‘BOYS TALK.' Melania Trump talks to Anderson Cooper about her reaction to that infamous Access Hollywood tape: “And as you can see from the tape, the cameras were not on — it was only a mic. And I wonder if they even knew that the mic was on…They were kind of a boys talk…And he was lead on, like, egged on, from the host [Billy Bush].”

Melania Trump says her husband was egged on by Billy Bush when he made sexually aggressive remarks in a 2005 tape https://t.co/p0mCRSCTRx

— CNN (@CNN) October 17, 2016

ICYMI. Melanianade.

SNORT. Josh Earnest mocks Trump.

.@PressSec joke on Trump: "the candidate who snorted his way through the first two debates is accusing the other candidate of taking drugs?" pic.twitter.com/WNy7l6HPpY

— CSPAN (@cspan) October 17, 2016

LARRY FLYNT. Offers $1 million for scandalous recording of Trump: ““I have always celebrated women. Women in all shapes and sizes,” the publisher of Hustler magazine said in a statement. “To treat a woman like Mr. Trump himself has is both disappointing and unbelievable, especially coming from someone who wants to be our president.”

MALE MODEL MONDAY. John Hallis.

HEADLINE OF THE DAY. “Some People On Twitter Think That Pamela Anderson Is A Secret Assassin Who Poisoned Julian Assange With Vegan Food.”

NATIONAL TRAUMA. You're not the only one with election induced anxiety.

THE HOTEL SUITE AND THE SLURS. Azealia Banks charges Russell Crowe with battery, says he called her a ‘n—–.'

NATURAL SPLENDOR. Rare lunar rainbow or ‘moonbow' seen in England: “Lunar rainbows are formed when moonlight, rather than direct sunlight, is refracted by moisture in the atmosphere.”

Rare lunar rainbow photographed over Northern England. These so-called 'moonbows' form when moonlight is refracted by moisture in atmosphere pic.twitter.com/tBgO9Cdw2c

— ABC News (@ABC) October 17, 2016

SCORCHED EARTH. Has Donald Trump taken the GOP back 60 years? And destroyed our country in so doing? “It's true that Trump is a Frankenstein's Monster of the party's own design—the apotheosis of hyperpolarization engendered by decades of cynical politicking and the othering of half of America. But who can take joy in witnessing the complete destruction of our village by it? To the extent his erstwhile supporters have abandoned him, they still own this. They made him.”