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.
Trump is being taken more seriously on the international stage, according to Trump. Trump says Trump has been invited to visit British Prime Minister David Cameron at his residence at 10 Downing Street. This is typical of most major party nominees, and “a senior source” told the BBC that Cameron would be happy to meet Trump once he is officially the Republican nominee despite his past criticism of Trump’s vile comments about banning Muslims from entering the U.S. (criticism the PM stands by).
Trump also received the endorsement of the National Rifle Association and delivered what my colleague Josh Voorhees characterized as a “quite effective” speech to the group. Again, this is typical for a presumptive Republican presidential candidate, but given his previous evolution on the issue, it still counts as a small coup.
Another thing: Trump received some more good polling news. As the Washington Post noted, a new New York Times/CBS poll showed that Republican voters are beginning to rally around him, with his unfavorable number in the party dropping by 15 points in the past month.
Also, he didn’t pay a dime in taxes in the late 1970s, but that’s old, so who cares (and who cares about his taxes anyways). And he didn’t raise as much money for veterans by skipping a Fox News debate earlier this year as previously promised, but again, will any of his would-be voters care? And also some more: One of his convention delegates goes by the name “whitepride” on Twitter, which, again, probably won’t harm him among his voting base.
All these things considered, we remain at 2.5 horsemen.
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