There's an old adage—usually credited to Abraham Lincoln or Mark Twain—that goes a little something like this: "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."
Well, this week, Donald "The Donald" Trump (repeatedly) proved that adage true.
Mere hours after a gunman committed the worst mass shooting in U.S. history, Trump was busy congratulating himself for his supposed prescience on Twitter—this, despite the RNC's request that he kindly STFU and show some respect for the deceased.
Then, much to the dismay of Republicans on Capitol Hill, he suggested that President Obama is in league with ISIS (although, in his defense, he didn't go so far as to claim that Obama was "directly responsible" for the Orlando shooting).
And Trump would've gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for those meddling reporters at the Washington Post.
By the end of the week—which marked the one-year anniversary of his campaign—the polls were not looking good for Trump.
In fact, if the election were held today, it's likely that Hillary Clinton would be doing so much winning that you'd be begging her to stop.
You don't have to take my word for it ... ask the gays.
Morning lineup:
Meet the Press: U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch; House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI); Roundtable: Jose Diaz-Balart (MSNBC/Telemundo), Gwen Ifill (PBS), Mark Halperin (Bloomberg News) & Katy Tur (NBC News).
Face The Nation: U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch; Cheeto Jesus Donald Trump (R); Executive VP of the NRA Wayne LaPierre; Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA); Former CIA Deputy Director Mike Morrell; Former Homeland Security Advisor to GWB Fran Townsend; Roundtable: Ruth Marcus (Washington Post) & Michael Gerson (Washington Post).
This Week: U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch; Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX); Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT); Chris Cox (NRA Institute for Legislative Action); Roundtable: Molly Ball (The Atlantic), Rich Lowry (National Review), LZ Granderson (ESPN) & Republican Strategist Kristen Soltis Anderson.
Fox News Sunday: U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch; Trump Campaign Manager Corey Lewandowski; Roundtable: Brit Hume (Fox News), Amy Walter (Cook Political Report), George Will (Washington Post) & Juan Williams (Fox News).
State of the Union: U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch; Trump Campaign Chair Paul Manafort; Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI).
Evening lineup:
60 Minutes will feature: a report on "smart gun" technology (preview); a report on the "top secret" 28 pages of the Congressional 9/11 report (preview); and, a report on an extreme sportsman descending the Eiger (in the Bernese Alps) the way James Bond might do it. (preview).
Late night shows:
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Monday: Actor Alexander Skarsgard; Actress Natasha Leggero; Musician Ziggy Marley.
Tuesday: Actress Aubrey Plaza; Actor Hugh Dancy; TV Personality Andrew Zimmern.
Wednesday: Actress Uzo Aduba; Singer Adia Victoria.
Thursday: Actor Paul Dano; TV Personality RuPaul; Musical Group Rascal Flatts.
Friday: Actor/Comedian Kevin Hart; Actress Taylor Schilling; Rapper 2 Chainz.
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
Monday: Singer Jack Garratt; Tuesday: TV Host Tavis Smiley; Wednesday: Mark Halperin & John Heilemann (Bloomberg News); Thursday: Rapper Macklemore.
Elsewhere...
A report emerged that Chris Christie has been relegated to Trump's "manservant."
Chris Christie, the sitting governor of New Jersey, has been diminished to an errand boy for Donald Trump's campaign, according to a New Yorker report published online on Monday.
"[Christie] has transformed himself into a sort of manservant, who is constantly with Trump at events," Ryan Lizza wrote in the magazine's June 20 issue. Lizza also said one anonymous Republican source told him a friend on Trump's campaign "used Snapchat to send him a video of Christie fetching Trump's McDonald's order."
The piece, which traces Republicans coming to terms with Trump as the presumptive nominee, is the latest humiliation for Christie since he became a prominent surrogate for the businessman's campaign.
But...
The governor's camp quickly pushed back on that characterization.
Unpopular New Jersey governor Chris Christie wants to make it abundantly clear that he is a confidant of Donald Trump, and not a "manservant," as one news story recently suggested.
The Christie camp's fervent efforts to dispel this characterization of the failed presidential candidate come just one day after a New Yorker article portrayed Christie as a valet of sorts to the New York billionaire.
Christie's office was quick to rebut the report. "We categorically deny this ridiculous, completely invented scenario, which the writer attributed to an unnamed source's anonymous friend," spokesperson Brian Murray told USA Today. "The fact that the writer relegated this bit of sleaze between parenthesis certainly indicated he knew it was pure trash that has to be carefully separated from the rest of the story."
Sad!
– Trix