Never tweet, the wisdom goes — but it's too late for Matt Schlapp.

During the Brett Kavanaugh Senate hearings Thursday, Schlapp, the chairman of the American Conservative Union, retweeted a picture of Sens. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), and Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), writing, "Look at this photo conservative voters in WV, ND, IN, FL, MO, MT, MI, TN, AZ, NV." The picture was taken as Democratic senators questioned Kavanaugh on allegations that he groped and tried to rape Christine Blasey Ford when he was in high school. Ford testified Thursday that she was "100 percent" sure Kavanaugh perpetrated the assault, while Kavanaugh strongly denied the allegations.

But as the photo Schlapp shared happens to focus solely on the three Democratic senators on the Judiciary Committee who are people of color, he was quickly slammed for what critics argued was a racist dog-whistle.

Conservative Bill Kristol, the editor-at-large of The Weekly Standard, said Schlapp's tweet "seems to be a straight-up appeal to bigotry." Kristol also suggested that the tweet was especially outrageous because Schlapp's wife is Mercedes Schlapp, the White House's director of strategic communications. Meanwhile, Federalist contributor Tom Nichols, a Republican, also found the tweet to be questionable, writing, "I wonder what it is about this photo Schlapp finds so alarming."

Schlapp tried to defend himself by saying that the racial implications were unintentional, arguing he was simply sharing "a photo of three senators who tried to destroy my friend" and saying that "if the photo had included [Democratic Sen. Dianne] Feinstein it would have been even better." But not everyone bought this explanation, with The Weekly Standard's deputy managing editor, Kelly Jane Torrance, saying she found it "entirely unconvincing." Brendan Morrow

There have been a lot of arguments made for preserving confederate statues. None of them are quite like this.

In response to Arlington County, Virginia's proposal to rename its Jefferson Davis Highway, local man Max Perrine has written a very questionable column for Virginia newspaper The Roanoke Times. His big concern? We've "had enough 'slave owner' bashing" and "are now going after confederate citizen memorials."

After introducing his point with a poorly worded non-question, Perrine goes on to point out that "12 of our presidents were slave owners to some degree." So do we want to "rename Washington ... 'Boss Hog City?,'" he asks. There are also dozens of other Washingtons around the country, and after weeding them out and "spending enough of our state/federal tax monies to remove all of our historic confederate citizen statues," Perrine claims "we might qualify for foreign aid." Things then get a tad wilder, as Perrine suggests "the History Altering Association" he apparently just created can "unite the Christians of the World" and "go to Egypt to start removing and relocating the pyramids and of the statues of the pharaohs."

"Folks, crap happens," Perrine finishes his column, declaring "you can't erase history." Don't believe him? "Ask a Holocaust survivor or a close relative of one," Perrine says to wrap it all up. You can find the whole column here, if you want. Kathryn Krawczyk

President Trump continues to be very interested in the crowd size at a Beto O'Rourke rally, even three months later.

During a Wednesday rally in Florida, Trump recalled a day in February when he and the former congressman held dueling events in Texas. At the time, Trump mocked O'Rourke's crowd size, claiming there were only 200 or 300 people at his event, even though El Paso police actually estimated a crowd of between 10,000 and 15,000 people. The event was an anti-wall rally that O'Rourke was invited to speak at, but it wasn't actually a campaign event, as he had not yet entered the race at that point.

This topic has evidently been on Trump's mind all this time, as Trump on Wednesday brought up the crowd size comparison once again, although this time, he claimed O'Rourke had 502 people, citing "the people who count crowds," reports The Hill. He also chided the media for disputing his claims about O'Rourke's crowd; PolitiFact wrote at the time that "visual evidence" alone is enough to show there were "clearly" more than 200 or 300 people at O'Rourke's event.

Trump also mocked O'Rourke by saying the 2020 Democrat has "fallen like a rock," asking, "What the hell happened to Beto?" Brendan Morrow

Bill Nighy apparently had such a good experience working on Pokémon Detective Pikachu that he's ready to turn his home into a full-on Pokémon shrine.

The 69-year-old actor in a new interview with The Guardian described knowing virtually nothing about Pokémon before signing up for the new live-action film, which hits theaters on Friday. But after taking a "crash course" in the franchise, which involved buying "every book available, including the deeply impressive Pokédex," he has become an unlikely super fan.

