Politics
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Lindsey Graham Advised Donald Trump Jr. to Ignore Congressional Subpoena, #LindseyGrahamResign Trends on Twitter
After South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham advised president Donald Trump’s son not to comply with a congressional subpoena and to exercise his Fifth Amendment rights if he does agree to testify, #LindseyGrahamResign began trending on Twitter on Tuesday. On Monday, Graham, also known as Trump’s favorite pair of Hanes, told a group of reporters that…
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There Was a Secret White House Plan for Mass Arrests of Immigrant Families. When DHS Officials Pushed Back, They Were Fired
Former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen had always been the cherry on top of Trump’s orange vomit sundae. She was the PTA-mom face of Trump’s zero-tolerance immigration policy and was not only complicit in Trump’s fake creation of a humanitarian crisis at the border, she testified in front of Congress that migrant children weren’t being…
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Trump Tower, Once the Crown Jewel of Trump Properties, Is Now One of the Least Desirable Luxury Properties in NYC
In the 1980s, well before the great herpes outbreak at Coachella, Trump Tower was the place to be. Many superstars that your parents enjoyed watching on fatback TVs once graced the space, including Michael Jackson, Johnny Carson and Steven Spielberg. Now, Trump Tower, much like the Trump presidency, is trash—high-priced trash but still trash. According…
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Omarosa Wants to Join Lawsuit Brought by Woman Who Says Trump Kissed Her Without Her Consent
Omarosa Manigault Newman, who got bounced ignominiously from her nebulous role on #TeamTrump two years ago, wants to join a lawsuit filed by a lesser-known black Trump campaign staffer that alleges Donald Trump kissed her without asking and paid her and other black staffers less than their white and male co-workers. Omarosa is just claiming…
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The 4 Dumbest Questions of the 2020 Campaign Season
Your teachers all lied to you. There is such a thing as a dumb question. We are literally surrounded by dumb questions every day. By definition, a dumb question is any question where the person being asked the question couldn’t possibly know the answer to what is being asked; and, moreover, any reasonable questioner would…
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Man Who Raised $22 Million for Border Wall Breaks Silence to Say He's Going to Keep Being Silent With Y’all’s Money
The man who started a GoFundMe and raised some $22 million to help build the border wall that only racists, xenophobes and racist xenophobes want and then went radio silent with all that white-nationalist scratch is speaking out. After several news outlets began wondering where all that border wall money went, Brian Kolfage, an Air…
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Trump Just Told Americans Not to Buy American Products Because He Doesn't Understand How Tariffs Work
President Donald Trump was finishing up his Monday morning—this was, of course, after he’d pistol-whipped a panda to death and drank the rancid blood of an owl—and was ready to call it a day when he asked to borrow Jared Kushner’s phone to send a few tweets. Those tweets have basically amounted to the president…
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The CBC Has Figured Out How to Beat President Donald Lannister With Only 1 Dragon: Biden/Harris in 2020
Everyone can stop worrying about how the Democrats are going to defeat President Donald Trump with only one dragon and a beaten army; the Congressional Black Caucus, also known as the Unsullied, has it all figured out: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as a “dream ticket.” In a scenario no one asked for, the CBC…
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Trump Lawyer Rudy Giuliani Openly Seeks Aid of Foreign Government—Ukraine—to Boost His Boss’ Re-Election Bid
One would think with all the drama—and federal probes—surrounding whether Donald Trump and/or his cohorts colluded with Russia to interfere with the outcome of the 2016 presidential race, Team Trump would not want even the perception that it was seeking foreign political aid. But those who think that would be wrong. On Friday, Rudy Giuliani,…
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James Comey Called Donald Trump a ‘Chronic Liar’ on National TV and Y’all’s Little ‘President’ Is Pissed
Two years to the date after he was unceremoniously fired from his job as head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation by Donald J. Trump, James Comey took questions Thursday night at a CNN town hall hosted by Anderson Cooper. Comey, who has previously gone on record to say he does not believe Trump is…