Donald Trump
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Trump Feels Bad for Brett Kavanaugh; Won't Say Christine Blasey Ford's Name
There’s one thing I can say about the xenophobic, racist, sexist Trump train: It’s never late. Speaking for the first time since Christine Blasey Ford’s claim that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were both in high school, President Trump expressed his sympathy and regret and condolences… For Kavanaugh. “I feel…
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Betsy DeVos Tells Students Not to be Mean on Twitter. Student Responds: What About Your Boss?
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, also known as Sarah Palin’s play cousin, continues her “I just want to be loved tour” in which she attends events and tries to prove that she actually became the Education Secretary on merit and not because she’s the wife to a very wealthy man. The cabinet position has always been…
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Donald Trump Conveniently Ignores Anniversary of One of America's Worst Acts of Terror
Three days before a national tragedy would shake the entire world, on September 8, 2001, George Bush issued a proclamation recognizing one of the darkest hours in American history. On September 15, 2013, Barack Obama’s White House sent out an official statement recognizing the same solemn day. George W. Bush’s Proclamation 7460 reads, in part:…
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Trump's Ex-Camapiagn Chair Paul Manafort AKA Paulie Walnuts Pleads Guilty [Updated]
Former Trump crime campaign boss Paul Manafort aka Paulie Walnuts is upholding the no-snitching code of the White House mob family and agreed to plead guilty to a second group of charges filed in Washington, D.C. While it is in unclear if the Manafort has agreed to cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller’s deep dive…
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As Ugly As President Trump Is, He's Just A Mirror For White America
Earlier today, while millions of Americans prepared to get hit by what’s expected to be a devastating hurricane, the man America elected president got on an app and denied the existences of thousands of Americans—claiming that their deaths were fabricated by his political rivals to make him look bad. We are likely stuck with this…
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This Donald Trump Story Reveals the True Power of Whiteness
Buried among the mountain of tales in Bob Woodward’s excavation of Donald Trump’s Hogwarts Acadamy for Grand Wizards, is a story that reveals the ineptitude of Donald Trump and the brazen supremacy of whiteness. According to Business Insider, Woodward’s new book, Fear, contains an anecdote about Donald Trump that boggles the mind. It details a…
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As Hurricane Florence Approaches, Trump Trapped in Tornado of Lies
At The Root, we don’t employ a psychologist or a psychiatrist (although Michael Harriot serves as the senior wypipoloigist on staff), so we are unable to assess the president’s mental health. Therefore no one on The Root staff can currently say whether or not the president suffers from some narcissist personality disorder. However, as someone…
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Trump Doesn't Really Understand What Success Means
As people in the Carolinas prepare themselves for the onslaught of Hurricane Florence, Donald Trump proved that he doesn’t know what the word “success” means when he praised his administration’s response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico last year—where an estimated 3,000 people died as a result of the storm. The Washington Post reports that…