On Monday, actor Scott Baio somewhat inexplicably addressed the Republican National Convention on the subject of making America great, and also and safe. “So of course, let’s make America great again,” he said, “but let’s make America America again.” What?

Just after closing a Facebook Live broadcast from today’s pro-Trump “America First” rally, I came across these two gentlemen beginning a duet performance in front of a robust police line. Listen to their whole song and see if you can tell me whether they’re for Trump or against him.

CLEVELAND — In 2012, the non-TV press at least had a halfway decent view of the stage. The press stand seats here in Quicken Loan Arenas are effectively behind the podium, which will eventually have the unintended effect of making it clear to the media when any speaker goes off-prompter (not that anyone scheduled to speak this week is known for that, or anything).

CLEVELAND — In the public square on Monday, as religious fundamentalists condemned sodomy to anyone who would listen, William Hale made sure his dog, wearing a vest laden with GoPro video cameras, was staying hydrated. “A lot of people ask if the dog is a boy or a girl,” he told Gawker. “I try to be gender neutral. It’s just ‘Liberty.’”

The Republican National Convention isn’t just about putting the GOP’s shiny new nominee on display. It’s also the perfect place for good, hard-working American vendors to hawk their wares. Wares like this rhinestone-covered box for Trump. Guess how much this box costs.

A tragic detail stands out from the New York Times’ recap of the comedy of errors that led to Donald Trump confirming Mike Pence as his running mate—big baby Chris Christie begging Trump to reconsider like he ever had a chance in the first place.

About 50 Donald Trump-supporting motorcyclists rolled out of the parking lot of the Rock-n-Roll City Harley-Davidson dealership this morning in Cleveland, headed to a rally where speakers such as the conspiracist radio host Alex Jones and right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos would extoll the virtues of the candidate later in the afternoon. Whether in an effort to better understand the Trump phenomenon or the Biker phenomenon, I can’t really say, but, I spoke with several of them before they departed for the event.

CLEVELAND — Outside the Republican National Convention on Monday, Gawker ran into Matthew Heimbach, a podcast host for The Daily Stormer, who is encouraging delegates to write in the late George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party, for president. Donald Trump, Heimbach said, doesn’t go far enough. “He needs to become an ethno-nationalist. He needs to understand that a people is the basis of a nation,” he said. “Specifically, white people.”

On Sunday, 60 Minutes aired the first interview with Donald Trump and 100 percent, totally, for sure running mate Mike Pence. It, um, probably could have gone better.

Here is a theory: Jared Kushner blocked Chris Christie from becoming Donald Trump’s vice presidential nominee as revenge for his father.

Donald Trump has been called impulsive, disorganized, and a messy bitch who lives for drama. If reports from at least two sources regarding the process of ultimately picking Indiana Governor Mike Pence as his running mate are true, he is all of that and more.

With racial tensions, inequality, and populist rage set to boil over, some fear America could be on the path to a violent confrontation between the angry Trumpies and the equally angry lefties. Before we decide to start this war, we must ask: who would win?

It’s Pence! Really this time. Definitely. Almost certainly.

According to health department records and apparently unsatisfied customers, up until very recently the Trump Taj Mahal casino and hotel in Atlantic City was crawling with mice, roaches, and bed bugs.

Hat in hand, the organizers of the Republican National Convention have asked Las Vegas billionaire Sheldon Adelson and his wife Miriam to help them out of a $6 million hole, according to a letter obtained by Politico.

On Thursday, the New York Times reported that former college football star Tim Tebow would be speaking at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. This, apparently, was news to Tebow as much as it was to anyone else.

According to CNN, Donald Trump asked Mike Pence to be his running mate early Thursday evening and Pence accepted, but (as the Indiana governor is surely learning) even the clearest decision is always up for negotiation to Trump. Just hours later, the candidate told Fox News he has yet to make up his mind about who he’s taking to the election, saying, “I’ve got three people that are fantastic” and “I haven’t made my final, final decision.”

On Thursday night, Donald Trump announced on Twitter that he was rescheduling a press conference to reveal his vice presidential pick originally slated for Friday morning due to the recent attack in Nice, France.

Tomorrow, Donald Trump will supposedly announce our country’s future Vice President. Currently, all signs seem to point to the notoriously homophobic governor of Indiana, Mike Pence. And it is almost certainly going to be Mike Pence. But, Mr. Trump, I beg of you: If you’re going to choose a monster, and not a member of your family, please choose Newt Gingrich.

Remember 2012? Love was in the air, and the sense that our country and the world were hurtling toward some irreversible catastrophe was not—not yet, anyway. But disaster was on the horizon for at least two people in America, and there was no closer observer of their decline than future GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump.