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The Beauty Of Me Is That I’m Very Rich

 * 1) Handed out with a photo of him signing it, Trump doubles down on Muslim ban
 * 2) Trump has 26 million Twitter followers but is only following 43 people and businesses. And most of those businesses are his own
 * 3) Welcome to the post-truth presidency
 * 4) Trump's new strategy is to make up a conspiracy to deflect from the seriousness of the Russia ties. Yeah, we've been over this, CNN; you're late to the party
 * 5) Trump: "We're going to re-build America with American steel." *offer not valid in United States, check local listings for details
 * 6) Trump attempts to deflect the latest revelation involving one of his staffers coordinating with Russia by going on Twitter and making fake claims about the economy
 * 7) Of the three bills and two executive orders President Trumpler signed yesterday, guess which one wasn't given a signing ceremony or photoshoot
 * 8) First rule of free speech: other people don't get any
 * 9) Is Trumpism the new Punk Rock? Short answer: No. Long answer: Faaaaaaaaaaark NO

I Know Words, I Have The Best Words

 * 1) Looks like Trump is right, News coverage of him is really, really negative. Even on Fox News. To be fair, there are only so many positive ways one can cover a turd

We Had A Massive Landslide Victory

 * 1) Lots of people showed up for "March 4 Trump" rallies across the country, if you count maybe 150 people total as a lot of people

I Won The Popular Vote
if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally

The Show Is ‘Trump’
And it is sold-out performances everywhere
 * 1) Colbert completed Trump's 'say it to my face' challenge
 * 2) Joe Scarborough says he graded Trump on a curve due to his rhetoric, but he gets credit for "not threatening to crush democracy" and seemed "almost normal"
 * 3) With a coherent speech for once, Donald Trump may have just had his Bar Mitzvah moment
 * 4) Apparently not having learned their lesson from the past election, Democrats pick the most underwhelming candidate they could find to deliver the Democratic response to Trump. How underwhelming? Even Rachel Maddow panned him as small and stunty
 * 5) President ME has left the building: Trump references self 60 percent less than Obama in first SOTU address. And remember, this is Donald Trump we are talking about
 * 6) Factchecking of Trump's speech exceeds expectations by 17%
 * 7) Of the three bills and two executive orders President Trumpler signed yesterday, guess which one wasn't given a signing ceremony or photoshoot
 * 8) Trump's first address to congress was watched by three billion people, more than any other American President before him
 * 9) We now know Trump is no ballerina, he didn't have a one-night "pivot" concerning his State of the Union speech, so just stop picturing him in a tutu
 * 10) Fox News was the most-watched cable network for Trump's State of The Confederacy speech
 * 11) "The media's reaction to his speech to Congress was shameful"
 * 12) Hey everyone, looks like everything is running smoothly. Trump's tweets speak for themselves
 * 13) By acting like a paranoid crybaby, Donald Trump has inadvertently destroyed the narrative that Russia hacked our presidential election
 * 14) Trump surprises kids on White House tour because everyone thought he was at Mar-a-Lago again
 * 15) Now that President Trump has figured out this White House gig his approval ratings have started to climb

I Think [Putin Has] Done Really A Great Job Of Outsmarting Our Country

 * 1) It's not every day you get to see Russians run away in panic
 * 2) Trump hotel in Azerbaijan was a front for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard
 * 3) Why did Trump reverse his mandate to use U.S. steel in the Keystone XL pipeline? Nobody knows, but a Russian oligarch with close ties to Putin stands to make a bunch of money from it. Fancy that
 * 4) By acting like a paranoid crybaby, Donald Trump has inadvertently destroyed the narrative that Russia hacked our presidential election
 * 5) Russia to Americans: Calm down sweetheart, you're just being hysterical. Your craziness is hurting our relationship
 * 6) That time when candidate Trump met with the Russian Ambassador and then lied about it
 * 7) Fmr. NSA analyst: Intel sources say White House 'targeting journalists' with 'help from Russian intel' - Nothing to see here, move along comrade

I Will Tell You This, Russia: If You’re Listening ...

