President Trump, Week 43

Here's this week's list of unsurpassed buffoonery coming from President Trump and his White House for the week beginning Monday, November 6th, to Sunday, November 12th.  This is likely not all of the Trump team's transgressions, but it's most of them.

A reminder:  If the letter next to the President's name was a 'D' instead of an 'R,' everything on this list would've at least warranted a mocking press conference from the Republicans.  Many of these issues would've lead to immediate Congressional investigations.  Some would've started impeachment proceedings, and some of the things on this list would've been the catalyst for Republicans to remove a Democratic President from office, probably with most Democrats agreeing.

Instead, they're turning an insane blind eye to Trump's behavior while the rest of us (stealing a line from John Oliver) are getting stabbed by a sloth.  We see it coming, slowly, and are feeling the pain, but due to Republican endorsement of this insane amount of unacceptable behavior, we're incapable of stopping it.

Without further ado...

• Puerto Ricans have had no power for over six weeks, making this the longest large scale blackout in American history
  
• It's pointed out as the gun slaughter is happening at an alarming rate in America, BY FAR the biggest social problem we have in the United States, Trump is far more vocal about football players protesting racial injustice by kneeling during the National Anthem
• Trump confidant, and indicted guy, Rick Gates failed to disclose to the judge he had a second passport.  He waited three days after he surrendered to face charges before informing people of the 2nd passport
• Trump apparently asked Japanese auto makers to avoid shipping their product to the USA, and just move all their manufacturing and headquarters to the US, having them build their Japanese cars there
  
• Senator Angus King points out that even though Trump is insisting he's not guilty of collusion, he's obviously hiding something
  
• Observation:  when a non-caucasian person commits a violent act in America, Trump's first comments are usually in regards to getting tough on the specific minority group, long jail sentences and massive crackdowns.  When it's a white guy committing similar or worse acts, it's 'don't rush to judgement,' 'focus on a [satellite issue],' and 'thoughts and prayers'
  
• Lara Trump, the daughter in law and senior campaign advisor for Trump 2020 (HA!) put out a message to the Trump folks.  She linked Hillary Clinton to former President Obama (gasp), and then to Chicago based community organizer Saul Alinsky (double gasp), with a litany of fake quotes Alinsky did not say.  The quotes are easily disproven
• The Saudi's brown nosing of Trump has paid off; Trump has said nothing about the ongoing ruling family purge in Saudi Arabia
• Trump has told the Japanese they can just shoot down North Korea's missiles, making a insanely complicated foreign policy situation seem like it's 'take a penny, leave a penny' change holder
  
• The Paradise Papers, the ones which exposed Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross' connection to Putin's son in law, exposed 13 (including Ross) Trump associates who have been stashing money overseas, funneling money through various dark channels, and/or have gotten into dubious international business relationships which run from illegal to extremely unethical
• Due to an inevitable Republican rejection of the current Trump tax bill, the House has started revising the deal to try to get as many Republican votes as they can
• Trump, in Japan, a country with virtually zero gun violence because of harsh regulations on guns, insisted the latest massacre of innocent civilians in Texas at the hands of a psychopath who legally purchased automatic weapons has nothing to do with the guns at all
  
• Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross says there is nothing improper about his using shadow companies and overseas discrete money transfers to get into business with Vladamir Putin's son in law
• UH OH! Donald Trump Jr. (Teeedle Dee) is in big trouble.  The Russian lawyer who met with him at the now infamous Trump Tower meeting, Natalia Veselnitskaya, now says Jr. stated Trump would consider overturning the anticorruption laws which were hurting Russia, "if we come to power." He also asker her to divulge damaging information on Hillary Clinton
• Analysts of social media trends show Russian launched pro-Trump social media almost immediately after Trump announced his candidacy
  
• White House Spokeswoman Kellyanne Conway started politicizing the mass shooting in Texas almost immediately, using it to bash on anti-Trump people, and actually saying "I'm really happy at times like this"
  
• Paul Manafort tried to offer up his Trump Tower condo as collateral for his release from home detention in the wake of his indictment.  A review of the cost of the condo by Robert Mueller's special counsel team shows the condo is not worth nearly as much as he claims it's worth
• Talking to Japanese dignitaries, Trump states, after he was elected, he "...never knew we had so many countries."
  
