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Big Trump Didn’t Tweet During Comey Testimony, but Lil’ Donald Trump Jr. Did
Rumor had it before ex-FBI Director James Comey’s testimony that President Twitter Fingas was going to set social media ablaze. The scuttlebutt was that President Orange Tang Face was going to live-tweet his reactions to the bags of tea Comey was dumping on the White House lawn. While Comey didn’t disappoint in giving up the…
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Tomi Lahren Gets Dragged on Twitter … Again
Maybe we have been too harsh on Beckys. We often unfairly paint them as dumb, unfeeling white women when we don’t take any blame for their actions. The problem with most Beckys is not that they’re dumb. The problem is that the world likes skinny, blond, white women, so we pay them more attention. Even…
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Watch: Judge of Characters, The Root’s New Digital Show About the Best (and Messiest) of Black Twitter
At this point, we know the power of black Twitter. We set trends, we get folks fired and we are side-crampingly hilarious. So we figured, why don’t we dig into the black Twitter crates each week and serve up the best and messiest 140 characters we can find? Bonus: These tweets are usually about the…
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Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Get Into a Full ‘Covfefe’ on Twitter
I can’t lie; I love when the president wades in the petty pool. Is it embarrassing on a national stage? Of course it is! But what is the point of having a worthless president if he doesn’t do worthless stuff? At times I need him to prove just how petty and vindictive he truly is,…
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Trump Drunk-Tweets ‘Covfefe,’ and We Have a Lot to Discuss
The problem isn’t that the old man in the White House can’t spell—hell, he’s been unable to spell since he took office, as he demonstrates by consistently tweeting misspelled words. It’s that the president of the United States is late-night drunk-tweeting incomplete sentences with made-up words. President Donald Trump tweeted, “Despite the constant negative press…
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#EbonyOwes: Ebony Magazine Is Blocking Writers It Still Hasn’t Paid
Look at Chance the Rapper looking all dapper on the cover of June’s Ebony issue. You’d think that with a cover story that gives an in-depth look at Chance’s career and rise to fame, the person who’d wrote that article would have gotten paid by now? Nope. Not in the world of Ebony. According to…
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Everything to Know About Trump Scandals This Week
President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared “Got Dem Visas” Kushner, wanted to have a burner phone in the White House that was directly connected to Russia; the White House communications director has resigned; and someone tweeted some fake-ass message from Trump’s presidential Twitter account—you know, the one he doesn’t use—to condemn the terrorist attacks in Portland,…
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Round 3: Tomi Lahren vs. Wale
Rapper Wale and Tomi Lahren got into another Twitter spat Thursday after the unemployed TV host asked a question regarding Donald Trump being impeached: Sure, Wale’s reply had nothing to do with the question at hand, but it was an 8 out of 10 for trolling: The Washington, D.C., rapper definitely isn’t a fan of…
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Does Charlamagne tha God Hate Black Women?
Tomi Lahren is a certified troll. Our friend Damon Young of Very Smart Brothas stuck “Darth” in front of her name to truly capture the essence of her evil. She’s like Donald Trump in Becky’s clothing. So when radio personality, author and all-around professional under-your-skin dweller Charlamagne tha God was not only spotted with Lahren…
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Kobe Bryant Retweets Kid’s Request and Gets a Whole Class Out of Final Exam
Kobe Bryant just gave kids at one Indiana high school a nice assist; that’s because Black Mamba just got an entire class out of taking a final exam. William Pate, a high school senior at Ben Davis High School in Indianapolis, reached out to Bryant via Twitter with a full-court heave: If the Black Mamba…
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