Donald Trump
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Trump Reportedly Called Deaf Apprentice Star Marlee Matlin ‘Retarded’
A new day, and new claims of inappropriateness have been leveled against Donald Trump. According to a Daily Beast report, during the 2011 taping of NBC’s The Apprentice, Trump called Academy Award-winning actress Marlee Matlin “retarded.” Matlin would come in second place on the show and earn on-air compliments from Trump, but three people who…
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GOP Candidate's Black Outreach: Kool-Aid, Watermelon and KFC
As many of us politicos have come to know, the Grand Old Party is overflowing with stupid white men. In this campaign season, though, Donald J. Trump has been sucking up so much of the election coverage, the rest of those of that dumb-dumb-diddy demo have been overlooked. That’s why I am so grateful to…
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Trump Accuser: ‘He Touched Me Wherever He Could Find a Landing Spot’
One of the two women who accused Donald Trump of sexual misconduct in a New York Times on Wednesday said in an interview Thursday that the Republican presidential candidate touched her “wherever he could find a landing spot,” CNN reports. Jessica Leeds, 74, was 38 at the time of her encounter with Trump on a…
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Donald Trump Calls Most Recent Accusers 'Horrible, Horrible Liars'
A defiant Donald Trump hit the campaign trail in Florida on Thursday, and he lashed out about the most recent accusations of his sexual misconduct, NPR reports. In a 49-minute speech at a West Palm Beach campaign stop, Trump attacked his accusers and blamed his recent run of bad publicity on the “Washington establishment” and the…
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Donald Trump to the New York Times: I'll Sue You. Times to Trump: Do It
Donald Trump threatened the New York Times with a lawsuit Wednesday night after the Times published an article in which two women accused the presidential candidate of forcibly groping and kissing them years ago. As the Times reports, the lawsuit threat comes in the middle of an eventful week for the Trump campaign. On Friday…