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Weird Week in (Internet) Politics: Trump Retires Cruz’s Nickname, Dumpster Fires, Japan Still Weird

By Shoshana Weissmann

This week, Donald Trump retired Senator Ted Cruz’s nickname, some senators had some harsh words for Trump, and Japan is still weird.

Following a meeting with Cruz, Trump officially retired Cruz’s “Lyin’ Ted” title, and gave it to Hillary.


Also, this is the best theory on how Trump got Cruz to speak at the convention.


Find the background of the Cruz soup can story here.

Senator Jeff Flake ripped Trump to his face… and won. (Emphasis added).

“Listen, I’m not part of this never Trump movement,” Flake said, according to the source, “But I’m in a very uncomfortable position where I can’t support you yet.” The interaction, first reported by the Washington Post, follows a number of highly critical statements Flake has made about Trump’s controversial comments, specifically on Muslims and immigration. The Arizona senator emerged from the meeting saying he can’t support Trump “given the things he said.” Trump responded by threatening to “hit hard” at Flake, according to the source. Trump also told Flake he would not win re-election, to which Flake told him he was not up for re-election this year.


Flake wasn’t the only senator with some good stories coming out of the meeting. See this from Senator Sasse:


Sasse’s spokesman also detailed his reason why the senator will not be attending the GOP convention:

“Sen. Sasse will not be attending the convention and will instead take his kids to watch some dumpster fires across the state, all of which enjoy more popularity than the current front-runners.”


Trump also has some gaps in his constitutional knowledge.


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This also happened:


Meanwhile, in Japan:


Finally, that time Senator Rand Paul quoted Ke$ha.

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