Donald Trump
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Dis Tew Much: Mayor Rahm Emanuel Plans to Bill Jussie Smollett, Illinois Could Withhold Tax Credits From Empire, and the Osundario Brothers May Have Worn Whiteface?
Charges have been dropped, but it doesn’t look like this entire Jussie Smollett saga has any plans of slowing down any time soon. Smollett claimed back in January that he was the victim of a homophobic and racist attack. Disorderly conduct and false police report charges against the 36-year-old stemming from that disputed claim were…
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Donald Trump Decides Cutting Funding to the Special Olympics Isn’t Such a Good Idea After All
After he let his education secretary get flamed by every single person on the planet with compassion in their heart, y’all little “president” has decided to dial back his decision to cut funding for the Special Olympics from the federal budget. As the Washington Post reports, Donald Trump made the decision after he let Betsy…
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Trump Shut Down the Government for 57 Miles of Border Fencing. Here Are 10 Things He Could've Done With That $1 Billion
In a recent disclosure, the Pentagon says it is ready to give up $1 billion to build 57 miles of fencing along the southern border to stop the influx of Mexican Transformers wearing missile helmets and armed with bags of Oxycontin hidden in Ugg boots to entice white women. Yes, you read that correctly: $1,000,000,000…
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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…