The Trump Apocalypse Watch is a subjective daily estimate, using a scale of one to four horsemen, of how likely it is that Donald Trump will be elected president, thus triggering an apocalypse in which we all die.
Not a ton of action on the Trump Front today, but two noteworthy items:
- Thousands of people showed up for a classic immigrant-unfriendly Trump rally in Long Island that CNN (and maybe other channels, but CNN is the one I was watching) aired parts of live, which is a good reminder that Trump is probably going to do very well in the New York primary.
- The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission ordered the recall of 20,000 Ivanka Trump-branded scarves, manufactured in China, because they do not meet fire safety standards. This is a good reminder that while voters like the idea of Trump as a businessman, Trump Inc. itself can be a shady operation that often engages in the same offshoring, immigrant-hiring practices that the candidate claims to disdain.
We’ll leave the danger level at 1.5 horsemen.
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