Donald Trump
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Good News For People Who Like Terrible People: President Trump Tested Negative For COVID-19
Welp, if you were waiting on news to break that President Donald Trump has come down with “that Rona,” you’ll be disappointed. According to AP News, the White House released test results Saturday night revealing that the president received negative results for COVID-19 after being tested for coronavirus on Friday. Yesterday, The Root reported that…
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Louisiana Becomes 1st State to Postpone Primary as the Coronavirus Crisis Continues
Two weeks ago, few U.S. citizens would have been able to predict the coronavirus would cause “cancel culture” to take on a literal meaning. No one would have expected the NBA to announce that its 2020 season would be suspended indefinitely, that President Donald Trump would be announcing travel bans from Europe (his affinity is…
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Trump Expected to Declare National State of Emergency
President Donald Trump is expected to declare a national emergency Friday, invoking the Stafford Act to lend federal aid for states and municipalities struggling with the coronavirus. According to several reports, the president is expected to announce the national state of emergency at 3 p.m. ET. From Bloomberg: Trump spoke Friday with Emmanuel Macron, the…
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A Conversation With a Wise Old Black Negro Who Voted for Joe Biden
“Hey Sweetie,” Miss Mable said, as she welcomed me onto her porch. “Would you like some tea?” Mable Jenkins was known in this sleepy, sticky, southern, black community for two things—her sweet tea and her preternatural tendency to vote for moderate Democrats in highly contested primaries—so of course, I accepted. “The kids call me Miss…
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Trump Trying to Paint Biden as Mentally Unstable Is the Pot Calling the Kettle an Idiot
In today’s “pot-meet-kettle” news, President Donald Trump would like all of America to know that Democratic front-runner Joe Biden—wait for it—may lack the mental capacity to be president. According to Politico, Trump stood before about 500 Republican donors at his Mar-a-Lago resort on Friday to stress his concern that Biden may not have the mental…
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Life After Lockup: Fresh Off a Presidential Pardon, Angela Stanton-King Announces She's Coming for Rep. John Lewis' Congressional Seat
I’m all for people getting a second chance at life, but looking to test that credo is a convicted felon named Angela Stanton-King, who took a break from laying hands on Donald Trump to announce that she’ll be running for a U.S. Congressional seat in Georgia against the much more deserving incumbent, Rep. John Lewis.…
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Donald Trump Will NOT Catch the Coronavirus, So Don't Pray For It to Happen or Try to Speak It Into Existence
I’m not quite sure when exactly it happened, but at some point in the past week my coronavirus-related anxiety shifted from “this is a thing I should think about, I guess” to “this is a thing I should actively worry about.” Even if we’re able to effectively contain the spread of it, it now seems…
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Kim Kardashian Visits Trump to Discuss Criminal Justice Reform That Isn't Really Criminal Justice or Reform…or Even Trump’s
Instagram model, activist and almost-lawyer Kim Kardashian, affectionately known as “the Rosa Parks of people who are nothing like Rosa Parks,” visited President Donald Trump on Wednesday to push for further criminal justice reform. Shortly before she was spotted at the White House, Kardashian tweeted: “Today Alice, Crystal, Judith, Tynice and I, along with the…
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Trump Is the 'First Black President’ According to Ex-NFL Player Turned Pastor Jack Brewer
Who in the hell and what in the devil? During a Black History Month celebration in the Cabinet Room at The White House on Thursday, a gang of black supporters of Donald John assembled to praise him and tout his record. One person of interest did the unspeakable – calling Poor POTUS “the first black…