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Trump Mocks MSNBC Host’s “Bleeding” Face-Lift, GOP Senators Beg Trump To End Undignified Tweets

President Trump went after “Morning Joe” co-hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough this morning in a pair of tweets, mocking Brzezinski of “bleeding badly from a face-lift” when she and finance Scarborough visited Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in December.

This is where I should probably remind that First Lady Melania Trump’s public platform is to combat cyberbullying. Ironic, no?

This new low caused even Republican senators to finally speaking out about the undignified and disgraceful tweets.

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Seth Meyers Mocks Fawning Fox News Hosts And Trump’s Fake TIME Magazine Cover

Late Night with Seth Meyers’ “A Closer Look” segment ticks off pretty much every funny thing to laugh about Donald Trump this week.

From fawning Fox News hosts to that now-infamous “fake news” TIME magazine cover that hangs in about 8 Trump golf clubs, plus Trump butt-boy Sean Hannity making sure the world knows about that secret dossier that “talked about Trump, at a Ritz-Carlton, in Moscow, with two prostitutes urinating on his bed.”

Great work there, Sean.

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The Internet Asks: Did Chicago Cubs’ Albert Almora Flip Trump The Bird?

The internet is all abuzz today wondering if Chicago Cubs outfielder Albert Almora surreptitiously flipped President Trump the bird during the Cubs’ White House visit today.

Almora told the Chicago Sun-Times, “I had two fingers out. I’d never do that to the president of the United States.”

SBNation zoomed in, and it’s all a whole lot of nothing. Just an optical illusion. You can see his index finger outside of his pocket.

At ease, kids, at ease…

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Sen. Sherrod Brown Proposes Senate Resolution Recognizing June As LGBTQ Pride Month

Ohio Senator Sharrod Brown shared the news today that, with no presidential proclamation acknowledging June as LGBT Pride Month, he has proposed the first-ever Senate Resolution for Pride Month.

Sen. Sherrod Brown

This year, the White House broke with an 8 year tradition and did not issue a presidential proclamation acknowledging June as Pride Month.

So I’m proud to lead the first-ever Senate Resolution recognizing June as LGBTQ Pride Month.

And today, I’m equally proud that so many of my colleagues heartily agreed to cosponsor. An outpouring of support for the LGBTQ community.

We must always stand with our LGBTQ friends and neighbors – not just during the month of June, but year round. -SB

You may recall that while the White House didn’t find the time to issue an LGBTQ Pride Month proclamation, the folks there did name June as “National Homeownership Month”, “National Ocean Month”, “African-American Music Appreciation Month” and “Great Outdoors Month.”

Brown tagged an impressive 23 U.S. Senators along with his message as co-sponsors for the proposal.

You can see the proposed resolution below.

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News Round-Up: June 28, 2017

(via Instagram)

Some news stories you may have missed:

• I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling the “dude and dog” days of summer. See what I did there…?

• Britney Spears is pissed off people don’t think she sings live in her concerts. Honey, shush…

• Washington Blade reporter Chris Johnson was ejected from a Department of Justice LGBT Pride event saying the event was closed to the media. Similar events were open to press throughout the Obama administration.

• Netflix is currently developing a 10-episode sequel of Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City with original 1993 series stars Laura Linney and Olympia Dukakis set to star.

• A new poll from Quinnipiac University shows 63% of Americans overwhelmingly disapprove of the Senate Republicans’ healthcare bill, while only 16% approve.

• Check out this thrilling new trailer for the upcoming Hugh Jackman musical flick, The Greatest Showman, due in theaters this December 25. Also starring in the original musical are Michelle Williams, Zac Efron and Zendaya. The original score features songs by the Academy Award winning lyricists of La La Land.  I expect the featured song, “This Is Me,” to take off as a new anthem for everyone who finds pride in who they are.

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Being LGBT-Inclusive Is Good For Business

(graphic via Ogilvy)

A new survey from Ogilvy indicates that being LGBT-inclusive is very good for business.

