Independent Voter: Person of the Week

Claim to Fame: Non-partisan members of the electorate

Why They're the Person of the Week: for continuing to show that they could care less about the sham that is the Democrat's sole effort to impeach President Trump. These oft-important voters who don't rely on what MSNBC, CNN or even FOX thinks when it comes to politics and what matters to their households, now oppose impeachment by a 15-margin, a new Emerson poll shows:

In October, 48 percent of Independent’s supported impeaching Trump, with 39 percent in opposition. Now, the tides have turned. 49 percent of Independents oppose impeachment, while only 34 percent support it. That’s a 15-point margin in opposition of impeachment among Independent voters. 

And this news can only help Trump's chances for re-election.

According to the most recent data, the narrative that impeachment is a partisan witch hunt is the one more Independent and key swing voters believe. 

Not only does this data show Democrats are losing Independents in the impeachment hearings, but Emerson’s poll also finds Trump’s national approval has increased from October to November. 

“Trump’s approval has increased in the last month with 48% approval and 47% disapproval, a bounce from 43% approval in the last Emerson National poll in October,” the poll reads.

Elise Stefanik: Person of the Week

Claim to Fame: U.S. Representative for New York's 21st congressional district since 2015

Why She's the Person of the Week: for emerging as Adam Schiff's main antagonist during the opening of the impeachment hearing's this past week. The young Congresswoman has not only pulled Schiff's goat on congressional procedural rules time and time again, but also scored some key narrative points for the Republican side too.

In the questioning of former Ukraine Ambassador Yovanovitch, she asked the ex-ambassador whether it was accurate that “defensive lethal aid” that she had pushed for was provided to Ukraine not by the Obama administration, but by the Trump administration.

“That’s correct,” Yovanovitch responded.

Stefanik, who has also received sexist backlash from liberals for her performance, also got Yovanovitch to admit that the Obama administration prepped her for Hunter Biden:

But Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) hammered home the point that the Obama administration was concerned enough over Hunter Biden’s Ukraine job that staffers prepared Yovanovitch to answer them for the confirmation hearing. 

“The exact quote from your testimony, Ambassador, is, quote, ‘the way the question was phrased in this model Q&A was, what can you tell us about Hunter Biden’s, you know, being named to the board of Burisma?’” Stefanik said.  

“So for the millions of Americans watching, President Obama’s own State Department was so concerned about potential conflicts of interest from Hunter Biden’s role at Burisma that they raised it themselves while prepping this wonderful ambassador nominee before her confirmation.  

“And yet our Democratic colleagues and the chairman of this committee cry foul when we dare ask that same question the Obama administration was so concerned about. But we will continue asking it.”

The Supreme Court: Person of the Week

Claim To Fame: the highest court in the land

Why They're The Person of the Week: for coming to the aid of President Trump in his fight against illegal immigration and activist, liberal judges by allowing a government rule to go into effect nationwide that will dramatically cut back on the ability of Central Americans to apply asylum in the United States.

The administration said the new restriction is needed to respond to "an unprecedented surge" of people who enter the country illegally and seek asylum if they're caught. But officials said only a small fraction of them are eventually found to be qualified. "The rule thus screens out asylum seekers who declined to request protection at their first opportunity," said Solicitor General Noel Francisco. He said it allows immigration officials to concentrate on the asylum seekers who most need protection.

Clint Eastwood: Person of the Week

Claim to Fame: legendary actor and director

Why He's the Person of the Week: for defying liberal Hollywood's pro-abortion boycott to film in Georgia.

Eastwood will begin filming The Ballad of Richard Jewell in Atlanta this summer, local ABC affiliate WJCL reports. The film is to be based upon the security guard who discovered a bomb at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Jewell was first acclaimed as a hero before then being named as a suspect by the media and then later exonerated. 

Eastwood is moving forward with filming amid significant Hollywood pressure for the state to abandon the pro-life law. 

Georgia’s Republican governor Brian Kemp signed House Bill 481 into law May 7, banning most abortions once a baby’s heartbeat can be detected, usually around six weeks. It allows exceptions for rape, incest, physical medical emergencies, and pregnancies deemed “medically futile” and is set to take effect in January 2020. 

In response, numerous film studios and celebrities have threatened to boycott Georgia, holding up the risk of harm to the economy should Hollywood cease filming there as a consequence. 

