This Week in Trumpland October 28, 2017

THIS WEEK IN TRUMPLAND, a sixty second primer on the path to Armageddon: “disgusting people” edition

Education Secretary Nancy DeVos rescinds 72 policy documents outlining the rights of students with disabilities

Bill O’Reilly claims that disclosure of his $32 million dollar settlement for sexual harassment is a smear campaign perpetrated by his enemies and that “God let him down”

Following the revelations about Harvey Weinstein’s repeated sexual assault and possible rape of numerous women, director James Toback gets accused of the same by more than 200 women

Mark Halperin gets accused of the same by a dozen women and counting

Trump again claims all the women who accused him of sexual harassment were lying

Trump gets in a Twitter war with gold star widow Myeshia Johnson

Two Republican senators, Bob Corker and Jeff Flake, take blistering shots at Trump after announcing they will not run for re-election

Barack Obama and George W. Bush speak out against Trump’s leadership without calling him out by name

NAACP warns African Americans not to fly on American Airlines due to racial bias by the airline

Senate votes to kill rule allowing class action lawsuits to stop harmful practices by banking institutions and credit card companies 

First charges filed under seal in the Robert Mueller investigation

This Week in Trumpland October 21, 2017

THIS WEEK IN TRUMPLAND, a sixty second primer on the path to Armageddon: “he said she said” edition

Trump tells widow of fallen soldier that “your guy knew what he signed up for”

When Congresswoman Frederica Wilson calls Trump out for the insensitive statement, Trump falsely claims he “has proof” he never said those words and then recants

Trying to defend defend Trump’s statement, Chief of staff John Kelly gets caught in a lie of his own

Sarah Huckabee Sanders claims it’s “inappropriate” to call out Kelly as he is a general

Vladimir Putin chastises Americans for criticizing Trump

Trump tweets that ISIS is giving up because he is President

Travel ban ping pong continues as federal judge halts new version of Trump’s new ban

Trump falsely claims that UK crime is up due to Islamic terrorists

Georgia lawmaker suggests people with HIV should be quarantined

Senator John McCain denounces Trump, and Trump immediately promises retribution

Without using his name, former presidents George W Bush and Barack Obama take aim at Trump and the politics of hatred and division

With 80% of Puerto Rico still without electricity and fires ravaging Northern California, Trump takes continued aim at the NFL

This week in Trumpland October 14, 2017

THIS WEEK IN TRUMPLAND, a sixty second primer on the path to Armageddon: “what’s your IQ” edition

VP Mike Pence spends $250,000 of taxpayer money on racist stunt at an NFL game

Trump moves to end federal subsidies to health insurance companies that make insurance affordable for millions of low-income Americans

Though Trump's speeches evidence little knowledge of the Iran nuclear deal and its consequences, he declines to certify it

Trump threatens to pull the United States out of the NAFTA agreement

EPA chief Scott Pruitt rescinds tax credits for wind and solar power and declares that the EPA will repeal Obama era Clean Power Act

Trump threatens to abandon Puerto Rico’s recovery efforts from "crisis of their own making”

After threatening to shut down news media outlets that criticize or disagree with him, Trump claims during a speech in front of a known hate group that anti-gay religious forces will no longer be silenced 

Actress/activist Rose McGowan’s Twitter account is suspended when she speaks out against sexual abuse and sexual abusers

ESPN reporter Jemele Hill is suspended for denouncing a racist threat by Dallas Cowboys owner Jimmy Jones

A school district in Biloxi, Mississippi removes "To Kill a Mockingbird" from its reading list, saying that the 1960 Pulitzer Prize winning novel about racial inequality  "makes people uncomfortable"

Trump suggests he has a higher IQ than Rex Tillerson, then declares he met with the President of the Virgin Islands (himself) and claims “we can finally say Merry Christmas again” 

This Week in Trumpland October 7, 2017

THIS WEEK IN TRUMPLAND, a sixty second primer on the path to Armageddon: “let them eat paper towels” edition

23 guns found in Las Vegas terrorist Stephen Paddock's hotel room, plus more than 50 pounds of explosives and 1,600 rounds of ammunition in his car

GOP and FOX News decry a national conversation about gun control, saying this is no time to “discuss politics”

The DOJ determines that Title VII does not provide civil rights protection in the workplace to transgender people or women who want to control their own bodies

Republican Congressman Tim Murphy, a staunch pro-life advocate, urges his mistress to get an abortion to hide his extra-marital affair

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson calls Trump “a f***king moron”, then pledges his loyalty in a hastily organized press conference but doesn’t deny making the statement

During a self congratulatory trip to Puerto Rico, Trump gives out rolls of paper towels “free throw” style during a photo-op, but doesn’t visit any ravaged areas of the island

FBI investigating a third personal email account used by Jared Kushner and Ivanka that co-mingled White House business with Trump Organization business

Continuing his assault on Obama initiatives, Trump expels 15 Cuban diplomats 

Trump declares that the media should be investigated by Congress and censored

Southwest airlines claims they dragged a Muslim woman off a flight against her will because she had a dog allergy

Ivana Trump, who recently turned down an ambassadorship from Trump, says she encourages her ex-husband to keep tweeting