In fact, Nighy described taking "ancient Pokémon wall hangings," which his character has in the film, home with him after shooting. They currently reside in his cellar, but Nighy fully plans to hang them up once he finds "a wall strong enough to hold them."

Nighy also delightfully geeked out about collecting Pokémon and receiving a limited-edition Pikachu from the CEO of the Pokémon Company himself. "Pikachu," Nighy said. "Who can resist!?"

Next time you're out conquering gyms in Pokemon Go, don't be surprised to run into Nighy, who told The Guardian he's planning to download the app and give it a spin. And if you're looking to make conversation, just bring up Mew, who Nighy gleefully described as his favorite Pokémon. "The ancient Mew was probably my top, top favorite because he's just majestic and he was the very first," Nighy said. "...He was elegant and powerful." Brendan Morrow

President Trump has repeatedly claimed that Puerto Rico has already received $91 billion in disaster relief funding.

That's not true, and the White House knows it. But as The Washington Post explains, there seems to be a good reason Trump keeps repeating it.

Trump first reportedly claimed that Puerto Rico had received $91 billion in aid back in March, with the Post saying he dropped the figure in a meeting with GOP senators and questioned why South Carolina only got a fraction of that presumed amount. He's since taken the number public, tweeting it on Monday and repeating it again in a Wednesday night rally.

After that first reported instance in March, a Post analysis found that only $11.2 billion had actually been spent on Puerto Rico's recovery from devastating hurricanes in late 2017. Another $40.8 billion has been allocated for relief, but hasn't gotten to Puerto Rico yet. The rest of Trump's massive figure comes from totaling these figures with another $50 billion in estimated costs over the next 20 years — a $50 billion that certainly hasn't been guaranteed to get to the island yet.

So while Trump's claim may have some merit, it's incorrect to say that Puerto Rico has gotten a massive $91 billion when it's actually only received about an eighth of that total. The White House actually said it would direct any questions about the $91 billion to the Post's analysis, so read that here. Kathryn Krawczyk

Is the U.S. currently in the middle of a constitutional crisis? Not yet, two experts say. But we might be getting close.

As President Trump's administration battles with Democrats in Congress, who on Wednesday voted to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt, House Judiciary Chair Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) has said the country isn't just on the brink of a constitutional crisis but is currently in the midst of one.

But Bob Woodward, the legendary Watergate reporter, on Wednesday described the situation as a "constitutional confrontation" but said that "I don't think it's yet a crisis," noting that the battle will "go into the courts" and "could take months or a year or more." He did say, however, that we're in "perhaps the most unsteady hands we've had in the American presidency ever," describing this "dire situation" as a "governing crisis."

Meanwhile, Fox News legal analyst Andrew Napolitano agreed that we're not in a constitutional crisis just yet, saying a real crisis would be if "the courts ordered the president or the Congress to do something and either of them defied the courts." Right now, he said, it's just a "clash." And the clash hasn't even reached its peak yet, Napolitano noted, saying the "real clash" will come when Congress subpoenas Special Counsel Robert Mueller and Trump seeks to block him from testifying. Brendan Morrow

A particularly outrageous moment from President Trump's latest rally had CNN's John Berman breaking out the Veep clips.

Trump during a rally in Florida on Wednesday night asked "how do you stop" people from crossing the border illegally, to which a supporter in the crowd shouted, "Shoot them!" Trump immediately laughed, adding, "That's only in the panhandle could you get away with that statement."

To Berman, this was mighty familiar, so New Day aired back-to-back clips of Trump's rally and a scene from Sunday's episode of Veep. In it, Jonah Ryan, a complete buffoon who is currently running for president, blames immigrants for diseases getting into America, to which a supporter shouts out, "Kill 'em!"

Of course, Jonah Ryan in the recent season of Veep has clearly been modeled after Trump himself. But the extreme similarities between the two moments occurring days apart struck Berman, who noted, "Veep was shot months ago, and there is almost no discernible difference between the events." Alisyn Camerota added that the show is "supposed to be satire," although this particular scene is no longer far off from reality. Watch the two clips back-to-back below. Brendan Morrow