Tuesday, October 23 – Clip show week. Today’s theme was Trump’s dubious
international relations. We hit on
Europe: his bromance with Macron,
advising Spain to “build a wall” across the Sahara Desert, and the many ways he
insulted the queen while visiting the U.K. (I still love Gina’s commentary on this
story.) We had a bit of Africa, with him
revisiting the theme, if not the vulgarity, of the “shithole countries” thing
with the president of Nigeria. We
touched on the Middle East, with him threatening war with both Syria and Iran
over Twitter. We looked at other parts
of Asia – a bit on his belief in Chinese election hacking and a lot on the
summit with North Korea. Finally we
returned to the photo of him pouting in front of various world leaders at the
U.N. summit. Trump complains about the
rest of the world laughing at America, but a great deal of that is down to him.
Wednesday, October 24 – What’s interesting
about this “Trump-free” episode is that it pretty much entirely consists of two
kinds of stories: short opening blurbs
and stories from the correspondents (either field reports or desk pieces.) Does that mean every significant main story
from the recent past has been wrapped up in Trump? Depressing.
But, that means this episode featured a lot of quick-joke pieces: an African immigrant who saved a baby in
France, a guy clinging to the hood of his car while his ex was stealing it,
Bert & Ernie’s relationship status (“That eyebrow would’ve been addressed
by now!”), dumb remarks from a racist superintendent, and the KKK trying to recruit
with candy. For correspondent pieces, we
had Ronny on rich folks with chicken coops (“You like chickens? Well, fuck you – it’s bees now!”), Desi on
the deer population in Staten Island, and Roy on Franklin from Peanuts (“a straight-up G.”)
Thursday, October 25 – Highlights reel of
various Trump-camp folks tonight, collected under the banner “Filling the
Swamp.” First up was a double-whammy of
outrageous misuse of taxpayer money, with both Scott Pruitt and Ben Carson
spending insane levels of EPA/HUD funds on stupid things like a bulletproof
desk (Pruitt), all the while with Carson reiterating his goal of “cutting
spending” in his department. Next up was
Dr. Ronny Jackson (remember him?) writing scripts for himself and getting
wasted at White House functions. The
show had to do a quasi-montage on Brett Kavanaugh, since there were of course
too many recent stories about him to pick just one (the clips of him being questioned
after his testimony are still so gross,) and we finished things off with Trevor
and Michael coming up with increasingly-pointed insults about Stephen Miller.
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