Just a few of the lies Donald Trump has told to the nation
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Jake Tapper on CNN today:
“While we’re sticking to the facts and telling you what we know, President Trump has no constraints since he simply makes stuff up. He frequently lies and has a long and well documented conspiracy theories with no concrete evidence ever provided.
“For years he perpetuated the myth that Obama was not born in the United States, and that he saw thousands of Muslims on TV celebrating 9/11, and he suggested Ted Cruz’s father might have been involved in the assassination of JFK, again zero evidence for this.
• Canadian dancer and choreographer Blake McGrath looking chill in Miami Beach (above). Check out his Instagram for videos of his ah-mahz-ing choreography.
• Netflix’s series 13 Reasons Whyhas come under fire for a controversial, graphic male rape scene.
• One of the gay men Kentucky County Clerk Kim Davis refused to issue a marriage license to in 2015, David Ermold, lost his bid to challenge Davis for her office.
• The NFL has announced a new policy that will fine teams an undetermined amount if players on the field fail to stand during the national anthem played before the start of the game. Players who wish to protest will be allowed to remain in the locker room.
• Check out Jess Glynne’s new single, “I’ll Be There.” Glynne is the first-ever British female to earn six #1 UK singles. I’ve previously featured her collaboration “Real Love” with Clean Bandit on The Randy Report. Hit play below.
True story – a mother wanted to celebrate her son’s graduating with honors from high school.
So, she ordered a cake from her local Publix grocery store.
But things didn’t go as planned because the bakery deliberately left off the middle word in “Summa Cum Laude” because the bakery’s system thought it was a nasty word.
Donald Trump invents his own catch phrase “SpyGate” –
Donald Trump really, really wants his nickname “SpyGate” to take off so, so badly.
Asked if he had any proof regarding his allegations the FBI embedded a spy in his 2016 campaign, the Trumpster repeated his pet phrase: “We now call it Spygate. You are calling it Spygate.”
Trump’s claim is that the FBI put a “spy” in his campaign at the behest of Barack Obama’s White House as part of an effort to undercut his candidacy by alleging collusion with the Russians. It’s hard to square that claim with 1) Trump’s repeated insistence that the Russia investigation began only after he won as an excuse for the Democrats’ loss, and 2) the fact that America only learned about the investigation into Russian collusion after voting had already occurred.
If Obama and the Democrats put a spy in his campaign to undercut his chances, they made a small strategic error by not mentioning anything publicly before votes were cast. But that’s the claim, because internal consistency is not a requirement for any conspiracy theory, much less this one.
In a contrast to his early morning Tweetstorm, he backtracked a bit when asked if he has any proof of the allegations saying, “I hope it’s not true, but it looks like it is.”
“A lot of bad things have happened,” Trump told reporters. “I want them all to get together. They will sit in a room. Hopefully they will be able to work it out among themselves.”
By the way, if you’d like a detailed explanation about the difference between a “spy” in Trump’s campaign and the FBI investigating Russian interference, check out this Twitter thread.
Watch below.
And yes, we all remember what happens when you try to make up your own catch phrase:
Magic Mike/White Collar star Matt Bomer dropped by The Tonight Show recently to chat on his Broadway debut in the revival of the gay-themed play, The Boys in the Band.
Bomer shared with Jimmy Fallon how during one of the performances of the play he didn’t check his props. That prop in question would be the towel he is supposed to wear after a shower onstage.
“My character takes a shower within the first five minutes of the play,” the handsome actor explained. “And I realized there was no towel for me when I got out of the shower.”
Bomer realized he had two options: either do the rest of the scene naked or put his underwear back on his soaking wet body.
Apparently, the wet underwear got the nod which means everyone won!
Bomer also shares that he’s taking his soon-to-be 13-year-old son Kit to the Tony Awards this year.
It’ll be the teen’s first awards show, but he assured his dad, “I know there’ll be a lot of people there but I don’t crack under pressure.”
In a sign Kit has been around show biz, he did add, “But, is someone going to do my hair?”
Clearly, the apple doesn’t fall very far from the tree…
A federal judge in New York has ruled that President Donald Trump is in violation of the First Amendment by blocking critics on Twitter for political speech.
A group of Twitter users sued the president in July after the @realDonaldTrump account blocked them from replying to his messages. The seven users had each tweeted a message critical of the president before they were blocked.
“Blocking of the individual plaintiffs as a result of the political views they have expressed is impermissible under the First Amendment,” Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald wrote in the decision.
“While we must recognize, and are sensitive to, the president’s personal First Amendment rights, he cannot exercise those rights in a way that infringes the corresponding First Amendment rights of those who have criticized him,” she wrote.
The White House did not immediately have a comment on the ruling.
Now, how many of you think Trump will unblock anyone? Show of hands please…?
— Knight 1st Amendment (@knightcolumbia) May 23, 2018
My co-plaintiffs and I just won our federal lawsuit against President Donald J. Trump for blocking us on Twitter. No government official is above the law—not even the President of the United States.
Federal judge rules @realDonaldTrump blocking critics on Twitter is violation of the First Amendment. @JordanUhl blares LL Cool J’s “Mama Said Knock You Out” in the background
Harking back to his accusations that the Obama administration “wire-tapped” his Trump Tower phone lines, Donald Trump took to Twitter to rant to his followers about the “Criminal Deep State,” “Phony Collusion” and blah blah blah.
The Trumpster is annoyed at reports that an FBI informant made contact with the Trump campaign in 2016 as part of the federal investigation into Russian election meddling and ties to his team.
You know, that’s what the FBI does when they have credible evidence folks are working with foreign players to influence an election.