Actress Alyssa Milano is at the protest’s forefront, sending a letter along with some 50 other performers to Kemp and Georgia House speaker Brian Ralston in March threatening to do all they could to move the film and television industry to another state should H.B. 481 be enacted. The celebrities gave the rationale in the letter that states with greater access to abortion are “safer” for women.

Anna Timmer: Person of the Week

Claim To Fame: Grand Rapids, Michigan resident, #MAGA voter and former supporter of GOP Congressman Justin Amash

Why She's The Person of the Week: for confronting Amash at a local town hall and accusing him of “political grandstanding” because of his well-publicized calls to impeach President Trump. Timmer implied that Amash, a hater of all things Trump even before the President took office, is planning a run at a higher office and said that he was failing to represent the political will of his district.

“You just talked about how you did better in District 3 than Trump. Do you want to talk about how the last election you got the least amount of support that you’ve ever had because you haven’t supported the MAGA agenda? It’s your right to support whatever you want, but you also know you have no future in this district because of that, as a Republican. So you want to go bigger and brighter,” Timmer said.

Don McGahn: Person of the Week

Claim To Fame: former White House counsel

Why He's The Person of the Week: for single-handedly saving Donald Trump's presidency after choosing to not heed the President's directive to fire Robert Mueller or to tell the deputy attorney general to fire Mueller.

Donald Trump has lamented that no one on the White House legal team is his kind of lawyer: a bulldog who will protect him. Over the past two years, he’s said he wanted lawyers who will safeguard his interests the way he believes John F. Kennedy’s brother Robert did as attorney general. “Where’s my Roy Cohn?” he reportedly asked once, referencing the notorious lawyer he worked with earlier in his career. 

Don McGahn is nothing like Cohn. As White House counsel, he regularly frustrated Trump by pushing back on his ideas, in some cases flatly refusing to carry out orders, according to the report from Special Counsel Robert Mueller. But as much as they displeased the president, McGahn’s efforts may have saved Trump from his worst enemy: himself. 

Mueller’s report details how McGahn kept Trump from making potentially catastrophic decisions on how to respond to the investigation. McGahn defended Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ recusal from the probe, stage-managed the firing of FBI Director James Comey, declined to order Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to fire Mueller — twice — and refused to lie to reporters about the firing attempts. Trump has not emerged unscathed from the Mueller investigation, but the fact that he has so far avoided some of the worst-case scenarios is in large part a testament to McGahn. 

McGahn’s decisions during the Mueller probe are just one reason why he is likely to be viewed in hindsight as one of the pivotal players of Trump’s first term. The former White House counsel, who left the administration last fall, also successfully shepherded two conservative judges onto the Supreme Court as well as scores of lower court judges, helping to reshape the direction of the nation’s judiciary. And he was one of the primary architects of the administration’s push to slash a wide range of federal regulations. 

The fact that McGahn’s recollections are in the Mueller report in such great detail is remarkable on its own. It is unusual for a lawyer to share so openly with investigators probing his client. (The New York Times reported in 2018 that McGahn was interviewed by Mueller’s team for more than 30 hours.) And the White House chose not to try to redact any of his testimony by asserting executive privilege. His interviews reveal numerous high-stakes battles with the President behind the scenes. 

On March 3, 2017, Trump called McGahn into the Oval Office after Sessions had recused himself from overseeing the Russia investigation. The President blamed McGahn, and he “wanted McGahn to talk to Sessions about the recusal,” according to the report. But the lawyer resisted, arguing that the Justice Department found the recusal was proper. “McGahn told the President that DOJ ethics officials had weighed in on Sessions’s decision to recuse,” the report says. Trump was so angry that he “screamed at McGahn,” according to former White House strategist Steve Bannon, who was present at the meeting. 

That wasn’t the only time McGahn was chewed out by his boss for offering sound advice. Just one month later, on April 11, 2017, Trump admitted to McGahn that he had twice asked the FBI director to publicly announce that Trump wasn’t under investigation. “The President acknowledged that McGahn would not approve of the outreach to Comey,” the report states, “because McGahn had previously cautioned the President that he should not talk to Comey directly to prevent any perception that the White House was interfering with investigations.”

