Donald Trump
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Trump Found a White Dude Named ‘Jerome’ to Be in Charge of Our Money Because Nothing Makes Sense Anymore
I’ve been in airports and on airplanes all day, dealing with shitty cellphone signals and shittier airport Wi-Fi for the last few hours, so when I finally was able to get online just now after landing in Pittsburgh, I checked Twitter to see if anything particularly newsworthy had happened while I was offline. First I…
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Trump Thinks the US Justice System Is a Laughingstock
Donald Trump thinks our justice system is as joke. As he called for there to be swift action against terror suspects after Tuesday’s attack in New York City, he called our country’s justice system a “laughingstock” for the way it punishes terrorists. Trump—who put Jeff Sessions in place as the head of the entire U.S.…
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Paul Manafort: The Adviser to Sellouts for Russia
. One of the worst things you can call a black person is a sellout. The phrasing doesn’t require context; nor does the person hurling the insult need to explain his or her intent. It’s pretty basic: If you’re willing to throw your people under the bus in order to promote your selfish ambitions and…
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Trump’s Latest Tweets Are Dog Whistles to White Supremacists
The first time I heard the term “alt-right” was long before Donald Trump decided to trade in his career as a reality-show host in exchange for a chance to be president of the United States. In early 2014 I interviewed a white supremacist named Kyle Hunt, founder of the White Man’s March—a predecessor of what…
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Russian Disinformation Has Long Targeted Blacks
KGB Disinformation Goes Back to King Era Editorial Says Indictments Reflect Trump Character NBC Hypes Hours-Old News as ‘Breaking’ Twitter Suspends Trump Ally After Anti-Lemon Rant Series: Detained Juveniles Subjected to Atrocities Immigrants Pushed Deeper Into the Shadows Inequality at the Root of Harassment Issue Biracial Writer Gives Yuli Gurriel a Break Financial Plan Helped…
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John Kelly: ‘Lack of Compromise’ Led to Civil War
White House chief of staff John Kelly told a Fox host Monday night that a “lack of an ability to compromise” on slavery led America into the Civil War. Donald Trump’s chief of staff appeared Monday night on Laura Ingraham’s The Ingraham Angle and launched into a defense of the Confederacy’s honor. Kelly praised Gen.…
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Some Republicans Say Donald Trump Might Not Seek Re-Election, and I Don’t Know if We Should Cry or Praise-Dance
In the past few days, two top Republican officials have insinuated that America might not get a sequel to this dumpster fire of a presidency that some news organizations refer to as “the Trump administration.” On Sunday night on MSNBC, the humanlike ball of poodle hair Kentuckians somehow elected to the Senate, Sen. Rand Paul…
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We Need a Reset Button or Something for White People
Do you remember Ruben Studdard? Of course you do! That was a rhetorical question! But just in case you don’t, Ruben won American Idol in 2003, back when that actually mattered, and then later that year released his first album, Soulful, which went platinum. Soulful’s most popular single was “Sorry 2004.” Which was a fucking…
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Paul Manafort Charged With Conspiracy Against the US: 3 Things You Need to Know
If American justice were a movie, the arrest Monday of former Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort and his business associate Rick Gates would be that big courtroom scene right before the credits. The camera would pan back to some well-dressed international villain, pulled from the Smug British Actor of the Month Club, in an empty…