 * 1) For no reason whatsoever, Russian hackers are now targeting liberal groups, with the aim of extorting money from them to withhold damaging or embarrassing info they may find by hacking their e-mails
 * 2) How the Russian hacks of the DNC were found
 * 3) Headline: "DHS head: Trump has 'convincing' wiretap proof". Story: DHS head, who apparently was in a coma for the last year, says that since Trump made that claim, he MUST have some pretty good evidence; he wouldn't just make something like that up
 * 4) Not only is the source of Trump being tapped being hacked, but now maybe she's being tapped or attacked for revealing that Russians hackers planted false Hillary mail on Weiner's laptop.Or something. It's not all that clear what's going on. Go figure
 * 5) Wikileaks is publishing all of Donald's secrets. Wait, it's only 1000s of CIA documents? That's not the same thing? But he's the President. Damn you Obama
 * 6) So the CIA stole Russian hacking software to make it look like the Russians were hacking people when it was really the CIA. So was the CIA the real DNC email hacker?
 * 7) Apparently Republicans have become Russia's b*tches

Trust Me. I’m Like A Smart Person

 * 1) Evil liberal leftist enemy of democracy CNN continues to destroy America by praising Donald Trump for using the power of his spoken words to single-handedly send the DJIA soaring 200 points to over 21,000
 * 2) You may be wondering why Elon Musk has been cozying up to the Trump administration. And the new Tesla facilities in Russia is just a coincidence
 * 3) We're paying for this new travel ban by cutting coastal and air security. I'm sure this makes sense to someone, but that someone shouldn't be anywhere near the reins of power

I Have Great Genes

 * 1) Are you ready to hear the V.O.I.C.E. of America?
 * 2) Why Trump's VOICE program is drawing comparisons to Nazis. TL;DR: It's literally a Nazi policy
 * 3) I'm a Jewish American who worked with Steve Bannon. He is not a racist or an anti-Semite
 * 4) GOP congressman says holding town halls is like being yelled at in a ritual "that the Orientals used to do"
 * 5) Guys, it's not a Muslim ban. We know this because Trump told us. Please don't look at his own website telling us how he wants "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States"
 * 6) Ben Carson: Slaves were immigrants who dreamed of a better life

Obama Had My "Wires Tapped"

 * 1) "You know, Mr. President, the Russia stuff is heating up pretty badly. We need something to distract the media. How about...um...I dunno...maybe Obama tapped your phones? Think anyone would believe that?"
 * 2) President Trump has decided to use the power of his office to expose the potential duplicity and unscrupulous behavior of the Obama Administration in the wiretapping of his campaign
 * 3) Mark Levin: "There is overwhelming evidence the Obama administration wiretapped Trump before Trump was sworn in as president, and Democrats are trying to cover that up" Press: "What evidence?" Mark Levin: "OVERWHELMING evidence"
 * 4) Donald Trump: "ZOMG all these people are doing McCarthyism at me, this is evil". President Bannon: "McCarthy was a genius whose only fault was not going far enough"
 * 5) May we present: Trump's proof of the wire tapp. And you know he'd tapp that

I Want To Use Hairspray

 * 1) Flint residents must start paying for water they still can't drink without a filter, because fark you, that's why
 * 2) NOAA to be gutted under Trump. Because who needs accurate weather forecasts, hurricane warnings, and current information on lightning strikes
 * 3) EPA Office of Science and Technology Policy deletes "science" from its science mission statement, replaces it with "technologically achievable"

We Love ‘The Art Of The Deal’
but the Bible is far, far superior
 * 1) God is shielding Trump from witchcraft and sorcery. basically Jeff Sessions is now reactor shielding. so he's got that going for him. which is nice