• Some Republicans are actually calling out Trump for threatening to sic the FBI and DOJ on Hillary Clinton.  Threatening to do so is something Nixon did, and Nixon was going to be removed from office for doing so
• Juli Briskman is the Virginia bicyclist who flipped off Trump's motorcade.  The company she worked for, Akima LLC, fired her for doing so, even though they didn't fire a different employee for attacking Democrats in a far more vicious social media post.  I'm adding this because I GUARANTEE the Republicans would be holding hearings on why the employee was fired if the employee's gesture was geared towards a Democratic President
  
• Secretary of Energy Rick Perry's new plan to dramatically change the electricity markets is being ridiculed by such liberal organizations as the American Petroleum Institute and the Natural Gas Industry.  It's being described as is a massive tax payer handout to the CEO's of coal companies, with no benefit to the consumer
• Donald Trump Jr. (Tweedle Dee) is criticizing anyone calling for gun control in the wake of the latest mass shooting in Texas.  He's grossly misrepresenting the facts, implying the gunman was stopped before he killed 26 people.  Even then, the person who shot him didn't kill him.  The shooter took his own life.  Jr. politicized the shooting almost immediately
• Trump's FEMA is now publicly fighting with chef Jose Andrés, a man who has been critical of the organizations handling of Puerto Rico relief, and man who has helped feed 2 million meals since the hurricane
  
• The plot thickens! The links between Paul Manafort and Trump BFF, billionaire Tom Barrack are getting cozier.  Multiple loans, which certainly have the look of money laundering, have been made by Barrack, including one in mid-October, right before Trump's former Campaign Chairman was indicted
• Trump reportedly told Native American leaders to drill on their own land, regardless of whether they wanted to preserve it or not
• First Daughter and White House staffer doing...something(?) Ivanka Trump is now touting Trump's tax plan.  She's lying, saying it offers relief to working families.  She also failed to mention she and her brothers would inherit a substantial amount more of daddy's money if it gets passed
  
• The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center did it's analysis of the Trump tax bill and at least a quarter of the people, almost all in the middle, working and lower class, will see an increase in their taxes.  The wealthy get a great deal
• The Russian lawyer who met with Trump Jr. (TD) at Trump Tower, Natalia Veselnitskaya, is offering to testify to the Senate Intelligence Committee
• First Lady Melania Trump, according to a White House official, absolutely loves watching Alec Baldwin's impersonation of her husband on Saturday Night Live.  Trump himself despises the show for the spot on impersonation
  
• Two children are suing Trump, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, and EPA Director Scott Pruitt for  scrapping the pollution-reduction rules known as the Clean Power Plan, saying the three are relying on junk science, and in turn are hurting themselves, and all Americans
• Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross says it's likely he'll sell off his share of the Russian shipping company doing business with Putin's son-in-law
  
• Attorney General Jeff Sessions, next week, will have to face Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee about his repeated lies about meetings Trump's campaign had with the Russians.  Note, he is not going back to the Senate, where they are prepared to eat him alive
• After earlier insisting South Korea needed to repay the United States of our missile defense system, Trump is now calling for a massive expansion of the program, asking for an additional 4 billion dollars in US tax payer money
• White House Spokeswoman Kellyanne Conway says talking about gun control after gun violence occurs "disrespects the dead."  You know what else is disrespectful?  Them being shot in the first place
  
• Trump in Japan stated he didn't understand why a country of samurai warriors did not shoot down North Koreas missile tests...umm...okay?!?...
• UN Climate talks are going on this week in Bonn, Germany.  Trump is not going.  Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is not going.  UN Ambassador Nikki Haley is not going.  EPA Director Pruitt is strapping on the kneepads for the American Chemistry Council annual retreat, so he's not going.  This means our most recognizable name will be career diplomat Thomas Shannon, who will maintain a low profile
  
• The GOP says it's very unlikely they will have an ObamaCare repeal in the tax bill, even though Trump has called for it
• Campaign Advisor Carter Page's testimony to the House was released, and in it he insists he informed his superiors and Trump himself of his trip to Russia in July of 2016.  He also suggested Trump go to Russia, telling current White House Communications Director Hope Hicks, former Campaign Chair Corey Lewandowski and Trump Campaign Adivsor JD Gordon
• Carter Page's testimony points to a man who seems to be having problems with reality.  His opening statement and biography took up 45 pages of the transcript, he plead the 5th while insisting he was innocent, talked about a media conspiracy against him (for which he offered no proof), and tried to play off his Russia trip like he was just a spontaneous frat boy
  
• Carter Page, on a trip the Trump Campaign was aware of, met with Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich on two trips to Moscow in 2016, and then reported back to the Trump campaign about both meetings.  Jeff Session, Hope Hicks, Corey Lewandowski were all aware of the meeting
• When Carter Page was asked about meeting Russian officials, he first lied, saying he didn't meet with any, before correcting himself and stating he did indeed happen to run into Dvorkovich over dinner
  
• It should be noted Page's story the entire time was he was on this trip as a private citizen.  Now we know that was a lie
• Page also seems to have confirmed some elements of the Steele Dossier in his testimony
• Trump finally endorsed the Republican candidate in Virginia's governor race, Ed Gillespie, just hours before the polls opened
  
• A Trump Campaign staffer, Sean Dwyer, has been banned permanently from Wikipedia after he tried to scrub his ties to Russia from his bio
• First Daughter and White House staffer doing...something(?) Ivanka Trump defends her father's tax plan by making the weird analogy for the middle, working and lower class, referring to food as an investment...(???)...
• Forbes reports Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross has been lying about his net worth for over a decade, pretending he's a billionaire.  Forbes was tipped off when the two billion dollar trust fund he stated he had was left off his disclosure forms.  After searching, they've determined the trust fund never existed
  
