Cartoons Wednesday!

And Trump as dancin' Fool. Plus: Kimmel and Colbert, and Jessie Buckley and Molly Tuttle sing.

If you missed “Bombshell” on PBS’s American Experience last night (film for which I served as adviser and talking head on screen), it is now available streaming via Apple TV and etc. and at the PBS.org site and app. If you watch let me know what you think.

Stephen boasts that his ratings as host of the annual Kennedy Center Honors show were three times that for Trump’s recent flop, “and I didn’t even name the building after me.”

Jimmy has fun with Trump’s most scatterbrained speech yet (and see more below)

Here’s more of that Trump speech, it gets worse and worse from easy open of Melania not liking to see him dance: “She, she hates what I dance. I said, everybody wants me to dance. Darling, it’s not presidential. She actually said, could you imagine FDR dancing? She said that to me. And I said, there’s a long history that perhaps she doesn’t know because he was an elegant fellow, even as a Democrat, right? The attack by Japan. You know, he was quite elegant. But he wouldn’t be doing this.”

On the other hand, via NY Times’ morning newsletter:

Trump told Republicans that if they lose control of the House in the midterm elections, he expects to be impeached.

Representative Doug LaMalfa, Republican of California, died yesterday. His vacant seat depletes Republicans’ tiny House majority to the bare minimum of 218 votes.

And from Axios:

Most major conservative news apps saw little to no growth in traffic or downloads over the past two years, Axios’ Sara Fischer writes from Apptopia and Similarweb data.

Why it matters: The splintering of the MAGA media movement — combined with broader media market challenges — has hobbled growth for many outlets within the once-unified coalition.

As certain awards nominations and wins will pile up for Jessie Buckley in “Hamnet,” let us go back five years to her star-making fine film “Wild Rose” and her singing song from that film on Colbert:

We also like Molly Tuttle, and here this week on Kimmel she did Grammy-nominated song, but this Swiftian turn unfortunately hides fact she is one of greatest modern guitarists.

From Tunes to Toons

The White House says in new statement: “President Trump has made it well known that acquiring Greenland is a national security priority of the United States, and it’s vital to deter our adversaries in the Arctic region. The President and his team are discussing a range of options to pursue this important foreign policy goal, and of course, utilizing the U.S. military is always an option at the Commander in Chief’s disposal.”

Bramhall:

Davies:

Bramhall:

Wuerker:

Telnaes:

Sheneman:

Luckovich:

Photo Finish

“Rainy Day, San Marco, Venice”