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Today’s Trump Apocalypse Watch: Bill O’Reilly Has a Forehead Tattoo That Says “Racist”

Bill O’Reilly has thoughts on tattoo placement.

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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.

The most remarkably offensive Trump-related sound bite of the past 24 hours was actually delivered by Bill O’Reilly, as Slate’s Isaac Chotiner noted in his post about Trump’s appearance on Fox News’ O’Reilly Factor. Here’s O’Reilly, during his meeting of the minds with the candidate, on the public policy issue of black Americans’ employment:

But how are you going to get jobs for them? Many of them are ill-educated and have tattoos on their foreheads, and I hate to be generalized about it, but it’s true. If you look at all the educational statistics, how are you going to get jobs for people who aren’t qualified for jobs?

Yes, the pressing issue of black people and their ubiquitous forehead tattoos. Obama’s forehead tattoo almost kept him from getting approved by the White House HR department after he was elected, if I recall.

Anyway, elsewhere in Trumpworld, a protester got face-shoved at a Trump rally—not one of the most egregious incidents of violence committed by a Trump supporter during this cycle, but not something that’s going to help turn around the candidate’s reputation with a general public that’s already been exposed, as Slate’s Josh Voorhees wrote today, to a massive amount of Trump-related media that has left him widely unpopular.

The good news for Trump today? His thoughts about potential VP candidates are not entirely insane. Our Apocalypse Watch danger level nonetheless remains unchanged.

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