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Josh Marshall on Twitter was like “Anthony Hopkins played this scene better in Nixon.”

“Pray with me Henry.”

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C’mon guys…it couldn’t be THAT bad…

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That’s one of his answers today.

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…what?

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Then right after that he said “nuclear holocaust would be like none other”

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That’s pure craziness. Like, guy-on-the-street-yelling-at-a-shopping-cart-while-wearing-a-coat-made-out-of-newspapers crazy.

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This is paraphrased, but I literally just heard him say in the press conference. That in our inner cities, people are cowering behind locked doors, too scared to even go out during the middle of the day, and “it’s worse than any place in the Middle East”.

Wow.

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So, in court, you bring in a Doctor who testifies that in his professional opinion, based on the behaviors he has observed, yadda yadda, the defendant is clinically insane.

Can like, Pence find a Doctor to do that and invoke the 25th? This is beyond horrifying. He just threatened to blow up a Russian naval ship during one of his manic, ad-libbed, stream of consciousness responses. Threatened to start a war with a nuclear power.

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(April Ryan is an African American White House reporter for the Urban Radio Networks)

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The most shocking thing about the press conference is that he reportedly said something that’s true: that the market has hit record highs since he took office.

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Well, to put the best possible construction on it, buried somewhere in that word salad is the sentiment that better relations with Russia is a good thing, and that it would be bad to start World War III for political gain.

If it weren’t for the context of the Russia questions, and Trump’s generally being bonkers, and “improved Russians relations” needing to be set in the context of it being Putin, not Yeltsin or even Gorbachev, in the Kremlin, I would find something in there to agree with/approve of. But then, I spent my youth in “the Russians love their children too” mode.

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Always Sunny fans will appreciate this.

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Fun fact: they don’t need a doctor. Just need Pence and half the Cabinet to sign a note confirming that they think the President is “unable to discharge the duties of his office” and send it to the leaders of the House and Senate. It could all happen in an afternoon.

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You’re doing the Lord’s work, Gordon.

I’d like to add: Nice work, America.

Our countrymen are idiots. Jesus Christ.

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Trump had claimed in his opening remarks that he had won the biggest Electoral College victory since Ronald Reagan, which is demonstrably false.

“You said today that you had the biggest electoral margin since Ronald Reagan,” Alexander said, sitting feet from the president. He then began to list recent electoral victories bigger than Trump’s, which include both of Barack Obama’s victories, both of Bill Clinton’s victories and George H.W. Bush’s 1988 victory, all since Reagan.

“Well, I was talking about Republicans,” Trump said. George H.W. Bush, who was also a Republican, received 426 electoral votes, well above Trump’s 304.

endless screaming

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That press conference was… something.

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