President Trump announced on Saturday that White House Chief of Staff John Kelly will be leaving the administration by the year’s end. The new is not surprising. The president has already jettisoned dozens of top officials, and it had long been rumored that Trump and Kelly’s relationship had soured. Nick …
Read More »Bask in the Absurdity of This 2018 #MAGA Gift Guide
There’s no official date that the conservative “War on Christmas” picks back up each year, but in 2018 it was probably November 19th, when President Trump gently laid his palm on a horse’s ass in front of the White House. To the president’s credit, it was no ordinary horse; it …
Read More »What Comes After the Tear Gas?
At the height of his pre-election push to make Americans fear a caravan of Central American migrants making their way through Mexico, President Trump held a press conference during which he suggested it may be necessary to use lethal force against asylum-seekers once they reach the U.S. border. “They want …
Read More »Kim Kardashian Talks Trump, Kanye at Criminal Justice Reform Summit
Kim Kardashian West discussed the backlash to her White House visit and Kanye West‘s brief relationship with President Donald Trump during an interview with Van Jones at Rolling Stone and Variety‘s Criminal Justice Reform Summit on Wednesday. Over the past few years, Kardashian has become an advocate for criminal justice …
Read More »How Trump Accidentally Helped Democrat Kyrsten Sinema Flip Jeff Flake's Arizona Senate Seat
Congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema has officially captured a Republican-held Senate seat in Arizona. Sinema, who at 41 is one of the youngest women ever elected to the Senate, also happens to be the first Arizona Democrat elected to the Senate in over 30 years.The results, which took almost a full week …
Read More »Donald Trump Makes Up Poll Touting African-American Support
When the truth is inconvenient, make up your own facts. That seems to be President Donald Trump‘s motto. The president posted a tweet Sunday morning referring to a poll that does not exist, as noticed by many journalists on Twitter. Of course, Trump is a president who is well-known for …
Read More »Will QAnon Go Down as the Dumbest Story of the Year?
Were it a government plot — a dazzling scheme to keep the public stupid — QAnon would be a great achievement in the otherwise relatively undistinguished history of the CIA. Alas, it is not. Like most things these days, if it seems like 4D chess, it’s probably just stupid. So …
Read More »Trump's Family Separation Scandal Has Revealed Every Species of Hypocrite
John McCain, in Arizona receiving treatment for brain cancer, tweeted about Donald Trump’s barbarous immigration policy this week. “The administration’s current family separation policy is an affront to the decency of the American people, and contrary to principles and values upon which our nation was founded,” the senator wrote. Those …
Read More »Michiko Kakutani on Her Essential New Book 'The Death of Truth'
Forget Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury, forget Hillary Clinton’s and James Comey’s ridiculously self-serving memoirs. Former chief book critic for The New York Times Michiko Kakutani has written the first great book of the Trump administration. The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump (out July …
Read More »Democrats to Donald Trump: Here's a Bill to Outlaw Family Separation
Nearly 2,000 migrant children have been ripped from their parents at the border under President Trump’s new “zero-tolerance” policy – state-sponsored trauma intended to deter undocumented immigration and even asylum seekers. New photos of separated migrant children in border patrol custody show them in oversize kennels, sleeping on mats on …
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