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Joe Manchin: Person of the Week

Claim To Fame: senior Senator from West Virginia

Why He's The Person of the Week: for bucking party leadership and voting 'Yes' on both the GOP and Democrat proposals to end shutdown. Showing a willingness to do 'whatever it takes' to end the shutdown, Manchin became the only Democrat to vote for a Republican Senate funding proposal.

The Republican proposal would end the 34-day shutdown with $5.7 billion for President Trump's border wall and revamp immigration laws, while the Democrats’ solution would reopen agency doors for three weeks while bargainers seek a budget accord. And with President Trump ending the Shutdown a few days later, Manchin, who has always shown a willingness for bipartisanship since he became a Senator in 2010, now says that an "outside observer" is needed to facilitate negotiations between the administration and Congress.

"You need to bring in professionals," Manchin said on "Face the Nation." "There's a lack of trust and a lack of belief on both sides. No one believes that, basically, these figures are correct, or this or that's going to happen, or do we really need all 5.7 billion being spent on some kind of a secured structure?"

Kid Rock: Person of the Week

Claim To Fame: singer-songwriter, rapper, musician, record producer, activist, and actor.

Why He's The Person of the Week: so what if his mouth cost him some gig at a Nashville Christmas parade? For adequately calling snarky, stupid, hypocritical, rapid, anti-Trump, FemiNazi, The View co-host Joy Behar a 'bitch' earlier this week, Rock said out loud what a lot conservatives about Behar. The same Behar who has time and time again used vile, disgusting terms to describe President Trump while continuously rooting for him to be impeached. And while Behar might've taken the high road by inviting Rock to come on her show after hearing about his comments, bonus points on Rock for doubling down with this response to Behar and sticking it to all the 'outraged' loons in the media with this more kind retort:

While Nashville officials wrestled over Kid Rock’s role in the city’s Christmas Parade following his profane swipe at Joy Behar, the rocker elaborated Friday night on his jab at the TV host and comic. 

The Michigan-born musician cited comments Behar made last year on “The View," where she'd criticized an irreverent photo of Rock, Ted Nugent and Sarah Palin snapped in front of Hillary Clinton’s White House portrait. 

The comedian's criticism clearly didn't sit well with Rock: Discussing the American political climate during a Friday morning "Fox & Friends" appearance, he said, “Screw that Joy Behar bitch.” The live segment had Fox hosts quickly scrambling to apologize to viewers. 

On Facebook Friday night, Rock wrote that while he apologized for cursing on live television, he wasn't sorry for the anti-Behar sentiment. 

“Mess with the bull, you get the horns,” Rock wrote. “End of story.”

Monica Lewinsky: Person of the Week

Claim to Fame: former White House intern that then-President Bill Clinton admitted to having had what he called an "inappropriate relationship" with while she worked at the White House in 1995–1996.

Why She's the Person of the Week: for coming out and speaking her truth on the affair she had as a young intern who was taken advantage of by former President Bill Clinton. Lewinsky, now an activist and fashion designer , opened up about her affair with President Clinton during a five part series on A&E entitled, "The Clinton Affairs."

In the final episode, Lewinsky admitted Clinton wanted her to lie about their relationship under oath if she was called to testify in the Paula Jones case, the woman whose sexual harassment case against Clinton sparked the broader investigation into Clinton’s affairs (which Slick Willie has denied).

In the series Lewinsky also talks about weathering public shame, feminism, judgment from the media, placing her experience in the context of the #Metoo movement, and her anti-bullying campaign that involved celebrities briefly changing their Twitter display names to the public slander that had hurt them the most (Monica changed hers to “Monica Chunky Slut Stalker That Woman Lewinsky”).

And in revisiting the 1998 sex scandal that nearly unraveled Clinton's presidency, Lewinsky hopes that she can retire the term "Lewinsky scandal" once and for all.

"I think 20 years is enough time to carry that mantle," the former White House intern, now 45, writes in a new Vanity Fair essay published Tuesday.

Congressman Dan Crenshaw: Person of the Week

Claim to Fame: former Navy SEAL and newly elected Republican representative of Texas

Why He's the Person of the Week: for displaying forgiveness as well as tremendous class by continuing to take the high road a week after "Saturday Night Live" comedian Pete Davidson was rightly criticized for mocking Crenshaw's eye-patch last week on SNL during a 'Weekend Update' segment.

