This Week in Trumpland November 25, 2017

THIS WEEK IN TRUMPLAND, a sixty second primer on the path to Armageddon: “Person of the year” edition

Justice department threatens to sue Harvard University for discriminating against white applicants

FCC plans repeal of Obama era net neutrality regulations designed to provide equal access to the internet

Stating that “we don’t need a liberal person in there” Trump endorses accused pedophile Roy Moore in Alabama Senate race

Trump administration ends protected status for 60,000 Haitians, saying that the “extraordinary conditions” justifying their staying in the U.S. no longer exist

Democratic Senator Tom Carper claims that chief Trump economic adviser Gary Cohn faked bad cell phone reception to get Trump off a phone call

Federal judge strikes down a Texas ban on abortion

As the Mueller investigation continues to heat up, Mike Flynn’s attorneys stop communicating with Trump’s attorneys

The media goes crazy when a video surfaces of Malia Obama blowing smoke rings and kissing her boyfriend

In a Thanksgiving address to the nation, Trump’s primary message is that Americans should be thankful for….Donald Trump

Trump claims he turned down being the Time Magazine person of the year and Time says that is a fabrication

After a homeless veteran gives a young woman his last $20 when she runs out of gas late one night, she starts a GoFundMe campaign to help him and raises over $300,000

This Week in Trumpland November 18, 2017

THIS WEEK IN TRUMPLAND, a sixty second primer on the path to Armageddon: “up is down and down is up” edition

After another mass shooting in California, Trump tweets his condolences "to the people of Texas"

Even as registration for the Affordable Care Act  AKA ObamaCare continues to swell, GOP buries a provision killing the law’s individual mandate in a tax bill

Trump’s Asia trip brings good tidings from Trump to fellow despots Putin and Duterte

After it’s exposed that Jeff Sessions was in fact involved with Russian ties, he denies lying to Congress and states he had simply forgotten

Jeff Sessions explores appointing a special counsel to investigate Hillary Clinton

Donald Trump, Jr exposed for having given WikiLeaks information designed to damage Hillary Clinton during the 2016 campaign

Jared Kushner revealed to have lied about whether he had knowledge of Trump Jr's WikiLeaks actions

Three UCLA athletes who were caught stealing sunglasses in China are scolded by Trump on Twitter, not for stealing but for not thanking him for their release

A study shows Trump is nominating white men to America’s federal courts at a rate not seen in more than thirty years

The Twitter mob raises up their torches against Lena Dunham when she comes to the defense of a writer accused of sexual assault on the set of “Girls”

After announcing the legalizing of importing elephant hunting trophies (read: elephant remains) Trump reverses course, setting the table for a tense Thanksgiving at the Trump household and fewer selfies for Eric and Donald, Jr.

This Week in Trumpland November 11, 2017

THIS WEEK IN TRUMPLAND, a sixty second primer on the path to Armageddon: “forward and backward” edition

EPA head Scott Pruitt replaces scientists on the EPA advisory board with oil and chemical lobbyists including one who says air quality in the U.S. is “too” clean

Wisconsin state representative Scott Allen suggests women should not be allowed to have abortions for the sake of the labor force

Trump attacks the presidential legacies of George Bush, Sr. and George Bush, Jr. upon learning they did not vote for him

Trump claims Virginia gubernatorial candidate Ed Gillespie lost because he didn’t embrace Trump

Affordable Care Act enrollment surges in first week

Andrea Jenkins becomes the first out Trans woman of color to be elected to public office in the United States

Vi Lyles becomes the first African American woman elected mayor in Charlotte, N.C.

Ravi Bhalla becomes the first Sikh mayor in New Jersey history

Virginian Danica Roem becomes first transgender person elected in a U.S. Statehouse, beating the incumbent who proudly touted himself as the state’s “chief homophobe”

Melvin Carter becomes first African American mayor of St. Paul

Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore is accused of multiple sexual encounters with teenage girls, and proudly uses the accusation as a fundraising tool

The list of men accused of using their positions of power to sexually harass or molest others in the work place continues to grow at a dizzying pace

This Week in Trumpland November 4, 2017

THIS WEEK IN TRUMPLAND, a sixty second primer on the path to Armageddon: “give me a lawyer dog” edition

Puerto Rico Governor seeks to cancel $300 million contract awarded by Trump administration to a power company consisting of only two employees that is backed by a large Trump donor

A Federal Court blocks Trump’s transgender military ban

Louisiana’s Supreme Court holds that a detained suspect who said “just give me a lawyer dog” when police questioned him was asking for an actual canine attorney and not invoking his constitutional right to counsel

Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his partner Jim Gates are indicted

Secretary of State John Kelly suggests the civil war could have been avoided if people had been willing to compromise on keeping slavery

In response to a Russian terrorist who killed 8 people in NYC, Trump claims terrorism trial system “is a joke” and threatens to send suspect to Guantanamo Bay

Trump claims in a press conference that if the GOP tax plan doesn’t pass he will blame economic adviser Gary Cohn and treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin

New proposed GOP tax plan has language that repeals part of ObamaCare

Trump and Jeff Sessions continue to deny knowledge of campaign contact with the Russians even as evidence mounts that they did have knowledge of those contacts

The NYPD moves closer to arresting Harvey Weinstein on rape and lewd conduct charges as more people accuse him and others in the entertainment industry of sexual harassment and assault

Democratic leaders start mandatory internal finger pointing, forsaking party for bigger book sales and personal aggrandizement

Energy Secretary Rick Perry claims fossil fuels can be used to limit sexual assault

A Twitter employee briefly deletes Trump’s account

Collins Dictionary declares the term “fake news” the word(s) of the year