According to the resulting data, 64% of folks who identify as LGBT allies, and 48% of Americans overall, say they are more likely to spend money with businesses and brands they see as LGBT inclusive.

When asked if “LGBT inclusive brands are good for the economy,” 85% of LGBT allies say “yes,” and 65% of all Americans agree.

Additionally, an antagonistic or non-supportive stance by a company toward the LGBT community could influence nearly half of Americans and a majority of allies to a spend their consumer dollars elsewhere.

(source)

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Germany Schedules Vote On Marriage Equality For Friday

Chancellor Angela Merkel

Wow, this happened fast.

According to the AP, the German Parliament has scheduled a vote to legalize same-sex marriage this Friday.

In the wake of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s recent comments indicating she could see legislators viewing the issue as a “decision of conscience,” Parliament’s legal committee has approved the vote.

Merkel has announced she will allow the vote to occur without any “party whip” and to vote their conscience.

Marriage equality is expected to pass easily according to sources.

Germany has allowed same-sex couples to enter into civil partnerships since 2001.

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Donald “Fake News” Trump Displays Actual Fake TIME Magazine Covers At Golf Resorts

The man who yells “fake news” has been decorating his golf clubs with literal fake news.

At least five Trump golf clubs have fake TIME magazine covers displayed touting the success of Donald Trump’s former reality show, The Apprentice.

Hilarious. And embarrassing.

Maybe this is why he cries “fake news” so often. He’s been creating it for years.

The Washington Post reports:

The framed copy of Time magazine was hung up in at least five of President Trump’s clubs, from South Florida to Scotland. Filling the entire cover was a photo of Donald Trump.

“Donald Trump: The ‘Apprentice’ is a television smash!” the big headline said. Above the Time nameplate, there was another headline in all caps: “TRUMP IS HITTING ON ALL FRONTS . . . EVEN TV!”

This cover — dated March 1, 2009 — looks like an impressive memento from Trump’s pre-presidential career. To club members eating lunch, or golfers waiting for a pro-shop purchase, it seemed to be a signal that Trump had always been a man who mattered. Even when he was just a reality TV star, Trump was the kind of star who got a cover story in Time.

But that wasn’t true.

The Time cover is a fake.

There was no March 1, 2009, issue of Time magazine. And there was no issue at all in 2009 that had Trump on the cover.

In fact, the cover on display at Trump’s clubs, observed recently by a reporter visiting one of the properties, contains several small but telling mistakes. Its red border is skinnier than that of a genuine Time cover, and, unlike the real thing, there is no thin white border next to the red. The Trump cover’s secondary headlines are stacked on the right side — on a real Time cover, they would go across the top.

And it has two exclamation points. Time headlines don’t yell.

“I can confirm that this is not a real TIME cover,” Kerri Chyka, a spokeswoman for Time Inc., wrote in an email to The Washington Post.

You may recall that during a speech in January addressing CIA staff, Trump declared he had been on more Time covers than anyone else: “I think we have the all-time record in the history of Time magazine.”

Actually, that’s incorrect, and kind of ironic given Trump’s current FBI investigation status.The record holder is President Richard Nixon.

Of course, the Trumpster had to deny and deflect via Twitter this morning:

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White House Press Corp Slaps Back After WH Spokesperson Calls Reporter “Outrageous”

Sarah Huckabee Sanders

After White House spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders accused the media of nitpicking small missteps by the White House without holding themselves to the same standard, The Sentinel‘s Brian Karem could no longer hold in what many in the press corp have been thinking.

“You are inflaming everyone right here right now with those words. This administration has done that as well….Any one of us are replaceable, if we don’t get it right, the audience has the opportunity to turn the channel or not read us. You have been elected to serve for four years at least, there is no option other than that,” said Karem.

“We are here to ask you questions, you are here to provide answers. And what you just did is inflammatory to people all over the country who look at it and say, ‘See, once again, the president is right and everybody else is just fake media.’ Everybody in this room is only trying to do their job.”

I personally find Sanders the definition of deplorable. Look at her face above. So very condescending.