Crenshaw, a former Navy Seal, was severely wounded during his third tour of duty in Afghanistan. Davidson’s comments were widely condemned and politicians from both sides of the aisle called on the comedian to apologize. So on this week’s episode of SNL, Davidson did just that — with Crenshaw sitting by his side:

In a surprise cameo, Crenshaw appeared alongside Davidson to take a few humorous potshots of his own and then, more earnestly, to try to find some common ground. 

During a segment last week about 2018 political candidates, Davidson spoke in front of a picture of Crenshaw, a Texas Republican who wears an eye patch because of an injury he sustained from an I.E.D. explosion in Afghanistan. “You may be surprised to hear he’s a congressional candidate from Texas and not a hit man in a porno movie,” Davidson said. “I’m sorry, I know he lost his eye in war or whatever.” 

Davidson’s remarks were denounced by elected officials and political organizations like the National Republican Congressional Committee, which called for an apology. In an interview on NBC’s “Today” show, Davidson’s castmate Kenan Thompson said the joke “missed the mark.” For his part, Crenshaw said in his victory speech on Tuesday that Americans “are not a people that shatter at the first sign of offense.” 

In this week’s episode, which was hosted by Liev Schreiber and featured the musical guest Lil Wayne, Davidson returned to the “Weekend Update” desk. Referencing the controversial joke, he began by saying: “In what I’m sure was a huge shock for people who know me, I made a poor choice last week.” 

He added: “I mean this from the bottom of my heart. It was a poor choice of words. The man is a war hero, and he deserves all the respect in the world. And if any good came of this, maybe it was that for one day, the left and the right finally came together to agree on something. That I’m a [expletive].” 

Crenshaw then took a seat next to Davidson and said, “You think?” 

Davidson told him, “Thank you so much for coming.” 

“Thanks for making a Republican look good,” Crenshaw replied. 

Davidson told Crenshaw he was sorry, and Crenshaw accepted, but then suddenly Crenshaw’s cellphone rang: His ringtone was “Breathin’,” a song by the pop star Ariana Grande, who just last month became Davidson’s ex-fiancée. Davidson took the joke in stride as Crenshaw asked him, “Do you know her?”

Senator Susan Collins: Person of the Week

Claim to Fame: Republican Senator from Maine

Why She's the Person of the Week: for standing up against the radical Left, special-interest groups, attempts to bribe her, violent threats by liberals and a biased mainstream media that almost never took in consideration the inconsistencies in Dr. Christine Ford's allegations against Brett Kavanaugh and voting to confirm Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court on Saturday.

FOXNews.com:

Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins -- a key swing-vote whose dramatic floor speech on Friday assured Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation to the Supreme Court -- revealed on Sunday that she initially thought Kavanaugh "perhaps needed to withdraw" after she heard Christine Blasey Ford's "very compelling and painful" testimony. 

But then, Collins said, "When [Kavanaugh] came back with a forceful denial, the anger and anguish he showed, and then the lack of corroboration, led me back to the fundamental issues to our legal system." 

Both Ford and Kavanaugh testified at length in late September before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Ford alleged that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her more than three decades ago, and Kavanaugh, at times emotional and fiery, sharply denied the claim. 

Polls in Maine showed that a majority of Collins' constituents wanted her to reject Kavanaugh's confirmation. 

“I have to do what I think is right," Collins said. "Over the years, the people of Maine have trusted me to exercise my best judgment. That’s what I did in the case. ... Whatever the voters that decide, but I’m going to do what I think is right. That’s what I owe my constituents." 

Speaking to CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday, Collins emphasized, "I found Ford to be heart-wrenching and compelling." But, she continued, citing the lack of any witness corroboration for Ford's account, "I don't believe Kavanaugh was her assailant." (Also speaking to CNN on Sunday, Hawaii Democratic Sen. Mazie Horono, who has previously suggested Kavanaugh did not deserve due process, called Collins' comments "insulting" to Ford.)

Rule of law or rule of the mob. Insanity versus reason. Thank you for reminding us that 'Innocent until proven guilty' still matters in this country Senator Collins.

Betsy Devos: Person of the Week

Claim to Fame: U.S. Secretary of Education

Why She's the Person of the Week: for crafting new policies on how colleges deal with sexual harassment and assault cases that would boost protections for those accused. After the Obama administration set went too far in seeking to protect college students claiming they were sexually assaulted, “completely eroding” the due process rights of the accused, DeVos seeks to solve the problem and get back to a balanced playing field:

Under Obama-era Title IX rules, there was a sharp rise in men who say they were unfairly accused of sexual assault on college campuses thanks to a lower standard of evidence for finding guilt as “more likely than not,” but both the accused and accusers have complained about shoddy investigations and biased tribunals. 

