Donald Trump
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Donald Trump Campaign Visit Preceded Rise in Hate Crimes: Report
According to the Washington Post, counties that hosted Donald Trump rallies saw a 226 percent increase in hate crimes in the months following Trump’s stop in town. Using the Anti-Defamation League’s Hate Extremism Anti-Semitism and Terrorism map, the Post checked for a correlation between the counties that hosted one of Trump’s presidential rallies in 2016…
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Liberian PhD Candidate Vulnerable to Deportation As Deferred Enforced Departure for Liberians Comes to an End
As Donald Trump moved to end differed enforced departure for Liberians last year, the Los Angeles Times reports a 28-year-old UCLA PhD Candidate may be forced to leave her home of 21 years. Yatta Kiazolu, born in Botswana to Liberian parents, has lived in the United States since the age of 7, maintaining legal authorization…
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National Cathedral Politely Calls Donald Trump Out For Being the Liar He Is
Donald Trump is the kind of man who wants credit for everything. Did you breathe this morning? Donald Trump did that. Did the light turn green just as you got to the intersection? Donald Trump did that. Is something that was put into place while another man was president still successful? It doesn’t matter—Donald Trump…
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Trump, Devos Propose Cap on Student Loans, Ushering in a New Era of Academic Inequality for Working-Class Families
Utter the words “Sallie Mae” around anyone over the age of 18, and there’s an 87% likelihood they’ll either break out in hives or convulse on the floor with a seizure. But for many of us who opt to pursue higher education, student loans are a costly—if not necessary—evil. As such, our alleged president Donald…
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The Man Who Allegedly Slept With a Porn Star During His Marriage Calls George Conway The ‘Husband From Hell’
We are a news organization, so despite the president of the United States being a full-on sleaze bucket who has arguably been one of the worst commanders-in-chief in the history of the country, we still have to use “allegedly” when referring to the president’s alleged elicit affairs despite how much we know they’re true. So…
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At Last: Brazil's Villainous New President Meets the Man in the Mirror
When I was at SXSW last week, outside of openly questioning how black people are expected to survive in a world devoid of cracked pepper, I had the pleasure of partaking in a live rendition of Roast Battle—the popular Comedy Central television show in which a pair of comedians dismember each other to the audience’s…
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Elijah Cummings Comes With Receipts, Claims the White House Is Involved in ‘Unprecedented Level of Stonewalling’
Cummings said the White House is refusing to submit any documents to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, which he serves as chairman.
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In the Aftermath of New Zealand Shooting, Trump Believes White Nationalism Doesn't Pose an Imminent Threat
While Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke spent his weekend acknowledging the myriad of advantages that white privilege has afforded him over the course of his life, our Commander-in-Tweet predictably spent his doing the complete opposite. In fact, if you let Trump tell it, white supremacy—the malevolent patriarch of the “I don’t see color” family tree—is…
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President Trump Tweets for Fox News to ‘Bring Back’ His Bae Jeanine Pirro
President Donald Trump and Fox News host Jeanine Pirro are a thing. Maybe not a thing the way that Trump and Stormy Daniels were a thing, but the president clearly loves the evil news anchor with the Archie Bunker disposition and rugged racist scowl. The president is always tweeting about his boo, and now that…
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SKRRRRRT! Fox News Welcomes New Contributor, Former DNC Chair Donna Brazile
Starting today, for reasons that are not entirely clear to (*squints at notes*) anyone, you can catch former Democratic National Committee Chair Donna Brazile on Fox News. The announcement came from Fox on Monday morning. According to Variety, Brazile will provide the “news” network with political analysis across several Fox platforms, including Fox News Channel…