Night 4 of the RNC at the White House: No social distancing, very few masks

Kevin McCarthy claims that the presidential election is not about ... [squints at notes] ... government

I have my doubts about whether the RNC's ongoing effort to portray Trump as a civil rights activist and something akin to a saint will be effective

wut

Mitch McConnell falsely claims Democrats want to regulate how many hamburgers you can pack into your belly

Ironically, Trump's mishandling of the pandemic has made scenes like this impossible. Sports with fans are canceled.

A balanced federal budget and the border wall that Mexico was going to pay for could not be reached for comment

Trump's friend Jeffrey Epstein recruited girls that he later trafficked at Trump's private Mar-a-Lago club

Trump has actually spent months denigrating America's cities as hellholes of crime and disorder

Guys, I used to think Trump was racist, but Ben Carson just convinced me otherwise

Damn, President Biden is really letting US cities go to shit

... is this a threat?

Rudy Giuliani is making a case that four more years of Trump are needed to save America from Donald Trump's America

I LOL'd when Rudes touted Trump's "disciplined work ethic"

Tom Cotton, whispering, is engaged in the worst pillow talk of all time

when did this happen?

we will all be dust and bones and Trump will be promising infrastructure week

it is galling to see a giant TRUMP/PENCE sign at the White House, which is not supposed to be used for partisan politicking

Ivanka is dressed for a funeral

i agree with Ivanka. the results speak for themselves.

Trump literally said "it is what it is" about the US coronavirus death toll, which now stands at over 180,000

Ivanka Trump has said "my father" at least 16 times and counting

some red meat for the QAnon base

This was *a lot* of steps for Trump to handle

Trump claiming Robert Trump is in heaven reminded me of the times he suggested John McCain and John Dingell are in hell

portrait of a superspreader event

Trump is reading very strongly. At times it sounds like Gregorian chanting.

"I also want to thank my amazing daughter Ivanka for that introduction, and all of my children" -- Trump's non-Ivanka children hardest hit

"In America, we do not turn to government to restore ourselves. We put our faith in almighty God," says the guy running to head the government

Trump, who has been accused of sexual misconduct by more than 20 women, has jokes about Joe Biden

Trump misreads "proudly" as "profoundly"

what happened after that?

(it's also not true that the 2019 US economy was the "best in the history of the world")

VA Choice was signed into law by President Obama in 2014

LBJ and the black president that Trump spread racist conspiracy theories about could not be immediately reached for comment

Trump botches Soleimani's name

"Thanks to advancements, we have pioneered the fatality rate." #wut

Trump somehow messed up reading the word "while"

what happened the 3 months before that?

"We have to wait for the call. It is too bad we have to, but we have to wait for the call." -- Trump laments that he can't invade cities without the consent of local officials

Trump's handlers when his speech finally ends Friday evening

We are all Wilbur Ross

"The fact is, we're here and they're not" -- Trump rubs our noses in the fact he's using the White House as a political prop

Trump botches reading the word "reliance"

Trump is trying to make us all die of old age with this unending speech

"We will fully restore patriotic education to our schools" -- say what?

Trump has now been speaking for 65 minutes and counting

Bob Dylan's latest kinda stinks

If a guy at the bar was going on like this in this monotone, you would quickly slide to the next stool down

After 70 minutes, a somnambulant Trump is finally done

The optics of Trump using the White House as a political prop represented a notable step in America’s decline into autocracy #RNC2020 https://www.vox.com/2020/8/28/21405150/trump-rnc-speech-optics-white-house-used-as-prop-hatch-act