Donald Trump
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Roy Moore Thinks America Was Better When Slavery Was in Place
Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore has been accused of a lot of things. He’s referred to Asian Americans and Native Americans as “yellows” and “reds” like they’re fucking M&M’s. Multiple allegations have come forth suggesting that he has a predilection for underage girls. The man is seriously problematic, and for some reason, many in…
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Rep. John Lewis Is Boycotting Trump’s Visit to the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum Opening
Reps. John Lewis (D-Ga.) and Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) announced Thursday that they will be skipping Saturday’s opening of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson because Donald Trump will be in attendance—something they consider to be “an insult” to the black heroes commemorated there. Thompson and Lewis issued a joint statement that said, “President Trump’s…
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Denture-Gate: President Thick Tooth of the United ‘Shaehs’ Slurs Speech, and Hilarity Ensues
It was set up to be a big speech, and as President Two Macs von NoFries was ending his announcement recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, he began slurring his speech. And before you get all “Hey, he might have been having a stroke; have you seen how bad he eats?” on me, I…
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Will Mississippi’s New Civil Rights Museum Tell the Truth About the State’s Troublesome Past?
Myrlie Evers-Williams once had a hard time understanding how her husband could still love their home state of Mississippi so deeply. After all, Medgar Evers grew up in the segregated South and, like many African Americans, left America to fight in Europe during World War II, only to return to a state where black veterans…
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Time Magazine Names ‘the Silence Breakers’ Its Person of the Year
Time’s Person of the Year isn’t a single person but a movement. On Wednesday, the magazine announced that “the silence breakers”—the victims of sexual harassment and assault who have come forward to tell their stories—had earned the distinction of being its Person of the Year for 2017. Time Editor-in-Chief Edward Felsenthal told the Today show…
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Who Will Survive in America?
On Kanye West’s 2010 album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, there is an often overlooked track entitled “Who Will Survive America?” The song features Gil Scott-Heron taking a dystopian look at how the world is coming to the realization that America is a bastard “hosed down daily with a gagging perfume.” After the passage of last…
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Trump’s Lawyer Says the ‘President Cannot Obstruct Justice’
This administration is nothing if not an abject lesson in doublespeak and pimp talk as Donald Trump and his little friends find creative ways to lie to and gaslight us, all in an attempt to make us believe that our eyes and ears are lying to us—and the only truth comes from them. In what…
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Donald Trump Would Rather Have Old-Ass Orrin Hatch Run Again Than Have Mitt Romney on the Senate: Report
President Donald Trump would rather have Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), who went to elementary school back when children wrote on papyrus using fossil bones, than have former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney take over his seat. According to Politico, Trump is reportedly courting the 83-year-old seven-term senator to run one more time to block Romney,…
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Mike Pompeo as Secretary of State Would Only Make Trump’s Anti-Muslim Rhetoric Even Worse
Last week the New York Times reported that President Donald Trump plans to replace Secretary of State Rex Tillerson with CIA Director Mike Pompeo, although Tillerson and Trump deny the reports. Pompeo would be a troubling choice as the nation’s top diplomat. His hawkish views on Islam are more likely to enable Trump’s Muslim-hating rhetoric,…
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Billy Bush to Trump: Bitch, You Know That’s You Saying, ‘Grab ’Em by the Pussy’
Did you really think that former Access Hollywood anchor Billy Bush was going to lose his job for being a laughing co-signer of Donald Trump’s “grab ’em by the pussy” comments and let the now-president get away with trying to act like he didn’t say it? Of course not. Ol’ Billy is out here snitching…