Donald Trump
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R. Kelly Is the Black Donald Trump and His Supporters Are Deplorables, Too
I cover politics and sports for The Root. R. Kelly and the accusations that have followed him like the stench from an R&B PigPen aren’t my lane. I was perfectly fine vomiting all over my television screen like the rest of us after watching Surviving R. Kelly, the six-part docu-series, and seeing just how far…
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New Trump Administration Policy Would Make Racism OK as Long as You Don't Mean It
While America is engaged in a heated debate about the border wall and the government shutdown, at least three cabinet-level departments inside the Trump administration have been quietly investigating how they could roll back a particularly important legal precedent that prevents discrimination in housing, employment, policing and even education. The Washington Post reports that the…
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Oval Office Confessions: Trump Goes Live on National Television to Talk About His Dumb Wall
Previously on White House Apprentice, we found out that the magical wall of doom your “president” won’t stop talking about was never really supposed to be a thing in the first place. It was revealed that the “wall” was actually a mnemonic meant to help the then-candidate remember to talk about being tough on immigration…
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10 Things They Won't Tell You About the Border Wall
They say: “People will hold on to a beautiful lie before they accept the ugly truth.” The mythical “they,” in this case, is my grandmother. She may have heard it from someone else. If you sourced the quote on Twitter, it was probably the wisest, most quoted figures of all time: Will Smith or Maya…
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Samuel L. Jackson, Patron Saint of ‘MFers,’ Endorses Rashida Tlaib’s Expert Usage on Trump
Before we dig into this story, I would first like to apologize to my dad, who once kindly suggested that I maybe, just maybe, give some thought to cussing less in my posts. Dad, my condolences, but this will not be one of those posts. Michigan Representative Rashida Tlaib told a crowd of supporters at…
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Dumb Dullard Donald Trump Is Doing the Damn Most. Again.
Here is your regular reminder that your “president,” Donald Trump, is a big fat liar. He makes bold and ostentatious claims without any evidence, inflates his own ego with his bald-faced lies, and insults the everyday American people with his inane fabrications. This latest one is a doozy. We are in the midst of one…
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White House Directs IRS to Issue Tax Refunds, Narrowly Averting Bag Security-Related Backlash
The Trump administration contradicted all Republican logic, reversed precedent set by previous administrations and may have broken the law by announcing that the Internal Revenue Service will not delay the running of your money because the IRS will issue tax refunds during the federal government shutdown. More than 90 percent of IRS employees were sent…
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A Live Look at ‘America’s Most Livable City’
According to the Economist Intelligence Unit, the organization that produces the annual Global Livability Index, Pittsburgh is America’s second most livable city. (Honolulu is first.) This is a status that Pittsburgh is proud of, bragging about and displaying it the way a parent might share their kid’s report card in a text thread. If I…
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Government Shutdown Not Responsible for Declined EBT Cards in Indiana, Officials Say [Updated]
A grocery store in Clay City, Indiana, says customers who want to pay with food stamps have been denied the ability to do so for more than a week, and they think the government shutdown is to blame. Tristen Malone, manager of the IGA grocery store, told WTWO that store machines stopped taking EBT cards…