induce an abortion in a woman. For about a year, Miller pursued a $100 million defamation lawsuit against Gizmodo after one of its subsidiaries released an article that said Miller gave a …

The Hill reports: President Trump on Wednesday criticized the mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, as the island braced for a tropical storm nearly two years after it was devastated by Hurricane Maria. San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz, a vocal critic of the president and the administration’s response to Hurricane Maria, said Tuesday night that Trump should “get out …

Every accusation is a confession, part 87. President Trump on Tuesday complained about press coverage of the crowds at Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-Mass.) campaign events, bemoaning that his own rallies don’t get the same treatment. Warren, who has steadily risen in polls of the Democratic presidential race in recent months, has attracted impressive crowds at some of her latest campaign …

The DC Tribune reports: Today, a viral clip on Twitter seems to be proving that not only does Melania not speak French, but that she forgot she told everyone she could. During a joint press conference between French President Emmanuel Macron and her husband Donald Trump, Macron spoke French for any long-form answers that were necessary to questions from reporters …

USA Today reports: President Donald Trump on Monday described as “ridiculous” a report that he discussed using nuclear weapons to alter the course of hurricanes. Trump, who is meeting with world leaders at the G-7 in France, took to Twitter to swipe at an Axios report that he had raised the idea with senior Homeland Security and national security officials …

The Hill reports: President Trump early Sunday lashed out at the news media, accusing it of trying to hurt his reelection chances. The comments from Trump came after a tumultuous week in which the tit-for-tat trade war between the U.S. and China escalated further. The president on Friday triggered a drop in U.S. stock markets and ignited deeper concerns about …

Fox News reports: “Somebody had to do it. I am the chosen one.” They were the words from President Trump about the escalating trade war with China that sparked outrage from commentators across news media outlets this week. But on Saturday, while tweeting from the G-7 Summit in France, Trump claimed that the joke’s on them. His comments were made …

The Associated Press reports: The Trump administration is planning to open a U.S. consulate in Greenland for the first time in decades amid increased strategic and economic interest in the Danish territory. The State Department says in a letter to Congress that re-establishing a consulate in Nuuk is part of a broader plan to increase the U.S. presence in the …