It's Thursday, December 18th.
I'm Jane Costa, and this is What A Day,
the show noting that President Donald Trump spent more time in the last week making new insulting plaques for the photographs of his predecessors than he has on trying to ensure millions of Americans can afford their health care coverage.
On today's show,
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr fails at basic communication during a Senate oversight meeting.
And one of the two right-wing podcasters running the FBI is leaving.
Hint, his name rhymes with fan of Reno.
But let's start with immigration.
Well, sort of.
The Trump administration has purportedly been laser focused on the problem of illegal immigration.
But time and time again,
it's been pretty clear to me that President Trump and the federal government are more focused on immigrants of any kind from non-white countries.
For one thing,
the administration has increased the number of countries included in its total and partial travel ban,
adding places like Laos, Sierra Leone, and Tonga, for reasons I'm sure are very normal and good.
For another thing,
there is the president's obsessive and repulsive comments about Somali immigrants following recent investigations into social services fraud in Minnesota.
Many of those arrested were of Somali origin or background,
but I'm guessing that the same president who pardoned a CEO convicted for fraud doesn't really care about,
you know.