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.
Donald Trump’s ability to do us all unimaginable harm by becoming president of the world’s most powerful country has been looking worse and worse in recent weeks. Here’s what has happened with him over the last 24 hours that might make that frightening prospect more or less likely.
- Mark Foley, a former Republican Congressman who resigned after sending sexually explicit text messages to underage boys including House pages, is a fan of Trump. Meh.
- A former state-level Trump staffer is alleging in a lawsuit that Trump’s North Carolina campaign director threatened him with a gun. Even if that were Trump’s fault, how does that change his odds of being president?
- The Washington Post reported that Donald Trump was confronted with having lied 30 times during a 2007 deposition. That’s just funny.
- Also funny: Trump Tower Suction Cup Climb Man.
- Less funny: Donald Trump saying Barack Obama is the “founder of ISIS.” Trump basically conceded that he’s not saying all these horrible things because he believes them, but rather because he thinks people “like” it. The man just wants to be liked!
- Trump also promised to keep saying all these horrible things he says, which, yeah—I mean, duh.
- Hillary Clinton made a really bad joke about the Olympics at Donald Trump’s expense. If enough people hear the joke, it may boost Trump’s chances ever so slightly.
- More than 70 Republicans called on the Republican National Committee to pull financial support from Donald Trump’s campaign. These folks were not heavy-hitters, though, and Reince Priebus will not be listening to them anyhow.
- Trump put a famed liar on his economic team. Again, Meh.
- Finally, Thursday’s polls didn’t really indicate much movement one way or the other, which is not good for Trump.
Overall, Trump’s Thursday was slightly less disastrous than his Wednesday. His odds of becoming president remain incredibly, incredibly low, but still too high to allow for a rational explanation for greater meaning in the universe.
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