Donald Trump
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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…
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Trump: Hey Blacks, Look at These Unemployment Rates and Criminal Justice Reform. We Good?
On Sunday, Trump sat down with Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan to slosh his way through a number of topics including: football, troops in Afghanistan, his dumb-ass border wall and race. While most of his answers were a massive word gumbo, his answers on race may have been the most telling. Whenever Trump talks…
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Elizabeth Warren Apologizes to Cherokee Nation for DNA Stunt
Well, that didn’t take long at all. Days after all but announcing her bid for president, nearly four months after releasing DNA testing results that pointed to a Native American ancestor, Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren has issued an apology to the Cherokee Nation, according to a spokesperson for largest federally recognized tribe. Neither Warren’s office…