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Has Melania Trump Left the White House?
Melania Trump’s kidney wanted out of the White House so badly, it became a problem that sent her to the hospital. The first lady’s kidney had reportedly grown tired of the president’s eating habits and his penchant for early-morning Twitter rants. The kidney turned on Melania faster than ABC did Roseanne. The last time Melania…
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How Sen. Ted Cruz Cursed the Houston Rockets and Kept Them Out of the NBA Finals
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), aka “Grown-Up Eddie Munster,” posted a photo of himself at the Toyota Center on Monday night, where the Houston Rockets were set to take on the Golden State Warriors, and all Rockets fans knew it was downhill from there. After Cruz’s photo was posted to Twitter, Houston Rockets fans jumped in…
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Trump’s Latest Conspiracy Theory Might Be His Craziest Yet
Truth and evidence are two things that have never bothered President Donald Trump or his administration. In fact, if truth and evidence were a person, it would be 2001 Tyronn Lue, and the personification of Trump’s care for truth and evidence would be Allen Iverson. On Tuesday, shocking absolutely no one who didn’t vote for…
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Booing Rudy Giuliani During Yankees Game Was the Wrong Play; He’s Really a Spy for the Resistance
New York is a liberal state, and it has been for quite some time. I’m not including all the racist parts upstate where black people don’t travel—only the five boroughs of New York City and other parts that are accessible by subway. So on the surface, it makes sense that Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s…
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The Royal Wedding Between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un Just Might Happen
The love affair between these two unstable leaders has been the best episode of Catfish yet. First the president of the United States and the leader of North Korea played all volatile on social media; then Kim Jong Un had a change of heart and was finally ready to meet with his long-distance lover, but…
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The Sterling Brown Video Has Been Released, and I Have a Few Questions for the Milwaukee Police
Before the Milwaukee police released the bodycam footage of the violent arrest and tasing of Milwaukee Bucks rookie Sterling Brown, the city’s Police Department went on a PR campaign to soften the backlash the police knew would be coming once the video was released. Before the tape was released Tuesday, Assistant Police Chief Michael Brunson…
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Congratulations, NFL, You Played Yourself! Protest Fines Didn’t Appease Trump, Who Wants Players Who Don’t Stand for the Anthem Tossed Out of the Country
President Donald Trump knows how to light a tiki torch, doesn’t he? Shortly after news broke that the NFL had succumbed to the demands of the grand wizard of “Make America great again” to punish players who protest during the national anthem, Trump, who crusaded against players’ rights to protest, made it clear that he…
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The NFL Will Fine Players Who Protest During Anthem, Proving White Tears Matter More Than Black Lives
Welp, it’s official, and if you didn’t see this coming, you haven’t been watching. Surprising only those who still believe in fairy tales like Bigfoot, reverse racism and R. Kelly’s innocence, NFL team owners voted Wednesday to approve a policy that requires all players on the field to stand during the national anthem performance, proving…
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South Carolina County Council Candidate Posed in Blackface; Community Outraged, but The Root Staff Is Unimpressed
When it comes to blackface, it’s going to take more than a little black shoe polish to rile up the staff at The Root. We’ve seen them all: the racist tributes to sports heroes, the racist tributes to actresses, singers and anyone else famous. We’ve seen the racist attempts at just plain racism. We’ve seen…
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Can Someone Take the iPad From the President? He’s Tweeting About ‘Criminal Deep State’ Conspiracy Again
My money is on Vice President Mike Pence as being the member of Donald Trump’s Cabinet who keeps sliding the president an unlocked iPad when no one is looking so that he can send out his conspiratorial tweets to take the spotlight off the very real Russia investigation. Early Wednesday morning, Trump confiscated Pence’s iPad,…
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