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Once Upon a Black-Ass White House: Questlove Revisits the Time President Obama Wanted to Turn Up to French Montana
While mothership pilot George Clinton once threatened to paint the White House black, in 2008 it actually happened—ushering in an era of unprecedented pride, pigment and progress. We swag surfed on the White House lawn, Obama threw black ass house parties, and melanin magic became synonymous with 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Fast forward to 2019, and…
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Trump Hyped His Wealth to Get Bankers and Investors to Lend Him Money—And He Might've Committed Fraud: Report
The Grand Wizard of the White House is much like the Wizard of Oz; just a little orange colored man behind a financial curtain of falsities. According to The Washington Post, Trump created a document of lies he titled “Statements of Financial Condition” that he used to borrow money. The problem with this series of…
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At Last: Brazil's Villainous New President Meets the Man in the Mirror
When I was at SXSW last week, outside of openly questioning how black people are expected to survive in a world devoid of cracked pepper, I had the pleasure of partaking in a live rendition of Roast Battle—the popular Comedy Central television show in which a pair of comedians dismember each other to the audience’s…
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Trump Ready to Issue First Veto As New Budget Calls for Budget Cuts
They grow up so fast. One day, your new President is on the job for the first day. Wobbly and uncertain, you watched as he moved around Capitol Hill aimlessly, like a deer in headlights after a daring escape from the Doritos compound. He stumbled through his first top-level hires, invented a word, and gave…
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Ex-Fox News Executive Turned White House Communications Director Bill Shine Resigns
The former Fox News executive who left the fake news station amid scandal and landed a cushy spot in Donald Trump’s White House resigned as the White House communications director on Thursday, after serving Trump for less than a year. The formal statement is that Shine will continue working with Trump on his 2020 reelection…
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House Democrats Launch Sweeping Document Request Into Trump Corruption: Report
And so it begins. In the most gangster move since Democrats took over the House, the House Judiciary Committee has launched an investigation so sweeping that some 80 people have received requests for documents to determine whether President Donald Trump, his administration and associates obstructed justice, abused power of just outright did some corruptible shit.…
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Republican Lawmakers Believe Michael Cohen Lied to Congress, Call for DOJ Investigation: Report
Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan and North Carolina Republican Rep. Mark Meadows—two of the feistiest participants during Donald Trump’s former fixer’s Michael Cohen’s testimony on Wednesday—have referred Cohen to the Justice Department claiming he “committed perjury and knowingly made false statements” during his GOP tongue-lashing disguised as a public hearing. The trouble seems to stem from…
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Droppin' Jewels: Chief of Staff for Former Trump Counsel Gave Mueller Detailed Notes on President's Conduct
If the current trend keeps up, special counsel Robert Mueller may have to hire police detail to keep the line of Washington, D.C. lifers waiting to flip on Trump at bay. With Michael Cohen’s solo snitchin’ debut set for Tuesday, and notes from hours of interviews with the likes of Steve Bannon, Mueller and his…
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders Lies Again, Claims Trump Has Never ‘Done Anything But Condemn Violence’
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is confusing. I don’t know if “Suckabee” is a shameless liar who’d do anything to keep her job and in the good graces of her orange master or if she honestly believes the bullshit that is coming out of her mouth. On Friday, amid news reports that a…
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Trump Declares National Emergency and Then Goes Off the Rails In Unhinged Ramblefest
On Friday, as expected, President HooHoo Von WiffleStick walked out into the White House Rose Garden and used his executive powers to declare a national emergency to stop the influx of Mexican Decepticons at the Southern border and to aid Optimus Prime in the battle to keep America safe. “I’m going to be signing a…