Politics
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Trump Throws Racist Jab at Reporter, Then Throws a Temper Tantrum and Storms Out of Press Conference
The president wants to be celebrated for victories only he can see. To hear him tell it, the United States has defeated the coronavirus and everyone should already be back at work. The truth is that the United States has become the epicenter of how not to handle an infectious disease. The president also loves…
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Joe Biden Surrogates, Aides Say Kamala Harris Tops List of Potential Running Mates
Everything is coming up Kamala. According to people familiar with Joe Biden’s campaign—and the ongoing process to select a running mate—the California senator is emerging as an early frontrunner to accompany Biden at the top of the Democratic presidential ticket this year. “Biden aides, surrogates and major donors see her as the best fit at…
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The Root Is Going Live on Instagram With Politicians to Discuss the 2020 Elections and COVID-19
Most of America’s 2020 political press corps is braving COVID-19 inside of their homes, so we aren’t reporting the on-the-ground coverage we’d ordinarily be giving you. But that isn’t stopping The Root from bringing you regular 2020 coverage and interviews with elected officials at every level of government. For the past two weeks, The Root…
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Obama Owns a Penthouse Loft in Trump’s Head as President Spends Mother’s Day Tweeting About Barack
Can you imagine being so amazing that years after you’ve left a job that you were completely over, your successor continues to bring up your name and does so even on Mother’s Day?! On Sunday, the president of people who buy large trampolines to place outside of their doublewides, spent part of his Sunday coming…
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As Media Focuses on Black Lives, Activists Call Attention to Nina Pop, the 5th Trans Woman of Color to Be Killed in the Last Month
As tributes poured in last weekend for Ahmaud Arbery, the 25-year-old unarmed black man whose Feb. 23 killing made international headlines when cellphone footage of his death was released last week, racial and trans justice advocates sought space to lift up the name of Nina Pop, a 28-year-old trans woman who was found stabbed to…
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Turns Out That Mike Pence Hot Mic Empty Box Moment Was Just a Joke [Corrected]
Correction: Tuesday, May 8, 2020, 4:58 p.m. EDT: The last time I snitched I was 12. Me and another kid had gotten caught shooting BB guns in the woods and the apartment rental office where I lived found out and threatened to kick us out. They thought the guns were real. My dad walked me…
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Welcome to the Jungle, Steve Mnuchin: Axl Rose Brings the Treasury Secretary to His Knees, Knees
Axl Rose, lead singer for Guns N’ Roses is tired of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s bullshit. On Wednesday, the frontman with tonsils made from barbed wire noted that some 70,000 Americans have died from the coronavirus and in case anyone was trying to figure out whether or not Steven Mnuchin on Trump’s taint was an…
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Trump Hires Donor With No Experience to Run the U.S. Postal Service. What Could Go Wrong?
Since taking office, Trump has declared war on two enemies: Obama and America. For years, the president has waged an all-out offensive attack on the former president, who doesn’t give a fuck about him. Obama is living proof that ignoring haters burns them way worse than engaging them. Obama has literally been living his best…
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Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp: I Totally Messed Up Reopening the State, Growing Outbreak Is Stressing Resources
Notorious thief and Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp—who successfully stole the governorship from America’s darling and possibly Joe Biden’s vice presidential pick, Stacey Abrams—warned Tuesday that he might be dumber than the current president. Remember it was Kemp who walked out to a podium in front of God and errbody and said, in April—April!—that he just…
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Trump Walks Out to ‘Live and Let Die,’ Says He’s Willing to Lose Some Lives to Save the Economy
Because the president couldn’t stay his orange ass in the White House any longer, he left Tuesday to visit a factory in Phoenix, Ariz., that makes N95 masks, and for some reason—maybe foreshadowing; definitely foreshadowing—Guns ‘N Roses’ “Live and Let Die” blared through the speakers. When I say it was bizarre, that’s an understatement. It…