Sad. That phrase borrowed from a great man is perhaps the most fitting way to describe a rough week.

Like his talks, Zo Rachel and Josh Yasma will join the panel of deplorables to discuss it, as well as why TV is dead.

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Generally speaking, this was a rough week for the president. It was a rough week for America.

Now, I am always hopeful. I always try to look for the bright side of things. And there is a small glimmer in this week.

There's a bright side to it, which is that Kim Jong-un backed down. So we're not all going to get blown up by North Korean nuclear weapons.

They have backed down on their threat to send a missile to Guam. And President Trump was getting a lot of flak for his tough talk about North Korea.

He said that he would send fire and fury on them, like the world has never seen. I think was the quote. He said that the US military was locked and loaded on North Korea.

And of course people mocked him. They said he was a rube. He was warm-ongering. He was shooting from the hip. But it seems to have worked. North Korea is back down.

Obviously, there were a lot of back channels that were going on between the State Department and North Korea and also with China.

But all in all, seems like a great deal, folks. It seems like we got the art of the deal here. North Korea has released some Western prisoners.

All in all, a nice bit of news for the week. All of the rest of the news this week was absolutely terrible.

So for the bad news, President Trump has been attacked on all sides on the left and the right for his various responses to the Charlottesville attacks and the neo-Nazis fighting antifa.

Here is the first statement that he made.

But we're closely following the terrible events unfolding in Charlottesville, Virginia.

We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence on many sides.

On many sides.

Now, the statement actually isn't untrue. There were many sides of culpability here. Antifa was beating people up as they always do at these events.

But it was tone deaf. And it also misses the enormity of the difference here. Antifa did their usual pepper spray beating people up, hitting people with gloves.

But the neo-Nazis did kill a woman in injure 19 others. So it was just a little bit tone deaf.

Everybody basically agreed he could have come out and named the neo-Nazis, even named Antifa, but he didn't do that.

So then he issued a second statement to correct that.

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