Trump Day Seven!

[JackLuis]

Donald Trump: A president despised in his own hometown

Imagine knowing your hometown hates you so much that more than 400,000 of its residents will march to your front door just to get the message across.

There's one New Yorker who doesn't need to imagine. Last Saturday—Donald Trump's first full day as president—the scene outside his window was like the boombox scene in Say Anything..., except instead of John Cusack holding a boombox it was nearly half a million women holding signs with slogans like "Eat shit, Trump."

Aha Ha ha ha, 1453 more days of butt hurt for our Dick-tater-tot!

Resist 1460!​

 

[JackLuis]

Bill Nye compares Trump to people who believe in astrology: They’re so invested in belief they ignore facts

Appearing on MSNBC, “Science Guy” Bill Nye explained the pathology of President Trump and why his administration is clamping down on government agency scientists, diagnosing the president with suffering from “cognitive dissonance.”

Speaking with host Joy Reid, the popular science educator was asked about the executive order signed by Trump that critics fear will chill scientific inquiry as the Trump administration substitutes “alternative facts” for peer-reviewed research.

‘Well, any time you’re burning fossil fuels, you authorize more pipelines, you’re headed for trouble in the big picture,” Nye began. “But in the bigger picture is this thing, you know, this word we love, ‘cognitive dissonance,’ this phrase. You have a worldview that disagrees with what you observe. So you might expect, if you were as open-minded as a scientist, as a scientifically-literate voter or taxpayer, you might expect that data would change your mind — but that’s not how people are.”

Resist 1460!​

 

[JackLuis]

White House Thinks Holocaust Was Sort Of A Bummer, It Guesses

It’s been a stressful first week on the job for everyone at the White House, but even so, we don’t think that’s any reason to not take your work seriously, especially not when it comes to issuing a presidential statement for Holocaust Remembrance Day. It’s the kind of thing you want to run by a couple of readers before you send it out, just to make sure you didn’t have a typo or an infelicitous phrasing, or forget some minor detail. You know how touchy people can be about that sort of thing.

Apparently whoever wrote this official statement “by the President” didn’t ask anyone to give his draft a second read. As BuzzFeed’s Chris Geidner says, “This ~probably~ needed another edit”:

Even when he tries to do 'the right thing' he gets it wrong.

Resist 1460!​