The Title IX law, enacted in 1972, forbids discrimination based on sex in education. It was once seen as a measure to ensure equity in college sports, but after President Barack Obama decried the “rape crisis” on our nation’s campuses, the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued several “Dear Colleague” letters starting in 2011, directing college administrations to tackle the issue – and prove on paper they were doing so – or risk losing their federal funding. 

The Trump Administration is set to release their new Title IX regulations on campus sexual misconduct this month, in time for the new semester, and is expected to roll back many of the Obama-era crackdowns that burdened colleges and universities and unfairly punished many accused, according to a preliminary draft obtained by The New York Times.

It was back in Fall 2017 that Devos called for replacing Obama-era rules for investigating allegations of sexual violence on campus that “failed too many students” with a more “workable, effective, and fair system.”

“Every survivor of sexual misconduct must be taken seriously. Every student accused of sexual misconduct must know that guilt is not predetermined. These are non-negotiable principles,” DeVos said. “Due process either protects everyone, or it protects no one. The notion that a school must diminish due process rights to better serve the ‘victim’ only creates more victims.”

John McCain: Person of the Week

Politics aside, thoughts and prayers to John McCain's family.

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Senator Richard Burr: Person of the Week

Claim to Fame: senior United States Senator from North Carolina, serving since 2005

Why He's the Person of the Week: for coming out strongly in defense of President Trump's decision to revoke former CIA director/political hack/resident MSNBC Trump-hater John Brennan's security clearance.

In a statement, the Senator, who's also the Senate Intelligence Committee chairman, cited a New York Times op-ed published Thursday, after Brennan’s security was revoked, in which Brennan wrote that Trump’s claims of no collusion were "hogwash," saying the only remaining questions were whether the collusion amounted to a criminal conspiracy and whether the Trump team obstructed justice in order to cover up the collusion Brennan alleged.

Burr said that if in fact Brennan had information that proved the Trump campaign colluded with a foreign power, he should have provided that information to special counsel Robert Mueller, rather than writing about it in a newspaper.

Burr also asked that if Brennan had had direct knowledge of collusion during his CIA tenure, he should have included it in the intelligence community’s 2017 assessment of Russian interference, released just before Brennan resigned. If Brennan learned information after he left office, Burr said it would constitute an intelligence breach.

"If, however, Director Brennan’s statement is purely political and based on conjecture, the president has full authority to revoke his security clearance as head of the Executive Branch," Burr’s statement continued.

Yesterday, Brennan, who despite having a gig on MSNBC and a prominent Twitter profile, continues to make the ridiculous claim that Trump is trying to 'silence' him, walked back his insipid comment that Trump had committed 'treason' during his recent press conference with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki.

President Trump: Person of the Week

You don't have to believe me, just let political scientist and author Ian Bremmer tell it...on CNN no less.

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Trey Gowdy: Person of the Week

Claim to Fame: former federal prosecutor and current South Carolina Congressman

Why He's the Person of the Week: for criticizing Justice Department investigators for prolonging their investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and demanding an end to it. While Robert Mueller will undoubtedly NOT be ending his probe due to anything Gowdy says, it's still nice to see a sitting Congressman vent on an investigation that's gone on way too long, has shown clear bias from day one, continues to cast a gray cloud over the President's head and that most American's which to see end:

Support for special counsel Robert Mueller’s handling of the Russia investigation is shrinking, a new CNN poll reveals.  

Forty-one percent of Americans now approve of the way he is running the probe, compared to 39 percent who disapprove. In March, 48 percent approved and 35 percent had disapproved. 

Gowdy, who chairs the House Committee on Oversight, while speaking to FBI director Christopher Wray and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein during a tense House Judiciary Committee hearing Thursday, said:

“We’ve seen the bias, we need to see the evidence,” Gowdy, who chairs the House Committee on Oversight, told the officials. “If you have evidence of wrongdoing by any member of the Trump campaign, present it to the damn grand jury. If you have evidence that this president acted inappropriately, present it to the American people….Whatever you got, finish it the hell up. Right now this country is being torn apart.”

