This afternoon TBS's Samantha Bee hosted her special edition of Full Frontal — Not the White House Correspondents' Dinner. She roasted CNN and Fox News as well as presidents Woodrow Wilson, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon and George W. Bush — played by Will Ferrell who Bush recently praised for his SNL impressions on him. But of course, Donald Trump got the most of the roasts.
The last act imagined a world in which Hillary Clinton was president.
President Trump wanted to celebrate his 100th day in office with an image of the 2016 electoral map displayed on the front page of the Washington Post. "He encouraged me to take it home to my colleagues at the Washington Post and try to run it on the front page of our newspaper," said WaPo's Washington Correspondent Philip Rucker during a MSNBC interview Friday.
Why it matters: It has been five months since the election and 100 days since Trump was sworn in as president, yet he continues to have a bizarre, never-ending obsession with how many electoral votes he received — with copies of the electoral map ready to present to anyone who will listen.
Trump in 2012:"The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy." And then in 2016:
The legendary Mark Knoller of CBS News started keeping a few logs during the third year of President Clinton. Knoller's meticulous records grew to more and more aspects of presidential activity under Bush 43 and Obama. From the CBS booth in the White House briefing room, Knoller tells me his most often requested data points are presidential vacations, golf outings and news conferences.
Stats from the first 99 days, courtesy of Knoller:
Speeches and remarks: 145 (Teleprompters used at 28)News conferences: 9 (1 solo, 8 with foreign leaders)Interviews: 32 (of which Fox has gotten 9)Golf: 17 outingsMeetings with foreign leaders: 17Flights on Air Force One: 28Flights on Marine One (the white-topped chopper): 30
