Donald Trump
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Melania Trump’s MLK Tweet Proves That She Is As Delusional as Her Deplorable Husband
I’ve always believed that Melania Trump was in an arranged marriage. And by “arranged,” I mean that she arranges times in which she is forced to watch her giant ball of old earwax devour a bucket of Original Recipe. Or arranges public appearances or official cutoff times for the contractual presidential coupling. Melania Trump doesn’t…
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Donald Trump Isn’t Racist, He’s Just White
Sometimes, when thinking about President Donald Trump and our reactions to the things he says and does, I’m reminded of the type of “good guy” who, when touting his personal attributes and distinguishing qualities, lists nothing but mundanities as if they were exceptional. He “has a job.” He “has his own place” and “pays his…
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Journalists Offered Reward to Ask Trump About US-Wakanda Relations
Want to know what would happen if a reporter seriously asked President Donald Trump how that bilateral trade agreement with Wakanda is panning out? You’re not the only one. On Saturday, a widely shared tweet from Sara Benincasa, a screenwriter and author, called for a journalist to “very seriously” ask Trump “his opinion on our…
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Trump, Whose Racist Record Goes Back More Than 40 Years, Says He Is ‘the Least Racist Person’
President Donald Trump—a man who was sued by the Justice Department in 1973 for racial discrimination, who called for the death penalty against the Central Park Five, who claimed for years that the first black president of the United States wasn’t born in this country, who labeled Mexicans rapists and criminals during his first 2016…
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New Yorkers Will Rally Against Trump to Honor Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy
New Yorkers will honor the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s memory today by protesting the 45th president of the United States’ regressive and racist words and deeds in Times Square. The Rally Against Racism event, organized by the Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network, will be held at 3 p.m. to protest Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant…
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The Day It Became Easier to Say He’s Racist
The three television network evening news programs led Thursday with President Trump’s reported statement calling Haiti, El Salvador and African nations “shithole” countries and saying the United States should instead bring more people from countries such as Norway. From there the outrage grew in online commentary, in print and on cable talk shows, as well…
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Trump’s Lawyer Paid Porn Star Stormy Daniels $130,000 to Keep Quiet About Alleged Encounter With Trump: Report
Well, what do you know? Turns out that a lawyer for the president of most of the Midwestern states and the part of Alabama that voted for Roy Moore paid a former adult-film star $130,000 for her silence around an alleged sexual encounter she had with Donald Trump in 2006. According to an explosive report…
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What Martin Luther King Jr. Would Say About White People and Their ‘Shithole’ Silence
Noor Salman has never killed a human being. She has never injured anyone. She doesn’t even have a criminal record. But after her husband massacred 49 people in Orlando, Fla.’s Pulse nightclub on June 12, 2016, an FBI agent said that he “realized that she knew” about the attack. The FBI also discovered that Salman…
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Reporter April Ryan Asks Trump: ‘Are You a Racist?’ During MLK Event at White House
Martin Luther King Jr. Day is around the corner, so you know what that means? Time to rattle Old Ben Carson’s birdcage and see if he has some words he’d like to mumble as the resident black face in Donald Trump’s administration. On Friday the former neurosurgeon, who might want to do some work on…
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The Counter to Trump’s Xenophobic Racism Is Not Exceptionalist Immigrant Narratives
Sometime Thursday, Donald J. Trump waddled into the Oval Office at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington, D.C., and not only blustered that immigrants from the countries of Haiti, El Salvador and the entire continent of Africa are “people from shithole countries” but also encouraged more immigration from countries such as Norway and the continent of…