I Love The Poorly Educated

 * 1) With a coherent speech for once, Donald Trump may have just had his Bar Mitzvah moment
 * 2) The advantage to finally acting sane is that people give you props for that
 * 3) Blaming the Klan on modern Democrats is like blaming the Unabomber on the Montana Territory, which I do so nyeh
 * 4) "I am a passionate believer in integrating and interpreting nature's elements into our daily lives" Did Melania just come out as a Wiccan?
 * 5) The most Fark ready headline that has ever been Fark ready: "Goddamn it, Alex Jones has taken his shirt off again" (WARNING: Alex Jones is shirtless in TFA) (a lot)
 * 6) Legal analysts agree that the likely reason SEC-filed charges were dismissed vs. Texas AG Paxton is because he's a Republican
 * 7) ObamaCare's sudden popularity is a myth - Just 22% of actual enrollees like their ObamaCare plans
 * 8) Democrats: It's bad for Trump's people to meet Russians. Also Democrats: Sure, the Russian Ambassador can visit the Obama White House 22 times
 * 9) Liberal Muslim Female Reporter goes to a college to explain to students why she voted for Trump and supports him
 * 10) In a great confluence of political cross currents of nothingberger, the story that DWS failed to recognize SEAL's widow turns out to be fake, or was it?
 * 11) After every Trump revelation, the following 13 step formula is followed, rinsed and repeated
 * 12) You know you're a lonely person when you find yourself taking a life-sized cardboard cutout of President Trump on camping trips, boat rides, and a country music festival
 * 13) Fox News won't fact check The Big Cheeto's claim about Obama wiretapping him, but they will "fact check" Obama's denial of it. Bonus: There wasn't any fact checking, it was someone's opinion
 * 14) Today is the day that Trump supporters will show their strength in March 4 Trump rallies all across the country. Already tens of Trump supporters have shown up at the National Mall
 * 15) Lots of people showed up for "March 4 Trump" rallies across the country, if you count maybe 150 people total as a lot of people
 * 16) White House press release contains a paragraph copied verbatim from an Exxon press release. If everything in The Swamp™ is killed by an oil spill, maybe that still counts?
 * 17) The serious case for Oprah 2020
 * 18) Mark Levin: "There is overwhelming evidence the Obama administration wiretapped Trump before Trump was sworn in as president, and Democrats are trying to cover that up" Press: "What evidence?" Mark Levin: "OVERWHELMING evidence"
 * 19) Among a group of die-hard Trump supporters who were key to getting him elected "The ..delight... that greeted Donald Trump's victory on November 8 has gradually melted into a mixture of confusion and frustration"
 * 20) Lots of people showed up for "March 4 Trump" rallies across the country, if you count maybe 150 people total as a lot of people
 * 21) Trump's new strategy is to make up a conspiracy to deflect from the seriousness of the Russia ties. Yeah, we've been over this, CNN; you're late to the party
 * 22) Old people back racist party. This is not a repeat of the last 203,324 this has happened
 * 23) Thanks to Trump's war against immigrants and Obamacare, a lot of poor white trash in red states are going to die horrible, painful deaths from preventable illnesses
 * 24) Trump has 26 million Twitter followers but is only following 43 people and businesses. And most of those businesses are his own
 * 25) Midwesterners made Trump the President, now they want him to invent a new reality where automation never happened so they can have a $14/hr job soldering the same wire onto the same contact 3,000 times a day. You know, the American Dream™
 * 26) May we present: Trump's proof of the wire tapp. And you know he'd tapp that
 * 27) Ben Carson: Slaves were immigrants who dreamed of a better life
 * 28) There weren't any MFing immigrants on the MFing slave ships
 * 29) For a renowned surgeon, Ben Carson sure can't surgically remove that foot from his mouth
 * 30) Russian hacking of the DNC is a problem, not a scandal. The scandal is this: Who inside the government of the United States is trying to discredit, damage or destroy the President of the United States?
 * 31) Thanks to Trump's war against immigrants and Obamacare, a lot of poor white trash in red states are going to die horrible, painful deaths from preventable illnesses
 * 32) We're paying for this new travel ban by cutting coastal and air security. I'm sure this makes sense to someone, but that someone shouldn't be anywhere near the reins of power
 * 33) By acting like a paranoid crybaby, Donald Trump has inadvertently destroyed the narrative that Russia hacked our presidential election
 * 34) "It doesn't get any better than this," says quivering mound of hate jello Pat Buchanan, who gleefully revels in Donald Trump's reshaping of the Republican party
 * 35) Why Democrats will eventually come to love Obamacare Lite
 * 36) The latest conspiracy theory from fringe alt-right radio shock jocks? Obama holdovers in government are "committing treason" against Trump to cover up their crimes
 * 37) That time when candidate Trump met with the Russian Ambassador and then lied about it
 * 38) 8 tricks for defending Trump on the left. More tricks on the right
 * 39) Apparently Republicans have become Russia's b*tches
 * 40) Trump surprises kids on White House tour because everyone thought he was at Mar-a-Lago again
 * 41) Now that President Trump has figured out this White House gig his approval ratings have started to climb
 * 42) Animated graph shows how politically polarized the US has become over the last 20 years
 * 43) Fast For Trump
 * 44) Witchcraft, which isn't a real religion and isn't working, is apparently working and the cause of all trump's problems. No this is not a repeat from 1693

