A Trump administration official called the White House “a cesspool” after President Donald Trump — who tested positive for Covid-19 last week — returned following a brief stay at the Walter Reed Medical Center.

“It’s insane that he would return to the White House and jeopardize his staff’s health when we are still learning of new cases among senior staff," the unnamed official said. "This place is a cesspool.”

Meanwhile, after returning to the White House and taking his mask off dramatically, not to mentioning saying that Covid is NBD, Trump has gone back to flu-therism.

He's also back to being flagged as a source of misinformation on social media. Does that warning label come with some sort of tote, Tomi?

Biden Town Hall

Monday night's NBC News town hall with Joe Biden was hosted by Lester Holt and went off without a hitch. The smoothly run event and competent, confident job by Holt were in contrast to last week's debate, even accounting for the different format and lack of an opponent. It was just better run.

Speaking of that difference, though, Biden bashed Trump's performance as "embarrassing" and also regretted calling him a clown, when a member of the audience worried that Trump bullied the former VP.

Trump Losing Seniors

Fox News’ Dana Perino spoke with Trump campaign senior adviser Mercedes Schlapp on some new polling showing President Donald Trump losing among seniors.

Perino told Schlapp this looks like a trend and asked, “I know that the campaign has done a great job of registering new voters. Do you think that you have registered enough voters to cover yourselves for the seniors that you’re apparently losing?”

Sext and Out

The drama continues in North Carolina, Democratic Senate candidate Cal Cunningham bailed on a North Carolina town hall with his opponent Thom Tillis after being accused of sexting the wife of a veteran.

BRUTAL

Former First Lady Michelle Obama pulled no punches in a new “closing argument” speech in which she pressed a sustained attack on President Donald Trump’s “failure” on the coronavirus and “racist” fearmongering, and told Americans to “vote for Joe Biden like your lives depend on it.”

It is a relentless, merciless reckoning.



“Search your hearts, and your conscience," said Obama, "and then vote for Joe Biden like your lives depend on it.”

Delays Domino 

Warner Bros. is shifting the lineup of several of its upcoming movies following Monday’s news that Dune has been pushed back to 2021. The Batman, Matrix 4, The Flash and Shazam 2 are among the studio’s films that have moved around the release calendar.

Elle

Sen. Kamala Harris has landed the cover of Elle Magazine the day before she faces Mike Pence in the 2020 vice presidential debate.

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"It’s easy to say ‘don’t be afraid to jump out of this plane’ when you’re the only one with a parachute.”

Late-night hosts Seth Meyers, Trevor Noah, and Stephen Colbert blasted President Donald Trump for telling his followers not to be afraid of Covid-19 right before getting discharged from Walter Reed Hospital.

“Remember, he might get better from Covid, but he will never get better as a person,” said Seth Myers. “I mean, of course you can say ‘don’t be afraid of Covid.’ You have the best taxpayer-funded medical care in the world. It’s easy to say ‘don’t be afraid to jump out of this plane’ when you’re the only one with a parachute.”

“A massive outbreak at the White House is not karma, it’s consequences,” said Trevor Noah.

Colbert delivered with “Coming this fall from Aaron Sorkin: ‘The Infest Wing.’”