Donald Trump
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Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Get Into a Full ‘Covfefe’ on Twitter
I can’t lie; I love when the president wades in the petty pool. Is it embarrassing on a national stage? Of course it is! But what is the point of having a worthless president if he doesn’t do worthless stuff? At times I need him to prove just how petty and vindictive he truly is,…
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Sean ‘Spicy Facts’ Spicer: ‘Covfefe’ Is a Word to Those in the Know!
I love White House Press Secretary Sean “Spicy Facts” Spicer. I have ever since he took office, and mostly because he’s a goddamn embarrassment. He’s the mouthpiece for an administration whose members don’t seem to know their ass from their hat, so watching him walk out in front of a pressroom firing squad of reporters…
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It’s No Surprise That the Trump Administration’s Africa Policy Is Nonexistent. But We Should Care
With the president returning from one of the most embarrassing public displays of American diplomacy abroad, at least we can say one thing: We know where President Donald Trump stands with respect to U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and in Europe. For bad or for worse. We even get a firm sense of…
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Confirmed: Former FBI Director James Comey to Testify Publicly That Trump Attempted to Obstruct Russia Probe
Former FBI Director James Comey will testify publicly as early as next week before the Senate to confirm accusations that President Donald Trump attempted to obstruct his agency’s probe into alleged connections between top Trump campaign associates and Russia. No official date has been set for Comey’s testimony, but CNN reports that the final details…
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Trump Drunk-Tweets ‘Covfefe,’ and We Have a Lot to Discuss
The problem isn’t that the old man in the White House can’t spell—hell, he’s been unable to spell since he took office, as he demonstrates by consistently tweeting misspelled words. It’s that the president of the United States is late-night drunk-tweeting incomplete sentences with made-up words. President Donald Trump tweeted, “Despite the constant negative press…
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#NotTheOnion: Trump Tells World Leaders to Call Him on His Cellphone
If this weren’t a matter of national and global security, the jokes would write themselves. President Donald Trump has been handing out his cellphone number to world leaders and telling them to call him “late night when you need my love” directly, raising security concerns for anyone with common sense. Trump has insisted that Canadian…
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Everything to Know About Trump Scandals This Week
President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared “Got Dem Visas” Kushner, wanted to have a burner phone in the White House that was directly connected to Russia; the White House communications director has resigned; and someone tweeted some fake-ass message from Trump’s presidential Twitter account—you know, the one he doesn’t use—to condemn the terrorist attacks in Portland,…
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Unique Views, Episode 44: White Slavery and America’s White Lies
White slavery. The phrase and even the idea of it sounds funny, but this episode of The Root’s podcast, Unique Views—soon to be called The Haters—is serious. A Handmaid’s Tale, on Hulu, looks at what would happen if, in a futuristic world, women, mostly white women, became indentured servants. Of course, my co-host, The Root’s…
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Jared Kushner Is A Thug
Thug has become such a ubiquitous dog whistle for a certain type of uncomfortable Blackness — and by “certain type of uncomfortable Blackness” I mean “all Blackness” — that the whistle is no longer necessary. Nothing is coded, nothing concealed, nothing cloaked. Those who use it in this context can’t even feign to deny anymore that…