trump administration
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We’ve Been Here Before: A Psychologist Calls Out the Horrifying Familiarity of America’s Treatment of Migrant Children
Amid a deluge of recent reports on the terrors that migrants are facing at the U.S. border, including stories of families being ripped apart and planned “tent cities” for unaccompanied children, public pressure is mounting against the Trump administration to change course on its draconian and cruel immigration policy. A number of professional organizations have…
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Trump Administration Considers ‘Tent Cities’ to House Thousands of Unaccompanied Migrant Children
The Trump administration is reportedly looking to erect “tent cities” at military posts around Texas to house thousands of migrant children who have arrived unaccompanied or have been forcibly separated from their parents at the border. The report, from McClatchy’s Washington, D.C., bureau, indicates that the Department of Health and Human Services is scoping out…
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The Trump Administration Has Mastered the Art of the ‘Grumblebrag’
We all know these people: the North American humblebragger. They are insufferable at any job, cookout or dinner party. You can hear them, across the room, in the next office, standing out on the patio talking loud enough on their cellphones that everyone else can hear: “Nah, I’m gonna let it ring. I told Barack,…
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Not Only Did Melania Trump’s Team Bite the Obama Playbook, but They Also Got Mad When the Media Pointed It Out
On Tuesday, after several news outlets exposed first lady Melania Trump’s reuse of an educational booklet from the Obama-era Federal Trade Commission to serve as the template for her stupidly named Be Best campaign, her team reportedly took offense at being called out on it. Melania, aka Ofdonald, launched her initiative focusing on childhood “well-being,…
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Rudy Giuliani Just Gave the Beyoncé Coachella Performance of Interviews. 3 Reasons Why It Was Staged
Rudy Giuliani has been President Donald Trump’s lawyer for less than a week, and he just walked onstage and gave the Beyoncé Coachella performance of his life. On Wednesday night, on Fox News’ Hannity, with Sean Hannity—the Fonzworth Bentley of the Conservative Party—Giuliani Boston Tea Partied all over the floor and pissed all over the…
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The White House Is Now a Frat House and Everyone Is Dropping Line
Rex Tillerson became the latest pledgee from one of America’s most important fraternal organizations to exit the back door of the fraternity house located at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., raising concerns that Big Brother Trump, who serves as chapter president, might be hazing a little too much. According to the Washington Post, Tillerson, who served as…
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Betsy DeVos Is the World’s Most Useless White Woman
Of course, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is not the world’s most useless white person. That title belongs to sentient-pile-of-shredded-Monopoly-money-lining-an-albino-hamster’s-cage Jared Kushner, who has somehow managed to stay dead in the center of every Trump-related scandal despite the fact that no one knows what he does or did before whatever he’s doing now, or even what he…
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105 Nigerian Girls Are Missing Because Donald Trump Is a Racist Idiot
Almost a week after Boko Haram extremists kidnapped more than 100 girls, the young women remain missing, leaving parents in the northern Nigerian town distraught and angry. Many fear that the girls abducted from Government Girls Science and Tech College in Dapchi, Yobe state, Nigeria, on Monday, will become child brides for the Boko Haram…
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Why Is Kellyanne Conway in Charge of the Opioid Crisis? Then Again, She Does Lie Like a Crackhead
Continuing his tradition of placing unqualified, mediocre white people in jobs for which they have no expertise, President Donald Trump has moved Kellyanne Conway from her Cabinet-level position in the Department of Lying Motherfuckers and put her in charge of the opioid crisis. Needless to say, it is not going well. Politico reports that Trump’s…