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#EndorseThis: James Corden Wants To Educate Trump About AIDS

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#EndorseThis: Seth Meyers Trolls Kushner, Trump, And Sekulow

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Reporters Fall Into The “Alt-Right” Trap With Julius Caesar Stunt

By Matt Gertz
Trump As Caesar: Irresponsible, Nasty, Fun

By Froma Harrop
#EndorseThis: John Oliver Flips Off Trump And His Coal Barons

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#EndorseThis: James Corden Wants To Educate Trump About AIDS
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#EndorseThis: Seth Meyers Trolls Kushner, Trump, And Sekulow
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Reporters Fall Into The “Alt-Right” Trap With Julius Caesar Stunt
While many journalists have done yeoman’s work catching up on the assortment of white nationalists, misogynists, and conspiracy theorists behind this new wave of fringe media outlets, they’ve been less effective in learning about the tactics those figures use to manipulate the press. That failing was evident over the weekend, as major news outlets reported on Friday night’s “alt-right” interruption of a performance of William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.
By Matt Gertz
Trump As Caesar: Irresponsible, Nasty, Fun
Lend me your ears. You'll be glad. Today's subject is the controversial production of "Julius Caesar" in which a Donald Trump-like figure gets assassinated. Given today's angry political climate, the costuming showed poor taste at the very least. Delta Air Lines and Bank of America withdrew their sponsorship, and who could blame them?
By Froma Harrop
#EndorseThis: John Oliver Flips Off Trump And His Coal Barons
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#EndorseThis: Kate McKinnon Nails That Sessions Impression
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#EndorseThis: John Oliver Unpacks The Comey Crisis
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#EndorseThis: Seth Meyers Scrutinizes Those Trump Alibis
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5 Headphones For Every Type of Listener
By Sarah Sanchez
#EndorseThis: Comey Attack Ad Annoys Colbert (And He Responds)
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#EndorseThis: Colbert Returns To Covfefe Nation
Stephen Colbert returned from vacation to the America of “covfefe.” It’s Trump country and in his lexicon -- never mind those Justice Department attorneys begging him not to say it -- what the president demands, on Twitter, is a “TRAVEL BAN [all caps in original]. What he doesn’t want is “the watered down, politically correct version” that Justice brought to the Supreme Court, “but the original travel ban.” Beyond the infamous covfefe tweet were the mischievous messages that followed, as Trump urged the nation to “enjoy.”
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#EndorseThis: Bill Maher Trolls Trump's Preposterous Sycophants
Surveying our political wreckage, Bill Maher observes that the culture of the American presidency under Trump is coming to resemble the kind of backward dictatorships that we used to despise (and most of us still do), with surging nepotism, corruption, pomposity, and authoritarian tendencies. Topping it all off is the absurdly exaggerated praise routinely heaped upon the president by courtiers and other toadies
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#EndorseThis: Donald Trump Flips Off The Entire Planet
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#EndorseThis: Samantha Bee Blitzes Covfefe, Kushner, And Trump's Hobo Doctor
Following a hilarious review of the “covfefe” kerfuffle, Samantha Bee foresees a grim future where the president’s criminal defense lawyers vet all of his precious tweets, and Jared Kushner ends up in prison (prompting Ivanka to publish a memoir of her life as a single mom, cribbed from #BlackLivesMatter activists with jailed husbands).
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#EndorseThis: Colbert Solves Trump's Problem With Budget Math
Reviewing the calculations behind Trump's budget math, Colbert notes that cutting rich people's taxes is expected to "magically" increase revenues by two trillion bucks over ten years -- and that budget director Mick Mulvaney then doubles the magic by counting that revenue twice.
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#EndorseThis: Jimmy Kimmel On His Holiness The Trump's Papal Audience
Donald Trump's papal visit was mercifully brief but still historic -- as Jimmy Kimmel put it, a "holy day, or maybe an a-holey day." During their conversation, the Holy Father tried to persuade the American president to take up the causes of the poor and the environment. "Unfortunately Trump is only in year 70 of his 100-year deal with the Devil right now," according to Kimmel, "and it has a no-trade clause..."
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#EndorseThis: Seth Meyers Ventures Into Trump's Undrained Swamp
