Trump then invented a new kind of tweet, which I’m calling a ‘forgiveness threat’, tweeting “While Madeleine Westerhout has a fully enforceable confidentiality agreement, she is a very good person and I don’t think there would ever be reason to use it. Apparently, revealing something that ironic is a firing offence, and Ms Westerhout is now looking for another job.

Trump’s longtime personal assistant and recent Director of Oval Office Operations, Madeleine Westerhout, got a bit tipsy at an event recently and told reporters, among other things, that Trump doesn’t like having his photo taken with his daughter Tiffany, because he thinks she’s fat.We then talked about the various ways Trump is breaking the law with regard to emoluments.Īnd finally, here are the stories we really didn’t have time to talk about: Mark got it right this week, and now he’s on 14/32, or roughly 44%. And they said it was, I guess, the biggest water dump in the history of our country. It pulled houses out by the roots, like a big - like a tornado, like a 50 mile wide tornado. You know as well as anybody - bad things can happen. Sounds like such an innocent name, but it’s not innocent, believe me. They said, sir, we have the best boats in the world, but we hit that thing wrong, we don’t have a chance. I said, how big is a thing like that? You have great equipment, you have the greatest boats. But there was no edge to this big monster. When these boats, what happens? He said, well, they want to go out, they want to sort of play at the edge. I’m saying, is this thing ever going to stop? Will it just go away? It would come in and you’d say, oh, great, now it’s - then it goes out, it reloads, it comes in. Have you ever been taunted? It was taunting. Here are the statements from this week’s Fake News game: That sucker was brutal.If you’d like to get involved in the Global Climate Strike on Friday September 20th, go to Then we discussed a clip from The Simpsons: In the Fallacy in the Wild, we talked about this clip from Family Guy: In Mark’s British Politics Corner, we talked about Boris using an actual smoked herring as a distraction:Īnd then we discussed his impressive avoidance of a question in Prime Minister’s Questions: Then we talked about this interview in which he responded to Khizr Khan’s speech at the 2016 Democratic Convention:

Trump was asked about the Access Hollywood tape in which he was recorded talking to Billy Bush about grabbing women ‘by the pussy’. We started out with this excerpt from the the 2nd Presidential debate, in October 2016. When someone completely avoids a question by bringing up another issue entirely, they are committing a Red Herring fallacy.

A Red Herring is a distraction, anything that sends a conversation off on a tangent and away from the original point.

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