Donald Trump
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Lies Detected: Twitter Fact Checks Trump Tweet For The First Time
Over the last four years, the current president has displayed what seems to be a severe allergy to the truth. If he’s not lying about winning non-existent awards, he’s falsely accusing people of murder. There have been frequent calls for social media platforms to regulate the president’s penchant for misinformation, calls that are usually met…
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The Root's Danielle Belton Talks Biden's Gaffe, Trump's COVID-19 Inactions on MSNBC
Saturday during journalist Alicia Menendez’s broadcast on MSNBC, The Root’s Editor-in-Chief Danielle Belton (meeeeee!) made an appearance as a panelist discussing former Vice President Joe Biden’s recent remarks on The Breakfast Club, which the Democratic presidential candidate subsequently apologized for. In this clip, I discuss how Trump isn’t “pro-American” but is simply “pro-Trump” when it…
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It's Racism, Stupid. It's Always Racism.
My daughter, who is 4 years old, is currently in a superhero phase. Yesterday, for instance, I spent much of the day in an extended, five-hour-long riff with her where she’d approach me every 40 minutes or so to share she’d discovered a new superpower, and then she’d display it for me. (“Jumping jacks with…
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Donald Trump Is the Most Effective President Ever
Effective: (adj.) successful or achieving the results that you want. text When they retired from the slave trade, Isaac Franklin and John Armfield had amassed a fortune worth billions in today’s dollars by building a business that was essentially the Amazon of slave-selling. They didn’t grow anything, nor did they participate in the transatlantic slave…
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Trump’s Claimed at Least 6 Times That He’s Been Michigan’s ‘Man of the Year.’ There’s Only One Problem: The Award Doesn’t Exist
President Donald Trump is a liar. I can’t stress this fact strongly enough. If you are wondering when the president is lying, just look at his anus-shaped mouth and if it’s moving, well you have your answer. But the president’s current lie—and possibly his longest-running lie—is bizarre even for the president. On Thursday, Trump was…
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The Most Grossly Incompetent President Just Fixed His Anus-Shaped Mouth to Come for Obama
President Donald Trump is Future. He’s not the future, he’s like Future the rapper. He’s the disgruntled ex who is watching his former lady move on with Russell Wilson, aka President Obama. It’s why he can’t keep the former president’s name out of his mouth. Obama is beloved by America and well, President Trump is…
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White Nationalist, Far-Right Groups Actively Promoting Lies to Paint Ahmaud Arbery as a Criminal
White people seem to follow the same playbook whenever there’s a new high-profile case involving an unarmed black person being killed by neighborhood vigilantes or police. When they’re not shouting “What about black-on-black crime?” from every mountaintop they can find, character assassination appears to be the name of their game. Analysts who monitor the online…
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Nurses Honor Fallen Colleagues Outside of White House, Protest for PPE: ‘We Are Not Getting What We Need’
On Thursday, members of National Nurses United, the largest nurses’ union in the country, staged a protest just yards away from the White House, petitioning the government to support healthcare workers who are continuing to treat coronavirus patients without proper protective gear. Clad in red shirts and wearing face masks, they stood among 80 pairs…