Donald Trump
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The Trump Administration Wants to Bring Back Gov’ment Cheese, Blue Apron-Style
In a push to return to the good ol’ days of slavery, the Trump administration wants to cut funding to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, aka food stamps, and send recipients a box full of food that they didn’t ask for. According to NPR, the push to return to the horse-and-buggy era is just one…
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders Claims Trump Supports Victims of Domestic Violence; His Tweets and Statements Say Otherwise
Last week, two White House staffers resigned from their positions amid allegations they had both physically and emotionally abused their former spouses. When it was revealed that both the FBI and White House officials knew about the allegations against both men, it raised questions as to why they were allowed to keep their jobs and…
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Donald Trump: White Jesus
“The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and … people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.” —Denis Diderot Any day now, the Robert Mueller investigation will end and everyone will read an FBI report about how President Donald J. Trump obstructed justice…
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Trump Shows That in His Mind, Only White Men Deserve the Benefit of the Doubt
In President Donald Trump’s latest edition of “White Men Are Soooo Persecuted,” more than a few folks clapped back against his seeming raison d’être (protecting the feelings and asses of said white men). On Saturday the president tweeted that “[p]eoples lives are being shattered and destroyed by a mere allegation,” referring to the resignations of…
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Will Gen. John Kelly Resign as White House Chief of Staff?
In the wake of the mishandling of former White House Staff Secretary Rob Porter’s history of domestic abuse, sources close to Donald Trump have revealed that not only is the president looking to replace chief of staff John Kelly, but Kelly has reportedly indicated that he would be willing to resign from his position. One…
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This Country Does Not Care About the Claims of Abused Women, and It Enables the Men Who Have Been Accused
Before Donald Trump even won the presidential election, women had come forward and accused him of various types of sexual misconduct. A recording surfaced in which he bragged about being able to do whatever he wants with women, and in which he said you should just “grab ’em by the pussy.” No one thought he’d…
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Russia Is Boring
I never thought I’d say this, but I am tired of hearing about Russia. That’s hard for me to admit, given that I’ve devoted my entire graduate education and more than four years of my life—so far—to living in Russia and other former USSR republics. But the news cycle that seems to find Russia under…
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Omarosa Still Believes She Has Redeeming Qualities, Cries While Telling Big Brother Castmate Her Time at the White House Was a ‘Call to Duty’
Well, it looks as if Omarosa Manigault Trump IV is on her Chrisette Michele “Welcome me back, black America, because I didn’t know what I was doing” tour, and the first stop is Celebrity Big Brother, where Omarosa, the former director of communications for the White House Office of Public Liaison, proved that she is…
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The White House Knew That Rob Porter Had Allegedly Assaulted His Ex-Wives and Kept Him Around Anyway: Report
The White House has become an endless, vast hole of shame and embarrassment. Just when you think that the allegations coming from one of the most revered and respected adobes worldwide can’t get any worse, the entire White House—staff, administration, housekeeping—is like, “Hold my folders.” On Wednesday the White House was rocked by allegations that…