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.
1. Someone in the Dallas area hacked a highway construction sign so that it said “Donald Trump is a shape-shifting lizard.”
2. Trump held a peevish press conference to complain that the media wasn’t being fair to him about his January announcement that he’d raised $6 million, including $1 million of his own money, for veterans’ groups. A release accompanying the press conference documented which groups had received money from the fundraiser; according to the AP, “half [of the groups] reported checks from Trump within the past week, typically dated May 24, the day the Washington Post published a story questioning whether he had distributed all of the money.” (The AP is actually being generous to Trump here; the Post had first questioned Trump’s claims about the donations on May 20.)
Shape-shifting lizard is about right! It’s also an entirely unforced error—Trump should have known from the very second he announced the donations that he would get flak if he didn’t document them. Let’s lower the danger level.
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