Donald Trump
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‘Sloppy Steve’ Bannon Backtracks, Offers Groveling Apology to Trump Daddy
I guess, between the millions in soft money reportedly being yanked from under him and the biggest coattails he’s ever ridden publicly going bye-bye, “Sloppy Steve” Bannon (President Donald Trump’s words, not mine) has tapped out and apologized for statements attributed to him in a new biography of the president, Fire and Fury: Inside the…
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Kendrick Lamar Is Doing 1st-Ever Halftime Show for College Football Championship. I Cannot Wait
We gone be aiight. … Especially when Kendrick Lamar Duckworth performs the halftime show for the College Football Playoff National Championship between Georgia and Alabama at Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Monday—the first-ever halftime-show performance in championship-game history. No, it’s not the NFL (nor is it Taylor Swift, the rumored performer before Lamar was chosen), but…
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Receipts! Fire and Fury Author Recorded Conversations Inside the White House for Months
Previously on White House Apprentice, Donald Trump and his attorneys tried to stop Steve Bannon from saying bad things about the president and his family. At the same time, they tried to stop author Michael Wolff from publishing a book full of bad things that Bannon, among others, has said about the president and his…
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Trump Wages War on HIV and AIDS Communities
As a black queer man living with HIV, I am nervous about the politically unstable, violently regressive times in which we live. In less than one year in office, President Donald Trump has seemingly put the brakes on 30-plus years of HIV work; in truth, the devastating impact of his reckless decisions has only just…
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Now, This Is Creepy: New Book Claims That Donald Trump’s Circle Sees Ivanka as His Wife and Hope Hicks as His Daughter
Look, I know that we’ve all cringed over the inappropriate relationship that President Donald Trump has with his daughter Ivanka. There was that one time when 16-year-old Ivanka was co-hosting the 1997 Miss Teen USA pageant, and Trump asked the then-Miss Universe: “Don’t you think my daughter’s hot? She’s hot, right?” Then there was the…
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Stop Dissing Me: Trump Lawyer Sends Cease and Desist Letter to Steve Bannon
Previously on White House Apprentice, Steve Bannon—who got kicked out of the house in August—was going around trash-talking Donald Trump, his administration, his family and the way he runs 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Trump came out on Wednesday denouncing Bannon and saying that he had “lost his mind” in an attempt to discredit his former chief…
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Trump Notwithstanding, Maine Gov. Paul LePage Might Be One of the Biggest Assholes in Politics
Paul LePage is the Tea Party Republican governor of Maine, and he might be one of the biggest assholes in politics. For those who forgot or may not remember, it was LePage who claimed that Maine’s heroin epidemic was spurred by guys named “D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty” who come to sell drugs and “impregnate a young…
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The Trump Administration Is Quietly Winning 1 Fight That Shows How White Supremacy Works
While we were wringing our hands about the travel ban or the nonsensical plans to staff a Game of Thrones-style wall so the Night’s Watch can keep out the Mexican wildlings, the Trump administration has quietly been instituting a scheme that will affect every aspect of U.S. law. His legislative failures may be notable, but…
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Here’s Why Trump’s Lawyers Are Trying to Block Release of Fire and Fury Book
On Tuesday, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, which is reportedly the most intimate look at the president’s first year in office, is set to be released next week, and neither Donald Trump nor his lawyers are happy about it. In fact, Trump’s lawyers are fixing to prevent the book’s release entirely. The…
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Trump Dissolves His Controversial Voter-Fraud Commission
On Wednesday, Donald Trump signed an executive order that effectively dissolved the controversial commission on voter fraud he created in May 2017, citing states’ refusal to provide the commission with “basic information.” The White House said in a statement: “Despite substantial evidence of voter fraud, many states have refused to provide the Presidential Advisory Commission…