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Pissing off the U.K. wasn't even Trump's biggest problem this week

What Donald Trump and his administration said and did during week 45 of his presidency.

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President Donald Trump did not have a good Friday. His week ended with a guilty plea from his former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who lied to the FBI about his contact with a Russian ambassador. Flynn also told investigators that someone from the Trump transition team directed him to get in touch with the Russians.

And that’s just one of the scandals the president faced this week.

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From calling Elizabeth Warren “Pocahontas” at an event honoring Native Americans to tacitly endorsing an accused child molester for Senate to legitimizing the UK’s worst hate group, here’s a rundown of the president’s last seven days.

Not Time’s person of the year Day 308 — Nov. 24

Trump claimed that Time Magazine was probably going to name him “Man (Person) of the Year” but he declined. Time responded that this was incorrect. It’s easy to understand the president’s hesitation, though: In 2015, he had to physically dodge a bald eagle at a Time shoot.

Trump couldn’t resist the opportunity to tell his Twitter follows he was golfing with celebrities — despite trying to keep his green-time a secret almost every other weekend. Trump’s time on golf courses has already far outpaced his predecessor’s, which he criticized unrepentantly.

On the defensive Day 309 — Nov. 25

Trump defended his decision to appoint a new leader to the CFPB.

“The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, or CFPB, has been a total disaster as run by the previous Administrations [sic] pick,” Trump tweeted. “Financial Institutions have been devastated and unable to properly serve the public. We will bring it back to life!”

He also publicly worried about how CNN was influencing the world’s opinion of the United States. “The outside world does not see the truth from them!” Trump tweeted.

Tacitly supporting an accused child molester Day 310 — Nov. 26

Trump once again tacitly endorsed Alabama Republican Roy Moore, an alleged child molester, for U.S. Senate by bashing his Democratic challenger, Doug Jones.

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“The last thing we need in Alabama and the U.S. Senate is a Schumer/Pelosi puppet who is WEAK on Crime, WEAK on the Border, Bad for our Military and our great Vets, Bad for our 2nd Amendment, AND WANTS TO RAISES TAXES TO THE SKY,” Trump tweeted about the only candidate for U.S. Senate from Alabama who isn’t accused of sexual assault. “Jones would be a disaster!”

Trump reiterated that he’d originally endorsed Luther Strange in Alabama’s primary. But now that Strange lost, Moore will just have to do. “Liberal Jones would be BAD!” Trump warned.

Trump also found some time to suggest a contest for a “FAKE NEWS TROPHY” between news networks — but “not including Fox” — for which has offered the most “dishonest, corrupt and/or distorted” political coverage of “your favorite President (me).”

“They call her Pocahontas” Day 311 — Nov. 27

Trump couldn’t get through a speech honoring a group of Native American code talkers at the White House without referring to Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who claims to have Cherokee blood, as “Pocahontas.”

“You were here long before any of us were here,” Trump said, addressing the group of Native American veterans who served in World War II as he set up his latest joke at Warren’s expense.

He continued with the punchline: “Although, we have a representative in Congress who they say was here a long time ago: They call her Pocahontas.”

When asked if Trump’s nickname for Warren was a racial slur, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that was a “ridiculous response” to the president’s joke.

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Two people showed up to the CFPB on Monday morning to lead the bureau. Budget Director Mick Mulvaney, whom Trump picked to succeed the previous director on Friday, came bearing doughnuts. But the bureau’s outgoing director had apparently appointed Deputy Director Leandra English to lead the agency as well. She sent staff an email signed with the bureau’s top title. Then, Mulvaney sent out his own email to “disregard any instructions” staff may receive from English, who sued the Trump administration in an effort to stop Mulvaney. The following day, a federal judge ruled in Mulvaney’s favor. English is still weighing her next steps.

Although Senate Republicans claim their tax plan will help the middle class, it’ll actually hurt America’s poorest, hand huge tax cuts to the wealthy, and increase the deficit by $1.4 trillion, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office’s most recent analysis. The plan also includes a repeal of a federal mandate that nearly all Americans buy health insurance, which would trigger a domino effect and leave 4 million more people without health insurance by 2019, according to the CBO.

Trump, however, sang the bill’s praises. He tweeted that the bill is “coming along very well, great support.” Trump said that with a “few changes, some mathematical,” the bill will greatly help the “middle class and job producers.” ***

Another blow from the courts Day 312 — Nov. 28

Trump’s trans military ban got slapped down again. The Justice Department was hoping a federal judge would reconsider her earlier ruling that the military must accept transgender service members as of Jan. 1. She said no.

