Donald Trump
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Ala. Mayoral Candidate Randall Woodfin Is a Sign of the Growing Progressive Movement in the South
Randall Woodfin believes any political revolution that takes off across the nation starts in cities like his hometown of Birmingham, Ala., where he is running as a progressive candidate for mayor. Sure, Donald Trump literally encouraged local police to abuse people in their custody, but the people with real power to ensure that doesn’t happen…
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To White Folks Who Dance With Devils: ‘What Kind of Extremists Will You Be?’
In a press conference during which Donald Trump shed any pretense of being anything other than a white supremacist demagogue deploying his power in the service of fascism, hate-mongering and violence wrought from the desperate need whiteness has to preserve itself, he said this: Trump: Well, George Washington was a slave owner. Was George Washington…
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Trump Still Blaming ‘Both Sides’ for Va. Violence, Says White Nationalists Had Permits and Asks What About the ‘Alt-Left’ That Came Charging at Them?!
On Saturday, 32-year-old Heather Heyer was killed after authorities say a white nationalist slammed his car into a group of protesters rallying to combat hate. It took the president some two days to come out against the group of people whose tiki-torch-laced march led to the death of Heyer and the injuries of several others.…
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Watch: The Making of Auntie Maxine
Some might say that Maxine Waters’ career in politics was a prophecy. In high school, Waters was named most likely to be the speaker of the House of Representatives. The rest is history. Politically, she got her start in 1976 with the California Assembly. There, she led a seven-year fight for legislation that would remove…
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Steve Bannon, the Dr. Umar Johnson of White Nationalism, May Be Out of the White House by the End of the Week: Report
Looks like the prince of white nationalism might be out of his job as the breaker of black backs and the whisperer of white supremacy. If reports are to be believed, President TrumPutin’s chief political strategist and former executive chairman of Breitbart News, Steve “Papa” Bannon, may be out of the White House by the…
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Trump Gives Tired Speech Denouncing Hate, Then Tweets Dog Whistle to White Supremacists
President Trump has always been a racist and a supporter of white supremacy. So when the president gave his carefully crafted speech denouncing white hate some two days ago as the torch-wielding race rally left one woman dead and several injured, the only people who were moved by the speech were white supremacists. They were…
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With Domestic Terrorism in Charlottesville, Va., Betsy DeVos Fails to Recognize a Teachable Moment
President Donald Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos didn’t wholeheartedly renounce white supremacy over the weekend, but teachers must. James Alex Fields Jr., the driver who allegedly plowed into a crowd of counterprotesters in Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday, killing one and injuring at least a dozen more, had spouted Nazi ideology in high school, according…
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Jimmy Fallon Addresses the Hate He Helped Donald Trump Normalize
Remember during election season, when Donald Trump appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon? When the talk show host playfully ruffled Trump’s hair and didn’t even attempt to challenge him on his views or politics? Or racism? Or xenophobia? Or sexism? Or the fact that many of his supporters are white supremacists? Well, it…
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Hey, Guys, It Only Took 2 Days After the Violence in Charlottesville, Va., for Trump to Explicitly Denounce White Supremacy
It’s too little a little too late, but y’all’s president finally managed to take some time from golfing and tweeting about everything but Charlottesville, Va., to explicitly denounce white supremacists. “To anyone who acted criminally in this weekend’s racist violence, you will be held fully accountable. Justice will be delivered,” President Donald Trump said Monday…
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Donald Trump Just Blamed the White Supremacist Hunger Games on ‘Many Sides.’ Here’s What He Meant
As white supremacists gathered in Charlottesville, Va., to form neo-Nazi, Confederate Voltron, President Fuckboy McToupee decided to weigh in on the terrorist act in Charlottesville from a lawn chair where his bloated, dollop-shaped golf body chilled on his New Jersey vacation. He thought it necessary to comment on what is being called the largest gathering…