Donald Trump
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
President Trump Doesn't Understand That 9/11 Was a Tragedy
The president of the United States of White America shouldn’t need a crash course on arguably the most horrific tragedy in American history in the past 50 years (followed closely the Russian assist that gave this president the White House), yet, here we are. On the seventeenth year anniversary of the day the world stood…
-
Sarah Sanders’s Misguided Call to Action Has the Opposite Effect
I would like to first give a shoutout to Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s unwavering support of Donald Trump. If there was anyone who epitomizes what Tammy Wynette meant when she sang “Stand By Your Man,” Sanders is it. Nothing this president has done is indefensible in her book. She is more “ride or die” than anyone…
-
Trump Wants Department of Justice to Investigate Who Wrote New York Times Op-Ed
Because President Donald Trump doesn’t know how any of this works, he still believes that the Department of Justice is his personal militia who exist merely to handle cases he deems worthy. On Friday, the president called for the U.S. Justice Department to get to the bottom of the great White House mystery of who…
-
You Are Not Part of the 'Resistance' If You Are Hiding Behind Anonymity
On Wednesday, the New York Times skirted its normal editorial policy and allowed a senior official in the Trump administration to write an anonymous op-ed essay titled “I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration.” The official explains in their essay that there is a contingent of administration officials who have “vowed to…
-
Watch: Ayanna Pressley, Who May Become 1st Black Massachusetts Rep Elected to Congress, Reacts to Upset Victory
In a stunning upset against longtime incumbent Mark Capuano, Ayanna Pressley won the Democratic primary for Massachusetts’ 7th congressional district last night, paving her way to becoming the first black lawmaker representing the state in the U.S. House of Representatives. Video was recorded of the moment Pressley learned of her historic win: her reaction says…
-
Fla. Governor's Race: Democratic Nominee Andrew Gillum Calls Racist Robocalls Targeting Him 'Deeply Regrettable'
Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum said a racist robocall mocking him by featuring a man speaking in a stereotypical black dialect and jungle noises in the background was “deeply regrettable,” CNN reports. The 78-second prerecorded message was paid for by a white supremacist and anti-Semitic video podcast hosted by Scott Rhodes of Idaho. It…