Donald Trump: why do people want him to be president? This is a question the media is still trying to figure out, and to that end CNN convened a focus group in Connecticut to hear directly from die hard Trump supporters themselves, and damn did one lady really deliver.

“I’m doing good for the Muslims,” Donald Trump told Don Lemon in an interview on “CNN Tonight” tonight on CNN. “Many Muslim friends of mine are in agreement with me. They say, ‘Donald, you brought something up to the fore that is so brilliant and so fantastic.’”

Erick Erickson—the influential conservative blogger, Atlanta-area radio host, and Fox News talking head—published a curious claim on Twitter this past Monday, which marked the 74th anniversary of the Imperial Japanese Navy’s coordinated attack on Hawaii’s Pearl Harbor in 1941. “Growing up, I remember my parents never letting us have Asian food on December 7th,” he tweeted. “They were children of WWII.” He later noted that his sister remembered the same tradition.

You may have thought that Donald Trump’s vague and fascist proposal to ban all Muslims from entering America was absurd. Republican voters disagree.

Last August, Time took some photographs of a bird-brained, predatory beast to add a bit of color to its Person of the Year line-up. A bald eagle was also present.

On Tuesday evening, the Associated Press reported that Donald Trump would visit Jordan, a majority-Muslim monarchy, during his trip to Israel at the end of December. Trump promptly tweeted that he would not be visiting Jordan. (Probably for the best.)

After calling for a “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States” yesterday, Donald Trump sat down with Barbara Walters, his personal friend of many years, for an interview on ABC’s World News Tonight. Walters asked Trump the tough questions, like “Do you regret your ban on Muslims, which some people think is un-American?” and “Are you a bigot?”

Jeb Bush has suffered at the hands of Donald Trump, who has taken special glee in taunting all of his weaker opponents in the Republican field, but especially so the one-time presumed frontrunner from a previously untouchable political dynasty. Today, Jeb revealed what might be his final attempt at felling the orange beast: perpetuating the conspiracy theory that Trump was planted in the GOP race by the Clinton family.

“I think Mr Trump’s somewhat knee-jerk reaction to this, saying that all Muslims should be banned from coming into America was perhaps for him a political mistake too far.” — Nigel Farage, leader of Great Britain’s far-right populist anti-immigration party UKIP, to the BBC.

This morning, Donald Trump made a counterintuitive comparison in order to endear himself to his seething reactionary base: I am like Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the famously big-government president who was described as a socialist in his day, he said. To quell his supporters’ fears, he clarified that he wasn’t talking about the good parts of FDR—just the one really, really bad part.

On Tuesday, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump proposed that all Muslims should be banned from entering the United States “until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on.” This is not a departure from Trump’s earlier rhetoric but its logical conclusion—but what logic is that, exactly?

When even Dick Cheney, a man who has both been accused of war crimes and shot his friend in the face, deserts you, it can’t be a good sign.

After spending the afternoon revealing just how profoundly racist certain pockets of American citizens actually are, KKK scion Donald Trump also managed to secure the roaring approval of the internet’s preeminent white supremacist news source, The Daily Stormer.

Bakersfield, California news station KGET, known far and wide as a bastion of objective journalism, took the time out on Monday to get a “man on the street” perspective of the vile torrent of racism spewing forth from Donald Trump’s mouth hole.

On Monday evening, after proposing a (temporary) ban on Muslims entering the United States, Donald Trump attended the Pearl Harbor Day Rally, at the USS Yorktown, in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. “It takes courage to run for president,” Trump said. “Believe me.”

It’s only been a few minutes since the Trump campaign called for an open, sweeping policy of institutional bigotry at the federal level, and already his Republican rivals are chiming in.

Donald Trump, at once the most verbose and inarticulate candidate the country has ever seen, is just not getting the chance to spew his bumbling inaccuracies these days.

Never one to pass up a televised appearance, Donald Trump announced this week he’ll still do the CNN debate, even if they don’t pay him $5 million for the privilege.

At a campaign rally in Manassas, Virginia, yesterday, Donald Trump hoisted a young boy into the air so that he could ask a darling little question: “What will the wall be made out of?”

Good morning.