Donald Trump
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Michelle Obama Is The Best Thing About America
A few weeks from now, the country will decide if Donald Trump — a unabashed bigot, racist, misogynist, xenophobe, charlatan, and chickenhawk — will be our next President; the person we choose to be America’s representative to the rest of the world; essentially the most important motherfucker on Earth. He will probably (hopefully) lose the election.…
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Michelle Obama on Donald Trump’s Sexual Assault Comments: ‘They Have Shaken Me to My Core’
President Obama has “Luther” as his anger translator, and Hillary Clinton has Michelle Obama as her “tell it like it is” translator. During a stop on Clinton’s campaign trail Thursday, the first lady gave a speech that blew away the crowd. Obama’s powerful and emotional speech came down on Donald Trump’s vulgar comments about women…
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Trump to a Group of Young Girls: 'I'm Going to Be Dating Her in 10 Years'
This might be the most disturbing video to come out about Donald Trump yet—and that’s saying a lot, considering recently leaked footage that has the Republican presidential nominee making sexually aggressive comments. Recently released footage of a 1992 Entertainment Tonight Christmas segment shows a then-46-year-old Trump talking to a group of girls going up the escalator…
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Trump Sexual Assault Accuser: 'He Was Like an Octopus; His Hands Were Everywhere'
Since the Washington Post leaked 2005 footage of Donald Trump making sexually aggressive comments about women, several reports have emerged saying that Trump physically assaulted women. According to the New York Times, two women—Jessica Leeds and Rachel Crooks—say that Trump assaulted them. Leeds said she was traveling for business during the 1980s when a stewardess…
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What Conservatives Really Mean When They Talk About Rap
What you say about somebody else reveals you. What I think of you as being is dictated by my own necessities, my own psychology, my own fears and desires. I’m not describing you when I talk about you; I’m describing me. —James Baldwin Donald Trump supporters have continually found new, improbable ways to rationalize the…
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3 Women Accuse Donald Trump of Forcibly Groping or Kissing Them
Three women came forward in two separate news reports Wednesday accusing Donald Trump of groping them or kissing them without their consent. According to the New York Times, one woman alleges that during a flight more than 30 years ago, Trump grabbed her breasts and tried to put his hand up her skirt, and a…
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Trump Supporter Charged After Threatening Black Woman in Albany, NY
An apparent Donald Trump supporter is facing charges of aggravated harassment after allegedly threatening to beat a black woman and calling her a racial slur earlier this week, the Albany Times Union reports. Albany, N.Y., police spokesman Steve Smith said that officers responded to a 911 call at a local ShopRite around 8:20 p.m. Monday…
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For Colored Folk Who Have Considered Suicide When This Election Was Too Much
There is not a lot of joy this election season. Everyone knows that we probably won’t live to see another ridiculously upbeat campaign season like 2008, when it was literally “cool” to go out and vote for then-Sen. Barack Obama, but 2016 has been an emotional letdown nonetheless. The choice between Hillary Clinton, with her…
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How Trump Turned the 2nd Debate Into a Rap Battle
Sunday’s debate showed one thing about Donald Trump that I’d never noticed: He is thoroughly versed in the Loaded Lux playbook of battle rap. Just 90 minutes prior to Sunday’s town hall showdown versus Hillary “Supa Predatah” Clinton, Trump hosted a Facebook Live press conference with several women who’d accused the former president and current…
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Hillary Clinton Needs to Let the 'Bitch' Loose on Trump
I ran for office once. My opponent was a loud, sugar-hyped seventh-grader, and we were running for seventh-grade class president. Although he didn’t have an orange tan or comb-over like Donald Trump, he was just as big a bully as Trump. But that’s expected in the seventh grade. During our run for class president, this…