Donald Trump

  • A Trump Loss Is Still a Win for the Alt-Right

    The Donald J. Trump Traveling Crazy Circus will finally crash and burn on Election Day, when millions of sane Americans head to the polls and pull the lever for Hillary Clinton. (This will happen regardless of what happens at the debate Wednesday night.) And once the election is called for the first woman to be…

  • Obama to Trump: Stop Whining and Worry About Getting Votes

    President Barack Obama had a stern message for Donald Trump on Tuesday: “Stop whining and go try to make [your] case to get votes.” Obama’s message for Trump came during a news conference with Matteo Renzi, the Italian prime minister, in the Rose Garden. In recent days, Trump has made several claims that the election…

  • Green Party VP Nominee Ajamu Baraka: We Must Disrupt Our Relationship to Democratic Party

    When Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein tapped Ajamu Baraka to be her running mate back in August, there was a flurry of news stories. Most tried to paint him as the anti-Obama—too radical, too intense, too left to occupy the space just a heartbeat away from the Oval Office. All of these characterizations of Baraka amounted to attempts…

  • 8 Shows That Will Be on ‘Trump TV’ if Donald Trump Loses the Election

    The American voter finally has confirmation of what we were thinking all along: Donald Trump doesn’t really want to be president. All the evidence is there: He’s run a Dumpster fire of a campaign, and even though he managed to blow through 16 mealymouthed Republicans in the primaries while completely taking command of the Republican…

  • Melania Trump: Donald Was ‘Egged on’ to Say ‘Dirty and Bad Stuff’

    Melania Trump says she has never heard her husband use the kind of language he is heard using in a 2005 video, and she questions the integrity of the women who have come forward to accuse him of sexual misconduct. “I believe my husband. I believe my husband,” she said in an interview with CNN’s…

  • What Do You Do If Your Uber Has A Donald Trump Bumper Sticker?

    This was a question I asked myself Saturday night, as I noticed that the Uber coming to pick my wife and I up had a Trump/Pence bumper sticker on it. As many of you know, my feelings about Trump supporters are well-documented. Bit of context: We were headed to a club to celebrate a friend’s…

  • Donald Trump at the Apollo Sounds Like the Recipe for a Race Riot

    If he has his way, Donald Trump may have laid the groundwork for a race riot right by Red Lobster. According to the New York Daily News, the Trump campaign has been actively trying to book the legendary Apollo Theater in Harlem for a rally. Apparently, organizers have been calling “every day,” though there is…

  • Donald Trump Said 18-Year-Old Lindsay Lohan Was Probably 'Great in Bed' 

    In six separate appearances on The Howard Stern Show, Donald Trump discussed sex and infidelity, rated women’s bodies, and talked about whether an 18-year-old Lindsay Lohan was attractive and possibly good in bed. The Washington Post, which last week released a 2005 videotape showing the presidential candidate having a lewd and misogynistic conversation about women…

  • Unique Views Podcast, Episode 14: Social Media Suicide: It’s Just Podcast Talk

    It wasn’t supposed to be like this. Seriously, it wasn’t supposed to be just Danielle Young—aka Patti LaDanielle, aka The Root’s social-content producer—and me, Stephen “Gladiator” Crockett Jr. (I’m trying on nicknames, so just go with it, guys.) On this episode, we had a superspecial guest all set up, and then the interview got embargoed…

  • More Women Come Forward to Accuse Donald Trump of Sexual Misconduct

    Just days after the New York Times published an article in which two women accused Donald Trump of sexual assault, more women have come forward to say that the Republican presidential candidate touched or kissed them inappropriately and without their consent. The Washington Post reports that Kristin Anderson was a struggling model in her early…