Donald Trump
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Trump Hates Old Poor White People, Too
I bet a lot of old, poor white voters who stumbled into the voting booth to pull the trigger for Donald Trump are secretly regretting that decision every day. That’s because Trump used their racist hatred for blacks and catered to their xenophobia and innate hatred for Hillary Clinton to ride that wave into the…
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Trump Administration’s Failure to Recognize Haiti Is a Painful American Tradition
Editor’s note: Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly announced Monday that he has extended Haiti’s Temporary Protected Status for six more months. He hinted that this shortened extension will be the last, saying that TPS recipients should take “time to attain travel documents and make other necessary arrangements for their ultimate departure from the United States.” …
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Trump’s New Budget Slashes Medicaid, Other Anti-Poverty Programs for Needy Families
Donald Trump is set Tuesday to reveal his first major budget proposal, and with it comes major cuts to Medicaid and changes to anti-poverty programs that would allow states to limit a range of benefits for needy families, something Congress has already been uneasy about. Trump’s plan follows through on a bill passed by House…
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Report: Trump Asked Intelligence Chiefs to Help Him Push Back Against FBI Probe Into Russian Collusion
In his capacity as president, Donald Trump reportedly asked two high-ranking national intelligence officials in March to help him push back against the FBI investigation into possible connections between his presidential campaign and the Russian government. Two current and two former intelligence officials spoke with the Washington Post on condition of anonymity, saying that Trump…
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Trump Is Spilling All the Tea Because He’s a Messy Bitch
President Donald Trump is the friend you tell a secret to, a secret that clearly is directly connected to you, and when you hear that secret come back to you, you know exactly who said it, and when you question him, he defends it by saying, “But I never said your name, though.” During a…
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Coincidence? Donald Trump Takes Trip and Saudi Arabia, UAE Donate $100,000,000 to Fund Backed by Ivanka
The White House has assured America, almost a million times now, that there is no collusion between White House officials and those seeking favor with the president. Sure, President TrumPutin hired all of his close friends and family to essentially run the White House, and yes, they have private interests that could be used to…
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Melania Trump Hates Her Husband and She’s Becoming Our Spirit Animal
Melania Trump is becoming the other America’s spirit animal, and by “other America,” I mean the America with a full set of teeth that doesn’t own a pickup truck or believe that the Confederate flag is a symbol of America’s pride. You know, the America that didn’t vote for this dirtbag. It appears not only…
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TrumPutin Has Lost His Mind During Overseas Trip
On Saturday, President Vladimir TrumPutin landed in Saudi Arabia for his first official trip as the lord and ruler of the “alt-right” deplorables. And, since landing in the birthplace of Islam, the president has curtsied, danced, softened his xenophobic rhetoric against Muslims and touched a glowing orb, and I think it’s clear that the president…
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The Church of Satan Says ‘Orb’ Photo Isn’t a Satanic Ritual
Twitter had a field day when Donald Trump, Saudi Arabian King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi placed their hands on a glowing globe. Sure, it looked like something out of an Illuminati playbook, or something you’d find at a satanic ritual. But don’t fret; according to the Twitter account of…
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W. Kamau Bell on How to Solve Chicago’s Violence and Why Black Celebrities Host Shows About Race
Comedian W. Kamau Bell gives a lot of credit to Chris Rock for taking a big chance on him in 2012 by executive-producing his first show, Totally Biased With W. Kamau Bell, on FX. “He basically gave me my career,” Bell said to The Root. “He might say differently: ‘You would have made it some…