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Today’s Trump Apocalypse Watch: Donald Trump Is Weird

Donald Trump in Eugene, Oregon, on May 6.

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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.

Well, the big Donald Trump news today is that he apparently called People magazine in 1991 and pretended to be someone named “John Miller” who wanted to talk at length about how popular Trump was with women. That’s weird. It’s very weird. I have no idea how it affects the 2016 presidential race, but in order to appropriately match the surreality of the story, today’s Trump Apocalypse Watch danger level will be a picture of Salvador Dalí at the Hôtel Meurice in Paris in 1972. 

Graphic by Lisa Larson-Walker. Photo by Allan Warren/Wikimedia CC