Week 23: A Qatar-ing Remark

Trump is a sexist jackass on Twitter (again), doesn’t have any idea what’s going on with health care (again), and makes enormous mistakes in the Middle East (again, again, and again).

Segment 1: The Mika Shall Inherit the Earth

Segment 2: It’s All in the Details Which I Know Nothing About

On Senate Health Bill, Trump Falters in the Closer’s Role

Segment 3: Racism to the Bottom

Trump’s Voter-Fraud Commission Wants to Know Voting History, Party ID and Address of Every Voter in the U.S.

U.S. Government Narrows Focus of Counter-Extremism Program

Segment 4: You Have Got to Be Putin Me On

White House Could Offer to Roll Back Sanctions in First Trump-Putin Meeting

Segment 5: My House, in the Middle of the East

Reports That Trump Considering Pulling Out of Peace Efforts ‘Nonsense,’ US Official Says

Trump’s New Travel Ban Requires You to Prove a Close Relationship. Grandpas Didn’t Make the Cut.

Segment 6: A Wide Gulf

Tillerson and Mattis Cleaning Up Kushner’s Middle East Mess

Segment 7: Tee TIME

At One Trump Golf Resort, Fake Time Magazine Covers Are Taken Off the Wall

Week 22: Due North Korea

Ever wonder what Donald Trump’s worst tweet is? Find out! Trump holds his first 2020 fundraiser — and pockets some of the cash. And the Senate GOP joins the take-away-your-health-care party.

Segment 1: Trump’s Worst Tweet Ever

Segment 2: You Sanctioned My Battleship!

White House Tries to Get GOP to Water Down Russia Sanctions Bill

Segment 3: DAPAty Dippity Doo

Trump Administration Reverses DAPA in ‘House Cleaning’

Segment 4: More Like a FUN-Raiser

Trump to Host Trump Re-Election Fundraiser at Trump Hotel

Segment 5: Sometimes Quitters Do Win

Trump Doesn’t Care About HIV. We’re Outta Here

Segment 6: Around the Agencies

President Trump Chooses Inexperienced Woman Who Planned His Son Eric’s Wedding to Run NY Federal Housing Programs

Education Dept. Says It Will Scale Back Civil Rights Investigations

The State Department Just Broke a Promise to Minority and Female Recruits

Rick Perry Just Denied That Humans Are the Main Cause of Climate Change

Segment 7: Yeah We’re All Gonna Die

Senate Health Care Bill Includes Deep Cuts to Medicaid

Segment 8: Masking the Tapes

Week 21: Trump Should Mueller Things Over

A horrific shooting targeting Republican congressman leads to a great conversation on gun control (on the podcast, anyway), and we finally learn Trump is under investigation.

Segment 1: Don’t Press Conference Your Luck

Segment 2: Under Obstruction

Special Counsel Is Investigating Trump for Possible Obstruction of Justice, Officials Say

Segment 3: Eep Pee A

Eric Lipton’s Twitter Thread on the EPA and Interior Department

Segment 4: Cuba Not So Libre

Trump to Clamp Down on Cuba Travel and Trade

Segment 5: Can We Get Some Gun Control Now?

After Shooting, Investigators Probe Trail of Political Anger Left by Attacker

 

Week 20: Liar Liar Presidential Pants on Fire

James Comey goes to the U.S. Senate to call the president a liar, and I take to the podcast to call on Donald Trump to resign. Plus, discover what Eric Trump always thought of you.

Segment 1: Resign, Motherfucker

It’s Time to Demand Donald Trump’s Resignation

Segment 2: Wray of Noneshine

Trump’s New FBI Pick Shouldn’t Get a Hearing

Segment 3: Hotel Corruptifornia

Donald Trump’s Suite of Power

Trump Organization to Go Budget Friendly With ‘American Idea’ Hotel Chain

Segment 4: Article V Is for Victory

Trump National Security Team Blindsided by NATO Speech

Segment 5: Oh What a Hearing

Comey Opening Statement for Senate Intelligence Hearing, Annotated

Twitter Thread Responding to the GOP

Full Transcript and Video: James Comey’s Testimony on Capitol Hill

Read: President Trump’s Lawyer’s Statement on Comey Hearing

Politifact: Donald Trump’s File

Segment 6: Eric the Rude

Eric Trump Says Those Who Oppose His Dad Are ‘Not Even People’

Week 19: I Love Paris in the Permanent Summer

While you were paying attention to President Trump destroying the planet, he was also taking away your civil rights and your birth control. Plus, Jared Kushner has been a very naughty boy.