• Asked by a South Korean journalist if Trump would consider "extreme vetting' of people who are trying to buy guns in the US.  Trump stated he was offended by the question and told the reporter we "shouldn't be" discussing it
• Trump in South Korea defended the NRA and gun kooks by insisting gun control laws would have not stopped the latest Texas massacre, and actually would've made it far worse.  "If you did what you are suggesting, there would have been no difference there days ago."  
• Same question, Trump referring to the man who shot the shooter twice AFTER he massacred 26, "I can say this, if he didn't have a gun, instead of having 26 dead, you would have had hundreds (HUNDREDS???) more dead...so that's the way I feel about it."
  
• Trump, a man who has threatened North Korea with nuclear annihilation multiple times, is now trying to take the high road insisting the compassionate thing to do for North Korea would be to come to talks
• Major Trump backer, and bankroller for former Presidential Advisor Steve Bannon's "news" outfit Breitbart, Robert Mercer, has been revealed in the Paradise Papers of stashing money offshore to avoid paying tens of millions of dollars in taxes, illegally
• Reports are the sign up for ObamaCare is surging, even after threats from Trump, and his Administrations lackluster marketing campaign
  
• Trump ordered CIA Director Mike Pompeo to meet with a Fox News Conspiracy theorist William Binney who says the emails from Hillary Clinton and the DNC which were hacked by the Russians, were actually hacked from the DNC and sold to Wikileaks by the Democrats.  Mind you, the CIA has already confirmed the Russians were the hackers, but Pompeo had to meet with this clown
• Trump apparently orders the White House kitchen to try to mimic fast food menu items.  When they couldn't do it right, he sent his bodyguard out to get drive through.  These world class chefs could make him anything to eat, and he has a Big Mac. Wow!
  
• Syrian officially joined the Paris Climate Agreement, meaning the only country in the entire world who is not on board with it is the USA, thanks to Trump
• Proving he might just be the dumbest Trump, Donald Trump Jr. (Tweddle Dee) tweeted out that everyone should vote for the GOP ticket on election day.  He told them to all vote on Wednesday the 8th.  Election Day was Tuesday the 7th
  
• Longtime Trump bodyguard Keith Schiller will be interviewed by the House Intelligence Committee about the trip to Russia in 2013 which supposedly led to the urine tape allegations in the Steele Dossier 
• Since he took office, Trump's support from non-college educated white voters has dropped 13%, and is now below 50%
• White House Office of the Public Liaison Director of Communications Omarosa Manigault, in April, apparently showed up, uninvited and unscheduled, with 39 wedding guests, to the White House, with NO prior approval, so they could take pictures in the West Wing and in the Rose Garden.  Senior Administration Staffers and Security Officials were stunned by this, and she was ordered to not post any of the photos out of national security concerns
  
• EPA Director Scott Pruitt is under investigation again, this time by the GAO for possibly violating the anti-propaganda rules when he used agency funds to lobby against former President Obama's clean water rules
  
• Trump keeps insisting he has no idea who Russian-linked business man Felix Sater is.  Sater is linked to both Russian organized crime and to Putin himself.  Sater showed up at Trump's invite only election party and was photographed with Trump
  
• Trump's nominee to ne the Pentagon's Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, Dr. Dean Wilson, thought it was insane civilians can purchase semiautomatic and military grade weapons
• Insiders are concerned about Trump's health.  They comment he hates all forms of exercise, does not eat fruit, and sleeps only 4 hours a night.  That's harsh for a 30 year old.  I have no idea how a 70+ year old can do that
  
• JD Gordon, who was the Director of Trump's Campaign National Security Advisory Committee, tells of how when Trump Advisor Carter Page came to him, Page's direct supervisor, and suggested a trip to Russia, Gordon turned down Page's request.  Page then went around Gordon to Hope Hicks and Corey Lewandowski directly for approval.  Lewandowski apparently approved Page's trip in an email Page states he still has
• Trump is dumber than I thought.  After initially stating he was going to avoid a trip to the Korean DMZ, a good idea because of the fact he has been threatening to nuke North Korea out of existence, and all you need is one North Korean soldier with a twitch, Trump tried to do a surprise trip to the DMZ.  Weather ended up cancelling the insanely stupid idea, thank God!
  
