Donald Trump

  • 100 Days of Minute Maid Mao as President Feels Like 1,000 and I’s Tired

    Since Jan. 20, 2017, stupidity, absurdity and white mediocrity have been having the time of their lives as the 45th president of the United States of America has behaved like the brain-damaged oompa loompa many of us who suffered through the 2016 presidential election found him to be then. Knowing that 45 would be a…

  • TrumPutin on Trumpcare: You Want to Know What Sucks? Obamacare

    As a candidate, Vladimir TrumPutin swore that he was going to make a 100-day contract with the American public. He swore that he was going to “drain the swamp” and repeal and replace Obamacare. At this point, TrumPutin is the divorced dad who swears he’s coming to pick up the kids on his weekends, and…

  • The Root Goes to the Least Exciting White House Correspondents' Dinner Ever

    Every year for the last nine years The Root usually gets lucky and gets one or two tickets (but usually just one) to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. During the Obama years this celebration of Washington’s nerdiest journalism nerds turned into a celebrity super bowl of sorts, a place where you could embarrass yourself in…

  • Fighting for Environmental Justice Is Fighting for Racial Justice

    In 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. Governmental neglect left majority-black wards destitute. Seventy-three percent of those displaced by Katrina were black, and more than one-third of them were estimated to have been poor. Although the hardest-hit areas in New Orleans were low-income communities and communities of color, white residents were favored over black residents…

  • Trump’s 1st 100 Days: A Photo Retrospective

    On Jan. 20 around noon, the America that we knew and liked enough to kick it with died. Former President Barack Obama loosened his tie and began windsurfing, and Russia’s play cousin, Vladimir TrumPutin, officially took office as president of the United States. On April 29, Trump reached his first 100 days in office, so…

  • The Complete Breakdown of Obama’s vs. Trump’s 1st 100 Days

    One hundred days ago, a Harvard-educated, self-made constitutional scholar handed over the White House keys to a stubby-fingered, cheddar-colored colostomy bag in a cheap toupee. To celebrate the fact that Donald Trump has yet to reduce the country to a pile of rubble smoldering under the dark cloud of nuclear winter while roving gangs of…

  • President TrumPutin Won’t Release His Tax Returns, so Stop Asking

    The time has come when all of us have to accept defeat. TrumPutin is president now, and as has been evidenced in his first 100 days, he will do and say anything, including making up stuff, because he is delusional and he puts ketchup on his steaks. As such, he won’t be releasing his tax…

  • Bigger Than Trump: One-on-One Exclusive With Rep. Maxine Waters [Retracted]

    RETRACTED (6/12/18): This story has been removed because we have discovered it was in breach of our editorial standards. If you’d like to know more, you can read an editor’s note here. A cached version of the story is available here for transparency.

  • TrumPutin Has His Tiny Finger on the Button … the Soda Button

    It’s good to know that when President Twitter Fingers isn’t trolling countries on social media, he’s got his tiny orange finger on the button … the soda button, that is. That’s right—the orange man who eats ketchup on his steaks and KFC with a knife and fork is so addicted to Coke that on his…

  • Michael Flynn Was Out Here Dropping It for the Russians 

    The House Oversight Committee is confirming what many of us have suspected: that this Remy Ma-second-diss-record-ass administration consists of a bunch of Russian operatives disguised as Americans liars. Remember Michael T. Flynn? He was only with this Nissan Sentra-ass administration for about a good Easter weekend before it was learned that he was on Russia’s…