Segment 1: Let’s Keep Things Civil

Trump Administration Plans to Minimize Civil Rights Efforts in Agencies

While You Obsessed Over Trump’s Scandals, He’s Fundamentally Changed the Country

Segment 2: Investigation Not Over Nyet

Russian Ambassador Told Moscow That Kushner Wanted Secret Communications Channel With Kremlin

Former White House Press Officer Boris Epshteyn to Be Questioned in Russia Probe

Sources: Congress Investigating Another Possible Sessions-Kislyak Meeting

Trump Administration Moves to Return Russian Compounds in Maryland and New York

Segment 3: Control Yourselves

Leaked Regulation: Trump Plans to Roll Back Obamacare Birth Control Mandate

Segment 4: Congressional Butt-get Office, Amirite

Mick Mulvaney: The Day of the CBO ‘Has Probably Come and Gone’

Segment 5: Is It Hot in Here?

Trump Will Withdraw U.S. From Paris Climate Agreement

XKCD: Earth Temperature Timeline

Segment 6: You Used to Call Me on My Cellphone

Trump’s Use of Private Cellphone Raises Security Concerns

Week 18: He Won’t Budget

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Trump releases his first big boy budget and goes on his first big boy foreign trip. Which is more of a disaster? That’s for you to decide. Also, the Russia investigation gets much, much worse.

Segment 1: Way Over Budget

 Trump’s Budget by the Numbers: What Gets Cut and Why

Trump’s Budget Proposal Aims to Cut All Federal Funds to Planned Parenthood

Trump Budget Seeks Huge Cuts to Science and Medical Research, Disease Prevention

A Freedom Caucus Republican Says the Foundation of the Trump Budget Is ‘a Lie’

Segment 2: Russian Toward the Goal Line

Trump Told Russians That Firing ‘Nut Job’ Comey Eased Pressure From Investigation

White House Looking at Ethics Rule to Weaken Special Investigation: Sources

Comey Agrees to Testify in Public as Trump-Russia Probe Heats Up

Trump Asked Intelligence Chiefs to Push Back Against FBI Collusion Probe After Comey Revealed Its Existence

Russia Probe Reaches Current White House Official, People Familiar With the Case Say

Top Russian Officials Discussed How to Influence Trump Aides Last Summer

Russian Officials Bragged They Could Use Flynn to Influence Trump, Sources Say

AG Sessions Did Not Disclose Russia Meetings in Security Clearance Form, DOJ Says

Segment 3: Strange Man in a Strange Land

Trump Declines to Affirm NATO’s Article 5

Segment 4: Pas De Duterte

Read the Full Transcript of Trump’s Call With Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte

Segment 5: Don’t Cry for Me Mark Meadows

GOP Health Plan Would Leave 23 Million More Uninsured, Budget Office Says

Top Republican Tears Up About Family After Discussing the Latest CBO Score on the GOP Healthcare Bill

Trump Tells Advisers He Wants to End Key Obamacare Subsidies

Segment 6: My Swamp Runneth Over

White House Moves to Block Ethics Inquiry Into Ex-Lobbyists on Payroll

Segment 7: All About Appearances

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Read What Trump and Other Presidents Wrote in the Guest Book at Yad Vashem

Pope Looks Glum After Vatican Meeting With Donald Trump

Week 17: I’m Pretty Sure This Week Didn’t Happen

Every day this week brought a new earth-shattering revelation, but each story was part of a larger picture. I break down the Russia/FBI/Flynn craziness, and talk to Cato’s Jonathan Blanks about how Jeff Sessions wants to put pretty much everyone in prison.

Segment 1: None of This Actually Happened in the Universe We Live In

Trump Revealed Highly Classified Information to Russian Foreign Minister and Ambassador

Israeli Official: Trump Sharing Intelligence With Russia Is “Worst Fears Confirmed”

Comey Memo Says Trump Asked Him to End Flynn Investigation

Report: Flynn Blocked Military Move Turkey Opposed

With Mueller as the Special Prosecutor, the White House Has Every Reason to Panic

Trump Campaign Had at Least 18 Undisclosed Contacts With Russians: Sources

Trump Team Knew Flynn Was Under Investigation Before He Came to White House

As Investigators Circled Flynn, He Got a Message From Trump: Stay Strong

Donald Trump Talked Michael Flynn Into White House Job—and Wants Him Back in the Administration

Segment 2: Quick Hits

Under Trump, Inconvenient Data Is Being Sidelined

Stephen Miller Is Writing the Big Speech on Islam That Trump Is Delivering in Saudi Arabia

Trump Cancels Visit to Ancient Masada Site After Israel Refuses Helicopter Landing

How Trump Gets His Fake News

Trump’s Expected Pick for Top USDA Scientist Is Not a Scientist

Segment 3: League of Injustice

Sessions Issues Sweeping New Criminal Charging Policy

Segment 4: The Best Advice Ever Given Anywhere

Week 16: Don’t Comey Round Here No More

The president of the United States fired the FBI director to obstruct a federal investigation into possible collusion with a foreign power to fix an election. Yeah, that really happened

Segment 1: You’re Fired. No, Seriously.