Checking in on the president’s often-repeated campaign promise to reform the business of government -- by banning lobbyists, enforcing ethics, and stemming the influence of big money -- Seth Meyers finds that the swamp is just as dank and dismal as ever.
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#EndorseThis: Should Children Eat? A Short Course In Trump's Cruel Budget
Stephen Colbert isn't impressed by the grandiose title affixed to Trump's first federal budget, "A New Foundation For American Greatness," and notes that the president and his budget director Mick Mulvaney are "building that new foundation for American greatness on the ground-up bones of poor people."
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#EndorseThis: Colbert Trolls Trump's Saudi Weekend
Noting that "Trump gave Obama a ton of grief for bowing to the Saudi king," Colbert said, "no way was he going to bow." But the tape tells a different story: "Wait, there he is, going from the knees, and a bow -- and a curtsey! He did a little curtsey at the end there, very nice."
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#EndorseThis: The Latest Episode Of John Oliver's "Stupid Watergate"
For John Oliver, the current barrage of scandals engulfing the Trump administration isn't "Kremlingate" or "Trump/Russia." Harkening back to a simpler time, he calls it "Stupid Watergate" -- a national trauma with all the potential implications of the events that brought down Richard Nixon, "but where everyone is stupid and bad at everything."
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In SNL Season Finale, Trump And His Entourage Croon 'Hallelujah'
In the SNL season finale, the marvelous Kate McKinnon, as Kellyanne Conway, is the first to join Alec Baldwin’s crooning of "Hallelujah," followed by Mike Pence (Beck Bennett), with a Russian flag on his lapel, the Trump boys (Mikey Day and Alex Moffat), Sarah Huckabee Sanders (Aidy Bryant), Melania (Cecily Strong), and Ivanka (in a special Scarlett Johansson cameo).
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#EndorseThis: Trump Scandals Too Dizzying? Trevor Noah Sorts It For You (And Fox Viewers)
What the Daily Show host offers, aside from a pungent, highly instructive review of Trump scandal developments since the Comey firing, is a quick lesson in why nearly 40 percent of Americans don't quite comprehend the hoodlum character of this president and his associates.
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The Wussification Of Baseball Is A Good Thing
Losing pitcher Jon Lester was disgusted by the umpire's ruling. "Baseball has been played for over 100 years the exact same way, and now we're trying to change everything and make it soft," he groused. "We're out there playing with a bunch of pansies right now."
By Steve Chapman
Behind The Scenes As Melissa McCarthy's Spicey Takes Manhattan
Melissa McCarthy's dramatic portrait of White House press secretary Sean Spicer, on a quest to find President Trump, was a highlight of SNL’s latest episode -- and the outtakes from the Manhattan Spicey shoot may be even funnier than what was aired.
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#EndorseThis: Seth Meyers Scrutinizes Trump Scandal Week, With Bonus Clips
Seth Meyers offers “a closer look” at President Trump’s no-good, very-bad week following his dismissal of FBI director James Comey -- which is now culminating in open talk of impeachment in Congress.
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#EndorseThis: Mika And Joe Claim Conway Scorned Trump Off Camera
The way that Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough finish each other's sentences on Morning Joe -- now that they've announced their engagement -- is too cute. But Kellyanne Conway probably isn't charmed, because today MSNBC's fun couple chattered on about her . And what they said wasn't flattering.
By National Memo
Melissa McCarthy, Alec Baldwin Return To SNL [VIDEO]
When Sarah Huckabee Sanders shows up unexpectedly on the White House press podium, the Saturday Night Live press corps feels a sudden twinge of hope. But Sean Spicer (Melissa McCarthy) is lurking in the bushes outside, and swiftly barges in, wielding a fire extinguisher to reassert control.
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#EndorseThis: Colbert Solves The Mystery Behind Comey Firing
For the truly gullible, the White House brought forth that letter on the Comey firing from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein -- prompting Colbert to snark that the Department of Justice should be renamed “the Department of Justification.”
By National Memo
This App Is The Best Way To Finally Fly Through Your Reading List
By Sarah Sanchez
#EndorseThis: Samantha Bee Trolls Ivanka (And Her New Book)
Samantha Bee begins with Ivanka’s bizarre repetition of an invented verb -- “architecting” -- and charts the downward literary trajectory of the First Daughter's new book. Given her facility with our language, it’s not surprising that Ivanka relies almost entirely on material “borrowed” from others, tarted up with lots of fancy typefaces.
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