President @realDonaldTrump isn't just one of this country's biggest sports fans—he's also one its greatest athletes (bone spurs notwithstanding).
From the wrestling ring to the golf course, his skills are the stuff of legend.
That being said, there is perhaps no activity that he excels at more than the "sport" of tax fraud—with the possible exception of hide-and-go-seek.
Despite repeatedly claiming to be the "most transparent president in history," Trump has gone to extraordinary lengths to prevent the public from seeing his tax returns, the full Mueller report, his academic records, and more.
Trump's wholly unprecedented efforts to obstruct Congress' traditional oversight role have brought America to the brink of a constitutional crisis.
And, in the process, he has helped Vladimir Putin score another goal.
Morning lineup:
Meet the Press: TBA; Roundtable: TBA.
Face The Nation: Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO); Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA); Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates; Former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson; Roundtable: Susan Glasser (The New Yorker) & David Nakamura (Washington Post).
This Week: Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA); Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ); Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY); Roundtable: Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R), Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D), Maggie Haberman (New York Times) & Seung Min Kim (Washington Post).
Fox News Sunday: White House Economic Adviser Larry Kudlow; Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA); Roundtable: Republican Strategist Josh Holmes, Republican Pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson, Jonathan Swan (Axios) & Juan Williams (Fox News).
State of the Union: Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA); Roundtable: Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL), Former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D), Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake (D) & Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA).
Evening lineup:
60 Minutes will feature: a report on generic drug makers accused of price fixing (preview); a report on The Restorative Justice Project, which brings crime victims face to face with perpetrators (preview); and, an interview with artist Mark Bradford (preview.
Late night shows:
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Monday: Actor Bill Hader; Singer-Songwriter James Bay.
Tuesday: TV Host Gayle King; Anthony Mason & Tony Dokoupil (CBS News); Comedian Pete Holmes; Rock Band The National.
Wednesday: Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett & Tommy Vietor (Crooked Media); Boy Band BTS.
Thursday: Johnny Galecki, Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco, Simon Helberg, Kunal Nayyar, Mayim Bialik & Melissa Rauch (The Big Bang Theory); Rock Band Barenaked Ladies.
Friday: Actress Olivia Wilde; Scott Pelley (CBS News).
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
Monday: Pre-empted.
Tuesday: "What in the World? Outrageous news stories from around the world."
Wednesday: "It's 2020: An overview of some of the many, many Democrats running for president."
Thursday: "The Kid Gloves Come Off: Young people taking an outsized role in politics."
Elsewhere...
Right-wing snowflake Ben Shapiro fled a BBC interview in search of a safe space.
During the pre-taped interview with BBC interviewer Andrew Neil promoting his new book, The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great, Shapiro quickly became perturbed when Neil—who is known for playing devil's advocate in interviews—pressed him on recent attempts to roll back abortion rights, asking the editor-in-chief of clickbait rage factory The Daily Wire if those policies would take America back to the "Dark Ages."
"You purport to be an objective journalist," Shapiro sniped. "BBC purports to be an objective, down-the-middle network. It obviously is not, it never has been. And you as a journalist are proceeding to call one side of the political aisle ignorant, barbaric, and sending us back to the Dark Ages, why don’t you just say you're on the left."
This caused Neil, chairman of conservative magazine The Spectator, to chuckle and tell his guest, "If you only knew how ridiculous that statement is, you wouldn’t have said it."
"You talk about undermining the public discourse," Shapiro whined. "It seems to me that simply going through and finding lone things that sound bad out of context and then hitting people with them is a way for you to make a quick buck on BBC off the fact that I'm popular and no one has ever heard of you." (Interestingly enough, Shapiro’s own website has heard of Neil, lovingly writing up one his segments earlier this year with the cartoonish headline "British Journalist DESTROYS Argument That U.S. Sanctions, Not Socialism, Hurt Venezuela.")
Eventually, Shapiro said that the "whole thing was a waste of time" and he didn't "give a damn" what Neil thought of him, declaring, "I am not inclined to continue an interview with someone as badly motivated as you," before taking off his microphone and declaring "we're done here."
Meanwhile…
MyPillow founder Mike Lindell was forced to layoff 150 employees months after touting the positive effects of Trump's tax cuts on his business.
MyPillow, one of the few remaining advertisers frequently featured on Tucker Carlson's Fox News show, is laying off more than 100 employees not even a year after the company's founder praised President Donald Trump for creating a "booming economy."
This move from Lindell comes less than a year after a June 2018 op-ed he penned for the Duluth News-Tribune where he celebrated Trump's economic policies in a piece titled, "Rest easy, Minnesota; Trump is winning for us."
"After more than 500 days with Donald Trump as our president — with record-low unemployment and a booming economy — it's clear, Minnesota, that we can rest easy," wrote Lindell in the op-ed.
"As a proud American business owner, I have seen firsthand the positive changes President Trump's policies are bringing to our state. Because of the president's historic tax cuts, I was able to give my employees an immediate across-the-board pay raise to help fuel their lives and advance their careers."
A spokesperson for Lindell told HuffPost via email that "the layoffs have nothing to do with what he talked about in that op-ed."
Rest in peace.
– Trix