“Trump has been so busy shanking the response to the coronavirus that he forgot about his real passion project: demonizing immigrants. But on Tuesday, Trump went ‘back to the basics’, and issued an executive order barring the US census from counting undocumented immigrants. The order is completely unconstitutional, Congress, not the president, is empowered by the constitution to carry out the ‘actual enumeration of the country’s population’ – but that doesn’t seem to matter. Trump doesn’t take no from the country’s constitution – he just grabs it by the preamble. —Stephen Colbert
“Speaking of unconstitutional, nameless federal agents are still in Portland, Oregon, firing teargas and flash grenades at protesters after days of making unwarranted arrests of protesters in unmarked vehicles. Or, as Trump put it, ‘We are trying to help Portland, not hurt it.’ You want to help the people of Portland? Don’t send in goons to round them up! You buy their organic, fair-trade macramé. The deployment of federal agents in Portland has engendered outrage and disbelief; earlier this week, Oregon’s governor, Kate Brown, said: ‘We cannot have secret police abducting people in unmarked vehicles. I can’t believe I have to say that to the president of the United States.’ Really? You can’t believe that? Because it’s just one of a long list of things you shouldn’t have to say to the president of the United States, like: ‘Frederick Douglass is dead,’ ‘Don’t inject bleach,’ and, ‘You can’t date your daughter.’” —Stephen Colbert
“So, with Americans being infected by the tens of thousands every day and the president’s polls in free fall, yesterday, Trump announced that he is bringing back his coronavirus task force briefings. It’s the reboot nobody asked for: ‘Dirty Grandpa 2020.’” —Stephen Colbert
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