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Monday's morning report on the doings at Camp Runamuck comes courtesy of Tiger Beat On The Potomac, where we learn that the staff does its best to keep the boss happy, and that's terrifying.

Just days earlier, K.T. McFarland, the deputy national security adviser, had given Trump a printout of two Time magazine covers. One, supposedly from the 1970s, warned of a coming ice age; the other, from 2008, about surviving global warming, according to four White House officials familiar with the matter. Trump quickly got lathered up about the media's hypocrisy. But there was a problem. The 1970s cover was fake, part of an Internet hoax that's circulated for years. Staff chased down the truth and intervened before Trump tweeted or talked publicly about it.

Then, they all ran down the block to the Treasury Department to stop payment on a massive check that had been written to an exiled Nigerian prince.

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No there was never a @TIME cover on surviving the 'coming ice age' per @bryanrwalsh This is actual cover from 2007 https://t.co/ogcSC5mqej pic.twitter.com/pjApxoDJWt — Ben Goldberger (@BenGoldberger) May 15, 2017

They're one step away from shooting him full of horse tranquilizers so that the staff can get some rest.

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Charles P. Pierce Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976.

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