Donald Trump
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Trump’s Exorbitant Travel Costs Will Far Surpass Obama’s
President Donald Trump had a lot to say about President Barack Obama’s vacations and his costs to American taxpayers. Yet a new report confirms that Trump’s travel costs—made more exorbitant because of his refusal to stay in the White House on weekends—is on track to far surpass those of Obama. The Washington Post estimates that…
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Y’all’s President Is a Lazy Thot
Y’all’s president is one vacationing-ass bitch. It hasn’t even been a smooth full month into Tropicana Jong-il’s four-year term (insert laugh track here), and the man has taken every weekend off. To his credit, much like his racism, his xenophobia, his sexism, his narcissism, his creepy obsession with his daughter and his insecurities, 45 has…
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It’s OK to Discuss Trump’s Mental Health
Some in the news media didn’t need President Donald Trump’s amazing news conference on Thursday to ask health professionals whether they thought Trump was mentally sound. News Conference Only Heightened Questions The news conference simply reinforced what many were already thinking. David Brooks wrote Friday in the New York Times, “President Trump’s mental state is…
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UPenn Paper Exposes Trump’s Lies About Graduating at Top of His Class
And the president is seemingly caught in another whopper. And by that doggone “fake press” at that. As far back as the 1980s, the New York Times reports, Donald Trump has been claiming that he graduated at the top of his class at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Business School. Yet despite these claims of…
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Unique Views, Episode 31: 10 Minutes With Loretta Devine on a Shaky Cellphone
When we tell y’all that we are trying, I don’t think y’all understand what that really means. This podcast is held together with shoestring and bubblegum. It’s not a joke when we call ourselves the Sanford and Son of podcasts, and as Ms. Patti LaDanielle, aka The Root’s social-content producer, Danielle Young, told me, “Yeah,…
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Here’s What ‘Make America Great Again’ Looks Like
Look at all that diversity surrounding President Donald Trump! There are some short white guys and tall white guys. Some of them have blue ties and some of them have red ties, and if you look really, really closely, there’s a white woman. Yep, one white woman. So, I don’t want to hear anymore that…
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Even a Fox News Anchor Can’t Deal With Trump’s Bullshit
When a Fox News anchor is piping hot over the president, then you know Donald Trump is messed up. Trump gave a horrible, impromptu press conference Thursday that left even Fox News anchor Shepard Smith tight. “It’s crazy what we’re watching every day,” Smith said after Trump’s news conference. “It’s absolutely crazy. He keeps repeating…
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NYT Columnist Charles Blow Is Not Your Negro and He’s Not Here for Trump Shade, Ever
If you are unfamiliar with Charles Blow, let me speed you up: He’s never here for the fuckshit. He’s educated, informed and opinionated and isn’t willing to “play nice” during Donald Trump’s dictatorship. During a late-night CNN panel, conservative Trump supporter Kayleigh McEnany thought she was going to throw shade at Mr. Blow, and she…
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Sean ‘Spicy Facts’ Spicer Is Getting Some Help, so Maybe He’ll Calm His Ass Down
Looks like Sean “Spicy Facts” Spicer is finally going to get some relief, with reports coming from the White House that a new communications director is expected to be announced Friday. And who is the White House going with? Some dude, Mike Dubke, the founder of Crossroads Media, two administration officials told CNN. Not everyone…
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Report: Trump Will Issue New Executive Order on Immigration Next Week Instead of Fighting Court Case
On the same day the Justice Department told a federal court there would be no point in further court battles over President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration, the president himself said that he will issue a new executive order on immigration by next week. According to NBC News, in a filing submitted to the…