• A massive climate report released by the Trump Administration makes it clear Trump's climate policies will destroy every last bit of the US coastal property. Cost is estimated to be a trillion dollars.  Why they released it, I have no idea...
• Democrats, in an undeniable anti-Trump wave, pretty much swept all 2017 elections Tuesday night, getting bigger wins than they've had in decades.  The only major victory for the GOP was they won Jason Chaffetz Utah House seat in a special election
• Less than 24 hours after Trump first weighed in on the Virginia Governors race, Trump, after Republican Ed Gillespie got beat, unloaded on him for not embracing him
  
• Trump, addressing the South Korean National Assembly, promoted his Trump golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey
• The Russians activated social media 'sleeper cell' accounts on Election Day to spread fraudulent stories of Democratic voter fraud, in an effort to stir up outrage from Trump supporters
  
• Department of Justice finally came to their senses and has dropped the charges against the peace activist who laughed at then Senator Jeff Sessions during his Attorney General confirmation hearing
• Trump called 12 Democratic Senators and outright lied to their faces when he insisted if the Trump tax plan currently in the House passes, his personal finances are "going to killed in this bill."  1) Trump has not released his tax returns so no one can say for sure, and 2) Analysis of the tax bill and what we do know of Trump's finances, shows MASSIVE gains for Trump
  
• Trump has reversed course again with North Korea, abandoning his conciliatory tone when he was in Japan, and calling North Korea "hell" in a speech to the South Korean Parliament
• China has learned from Saudi Arabia and is greeting Trump unnecessarily lavishly to try to impress the small minded, ego driven baboon
  
• The Mayor of Brook Park, Ohio, Tom Coyne, who left the Democratic Party to endorse Trump in 2016, was soundly beaten in his re-election bid
• It's pointed out there was a terrorist strike in the US which no one is talking about.  A religious extremists went into a Walmart and started randomly shooting people, killing three. The suspect is a white male Christian extremist, Scott Ostrem.  The likely reason no one is talking about it, including Trump, is because he was white and Christian
  
• Ambassador Barbara Stephenson, President of the Foreign Service Officers Union, criticized Trump for his incredible mishandling of the diplomatic corp.  The ranks have been drastically thinned over the last few months, with numerous resignations, leading to Stephenson to comment "were the military to face such decapitation of its leadership ranks, I would expect a public outcry"
• Former GOP Chairman Michael Steele trolled Trump, after Trump insisted the results are great for Republicans.  "Did YOU win Virginia?" 
  
• Pew Research poll of international sentiment of Trump shows a dramatic shift.  Confidence in the President Worldwide had dropped from 64% under former President Obama to 22% under Trump, while the no confidence numbers have gone from 23% to 74%, nearly 3/4 of the world. The view of the US in the same timeline have fallen, internationally, from 64% favorable, to only 49%
  
   
• Even though he's in China, a country which limits access to social media sites, Trump insist he won't stop using Twitter.  How secure is the internet connection he is using?
• Former Republican Senator and Trump supporter Rick Santorum is blaming Trump for the losses in Virginia on Tuesday, pointing out people are upset because he's not delivering
• It is confirmed that Trump and Putin will meet in Vietnam for a private meeting 
  
• Apparently First Daughter and White House staffer doing...something(?) Ivanka Trump and Presidential Advisor and Trump son in law Jared Kushner are using a helicopter owned by Trump's business for personal vacations, blurring the lines between Trump's business and the White House
• Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte says he'll tell Trump to "lay off" if Trump mentions the veil despots atrocious human rights record when the two leaders meet
• It a dictionary definition of the term nepotism, Eric Trump (Tweedle Dum)'s brother in law has gotten himself a government promotion.  Kyle Yunaska, Dum's wife's brother, is now the Chief of Staff for the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Policy and Systems Analysis, the Energy Departments climate change headquarters.  No word if he's qualified
  
• Carl Icahn, a former member of a Trump Advisory Committee, has been subpoenaed to testify about his attempted changes to US Biofuel Policy while being a Trump Advisor, changes which many believe would've benefited Icahn personally 
• Kirstjen Neilsen, Trump's nominee to head uptake Department of Homeland Security, told her Senate Confirmation Committee there is no need to build a wall completely across the Mexican border, a first sign Trump's policy of "build that wall" might be getting dramatically revised "Build occasional partitions!"
  
• Brad Parscale, the man who ran Trump's Digital Operation for his campaign, admits he promoted Russian propaganda during the campaign, but he says he did it unwillingly, and that he's not sorry he did it
• A gag order has been issued for Paul Manafort's case
  
• Trump's former Campaign Chair Corey Lewandowski is now claiming Carter Page, the Campaign's Foreign Policy Advisor, was nothing more than a low level employee, adding he has no idea who Carter Page is
• Lewandowski went on to explain why he had no recollection of Page's Russian email; because it was Father's Day
  
• Senator John McCain has vowed to block any Trump nominee who either has a past record of supporting torture/enhanced interrogation, or has plans to reinstall the abhorrent practice
• The North Koreans are calling Trump a mad dog, saying there is nothing else they need to hear from him
• The CBO report on Trump's repeal of ObamaCare (Trumpcare) states that at least 13 million people will become uninsured under the new plan
  
• Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, in response to the letter from the union head representing the US Diplomats, agrees the diplomatic ranks are rather thin at this moment
• After Tuesday's election results, Republicans are fretting Trump's limited appeal in the general election race when it comes to 2018
  
• A report out says Former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn is very concerned over the legal exposure his son, jackass Michael Flynn Jr., is under with the Mueller investigation, meaning he might be willing to deal to keep his son safe
• Senator Bob Corker has set up a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to determine the extent of Trump's authority to use nuclear weapons
• Trump's brown shirts, ICE, has rounded up 95 Vietnamese-Americans, threatening to deport them, even though a majority of them are refugees, and hence are not supposed to be subject to deportation
• The Justice Department is telling AT&T it needs to sell Turner Broadcasting, the overseer of CNN, before it will approve the company's pending deal with Time Warner.  AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson never had put the sale of CNN on the table as part of any offer, meaning this demand is coming from the Justice Department, and likely Trump
  
• Senior White House Economic Official Gary Cohn was "distressed" at Trump's failure to immediately condemn the Nazis, KKK and white supremacists marching in Virginia
• Trump's nominee for Deputy Administrator at the EPA, Andrew Wheeler, admitted he had seen the plan put together by Murray Energy to dismantle the EPA while lobbying for Murray Energy, the job he had before being nominated.  As a lobbyist, he also attended meetings of Energy Secretary Rick Perry to subsidize coal and nuclear power plants
  
• Trump's pick to head the White House Council on Environmental Quality, Kathleen Hartnett White is an absolute kook.  She testified on Capitol Hill that she absolutely does not believe carbon dioxide is dangerous in anyway, and doesn't believe science should dictate policy
  
• Protesters across the country, and across the globe, scream into the sky at the top of their lungs to commemorate the one year anniversary of Trump's Russian gift
  
• Republican National Committee Chair Ronna Romney McDaniel pushed back on Trump's claim that Republican candidate for Virginia Governor Ed Gillespie didn't embrace Trump, stating "Ed did work with [Trump]"
• Ex CIA Director Michael Hayden rips Trump for insisting current CIA Director Pompeo waste his time having to listen to conspiracy theories
• Another report after Tuesday points to Republicans terrified of going into 2018's election cycle after the Trump effect on their party has been exposed
  
• Former President Bill Clinton warned of a 'Dictator's Club,' which wants to convince people "democracy's no longer possible."  When asked if he was referring to other countries or to Trump, he remained silent
• Winged Foot Country Club in New York is under fire from it's members who are insisting the club needs to hang of portrait of Trump in the club.  The Club points out it doesn't want to be political, with a major tournament coming in 2020, and it also points to the amount of cancelled events at Mar-A-Lago as a concern if they appear to embrace Trump
  
• Trumps former Senior Advisor Steve Bannon is furious at the lack of embracing of Trump's agenda and policies, and is demanding Mitch McConnell resign from his leadership position in the Senate
• GOP'ers in Virginia:  "Trumpism is poison"
  
• Trump's mocking from Asia gives up the ghost.  It points to the demand AT&T sell CNN before the government will okay their merger with Time Warner is just an attempt by Trump to shut down a major news outlet
• Trump praises China for its role in creating a massive trade deficit for the US.  "I don't blame China for taking advantage," adding he gives China "great credit"
• FEMA, in an admission things are going horribly in Puerto Rico, are now offering to airlift Puerto Ricans off the island to the US mainland
  
• Reminder:  Remember when all the Trump fans talked about how Trump saved all those jobs at Carrier.  He actually didn't.  What he actually did was give them a bunch of taxpayer dollars to hold off on the layoffs.  Earlier this year they laid off 300.  They just announced they are laying off 125 more and moving those jobs to Mexico.  They still get to keep our money...
• Senior White House Economic Advisor Gary Cohn is promising trickle down economics will finally, after 35 years, begin under Trump's tax plan.  He's acknowledging the insane amount of tax breaks for wealthy people in the bill, but says it will be great for everyone in the long run 
  
• Sarah Huckabee Sanders stated the reason Trump did not take any questions from media in China was because the Chinese demanded were were no questions to be asked, which drew immediate criticism from previous President's Press Secretaries, who all stated their Presidents demanded press conferences, and didn't hide
• A psychological study showed that people who displayed homophobic, sexist and Islamophobic tendencies supported Trump
  
• Country music stars, not exactly the most liberal group of people, took swipes at Trump during the Annual CMA Awards
• A commissioner from Trump's Commission on Election Integrity, the one run by anti-Voting Czar Kris Kobach, is suing the commission in Federal Court, alleging the leadership has intentionally excluded him, a commissioner on the commission, from deliberations.  He's suing saying the commission has violated Federal transparency laws.  The allegation is the Republican members of the commission are meeting in secret
  