Look how things have turned around on the Criminal Deep State. They go after Phony Collusion with Russia, a made up Scam, and end up getting caught in a major SPY scandal the likes of which this country may never have seen before! What goes around, comes around!
“Trump should be happy that the FBI was SPYING on his campaign” No, James Clapper, I am not happy. Spying on a campaign would be illegal, and a scandal to boot!
Former FBI director James Comey called Trump out as our leader “who will lie about anything:”
Facts matter. The FBI’s use of Confidential Human Sources (the actual term) is tightly regulated and essential to protecting the country. Attacks on the FBI and lying about its work will do lasting damage to our country. How will Republicans explain this to their grandchildren?
Dangerous time when our country is led by those who will lie about anything, backed by those who will believe anything, based on information from media sources that will say anything. Americans must break out of that bubble and seek truth.
Once again, a confidential source who speaks with campaign aides who have boasted of Russian offers to help the campaign is not a spy but a standard part of a counter-intelligence investigation. https://t.co/wxDtIEVVbL
That the DOJ is orchestrating a massive, multi-agency conspiracy, led by Republicans to discredit Donald Trump.
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That political novices known for real estate scams accepted help from foreign entities because they're too stupid to know it's illegal! https://t.co/Xxy520NYfK— Translate Trump (@TranslateRealDT) May 23, 2018
Russia attacked the United States in an act of information warfare you provided cover for. And you make up a phony narrative to distract from that act of betrayal. That’s sad. And what’s sadder is the GOP goes along with this con job. Have a good day. https://t.co/dTq1CTRxFI
This is actually becoming a BIg Lie scandal, not a spy scandal, with the @POTUS and his amen corner in the right wing media and Congress frantically promoting hysterical, false narratives to try and nullify the Mueller probe. https://t.co/0kZERKMup6
Dear @realDonaldTrump: Law enforcement & counterintelligence agents are not the criminal deep state because they are investigating you & your campaign. They took an oath to the Constitution, not to you.
Out singer-songwriter Ryan Amador shares his latest single, “Loverboy,” with a flirty/romantical music video directed by and co-starring (hot!) Jesse Scott Egan.
Amador’s soulful pop/R&B vocals are perfectly paired with a shadowy, sexual tryst 😉
Amador sings:
And you make me feel safe You make me feel loved Even though you’re trying to be Tougher than you are But you’re such a loverboy You’re such a loverboy And I see it in your eyes
Buy the track on Bandcamp and the funds go to Basic Rights Oregon:
While the LGBTQ community was giddy over the success of gay-themed Call Me By Your Name at this year’s Academy Awards where James Ivory won the Oscar for “Best Screenplay,” a new study shows depictions of LGBTQ characters in movies released by major studios last year actually declined.
LGBTQ advocacy group GLAAD took a look at the 109 films released by major studios in 2017. And in issuing their annual Studio Responsibility Index found that gay, lesbian, bi, trans and queer characters appeared in only 14 films (12.8%).
That marks a precipitous drop from the 18.4% of major studio films found to be inclusive in 2016. Indeed, this is the lowest percentage of films featuring LGBTQ characters since GLAAD began reporting on the issue in 2012.
Additionally, GLAAD notes that many of the gay characters in 2017 films were barely seen on screen. Looking at the 14 films that included LGBTQ characters, in half of them the LGBTQ characters had less than five minutes of screen time.
There was some good news to report: diversity increased as 16 of the 28 LGBT-identified characters were people of color. That makes for 57% of the total characters in 2017 versus only 20% in 2016.
It’s important to note that the report did not include the LGBTQ representation in the films released by the smaller, boutique labels like Sony Pictures Classics, which produced Call Me By Your Name, and Fox Searchlight, which served up the Billie Jean King/Bobby Riggs redux, Battle of the Sexes.
When you add those outlets to other similar offices – like Universal’s Focus and Lionsgate affiliate Roadside Attractions – to the mix, you do get a more diverse, inclusive result.
Of the 40 films released by those labels in 2017, 28% contained LGBTQ characters, which is almost double the 17% in 2016.
In a recent interview with Time Out London, Sir Ian McKellen spoke about the lack of LGBTQ representation in Hollywood:
“Well, nobody looks to Hollywood for social commentary, do they? They only recently discovered that there were black people in the world. Hollywood has mistreated women in every possible way throughout its history. Gay men don’t exist. Gods and Monsters [1998], I think, was the beginning of Hollywood admitting that there were gay people knocking around, even though half of Hollywood is gay.”
Veteran 60 Minutes reporter Lesley Stahl appeared at the annual Deadline Club Awards Dinner in New York City for a Q&A with fellow journalist Judy Woodruff on Monday night.
Stahl shared in the 30 minute chat about interviewing Donald Trump in Trump Tower shortly after the election. Before the interview began, he began railing at the press and she asked him why he attacks the media so much.
“Before the interview I met with him in Trump Tower. And he really is the same off camera that he is on camera, exactly the same.
“And at one point he started to attack the press. And it’s just me and my boss and him – he has a huge office – and he’s attacking the press. And there were no cameras, there was nothing going on.
“And I said, ‘You know, that is getting tired, why are you doing this? You’re doing it over and over and it’s boring, it’s time to end that, you’ve won the nomination [sic], and why do you keep hammering at this?’
“And he said: ‘You know why I do it? I do it to discredit you all and demean you all so when you write negative stories about me no one will believe you.’
“He said that. So put that in your head for a minute.”
Bolding is mine.
Judy Woodruff’s reaction says it all. Watch below.