Tim Allen: Person of the Week

Claim To Fame: Actor/comedian

Why He's the Person of the Week: for having his conservative-leaning show "Last Man Standing" resurrected by FOX, a year after ABC suddenly dropped the comedy and received tons of backlash because of their decision. The show, about a sporting goods manager/father (played by Allen) who supports traditional American values, was ran on ABC from 2011 to 2017 for six seasons, before it was surprisingly cancelled, despite being ABC's second-highest rated sitcom for the 2016–17 season. With "Last Man Standing" serving as one the rare shows in liberal Hollywood to spout a conservative tilt, this news is a victory for the GOP and its values.

Judge T.S. Ellis III: Person of the Week

Claim To Fame: Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Why He's The Person of the Week: for questioning whether Robert Mueller had just charged Paul Manafort with 18 counts of bank fraud and other charges to try to “get” President Trump. Ellis, a Ronald Reagan-appointee to the bench, also suggested Mueller shouldn’t have “unfettered power” to do that.

Manafort, who chaired Trump’s presidential campaign, has been indicted in two different venues — in Washington, DC, back in October, and on further charges in Virginia in February.

This was a hearing in the Virginia case, for which the trial is currently scheduled to take place in July. Manafort has filed a motion to dismiss this indictment — arguing that Mueller overreached his mandate by charging him with crimes unrelated to Russian interference with the campaign. When Manafort’s team made this same argument in court in DC, the presiding judge, Amy Berman Jackson, seemed skeptical. (She hasn’t yet ruled on the motion, though she did dismiss an accompanying civil suit filed by Manafort.)

But Manafort may have found a more receptive audience with Judge Ellis. “I don’t see what relation this indictment has with what the special counsel is authorized to investigate,” Ellis said, according to Politico’s Josh Gerstein. “What you really care about is what information Mr. Manafort could give you that would reflect on Mr. Trump or lead to his prosecution or impeachment.”

Though Ellis didn’t issue a ruling, Brandi Buchman of Courthouse News reports that he asked to review an unredacted copy of a memo from last August, in which Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein authorized Mueller to investigate crimes related to Manafort’s Ukraine work. Mueller’s team revealed the memo’s existence in court filings, but the vast majority of it is redacted.

If Ellis does in fact end up dismissing Manafort’s Virginia indictment, it wouldn’t get Manafort completely out of the woods, as he’d still face charges in Washington. But it would be a dramatic defeat for the 'honorable' Mueller, with major implications for his strategy as a whole, which, it seems, has relied heavily on bringing or threatening unrelated charges against Trump associates to try to get them to “flip.”

Sarah Sanders: Person of the Week

Claim to Fame: White House Press Secretary

Why She's the Person of the Week: for staying seated at the stupid, annual White House Press Correspondent dinner last night, while insipid 'comedian' and bitter Trump-hater Michelle Wolf berated her with personal attacks and disgusting jokes on Sanders' looks.

Wolf, who has gotten bi-partisan criticism for her wayward routine, has so far refused to back down, much less apologize, even going on Twitter and claiming that she only went after Sanders' 'behavior', which is a blatant lie as anyone who looks at the tape can see. Either way, while most would've gotten up and left the room upon having nasty, personal attacks thrown at them from a D-rated comedian, Sanders sat, looked on and took the swipes on the chin.

President Trump: Person of the Week

Claim To Fame: 45th President of the United States

Why He's The Person of the Week: for teaming up with France and the UK to launch successful strikes on Syria to retaliate for a suspected chemical weapons attack and for pardoning former Dick Cheney Chief-of-Staff Scooter Libby.

Trump announced Friday night that he ordered precision missile strikes in conjunction with French and British allies against the Syrian government. The President noted that the strike was underway in areas in and around the Syrian capital of Damascus were struck. In proof that the mission met its target, yesterday the Pentagon announced that the Syria strikes hit the ‘heart’ of the rogue nation's chemical weapons program.

As for Libby, known as "Scooter," who was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice in 2007 in connection with the overblown leak of a CIA officer's identity, Trump did what George W. Bush should've done while he was still President: grant Libby a full pardon. Bush had commuted Libby's sentence but did not issue a full pardon. "I don't know Mr. Libby, but for years, I have heard that he has been treated unfairly," Trump said in a statement from the White House.