A pregnant African American politician in Georgia said she was verbally attacked in a supermarket on Friday by a middle-aged white man who swore, called her vulgar names and told her to “go back where you came from” as her nine-year-old daughter looked on.

Erica Thomas, a Democrat from Austell, said the man was irate that she was in an express queue with too many items.
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“And this white man comes up to me and says, ‘You lazy son of a bitch’,” Ms Thomas said, sobbing as she described the confrontation in a Facebook video. “He says, ‘You lazy son of a bitch, you need to go back where you came from’.”

America really needed the 1969 moon landing to go well to serve as an antidote to a decade of bad news. Does that sound familiar?
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The emotional effect was only heightened by how this uplifting, invigorating demonstration of American prowess could turn to tragedy in a nano-second – and the 94 per cent of TV-owning Americans who tuned in to watch knew it. So when the crew splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean on July 24, this tale of Herculean endeavour was assured a happy ending. For once the news couldn’t get much better.

“People had been following the whole space program and all the previous rocket launches, so this was the climax of a story that had been building for a long time, with everyone invested in it together,” says Arthur Markman, a professor in the department of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. “But nowadays with streaming services we can’t even watch a TV show at the same time.”
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“If you don’t hear good news, it can lead to a degree of cynicism about public elements such as government and corporations, and if all we hear is a stream of bad news about them, it is easy to disengage,” Markman says. “Good news is valuable to remind us about why institutions exist. The moon landing reinforced this idea that we live in a world of technological marvels.”

Tucker Williams, the Klan’s Grand Wizard, told the press his organisation had not wished to go to court but that Donald Trump’s ever-increasing copyright violations left them no choice.

He told reporters, “I was a supporter of Donald Trump from the early days. I knew from the way he treated black tenants that he was one of us. But everybody knows that a crowd of semi-literate angry white trash chanting hateful slurs towards ethnic minorities is our thing. And whipping up racial hatred then standing there like a pompous buffoon while it peaks has been the preserve of Grand Wizards since the birth of the Klan.

“We don’t want him to stop, far from it. But we do want credit when it’s due. We have been saying that non-white people are not true Americans for decades. He’s selling his MAGA hats on the back of our brand. He can either stop, or give us a piece of the action. I mean, do we wait until he starts setting fire to crosses before we object?”

Mr Trump’s team quickly responded to the lawsuit by saying it was utterly without merit. As explained White House counsel Clint Tinnock.

“This is just an attempt from an outfit with low ratings to cash in on Donald Trump’s amazing success at harnessing bigotry. Anyone who has seen this president’s rallies knows that mindlessly yelling hateful chants is part and parcel of the experience and always has been.”

If you aren't aware of who Diamond and Silk are, they are Donald Trump supporters who frequently appear on Fox News and often have a bizarre way of defending the president.

In the past, they have questioned why Beto O'Rourke is so opposed to Trump having a border wall when he lives in a house that also has walls.

Now they are attempting to defend the president's racist tweets aimed at four congresswomen, by saying that the dictionary is also racist because it contains the words that Trump said.

In a tweet posted on Wednesday, the duo criticised Nancy Pelosi for calling Trump's words 'racist' and suggested that all 'dictionaries be banned since Democrats are offended by words.'