NFL ratings were up compared to overall TV ratings

Trump will ramp up his attacks on the NFL before the election because his base likes them. The league gets what they deserve for caving in to him. Since he knows the owners are weak, the bully will keep badgering them. Sad!

NFL ratings are not down, no matter how many times Donald Trump claims they are. They were actually up in 2017, relative to general TV viewership: https://t.co/5fQ26a1Kdy

— Deadspin (@Deadspin) July 6, 2018

NASCAR viewers are down 19%. This year's NCAA tournament ratings were down 11%. NHL regular season ratings were down 12% this year. The NFL only went down 9%, but please, tell me about anthem kneelers. https://t.co/Zf4L7g5im4

— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) July 10, 2018

Congressional districts affected by the soy tariffs

Most voted for Trump. I don’t feel sorry for them. He’s doing what he said he would do.

Here are the 30 congressional districts hit hardest by the new soy tariffs: 25R, 5D — but all 30 districts voted for Trump in '16 (https://t.co/qbb1O0qRI3) pic.twitter.com/5sKATtXuAg

— Joshua Green (@JoshuaGreen) July 6, 2018

“The best people”

Who’s going to work for Trump in the later years of his term? He attacks his appointees publicly and nobody that I can think of has benefitted from working for him after their time in the administration.

This administration is running so smoothly. https://t.co/LnKaiPhnbY

— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) July 6, 2018

Trump designated 24 Cabinet-level offices, and no president in the last 40 years has had as much turnover in those positions as quickly as Trump has. https://t.co/BBbAjipzlj pic.twitter.com/VrqXXg71Br

— FiveThirtyEight (@FiveThirtyEight) July 6, 2018

President Trump’s record-breaking staff churn continued with Scott Pruitt's resignation. Pruitt is the 5th cabinet-level official to be forced out or resign since Trump took office. https://t.co/ZpyA4pRRM9

— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) July 6, 2018

"All told, Trump has had more turnover of Cabinet-level positions than any president at this point in their tenure in the last 100 years." https://t.co/lBbjz8aERk

— Garrett M. Graff (@vermontgmg) July 5, 2018

Trump has had the most Cabinet-level staff turnover at this point in his presidency than any other president in the past 100 years. https://t.co/I1deH7j3Je

— Vox (@voxdotcom) July 5, 2018

Me, on the revolving door nature of the Trump White House pic.twitter.com/5eisknnAlO

— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) July 6, 2018

With Scott Pruitt's resignation, our Trump administration departure tracker rolls back to zero https://t.co/99wzp6zVn9 pic.twitter.com/irf5lgsEmQ

— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 5, 2018

Trump’s racist attack on Maxine Waters

Trump’s comment was racist and based on nothing. I don’t see any Republican leaders objecting to it. They know their base has lots of racists in it who approve of Trump’s attacks.

Trump says Maxine Waters's IQ is "in the mid-60s."

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 5, 2018

He keeps doing it and no Republicans object to his racism.

Trump calls Rep. Maxine Waters, a black woman, "a low-IQ individual." She's the only Democratic House non-leader he regularly disparages at his red-state rallies.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 20, 2018

Only one word for it: racist. https://t.co/fHPU136LvM

— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) October 23, 2018

Why does the GOP tolerate the disgraceful way Trump attacks @RepMaxineWaters? It makes me cringe every time I hear him disparage her, and we all know why he does it. There are no dog whistles here, only explicit calls to racism. https://t.co/yyRYZqZdeo

— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) October 28, 2018

Trump’s bigoted use of “Pocahontas”

I am skeptical of Elizabeth Warren’s claim of Native American ancestry. It sounds like it can’t be proven or disproven.

However, Trump’s behavior is disgusting. In addition to slurring Native Americans, he mocked the #MeToo movement.

Trump suggests he would like to test Elizabeth Warren for Native American heritage, "but we have to do it gently because we're in the MeToo generation." pic.twitter.com/kgQ54Lxqbo

— Axios (@axios) July 6, 2018

President Trump mocks the #MeToo movement in an attack on Sen. Elizabeth Warren's heritage during a Montana rally https://t.co/dfyEUAoGtY pic.twitter.com/AEyliWG8dn

— CNN (@CNN) July 6, 2018

Sen. Elizabeth Warren fires back at heritage challenges made at a Montana rally, telling President Trump to worry less about her genes and more about separated families at the border.

Read more: https://t.co/cBcxaBqb6T pic.twitter.com/sM5QF7zVlB

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) July 6, 2018

I don't know and frankly don't care whether or not Elizabeth Warren is native American. What I do care about is that my President looks like a racist when he calls her 'Pocahontas' on a national stage. 12 News #12news https://t.co/CfuIzdazRZ

— MARK CURTIS (@mcurtis12news) July 6, 2018

Donald Trump spends large amounts of time personally attacking women leaders (Warren, Waters, etc) and tonight he is making fun of the MeToo movement.

— Matthew Dowd (@matthewjdowd) July 6, 2018

Repeated attacks on Maxine Waters and Elizabeth Warren show, again, that Trump’s hostility toward women knows seemingly no bounds https://t.co/NcwXAacypO

— VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) July 6, 2018

Fact check

Trump’s rally in Montana on July 5th

Trump made 30 false claims in his wild Montana rally speech. With 43 false claims, last week was the eighth-most-dishonest of his presidency: https://t.co/WABsqGpdpo

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 10, 2018

Trump’s presentation at the MT rally was steeped in grievance. People close to him believe he was angry about having to fire Pruitt and lashed out publicly at almost everyone else (except Putin) in his remarks.

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) July 6, 2018

"A vote for the Democrats in November is a vote to let MS-13 run wild in our communities." — Trump https://t.co/Mc1SqlPCqv

— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) July 6, 2018

This @ESCochrane story does an excellent factual job capturing tonight's weirdness. https://t.co/IQGG7zJdlp pic.twitter.com/2D4PQYqVZZ

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 6, 2018

Daniel Dale thread during the rally:

Trump: "We will never, ever surrender. We will never, ever quit. We go forward to victory."

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 5, 2018

Trump shared 18 false claims about everything from food stamps to the proposed border wall at his Montana rally on Thursday https://t.co/2OXOfrhof9

— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 6, 2018

W/o question, Trump’s Catskills roast of a rally on July 5 was a gasp-worthy disaster. Still, it was, as we used to say, just more of the “same old, same old.” An hour-long rant that mixed the greatest hits from his racist and xenophobic campaign with some flecks of new material. pic.twitter.com/LF78F491l9

— Jonathan Capehart (@CapehartJ) July 9, 2018

Trump supporters don’t mind the lies

On my radio show earlier this wk, I asked Trump supporters if they were ok with Trump lying so much. I told them that I wasn't.

The consensus? The vast majority of callers said they're ok with all Trump's lying because he's "their guy."

Their response left me pretty damn sad.

— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) July 5, 2018

Fascinating to hear Trump supporters’ responses when asked about his false statemnts. Responses tend to be:

—They’re not false. Fake news to say so.

—All pols lie. He’s no diffrnt.

—His falsehoods are trivial. Other pols lie about import stuff

—The economy’s doing great.

— Paul Farhi (@farhip) July 6, 2018

Trump lies about a lawsuit ruling

The judge did not say there was no collusion. Just another Trump lie!

Wrong. This was a jurisdiction issue. The judge herself wrote: "This Court’s ruling is not based on a finding that there was no collusion between defendants and Russia during the 2016 presidential election." https://t.co/QTm74XcIJI

— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) July 6, 2018

Lawsuit was filed by donors to the DNC and a former staffer, not the DNC itself. More importantly, judge's decision was about jurisdiction, not collusion. The judge wrote: "It bears emphasizing that this Court’s ruling is not based on a finding that there was no collusion…" pic.twitter.com/b2GtV9BGmL

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 6, 2018

The lawsuit wasn't filed by the DNC, and the judge dismissed it because it was brought in the wrong courthouse. The plaintiffs can just file the lawsuit in another jurisdiction. https://t.co/tMYOZwBMXa

— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) July 6, 2018

New Washington Post poll

Democrats have a 10 percent lead in the generic congressional ballot. That should be enough for them to win the House if it holds up.

Most Americans oppose key parts of Trump immigration plans, including the wall and limits on citizens bringing family to the U.S., a poll says https://t.co/fOf51dLb9s

— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 6, 2018

Think this poll question is at least worth thinking about… Immigration focused voters are still pro-GOP. (Though Dems are somewhat more trusted on immigration among overall voters.) Dems lead overall by 10 on the generic ballot in this poll… https://t.co/vQ4qvQQMg1 pic.twitter.com/sJRZnTvrj6

— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) July 6, 2018

From the Post article: “Two in 3 Americans say the president tells the truth only some of the time or hardly ever, a finding consistent across battleground and non-battleground districts. More than one third of all Americans say he hardly ever tells the truth.
Nearly half of all Americans (48 percent) say that, regardless of their personal feelings about the president, they think he is doing more to damage important values. Not quite 4 in 10 (37 percent) say he is doing more to protect those values.”

New WaPo poll today reveals how Americans feel about Trump's #tradewar

52% of Americans agree w/Trump that America has been taken advantage of on trade.
BUT 56% think the tariffs are bad for jobs
And 74% think the tariffs will make prices rise.#trade pic.twitter.com/NEo9ZNimiu

— Heather Long (@byHeatherLong) July 6, 2018

Trump is making more false claims

The pace is picking up. Daniel Dale of the Toronto Star does a great job of tracking Trump.

Before this month, Trump had never made more than 60 false claims in a week. In the last two weeks, he's made 103 and 100. Here's the chart showing how exceptional these weeks have been: pic.twitter.com/aPY7L26ApS

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 6, 2018