Idiocracy

Politico reports: White House legislative affairs director Marc Short told his colleagues Friday that he’s resigning, according to current and former administration officials. He is expected to leave the White House in mid-July, but it was unclear whether he has accepted a new position. Short, the top White House liaison to Capitol Hill, did not respond to several requests for …

“If you don’t like me working with President Trump to make the world a better place, then I don’t give a shit.” – Sen. Lindsey Graham speaking live on CNN just now after defending the Trump administration’s loathsome policy of ripping migrant children out of the arms of their mothers. Yesterday Graham posted a much-mocked tweet celebrating Glorious Leader’s birthday …

CBS News reports: President Trump declared in a spur-of-the-moment interview with “Fox and Friends” Friday morning that he wants people to sit at attention for him like they do for North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. Kim stands accused of leading a murderous regime that starves its own people. But Mr. Trump has heaped praise on Kim since meeting with …

The New York Post reports: Blame America. Canadians have taken to practicing pocketbook diplomacy in defense of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who is caught in a trade war of words with President Trump, by boycotting American goods and canceling vacations to the United States, according to a report. Shoppers are shunning Kentucky bourbon, California wine and Florida oranges, and avoiding …

Bloomberg reports: President Donald Trump has approved tariffs on Chinese goods worth about $50 billion, said a person familiar with the decision, ratcheting up a confrontation on trade with Beijing and triggering losses in the domestic stock market. The Trump administration is preparing to release a refined list of the first batch of Chinese products to be hit with tariffs …

Glorious Leader is really enjoyed this morning’s “executive time” with his favorite propaganda outlet, which has been wall-to-wall manufactured outrage about yesterday’s release of the inspector general’s report. Reports have suggested that Trump is rarely dressed at this time of day, so it’s not very likely that he’ll stroll down the White House driveway to crash the broadcast. In the …

Fox News reports: Rudy Giuliani, President Trump’s personal lawyer, called Thursday for the suspension of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia in light of the release of a watchdog report that criticized key figures in the Hillary Clinton email probe. Giuliani, who appeared on Fox News’ “Hannity,” said the U.S. Department of …

And again we say “OMG if Obama had done this?” North Korean state media early Tuesday broadcast the first video of President Trump’s historic summit with Kim Jong Un in the country, including footage of Trump saluting a North Korean officer. In parts of the lengthy, 42-minute long video from North Korea’s KCTV news channel, Kim can be seen shaking …

The Washington Examiner reports: Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel issued a stern warning to Republicans Wednesday night: Get on board with President Trump’s agenda or else. As the GOP prepares to face a tough battle to maintain their majority in the upcoming midterm elections, the GOP chairwoman said that anyone who doesn’t support Trump is “making a mistake.” Twitter …

“One of the things that really, I’m happy, is that the soldiers that died in Korea, their remains are gonna be coming back home. And we have thousands of people that have asked for that. Thousands and thousands of people. So many people when I was on the campaign – I’d say, ‘Wait a minute, I don’t have any relationship’ …

CNN reports: Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced an initiative on Wednesday aimed at boosting the Justice Department’s role protecting religious institutions from cumbersome zoning rules. “Under the laws of this country, government cannot discriminate against people based on their religion — not in law enforcement, not in grant-making, not in hiring and not in local zoning laws,” Sessions said in …

Hair Furor is reacting to the far-right Free Beacon: Sen. Claire McCaskill (D., Mo.) said her campaign was “hitting the road” in an RV to tour the state, but public flight information indicates that travel also occurred on her million-dollar private plane. The RV, named BigBlue by the campaign, was unveiled late last month by McCaskill, who said she was …

The Christian Post reports: Vice President Mike Pence’s speech before the Southern Baptist Convention is being criticized by many as being too focused on politics and President Donald Trump. At a speech before the SBC annual meeting at the Kay Bailey Dallas Convention Center in Dallas, Texas on Wednesday, Vice President Pence gave remarks that centered heavily on touting the …

You will NOT question Glorious Leader or his minions: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo blasted a reporter on Wednesday when the journalist asked why the denuclearization of North Korea was not in the agreement signed between President Trump and Kim Jong Un. “The president said it will be verified,” the reporter asked Pompeo in South Korea, to which Pompeo said. …

Foreign Policy reports: A senior advisor to the State Department appointed just two months ago has been quietly vetting career diplomats and American employees of international institutions to determine whether they are loyal to President Donald Trump and his political agenda, according to nearly a dozen current and former U.S. officials. Mari Stull, a former food and beverage lobbyist-turned-wine blogger …

The Hill reports: A conservative activist group is out with a new television commercial calling on President Trump to fire his embattled Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) head Scott Pruitt. “EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is embarrassing President Trump,” the voiceover in the advertisement by the American Future Fund (AFF) says before running through some of Pruitt’s recent high-profile scandals, like spending …

CBS News reports: A proposal to split California has qualified for the ballot in November. CBS Los Angeles reports the California Secretary of State’s office says the straightforwardly named measure “Division Of California Into Three States” has reached enough signatures. When a person or group backing a measure says it has enough signatures to qualify for the ballot, those signatures …

Axios reports: Several months ago, Donald Trump ordered the promotion of Rudy Giuliani’s son. But instead of getting promoted,the junior White House staffer has lost his West Wing pass. We’re told that chief of staff John Kelly did not follow through on the order, and Andrew has not been promoted. Kelly and others, including Office of Public Liaison director Justin …

Glorious Leader is predictably furious about his reviews: President Trump early Wednesday said that the United States’ “biggest enemy is the Fake News.” Trump’s tweet comes as news outlets, including NBC and CNN, report on the implications of his historic summit with Kim Jong Un in Singapore. The meeting was the first-ever between a North Korean leader and a sitting …

The New York Post reports: Rudy Giuliani’s wife told The Post on Tuesday that her estranged husband is lying when he says he hasn’t been having an affair — and insisted that the illicit relationship began before they were separated. As The Post exclusively reported Tuesday, Giuliani has been cheating on wife Judith Nathan with married New Hampshire hospital administrator …