It's Totes Okay When We Do It

 * 1) File this under "It's totes okay when we do it"

If You Don’t Tell People About Your Success
they probably won’t know about it
 * 1) A closer look at the disgraceful media response to Trump's "Presidential" racism
 * 2) Foxnews: Full Power to Deflector Shields
 * 3) Sessions was not technically asked if anyone in the Trump campaign talked with the Russians, only what he would do if they had. Therefore it was not perjury when he said no one had communicated with them
 * 4) Claire McCaskill: Jeff Sessions should resign because as a senator he once talked to the Russian Ambassador...you know just like me and every one of my hypocrite DNC colleagues on the Senate Armed Services Committee
 * 5) Fox News CEO is a little concerned about all the fake news they are creating. How concerned? Fake fake concerned
 * 6) Pretty much "Alt" anything is a problem. Don't even get me started on the alt-center
 * 7) Mark Levin knows what's up. It's not the possible collusion between Trump and the Russians we should we worried about, it's the fact that President Obama used his power in office to spy on Trump with a view to undermine his Presidency
 * 8) Breitbart mocks globalist WSJ for suggesting it could support Trump if only he got rid of Steve Bannon and Steve Miller
 * 9) Breitbart: Yo WaPo, while Trump's proposal to publish a list of immigrant crimes and their victims does have Nazi overtones, the big difference is that Hitler did it against loyal, legal, law abiding German Jews, not illegal criminals. So, checkmate

I'll Choose The Best People For My Administration

 * 1) White House press release contains a paragraph copied verbatim from an Exxon press release. If everything in The Swamp™ is killed by an oil spill, maybe that still counts?
 * 2) Are you a legal immigrant? Do you already hold a green card? Well, according to The Chief White House Strategist, and member of the National Security Council, "Legal immigration is the 'real' problem"

Mike Pence
"Vice" President
 * 1) Mike Pence says there's no comparison to Clinton on his private email use, as he's a Republican with a penis
 * 2) Vice President Mike Pence demands apology from media for publishing his wife's private email address... which became a matter of public record because Mike Pence used his private email account to conduct government business

Sean Spicer
White House Press Secretary
 * 1) Spicer will be live on video for his press conference today, this is apparently news as it is not a gaggle nor is it audio only as yesterday's press thing was

Kellyanne Conway
Counselor to the President
 * 1) Kellyanne Conway to be suspended without pay for plugging Ivanka's clothing line and if you believed that for even a moment you really haven't been paying attention

Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III
Attorney General
 * 1) AG Sessions to hold press conference at 4pm Eastern, presumably to tell us that he did not have relations with that country. Or that he did. Either way, grab the popcorn, and here we go, again
 * 2) The media is targeting Jeff Sessions because he uncovered the ultra-secret Department of Justice slush fund that Obama and his predecessors used to keep the media in line
 * 3) Sessions was not technically asked if anyone in the Trump campaign talked with the Russians, only what he would do if they had. Therefore it was not perjury when he said no one had communicated with them

John Gore
Attorney General for Civil Rights

Fox & Friends

 * 1) A minute-by-minute breakdown of two hours of this morning's "Fox & Friends" and President Trump's tweets that soon followed and referenced each story almost verbatim

EPA
Environmental Protection Agency
 * 1) EPA Office of Science and Technology Policy deletes "science" from its science mission statement, replaces it with "technologically achievable"

Secretary of HUD
Housing and Urban Development
 * 1) Ben Carson: Slaves were immigrants who dreamed of a better life
 * 2) There weren't any MFing immigrants on the MFing slave ships
 * 3) For a renowned surgeon, Ben Carson sure can't surgically remove that foot from his mouth
 * 4) Guess who else called slaves immigrants... Oh how the outrage was

