Perhaps it is simply us, but it surely appears as if everybody was on pins and needles final week. Between the looming shutdown of the US authorities, fretting over President Trump praising anti-abortion efforts, and everybody questioning simply why Ja Rule was a trending topic on Twitter (no, actually, why?), there was a whole lot of trigger for unease—and that feeling unfold. Nonetheless, it’s not all worrying; no less than Superman found his red trunks again. There is good on the planet. After which there’s additionally all of this, too.

The Actual Faux Information Awards

What Occurred: It took a while, however the president lastly bought round to releasing his Faux Information Awards final week. It was not a easy rollout.

What Actually Occurred: Bear in mind earlier this month when Trump mentioned he was going at hand out awards for the media he discovered to be probably the most dishonest of their reporting? No? That is OK. Lots has occurred since then. This is a refresher.

Although you should not have forgotten concerning the awards, they have been a giant deal.

You see? Even President Trump says that the “significance” of the awards is “far higher than anybody might have anticipated.” Nicely, final Wednesday he made good on his promise. Form of.

The issue—properly, one of the issues, let’s be trustworthy—was that the hyperlink didn’t work, which Twitter was very joyful to notice.

And when the hyperlink ultimately did work, it wasn’t as if the response improved a lot. For one factor, individuals have been upset that the awards have been hosted by the official Republican Occasion web site, and never the White Home’s.

After which there’s the precise “awards” themselves, which turned out to be … not precisely awards?

Positive, the stunt got a lot of media coverage, however when the president fails at fact-checking his personal declarations of Faux Information, the whole lot actually begins to seem like it is occurring within the Upside Down—or Irony Land.

The Takeaway: An occasion with a giant build-up that was undone by a web site that wouldn’t load when everybody wished to see it, after which upset others when it will definitely did present up. What was that about historical past repeating itself?

Trump’s Checkup

What Occurred: Is Donald Trump match to carry the Oval Workplace? Medically talking, sure—except you take heed to some medical specialists who don’t work for the President of the USA.

What Actually Occurred: Yearly, the President of the USA undergoes a bodily to ensure that he’s, you understand, as much as the job of being the chief of the free world. Given what has change into recognized of his diet, many questioned if the White Home was going to quietly skip the annual custom of publicly saying the outcomes. And but…

…The outcomes of the bodily, as introduced during a lengthy press conference, have been stunning to many.

Oh, don’t fear; there have been positively conspiracy theories abounding about a number of the outcomes.

Nonetheless, because it turned out, it wasn’t simply conspiracy theorists who have been calling shenanigans. Many medical professionals read the results and urged he has coronary heart illness and is overweight. However that’s not what the White Home says, and a few days after the official launch of the outcomes, the president fortunately shared the train regime that allowed him to be so wholesome.

We sense a exercise video within the making!

The Takeaway: Can anybody make an argument that these top and weight statistics are correct?

Turns Out, Intercourse and Politics Is Nonetheless an Amazingly Potent Mixture

What Occurred: Final week one other political scandal grabbed everybody’s consideration—and this one had a porn star.

What Actually Occurred: Given the metabolism of the information cycle, you’d’ve been forgiven for pondering that the revelation that Donald Trump’s lawyer paid adult actress Stormy Daniels $130,000 to keep quiet about an alleged affair can be a one-day story at finest. Seems, not a lot.

Whereas individuals questioned who had the story early—a surprising number have been apparently chasing this down earlier than the 2016 election—it turned out that one outlet positively had the dust all alongside: In Contact journal, which had an on-the-record interview with Daniels—one which supplied loads extra particulars to maintain this story alive.

Because it seems, different individuals had seen a similarity, because the In Contact piece revealed.

What else?

That’s not the one new element that got here out final week, both.

After which there’s the query of the place the cash got here from. However don’t fret, that additionally got answered in an appropriately forehead-slapping second.

The Takeaway: Perhaps there’s a manner this may be spun right into a win by the president?

The Opinion Pages

What Occurred: It’s onerous for the Forgotten Males and Ladies of America to earn that title when the New York Occasions can’t assist however promote them at each given alternative.

What Actually Occurred: It is about to be the one-year anniversary of the Trump presidency, which suggests it’s time to go searching and take inventory of what is occurred, what modifications have been introduced by the present administration, and replicate.

Or, you understand, there’s that choice. The Occasions changed it’s editorial web page on Thursday with letters from those that voted for Trump and didn’t remorse it, arguing that it did so “within the spirit of open debate.” It’s truthful to say that lots of people didn’t agree.

There’s one thing to be mentioned for exposing individuals to opinions and outlooks that they wouldn’t usually see. Nevertheless, the common consensus was this didn’t do that. Was there something to study from these letters, although?

OK, possibly not.

For these questioning, the Occasions did attempt for steadiness, following up the letters from Trump voters who love Trump with letters from Trump voters who aren’t so sure anymore. It’s a begin, proper?

The Takeaway: If nothing else, at all times bear in mind… it could possibly be worse.

I Don’t Know What’s Occurred to the Children At present

What Occurred: You’re solely as younger as you are feeling, though science would really like you to know that you just could be youthful than you suppose.

What Actually Occurred: Excellent news for these criticized for by no means rising up: Scientists at the moment are saying that adolescence lasts until your mid-20s. Hey, collective grown kids that represent the web, how do you really feel about this information?

…That appears about proper.

The Takeaway: If solely there was some option to blame millennials for all of this, what with their avocado toast and their not shopping for homes…