Bless her heart
Celebrity model Chrissy Teigen says she is not joking. President Donald Trump has caused her "crippling anxiety," and she wants him to pay for her meds, among which are Botox in her jaw muscles to relieve tension.
"So (expletive) tired of this manically insane, incompetent president and this dumpster fire administration I'm gonna have to go on another med," she said in tweets. "I think I need to either up my dosage or talk to my doctor to 'see what works for me' when the world explodes."
Teigen, who is married to singer John Legend, also tweeted that she "had a tooth shaved down because crippling anxiety makes me grind and rock my teeth on one side." For that, she said, she blames Trump.
She said she didn't have all the problems before the 45th president, who does not schmooze all that is Hollywood and celebrity like his predecessor, took office.
"Pay my bill, (expletive) POTUS," she tweeted.
Affecting sobriety from afar
Montana Fishburne, the daughter of actor Laurence Fishburne, claimed earlier this year she needed help passing her sobriety test because of, well, uh, Trump.
Stopped in March after rear-ending another vehicle on a Florida highway, the 25-year-old woman smelled of alcohol and had an open container of alcohol in her car, according to State Highway Patrol Trooper Jose Pinson. So Pinson told her he would be conducting field sobriety tests.
Unable to perform them correctly, Fishburne began to get irritated.
"I've been arrested before, and I have friends that are police officers - they just got hired," she said. "And not only that, but in the situation that we are going through with Donald Trump - as a Latino American to another Latino American - I would appreciate if you can show me the exercise correctly so I can do it correctly."
Pinson said he could.
"That really makes me feel better," she said, "because I do not like the political situation in America."
It didn't matter. Fishburne's blood alcohol level was above the legal limit, she was arrested, bonded out, pleaded "not guilty" to six DUI-related charges and faces trial later this year.
Regrets? They have a few
A year ago, Democrats were giving Republicans advice on how they could save their party, what they could do to become viable again and - really! - how they could have future Electoral College success. Of course, Republicans would have to take their advice for 2020, because 2016 already was lost, the party having all but nominated Donald Trump as its presidential candidate.
Flash forward a year, Trump is president and a few Democrats now are giving advice to their party. One of those last week was Bob Beckel, co-host of "The Five" on Fox News.
"Let me just say, I'm going to anger my Democratic friends, they're already mad at me about this," he said. "We continue to say we're the party of labor, women, minorities - you know, LGBT - whatever it is. I gave a speech at the Democratic National Convention. I said, 'We've got to stop doing that and get back to where we were built - which is, helping people who are working people.' And they (current Democrats) don't identify with that."
Beckel said he wondered how Republicans got working people to vote for them, but he said "Democrats deserve a lot of responsibility" for the fact they did.
The panel's discussion had its roots in far left comedian Bill Maher's remarks on CNN earlier last week about identity politics hurting the Democratic Party.
"One of the problems the Democrats have," he said, "is that they obsess about things like Halloween costumes and the name of the Washington Redskins. And there's millions of people in this country who are saying, 'How about a little bit more of 'I'm going to get your job back'?'"
Quist's quest
Democrats are desperate to embarrass Republicans by taking one of three congressional seats vacated by members who are now in President Donald Trump's Cabinet. In the first election in Kansas, the Democrat lost. In the second in Georgia, the heavily favored Democrat was pushed into a runoff. In the third in Montana, the Democrat is trailing his Republican opponent by 15 points.
But Rob Quist, in Montana, is no ordinary Democrat. Last week, he suggested those who are skeptical of climate change should kill themselves.
"This is something that the entire world needs to address," he said when given the last word in a debate. "If any those of you that feel like this is not a problem, I challenge you to go into your car in your garage, start your car, and see what happens there."
And there's more.
Quist, a musician, or "cowboy poet," has performed a number of times over the years at a nudist resort in Idaho. And he had his daughter in tow.
But, in the outdoors-loving Western state, he has a bigger problem. He hasn't had a hunting or fishing license in at least 16 years and once supported a gun registry and a single-payer, government-run health care system.
All indications are, on election day, May 25, he'll be shot down.