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The GOP’s tax bill advanced through the budget committee after a lobbying blitz by Trump, moving the bill closer to the Senate floor. When the bill does go to vote, Republicans can only lose two votes. Meanwhile, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnunchin keeps promising to release his office’s analysis but hasn’t yet.

Trump tweeted that, because of North Korea’s latest nuclear missile test, it’s “more important than ever” to spend on the military budget, which is already massive. Analysts say this ICBM is capable of flying much higher and longer than previously thought, potentially reaching the entire U.S., including Mar-a-Lago.

First lady Melania Trump and her staff decorated the White House for the holidays — or as a set for a sequel to Pan’s Labyrinth. Trump insisted that his wife, a relatively private Trump figure, “truly loves what she is doing.”

Trump met with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi about a possible government shutdown. Democrats are threatening a “no” vote on a temporary spending bill if a solution for Dreamers isn’t included. “Problem is they want illegal immigrants flooding into our Country unchecked, are weak on Crime and want to substantially RAISE Taxes,” Trump tweeted. “I don’t see a deal!”

Trump isn’t sure he believes the “Access Hollywood” audio tape of himbragging about groping women without their consent was legitimate, according to a New York Times report. “We don’t think that was my voice,” Trump allegedly told one senator shortly after his inauguration. At the time of the tape’s release in October 2016, however, Trump admitted it was his voice and apologized.

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A former reporter from the now-defunct Maximum Golf magazine told the Daily Beast that Trump commented once comment on a “young socialite” at Mar-a-Lago by saying, “There is nothing in the world like first-rate pussy.”

Islamaphobia Day 313 — Nov. 29

Trump’s thumbs got a workout Wednesday when he retweeted three unverified videos posted by Jayda Fransen, a virulently racist British woman who has been convicted of a hate crime and is awaiting trial on other charges: “Muslim migrant beats up Dutch boy on crutches!” “Islamist mob pushes teenage boy off roof and beats him to death!” and “Muslim Destroys a Statue of Virgin Mary!”

Soon after, Fransen tweeted, in all caps, her gratitude for Trump’s support. “GOD BLESS YOU TRUMP,” she wrote. The tweets also energized her racist and anti-Semitic allies throughout Europe.

In a rare moment of public criticism, British Prime Minister Theresa May condemned Trump for the tweets. “It is wrong for the president to have done this,” May said through a spokesperson.

When asked about the videos, at least one of which has been proven as fake, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters their validity didn’t matter.

“Regardless of the video, the threat is very real,” Sanders told CBS, pivoting to one of Trump’s fave topics: “The president has talked about the need for strong borders and strong security since the campaign trail; that’s not a secret. That’s something he’s going to continue talking about.”

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Trump used sexual assault allegations against former NBC’s “Today” anchor Matt Lauer to dredge up the 2001 death of an intern of then-Rep. Joe Scarborough, for some reason. Though coroners said her death was caused by heart problems that led her to fatally hit her head, the leader of the free world thought it prudent to demand authorities “Investigate!” on Twitter.

The EPA held its only listening session about its plan to repeal the Clean Power Plan in what administrator Scott Pruitt described as the “heart of the coal country” in Charleston, West Virginia. Out of the nearly 230 people that showed up, only about 30, according to estimates from the on the ground, wanted to get rid of the Obama-era regulations governing emissions from coal plants.

The Rexit Day 314 — Nov. 30

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is reportedly on his way out at the State Department. Although he hasn’t given the green light yet, Trump is reportedly planning to replace Tillerson with CIA Director Mike Pompeo, multiple senior administration officials told the New York Times. When asked if he wanted Tillerson to stay on as secretary of state, Trump responded simply: “He’s here. Rex is here.”

The White House apparently has a vermin problem. Work orders in the White House say that roaches and mice have overrun the West Wing. Trump also ordered a new toilet seat for his Oval Office bathroom.

Another guilty plea Day 315 — Dec. 1

Trump’s former national security adviser Mike Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his relationship Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Flynn will be the fourth person indicted as part of Special Counsel Bob Mueller’s Russia probe, and the second to plead guilty. He’s now cooperating with Mueller.

“My guilty plea and agreement to cooperate with the Special Counsel’s office reflect a decision I made in the best interests of my family and our country,” Flynn said in a statement. “I accept full responsibility for my actions.”