We Don’t Want Them In Our Country

 * 1) Watch the liberals. Listen to what they say, because their lies and their slanders are a road map to their plans for the future
 * 2) Congressman Steve King (R-eally Crazy) wants a purge. No, really, he said that
 * 3) President Trump has decided to use the power of his office to expose the potential duplicity and unscrupulous behavior of the Obama Administration in the wiretapping of his campaign
 * 4) Majority of Americans support a special investigation into Russiaghazi and the recusal of Forrest Sessions
 * 5) If the Republican party still has a moral center, it needs to find it or face extinction
 * 6) Trump's desire for a military buildup is a solution to a problem that does not exist and it is dangerous, irrational, and a waste of money
 * 7) Foreign cartoonists inspired by Trump's first month...oh dear
 * 8) "We're protesting injustice for the greater good, man." "You sure about that, hippie?"
 * 9) Fast For Trump
 * 10) Witchcraft, which isn't a real religion and isn't working, is apparently working and the cause of all trump's problems. No this is not a repeat from 1693

I Have My Own Theory On Obama

 * 1) Barack Obama's politically active post-presidency isn't normal, or good
 * 2) 122 "vicious" Gitmo detainees released by Obama have gone back to terrorism, tweets the Trump. Give or take 113 who were released by George W. Bush
 * 3) The latest conspiracy theory from fringe alt-right radio shock jocks? Obama holdovers in government are "committing treason" against Trump to cover up their crimes

The Media Here Is The Opposition Party

 * 1) A minute-by-minute breakdown of two hours of this morning's "Fox & Friends" and President Trump's tweets that soon followed and referenced each story almost verbatim
 * 2) Trump's grandfather once wrote a letter groveling and begging not to be deported

I Will Restore Law And Order To Our Country

 * 1) Guys, it's not a Muslim ban. We know this because Trump told us. Please don't look at his own website telling us how he wants "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States"

I Alone Can Fix It
While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State
 * 1) National Park Service releases hundreds of ground and arial photographs of President Trump's inauguration and yup, looks like we can expect an incoming tweet storm

We May Have To Get You A Larger Room

 * 1) It's Monday, so you know what that means: Trump's own agencies have told him that he's wrong about his weekend conspiracy rant, but he doesn't care and still believes his own derp

When someone crosses you, my advice is ‘Get even!’

 * 1) Fark Politics tab explained: "social media...means that the satire never has to end, that you can always jack right back in, and there's always another person to tell you that those conservative rubes are uncool and unfunny"
 * 2) Newly declassified documents show that it's not just fake news, it's the CIA's news
 * 3) Alex Oronov
 * 4) Who is Alex Oronov? And why, like so many others on the Trump-Putin boundary, is he suddenly dead?
 * 5) David Bossie former Trump Deputy Campaign Manager
 * 6) Everyone in the Trump campaign was rewarded with appointments they were unqualified for--except for Deputy Campaign Manager David Bossie, who was left in the cold. Probably because he never talked to Russia
 * 7) Senator Tom Cotton (R AR)
 * 8) Even Sen. "Tehran Tom" Cotton isn't willing to hop aboard Trump's latest crazy Train
 * 9) Heritage Foundation
 * 10) Heritage Foundation throws down the gauntlet on GOP's joke of an ACA replacement
 * 11) Senator Ben Sasse (R NE)
 * 12) "Meh, he's a crazy asshole. What did you expect? Don't look at us, you voted for the guy." - The GOP Leadership

Always get even. Go after people that go after you

 * 1) Valerie Jarrett has moved in with the Obamas. So that's how it is in their family
 * 2) May we present: Trump's proof of the wire tapp. And you know he'd tapp that
 * 3) Russian hacking of the DNC is a problem, not a scandal. The scandal is this: Who inside the government of the United States is trying to discredit, damage or destroy the President of the United States?
 * 4) There weren't any MFing immigrants on the MFing slave ships
 * 5) That time when candidate Trump met with the Russian Ambassador and then lied about it
 * 6) Senators push to force Southern White House to obey regular White House open records laws
 * 7) No one likes Ryancare because it's either A) too evil or B) not evil enough
 * 8) Fmr. NSA analyst: Intel sources say White House 'targeting journalists' with 'help from Russian intel' - Nothing to see here, move along comrade

No Puppet! No Puppet! You're The Puppet!

 * 1) Blaming the Klan on modern Democrats is like blaming the Unabomber on the Montana Territory, which I do so nyeh