In a Private Dinner, Trump Demanded Loyalty. Comey Demurred.

Trump Shifts Rationale for Firing Comey, Calling Him a ‘Showboat’

Segment 2: Measure of a Half-Man

Russia’s Oval Office Victory Dance

Donald Trump After Hours

Transcript: Interview With Donald Trump

Segment 3: Trump Haitis Immigrants

US Digs for Evidence of Haiti Immigrant Crimes

Segment 4: Quick Hits

Trump Suggests Financing for Historically Black Colleges May Be Unconstitutional

Bethune-Cookman Graduates Greet Betsy DeVos With Turned Backs

White House Advisors Called Ottawa to Urge Trudeau to Help Talk Trump Down From Scrapping NAFTA

Trump’s Commission on ‘Election Integrity’ Will Lead to Massive Voter Suppression

Segment 5: I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream Forever and Ever and Ever and Ever

Donald Trump After Hours

Week 15: The Immoral Majority

Republicans pass a Trumpcare bill that could take health care away from millions of Americans, and we hear a few of their heartbreaking stories. Trump believes religious liberty means the freedom to discriminate, and apparently he’s cool with slavery.

Segment 1: Love Your Neighbor Unless They’re on the Pill or Gay

Presidential Executive Order Promoting Free Speech and Religious Liberty

Gay Man Sues Funeral Home That Refused His 86-Year-Old Husband’s Body

Segment 2: Maybe the Hiring Freeze Should’ve Gone Further

Trump Army Secretary Pick Gave a Lecture Arguing Against the Theory of Evolution

Trump Puts Critic of Renewable Energy in Charge of Renewable Energy Office

Trump Administration Hires Official Whom Five Students Accused of Sexual Assault

Segment 3: Forever My FLOTUS

Trump Administration Rolls Back Michelle Obama’s Healthy School Lunch Push

Trump Administration Memo Calls for Ending Michelle Obama’s Girls Education Program

Segment 4: A Decent Place to Lay Your HUD

Don’t Make Housing for the Poor Too Cozy, Carson Warns

Segment 5: Climate Change Finally Solved!

EPA Website Removes Climate Science Site From Public View After Two Decades

Segment 6: The American Fuck Your Health Care Act

Every Republican Who Voted for This Abomination Must Be Held Accountable

Segment 7: Andrew Jerkson

Trump: ‘Why Was There the Civil War?’

 

Week 14: 100 Days of So Dumb

We’re just about at the 100-day mark, and historian Alexis Coe helps me put this landmark into perspective. (He’s not doing very well.) Trump continues to shit all over immigrants, Ivanka launches a fund for Ivanka-lites, and Trump hits the red button on his desk. (Really.)

Segment 1: Circuit Breaker

Trump ‘Absolutely’ Looking at Breaking Up 9th Circuit

Segment 2: VOICE of Unreason

Trump Could Roll Back Decades of Progress That Made Immigrant Detention More Humane

Main Feature of Trump’s New Crime Victims Office Is Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric

Contrary to Trump’s Claims, Immigrants Are Less Likely to Commit Crimes

Segment 3: Grab ‘Em by the Purse

Donald Trump to Strip All Funding From State Department Team Promoting Women’s Rights Around the World

Segment 4: Math Is Pretty Hard You Guys

The One-Page White House Handout on Trump’s Tax Proposal

Segment 5: A Childish Proposal

Trump’s Working Class Supporters Would Get Just $5 From His Childcare Plan

Segment 6: Flynn-Flam

White House Rejects Oversight Request for Flynn Documents

Segment 7: Quick Hits

Mar-a-Lago: The Winter White House

Union Buster to NLRB?

Trump Signs Order to End ‘Egregious Abuse’ of National Monuments

Segment 8: Making History in 100 Days

Alice + Freda Forever on Amazon

Segment 9: Hitting the Red Button

Trump at 100 Days: ‘It’s a Different Kind of Presidency’