Politics
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Sebastian Gorka, Deputy Assistant to Donald Trump, Writes ‘Blunt Resignation Letter’ and Leaves Administration
In the midst of a real, damaging storm hitting ground in Texas, a media storm is brewing out of the Donald Trump White House. In addition to a pardon issued to the racist former sheriff of Maricopa County, Ariz., reports are now surfacing that Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to Trump and a person reportedly closely…
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When Your Job Is Finding Positive News Stories About the President, You Have to Say ‘Screw It’ and Just Quit
Previously, on White House Apprentice, we found out that Donald Trump has a folder delivered to him twice daily that contains positive cable news clippings, articles, interview transcripts, tweets and even photos of himself that show him “looking powerful” on TV. The folder was curated by the White House Communications Office to make sure the…
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5 Reasons I Hope Donald Trump Doesn’t Get Impeached
Like 98 percent of black people, I am not a Donald Trump fan and wish he had never been elected. I think we should make that clear. I despise everything from his Vienna-sausage-sized fingers to his ethnic cleansing political agenda. But since white people a majority of Caucasian voters selected him to be the commander…
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‘House Negro to House Negro’? Herman Cain Pens Odd Note to Ben Carson
Hello, may I speak to Ben? Ben, this is Herman. I know you don’t know me, but I thought I’d give you a call because I understand what you are going through. I know what it’s like to be called a house Negro because they call me a house Negro, too, and if being like…
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‘Teleprompter Trump’ Calls for Unity a Day After ‘Rally Trump’ Spit Hot Hatred
In the continued push to prove that the president of White Walkers was once a compassionate human person, Donald Trump gave another speech less than 24 hours after his wildly ridiculous retelling of events in which he compared white supremacist terrorists in Charlottesville, Va., to those who were fighting against them in a call for…
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Hillary Is Not Your White Savior
This weekend I had the misfortune to read Roxane Gay’s recent New York Times op-ed, in which she reflects on Charlottesville, Va., and waxes poetic about how much she wishes Hillary Clinton had won. She writes: I keep thinking about how different things would be if Hillary Clinton had been elected president. I was, like…
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Make It Last Forever (Keith Sweat Voice), Don’t Let Our War End: Afghanistan Edition
President Donald Trump is becoming a master at the nonspeech speech, and nothing says nonspeech like Monday’s treatise on the 16-year war in Afghanistan. Every man who has ever been caught cheating has given a nonspeech. It works like this: Throw out tons of misdirection; offer some truth; admit some fault—usually not the fault that…
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Should Black Folks Trust the FBI’s Russia Investigation, Given Its History of Targeting Our Communities?
Why trust the FBI or any intelligence agency on Russia? They targeted civil rights activists for years. We really don’t have proof of the Russians doing anything. Why trust these agencies now? These are completely legitimate questions that I hear from black folks from time to time on social media and in person. I get…
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After Getting the Boot, Bannon Wants to Go to War? Great, Let Them Hos Fight
Does anyone think that big walking cold sore Stephen Bannon willfully let go of the most powerful position he will ever hold? On the departure of now-former White House chief strategist Bannon, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement: White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and Steve Bannon have mutually…
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Ding-Dong, the Dick Is Dead!
Previously on the White House Apprentice, shit was going crazy and everyone was getting fired. The president kept putting his foot in his mouth and siding with racists, and now multiple sources are reporting that Donald Trump’s Head of Racism and Intolerancechief strategist Steve Bannon, who is often credited with salvaging Trump’s presidential campaign, has…