Donald Trump
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Donald Trump Says the ‘Abolition of Civil Rights’ Is One of Our Country’s ‘Greatest Strides’
Have you ever been watching or listening to someone speak, and suddenly the next thing that comes out of their mouth is something you know they truly believe but did not mean to actually say out loud? That happened to “President” Donald Trump on Thursday morning at the 2019 National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C.…
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New Mexico Governor Orders National Guard Troops Back from Border
The jig is hurtling toward the sun. Deriding the “charade of border fear-mongering by Donald Trump, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham ordered the majority of National Guard troops deployed at the state’s southern border to withdraw. “I reject the federal contention that there exists an overwhelming national security crisis at the Southern border,” Lujan…
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Democrats Call Trump's Bluff 12 Hours After Investigation Threat
Trump wants it to be one way. He may soon learn it’s the other way. Less than 12 hours after Trump debuted his rhyming threat, ripped from the dialogue of a straight-to-television mob movie, Democrats have asked Trump to walk it like he recently talked it. “If there is going to be peace and legislation,…
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Maybe Black People Need a Wall
On Tuesday, a few hours before Donald Trump’s Shout-Outs of the Union speech, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall announced that he wouldn’t bring charges against the police officer who shot and killed 21-year-old Emantic Bradford Jr. I tried to listen objectively as the bullshit-artist-in-chief used one-third of his speech to demonize undocumented immigrants, painting them…
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There's No Use in Taking Trump's State of the Union Seriously
Everything is worse in the wake of Trump’s latest State of the Union Address. I once dated a functioning alcoholic. What began as a functioning facade gave way to wobbly excuses, thinly-veiled threats and destructive behavior. At first, the tearful apologies came so infrequently that each felt like a breakthrough of some sort, new ground…
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A Live Translation of Trump's State of the Union Address
Good evening and welcome. Tonight, The Root’s Senior Editor Stephen A. Crockett Jr., Staff Writer Michael Harriot and Staff Writer Monique Judge will be live blogging Donald Trump’s State of the Union address. And by live blogging, we mean providing you with an understandable translation free of Adderall snorts and pompous bragging about everything and…
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Maxine Waters Calls Donald Trump a 'Bluffer' Ahead of the State of the Union Address
U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters has never bitten her tongue when it comes to expressing her disdain for Donald Trump, the white-supremacist-in-chief. During an interview with The Root, Rep. Waters told us how to push back against Trump’s bully tactics, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s leadership and how she feels empowered by the new crop of black…
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Nancy Pelosi on Stacey Abrams, Black Lives Matter and Standing Up to Trump
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is known as the woman who tells Donald Trump “no” and continues to be the backbone of the Democratic Party. Her leadership was long-questioned during the midterms until her chamber enjoyed a record-setting blue wave of progressive, ethnically diverse freshman congresswomen. Pelosi spent a few minutes with The Root sharing her…
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White Tax Tears: Trump Voters Are Now Realizing They've Been Had
Americans with a full set of teeth and a healthy disdain for Liam Neeson tried to warn the rest of the massive amount of dummies that Trump wasn’t for y’all, either. Of course, that didn’t stop the midwestern MAGAts from running to the polls to vote for the reality TV charlatan who had no foreign…
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Winter Is Coming: Trump's Female Opposition Will Be Wearing White to the State of the Union
When Donald Trump approaches the podium to wheeze through his sad little State of the Union address Tuesday night (when most of us would rather be watching Phylicia Rashad and Susan Kelechi Watson devour scenery on This Is Us), he will likely be greeted with a sea of white. No, it won’t be the hoods…