• The acting Secretary of Homeland Security, Elaine Duke, is resigning in protest, as Chief of Staff John Kelly is ordering her to deport tens of thousands of Hondurans who are in the US under protected refugee status
• Another Republican, Rep. Bob Goodlatte, has announced his retirement after this current term, another victim afraid of running as a Republican in the age of the Trump Doctrine
• Former NSA Analyst John Schindler states at least a dozen intelligence services worldwide have various tapes of Trump's sexual dalliances, adding Trumps notorious sexual habits have left him wide open to blackmail.  He did warn there are some clear fakes out there too, ones which have likely been floated onto the world markets to discredit the real tapes if they ever were to be...leaked
  
• Keith Schiller, the longtime bodyguard for Trump, while being interviewed by Congress stated in 2013, a Russian "associate" offered to send "five women" to Trump's hotel room, but Schiller turned down the offer.  He was testifying to this as he insisted the more salacious elements of the Steele Dossier, about Trump's sexual preferences, were not true
  
• Thousands of activists occupied a Senate office building to protest Trump's potential ending of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Act, DACA, The Dreamers Act
• Paul Manafort, Trump's former Campaign Chair, is apparently lying to a judge as a way to be able to spend his winter months in Florida.  He says he needs to be down in Florida to work with a company who make cell phones, but the company Hoyos Integrity, state Manafort hasn't been associated with the business for months
• Top White House Aide and Slytherin House boy, Stephen Miller, has been officially interviewed as part of Robert Mueller's investigation
  
• William Werhum, an industry layer and lobbyist with an "astounding" level of conflicts of interest, has been confirmed as the head of the EPA's Office of Air and Radiation
  
• The Paradise Papers list an extensive amount of Trump donors who are stashing their money overseas, illegally, to avoid paying their rightful taxes
• Part of the Former Trump Campaign Adviser George Papadopoulos' guilty plea revolved around a supposed nice of Putin's.  The Mueller probe has identified this woman as Olga Vinogradova, a Russian model who likely was someone the Kremlin used to infiltrate the Trump Campaign
• Michigan State Representative Tim Kelly is no longer up for leading the Office of Career, Technical and Adult Education at the Department of Education as blog posts he wrote reveal his desire that ALL Muslims be put on a no-fly list, and that the Federal Government should not spend money to fund women in the sciences
  
• Mexico's former Ambassador to China, Jorge Guajardo, states the Chinese President Xi Jinping  is playing Trump like a fiddle with the extravagant state visit
  
• The company behind the research Russian Lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya took to Donald Trump Jr (Tweedle Dee) at the now infamous Trump Tower meeting was the same one which put together the Steele Dossier, Fusion GPS.  This means, as Trump is saying the Steele Dossier was a fraud, they themselves were looking to acquire information they deemed credible from he same company
• Former Rep. Gabby Giffords gun control group is suing the Trump Administration to get them to reveal the communications the Trump White House has had with the NRA
• Another report of the sheer chaos inside the Republican Party as the Tuesday results sink in.  Trump is a liability in 2018
  
• Mueller's investigation, in regards to Michael Flynn is seeming to be focused on Flynn and his son, Michael Flynn Jr.'s, plot to kidnap a Muslim cleric in the US, and ship him to Turkey for millions of dollars
• The Warrior Canine Connection, a program which provides veterans with a service trained dog, was mysteriously booted from their offices in the DC area, with very little warning.  The order came down to vacate their Fort Belvoir and Walter Reed offices by the end of the day, and no one seems to have any idea why
  
• Former Sentior Presidential Advisor and raging racist, Steve Bannon, insists Trump's massive level of support from white supremacists is a complete fabrication from the media
  
• Apparently George Papadopoulos intentionally lied to the Mueller investigation in order to protect Trump.  Now that he's been abandoned by the Administration, he feels betrayed 
• With First Daughter and White House staffer doing...something(?) Ivanka Trump getting ready to visit India, local officials are rounding up all poor beggars ahead of schedule, to prevent Ivanka from getting the feels for the needy
• Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte claims to have killed another person, when he was 16.  He actually bragged about it.  In usual circumstances, you'd think this would be the instant justification to cancel Trump meeting with the man, but of course the meeting is still on
  
• Sarah Huckabee Sanders took on the question about Roy Moore, the Republican Senate Candidate who was discovered to have sexually assaulted a 14 year old, and had pursued relationships with other girls 16-18 when he was in his 30's.  She did the standard, "if true he should step away" line, but then conveyed that Trump feels "we cannot allow a mere allegation, in this case from many years ago, to destroy a person's life."  This should be taken as an endorsement
  
• The United Kingdom's House of Commons Speaker John Bercow doubled down on his ban of Trump from being able to speak in the historic Westminster Hall.  He states Trump has still not earned the right and does not deserve the honor.  Former President Obama was granted the opportunity to speak when he visited
• Trump and Putin embrace!  They met in Vietnam, but officially no formal private meeting.  Sarah Huckabee Sanders made quizzical comments which implied informal meetings would likely take place, but would not elaborate if that meant a brief handshake or an actual meeting
• If you were furious over former President Obama's tan suit, then you should be livid at the Bobbsey Twins, Donny and Vlad
  
