MAGA Day 244, President of the United States compared to a barking dog by tinpot NK regime, whose leader revels in getting Trump's goat: “There is a saying that the marching goes on even when dogs bark,” Ri said, according to South Korea’s Yonhap news agency.  “If he was thinking he could scare us with the sound of a dog barking, that’s really a dog dream,” he added. In Korean, a dog dream is one that makes little sense.

The annual Annenberg Constitution Day Civics Survey: Only 26 percent of respondents can name the three branches of government (executive, judicial, and legislative)... 33 percent could not name any of the three branches, the same as in 2011...

Is 'Muricans learning...? Any guess how many of the 33% who knew not one of the 3 branches are hate radio Fox News junkies, i.e. - Trump's Base?

"I worry that we might not be able to recover from this because all our greatest cities are on the oceans and water's edges, historically for commerce, transportation. And as storms kick in, as water levels rise, they are the first to go," he said. "And we don't have a civilization with the capacity to pick up a city and move it inland 20 miles. That's -- this is happening faster than our ability to respond. That could have huge economic consequences."

President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate was ordered evacuated along with the rest of the exclusive Town of Palm Beach as Hurricane Irma threatened South Florida with catastrophic winds.

Authorities on the barrier island that’s home to Trump’s Winter White House ordered a mandatory evacuation Thursday, urging residents to get out of the town by 5 p.m. 

Daily Beast cybersecurity reporter Joseph Cox was suspended by Twitter after the account was the beneficiary of hundreds of bot followers...after my Daily Beast story about suspicious activity by pro-Kremlin bots went live, my own account came under attack,” Cox wrote.

 Trump wants more disasters, he rescinded Obama's policies on reducing emissions in Paris Accord and for preparing for the increasing severe weather of climate change. Those actions are job creating. Climate denial and complacency is a job killer.

Gov. Abbott, we would like to bid you a political adieu. Perhaps you can devote your time to rebuilding Houston and taking night classes in climate science. Senators Ted Cruz and John Cornyn, you will soon be asking us for money to help Texas. My answer will be yes if you stop spewing lies about climate dangers, agree to put US and Texas policy under the guidance of climate science, back measures to lower carbon emissions and stay in the Paris Climate Agreement....

“So, governor, again, thank very much. And we won’t say congratulations. We don’t want to do that. We don’t want to congratulate,” Trump said.

“We’ll congratulate each other when it’s all finished, but you have been terrific,” 

Trump mixed up two blond, Finnish journalists during a press conference. Finland President Niinistö was taking questions, called on a member of his press pool.Trump quickly chimed in, asking, "Again? You're going to give her the same one?"No, she is not the same lady," Niinistö responded, to laughter from the audience. Whiny Trump:  How long will this thing take if they all get 2 questions?

A character calling himself “Michael the Black Man” has appeared in the crowd directly behind Donald Trump, his name is Michael Woodside....In the early 1990s, the New Times reported, Woodside, Yahweh and 14 other members of the Yahweh cult were arrested by federal agents and charged with racketeering and conspiracy in 14 murders and a firebombing.....His website, has links that lead to another one, honestfact.com, with this: “Real KKK Slave Masters” are “CHEROKEE Indians (Hidden Babylonians).”

Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao stood shoulder-to-shoulder Tuesday with President Donald Trump, the same man who railed against her husband, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, last week and demanded that the lawmaker "get back to work" on health care."I stand by my man -- both of them," Chao said, when asked by reporters what she thought of her boss's criticism of her husband.

A Twitter account dubbed “Yes, You're Racist” is exposing the white nationalists who attended the “Unite the Right” rally at Emancipation Park condemning the city's decision to take down the Robert E. Lee statue....Cole White — a protester pictured on the account — was fired from his job at Top Dog, a restaurant in Berkeley, Calif., the company said.

Trump's comments could be an asset to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro by boosting his credibility as a national defender.

"Maduro must be thrilled right now," said Mark Feierstein, who was a senior aide on Venezuela matters to former U.S. president Barack Obama. "It's hard to imagine a more damaging thing for Trump to say."

“The president doesn’t know whether it’s a Russian bot or not,” said Clint Watt, a former FBI agent and fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, using the term for a fake Twitter account pretending to represent a real person and created to influence public opinion or promote a particular agenda. “He’s just pushing a narrative, whether it’s true or false. 

He later bragged that he won the Granite State because of the opioid epidemic.

"I won New Hampshire because New Hampshire is a drug-infested den," he said.

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is preparing to redirect resources of the Justice Department’s civil rights division toward investigating and suing universities over affirmative action admissions policies deemed to discriminate against white applicants, according to a document obtained by The New York Times....

Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch dissented from part of Wednesday’s order, saying they would have let Trump also refuse entry to grandparents.......Thank you both sides are the same purist voters/nonvoters, for giving us this azz for he next 40 years.