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January 31, 2018

Train wreck, sadly not just a metaphor...

JUST IN: Congressional Budget Office has issued a report advising Congress to consider raising the debt ceiling earlier than anticipated to account for the revenue loss brought upon by the GOP tax legislation.


https://twitter.com/NBCPolitics/status/958801634850754560

January 31, 2018

Trump Collapses From Exhaustion After Ninety Minutes of Faking Empathy (The Borowitz Report)

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Donald J. Trump collapsed from exhaustion after approximately ninety minutes of pretending to be a human being with empathy, the White House doctor has confirmed.

“In all my years of practicing medicine, I have never met a patient as healthy and vigorous as President Trump,” Dr. Ronny Jackson said. “But the sustained effort of simulating compassion proved too much for someone who has never exercised that part of his brain before.”

Shortly after Trump spent a gruelling ninety minutes pretending to care about immigrants, the unemployed, and other people whom he normally dismisses as losers, aides noticed that he was turning from a bright orange to a slightly paler orange before crumpling to the ground in a giant heap.




MORE:
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report

January 31, 2018

'Trump is ours again!' Russian TV host celebrates after White House refuses to enforce new sanctions

#Russia's state TV:
Female host: "Seemingly, Trump is ours again. So far, he's being quiet and not supporting the sanctions."
Male host: "Well, it seems that way."




Russia’s state television channel seems to be happy with President Donald Trump’s decision to not enforce sanctions against Russia that were overwhelmingly approved by both houses of Congress.

Julia Davis, who runs the Russian Media Monitor website, reports via Twitter that Russian TV show host Olga Skabeeva on Tuesday was positively gushing about the White House’s decision to not enforce new sanctions against her country.

“Seemingly, Trump is ours again,” said Skabeeva, according to Davis’ translation. “So far, he’s being quiet and not supporting the sanctions.”

Co-host Evgeny Popov seemingly agreed and told her, “Well, it seems that way.”





https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/958376695324729344
https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/958455309932089345
January 31, 2018

Stormy - Not My Signature On Denial Letter

Stormy Daniels basically confirms on Kimmel’s show that this statement denying her Trump affair is fake — she says the signature isn’t hers.
“I do not know where it came from.”

Stormy Daniels agreed with Jimmy Kimmel that the signature on Tuesday's denial letter didn't look the same as her others—Kimmel asked Daniels whether she knew where the statement came from. She hesitated and then said, "I do not know where it came from."


VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/958686407064784896
January 31, 2018

Wow, look what I found:

@realDonaldTrump
The State Of The Union speech was one of the most boring, rambling and non-substantive I have heard in a long time. New leadership fast! 8:32 PM - Jan 12, 2016



https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/687130047422042112
January 31, 2018

"Whoever translated it for him from Russian did a good job."

This Luis Gutierrez statement on Trump's speech is something






https://twitter.com/Bencjacobs/status/958549784318660608

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