• Oleg Deripaska, the Russian oligarch with ties to Paul Manafort and who has drawn scrutiny in regards to possible interference in the 2016 campaign, echoed a Trump talking point when he denied CNN's questions by calling them "Fake News."  Then again, Trump could be copying his talking point...
• Trump's anti-Voting Czar Kris Kobach had a fundraiser a few weeks back.  In the background of a photo of him and Corey Lewandowski can be seen Marcus Epstein, a notorious white supremacist.  This was an invite only fundraiser
  
• Robert Mueller's investigation is looking into a suspicious meeting between Michael Flynn and Russia's favorite Congressman, Representative Dana Rohrabacher, a meeting which took place in September of 2016
• Robert Mueller is preparing to interview one of Trump's closest allies, Hope Hicks, the woefully underqualified White House Communications Director
• Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos' extraordinary lavish lifestyle has been revealed, a lifestyle which includes a Christmas gift coordinator, a toy repairer, and a yacht scheduler.  I guarantee if a Democratic Administration member had such a lifestyle, the GOP would be insisting it shows a disconnect from the common working man, especially someone involved in public education
  
• Cambridge Analytica, the data mining company Trump hired for his campaign, almost immediately after getting hired by Trump, approached Wikileaks to get the emails Clinton and the DNC had hacked
• Former White House Press Secretary, and former Communications Director for the RNC, Sean Spicer startled a lot of Republican insiders when he admitted he was on the 5th floor at Trump Tower, the campaign nerve center which was monitoring election numbers.  Why this startled them is because, due to a court ruling, RNC members were not allowed to be on that floor during the election night.  Many RNC insiders immediately stated Spicer was wrong and made a mistake
  
• The Justice Department insists it will prosecute to the fullest extent of the law any activist who 'damages' a pipeline
• It's revealed that Trump confidant, and man running interference for Trump in the US House, Devin Nunes met with Michael Flynn and the Turkish foreign Minister for a mysterious breakfast meeting.  Reminder Flynn and the minister were plotting to kidnap a cleric in the US and ship him back to Turkey
  
• Secretary of Energy Rick Perry is scheduled to attend a fundraising event where Republican donors are being promised face time with Trump Administration officials
• White House Office of Public Liaison Communication Chief Omarosa Manigault is apparently leaving pairs of shoes everywhere "all over the White House."  They are so many, they're apparently a safety hazard
  
• Michael Flynn's lawyers call the allegations of kidnapping and bribery "outrageous and false"
• In February, Presidential Advisor and Trump son in law Jared Kushner apparently told a CNN executive he should fire 20% of their staff.  He now says he was only "joking," as the White House is trying to force AT&T to sell CNN to Rupert Murdoch
• Coffee Boy?  A report out states that George Papadopoulos was having frequent conversations with the Senior Trump Campaign Policy Advisor Stephen Miller, and even helped Miller write major speeches for Trump
  
• It's also reported Papadopoulos briefed Stephen Miller on his Russian contacts
  
• A nominee for a Federal Judgeship in Alabama, Brett Talley was approved for a lifetime appointment to the Federal bench by the Senate Judiciary Committee (on a party line vote).  He's NEVER tried a case, was labeled "not qualified" by the American Bar Association, was incredibly partisan in his nomination process, and has pledged undying support for both Trump and the NRA
• Hey everyone, no need to worry!  Trump insist Putin didn't interfere in the US election of 2016, so he says we should all take him at his word.  Putin also says no one needs to question why all of his political opponents have mysteriously died.  I guess they're all just clumsy/unlucky
  
• It's noted Trump is openly siding with the leader of a foreign country over his own intelligence agencies.  Every intelligence agency is pointing to Putin as the villain in 2016, even the ones run by Republicans
• Putin also states the connections between Russia, Paul Manafort and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross are all made up; fabrications form Trump's enemies.  Once again, our intelligence agencies disagree (Note to Mueller:  Time to start focusing on Wilbur Ross)
  
• Sgt. La David Johnson was found with his arms tied, and was executed, according to local villagers in Niger.  Once again, I do not believe in politicizing the death of a solider, but the point of this list is what the GOP would be doing. Of course they would be making this an issue for a Democratic President
• The meeting where First Daughter and White House staffer doing...something(?) Ivanka Trump offered Michael Flynn any job in the Administration was actually a meeting Flynn was not scheduled to be at.  He crashed the meeting knowing of friction between Trump and then Transition Chief Chris Christie, and when Ivanka asked what job in the Administration he wanted, he answered, Chief of Staff, Secretary of Defense or National Security Advisor, the later being the position he received
• The US Embassy has hired a security firm founded by a former KGB agent with ties to Putin and other Russian agents 
  
