Donald Trump
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Teflon Don and Nem: How All Trump’s Allies Are Missing Jail Time
First, Paul Manafort was released from jail because his precious white lungs couldn’t stand to be around all that jailhouse stank and COVID-19. On Wednesday, a federal prosecutor and another Justice Department official will testify that Attorney General William Barr, aka Bad John Goodman, pressured them to give a lighter sentence for Trump ally Roger…
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Trump: ‘I Don’t Kid.’ Well, You Don’t Adult Either
President Donald Trump wants to make one thing clear: He doesn’t kid! Sure he hired one of the world’s most famous neurosurgeons to be the doctor of houses, and yes, his administration ordered ventilators from some guy they found off Twitter who never made ventilators in his life and paid him $69 million, but that’s…
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Protesters Attempted to Tear Down an Andrew Jackson Statue Near the White House
Apparently a lot of folks have decided that if government officials won’t act to remove any and all monuments erected to celebrate oppressors, then it’s on the people to tear them all down themselves. On Monday night, protesters targeted the statue of President Andrew Jackson that stands in a park in Washington D.C., not far…
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Read This Man’s Alleged Racist, Homophobic Threats To Strangers He Believed Didn’t Love Trump
Richard Kantwill is accused of sending over 100 racist threats to random people who don’t like Trump.
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Trump’s Niece Goes Full 6ix9ine, Spills all the Tea in New Tell-All. We Must Protect Her at All Costs
Turns out that Trump’s niece, Mary Trump, is part of the resistance, or she just happens to hate her uncle just as much as the rest of America, but either way she’s set to release a tell-all book that is expected to blow the barn doors off the White (Supremacy) House. According to the Daily…
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US Navy Latest Military Force to Ban the Confederate Flag
The nationwide protests against police brutality and systemic racism have caused many long-standing American institutions to look inward and figure out how they can do the bare minimum to support the cause. The Marines have ordered the removal of Confederate flags from their bases; the Army has expressed openness to the idea of renaming bases…
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Does the Most Insecure President Ever Watch Insecure?
Before I became an entertainment writer at The Root, I wrote general news for another publication. Writing anything outside of the entertainment beat wasn’t my favorite thing to do, but it was the job. Now that I’m here, I often revel in the fact that it’s not really likely I’ll ever have to write about…
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Bill Russell Comes Out of Retirement to Dunk on Trump From the Free Throw Line: 'You Are Divisive and a Coward'
On the same weekend that former Secretary of State Colin Powell pulled down his pants and took a massive shit all over Donald Trump, NBA great Bill Russell made it his personal duty to finish the job. “#Trump you projected your narrative that #TakingAKnee is disrespectful & #UnAmerican it was never about that!” he tweeted…