Full Frontal valiantly tries to cool down, redirect liberal Trump-impeachment fever
Six months into the Trump presidency and you are already hearing a lot about Watergate, "the original recipe of gates," Samantha Bee said on Wednesday's Full Frontal. "But the thrilling discovery that Nixon's presidency was cut short after a mere 67 months in office may be making liberals a bit giddy." Full Frontal sent correspondents Mike Rubens and Ashley Nicole Black to a Trump impeachment rally in California, and they went back and forth between asking questions and openly rolling their eyes.
Impeachment would require an improbable chain of events beginning with House Speaker Paul Ryan, passing through Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and ending up with Republicans voting to convict and sack their own president, Rubens notes. "That's why more presidents have been removed from office by cholera than impeachment." Still, the liberals at the rally persisted, undeterred. "Maybe the allure of an impossible dream was much easier to get behind than the reality of fighting for incremental change," Rubens suggested. But at least they found one young marcher who made sense. Watch the impossible high hopes and ignored practical suggestions below. Peter Weber
The Week
Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives.
Sign up for The Week's Free Newsletters
From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.
From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.
-
7 bars with comforting cocktails and great hospitalitythe week recommends Winter is a fine time for going out and drinking up
-
7 recipes that meet you wherever you are during winterthe week recommends Low-key January and decadent holiday eating are all accounted for
-
Nine best TV shows of the yearThe Week Recommends From Adolescence to Amandaland
-
Son arrested over killing of Rob and Michele ReinerSpeed Read Nick, the 32-year-old son of Hollywood director Rob Reiner, has been booked for the murder of his parents
-
Rob Reiner, wife dead in ‘apparent homicide’speed read The Reiners, found in their Los Angeles home, ‘had injuries consistent with being stabbed’
-
Hungary’s Krasznahorkai wins Nobel for literatureSpeed Read László Krasznahorkai is the author of acclaimed novels like ‘The Melancholy of Resistance’ and ‘Satantango’
-
Primatologist Jane Goodall dies at 91Speed Read She rose to fame following her groundbreaking field research with chimpanzees
-
Florida erases rainbow crosswalk at Pulse nightclubSpeed Read The colorful crosswalk was outside the former LGBTQ nightclub where 49 people were killed in a 2016 shooting
-
Trump says Smithsonian too focused on slavery's illsSpeed Read The president would prefer the museum to highlight 'success,' 'brightness' and 'the future'
-
Trump to host Kennedy Honors for Kiss, StalloneSpeed Read Actor Sylvester Stallone and the glam-rock band Kiss were among those named as this year's inductees
-
White House seeks to bend Smithsonian to Trump's viewSpeed Read The Smithsonian Institution's 21 museums are under review to ensure their content aligns with the president's interpretation of American history