• Trump stated "people will die" because of the continued Mueller and Congressional investigations into Russian interference in the election of 2016
• Facing backlash for what appears to be a Trump Administration effort to get AT&T to sell CNN to Rupert Murdoch, Trump now says the US needs many different news outlets
  
• Senator John McCain criticized Trump's lack of criticism of Vietnam's atrocious human rights record
• The Mueller investigation is now focusing on how much Trump himself knew about the Russian meetings his campaign was engaged in during his campaign, meetings which were vehemently denied, but are now acknowledged as happening
• Former Trump Campaign Chair Corey Lewandowski now admits he did indeed approve the Carter Page trip to Russia in July of 2016, but insists he has a blurry memory in regards to whether Papdopoulos mentioned the campaign working with the Russians 
  
• A report comes to light of a very strange call Trump placed to then President of France Fracois Hollande on the day after the election, where Trump heaped dubious praise on him before asking him to help him pick his Administration
  
• The CIA, led by Trump's own CIA Director Mike Pompeo, outright contradicts Trump, and insist that regardless of pleas from Putin, there is irrefutable evidence the Russians were the ones who interfered in the Election off 2016
• People are openly speculating if Putin ordered Trump to defend him when the two met in Vietnam
• Trump's blind defense of Putin also seems to be causing people to wondering if Trump is mentally fit for office.  He's had numerous briefing which show Russia undoubtedly interfered in the 2016 election
• Trump has decided to once again lead from behind in Syria, falling back to Russian demands the US not militarily interfere in the country's conflict
• Trump's latest Twitter temper tantrum shows he has the mental capability of a 6 year old. After North Korean media called him a "lunatic old man," and a warmonger, Trump feigned (?) how offended he was, saying he "would NEVER call [Kim Jung-un] "short and fat..."," and then insisted he was only trying to be his friend 
  
• How many times did a grow adult man who leads a world power publicly call Kim Jong-um "little rocket man?"
  
• Trump and Kim Jung-un have pretty much the same body shape
  
• This also shows Trump HATES being called 'old'
  
• Former Trump Advisor Corey Lewandowski, referring to the Texas church shooting which killed 26: "...why don't we actually talk about the things the world cares about?"
• Trump must realize how much he screwed up with the "I stand with Vlad" comments, now denies agreeing with Putin, insisting a lie, that he was only reiterating that Putin "believe he believes that..."
• A Colorado 12 year old is suing Attorney General Jeff Sessions, stating the nation's marijuana policy is unconstitutional, that she should be able to get it as a medication
  
• Chief of Staff John Kelly states he does not allow his staffer to pay attention to Trump's tweets because he wants them focused not heir jobs
• Former CIA Director John Brennan and former Defense Intelligence Agency Director James Clapper fired back after Trump called them "political hacks;" they responded "consider the source"
  
• Brennan and Clapper went onto to point out clearly Trump is being manipulated by Putin, by either naiveté, ignorance or fear 
• Trump once again is walking back his endorsement of Putin, at the expense of his own intelligence agencies:  "I'm with our agencies"
• WOW!  White House Spokeswoman Kellyanne Conway defending Trump's continued childish tweets about North Korea: [referring to Kim Jongh-un] "Well, he started it!"  You can't make this stuff up
  
• ABC's Martha Raddatz absolutely tied Kellyanne Conway into knots by trying to get her to either condemn the child rapist-like activities of Roy Moore, or denounce his accusers.  Conway was desperately trying to avoid answering
• Conway:  "I want to be very clear, I want to be explicit here, I denounce that conduct [sexual assault] and is the allegations are true, he ought to step aside. And is the allegations are true about a lot of people, they oughta step aside."  And she works for Trump...
  
• A White Nationalist/Neo-Nazi rally in Poland is gleefully adopting Trump slogans as their official rallying cries
• In Puerto Rico, 45% of the island still has no electricity and 13% still has no clean drinking water.  Even though there's still a clear need, the leader of the military relief effort is being reassigned to a non-Puerto Rico deployment
  
• Desperate to keep the Alabama Senate seat, the White House is putting up a semi-defense of child dating perv Roy Moore, stating he should be able to defend himself from the accusations.  No one is saying he shouldn't be able to defend himself.  The question is whether he should be able to defend himself from inside the US Senate
• Even though most NFL players took the week off from kneeling, a few players still knelt during the National Anthem to protest racial injustice in America, and Trump himself
  

If this week seemed shorter than others, you're right.  With his Asia trip, Trump had a regulated schedule and limited, closely monitored social media time.  Even so, he still found multiple opportunities to embarrass us all.

I have to be careful with this list.  You'll notice the amount of Roy Moore stuff is limited.  That kook bag cold start his own list with all the pervy and unethical things he's done, but this list is supposed to be about Trump and his Administration only.  Each week I do find myself adding things which I end up removing because they have nothing to do with Trump.  I always try to explain why something fringe is included on the list.  It's my quality seal, for you!

Remember #2018IsEverything, and the Republicans are scared.  They should be.