Donald Trump
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Journalists Kicked Out of Kushner Family’s Pay-for-Play Visa Event in China
A Beijing-based correspondent for the Washington Post claimed that she and a colleague were kicked out of a “Kushner event featuring Jared’s sister.” She also says the other journalist had part of her video and audio recordings deleted. Emily Rauhala attended the event in China in which Nicole Kushner Meyer, the sister of White House…
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Eric Trump Claimed Russians Fund Trump’s Golf Courses: Report
One of President Vladimir TrumPutin’s sons was out here spilling all the tea in 2014, telling a prominent golf writer that Russians funded one of Papa’s golf courses, because of course they did. James Dodson, who co-authored the Arnold Palmer biography A Golfer’s Life, told Boston radio station WBUR that during a trip to one…
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Wait, Did President Trump Just Threaten Sally Yates?
President Twitter Fingas is at it again. On Monday, hours before former U.S. Attorney General Sally Yates is set to testify in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee about Russia, the president is out here tweeting like he’s a member of Real Housewives. Donald Trump tweeted (and apparently subsequently deleted): “Ask Sally Yates, under oath,…
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Colo. Spanish Teacher Placed on Administrative Leave After Photos, Videos Show Students Smashing Piñata With Donald Trump’s Picture
Well, this Cinco de Mayo celebration didn’t go over very well. A Colorado high school Spanish teacher was put on administrative leave after photos and videos surfaced of students on Friday smashing a piñata with a picture of President Donald Trump on the front. According to Fox News, Roosevelt High School students in Weld County…
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Trump Just Made the Christian Right the Most Powerful Political Group in America
Many groups were afraid that Donald Trump’s newly signed executive order would be an attack on LGBT groups and other minorities whose lives and beliefs fall outside of traditional religious thinking. Even the ACLU exhaled when it saw the actual wording today. Although it has been lost in the butt-hurt wake of the fiasco that…
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#StayWoke: The White House Just Fired the 1st Black Female Chief Usher
Angella Reid, the first woman and only the second African American to be the chief usher at the White House, has been fired. White House residence staff learned of the firing Friday morning, the Washington Post reports. “We are very grateful for her service and wish her the very best,” a White House official told…
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Maxine Waters Says She’s Putting Her ‘Career on the Line’ to Resist Donald Trump
Baby, your Auntie Maxine is fed the eff up, and she’s not going to take it anymore. The Democratic representative from California says she is putting her “career on the line” to speak out against Donald Trump, and that’s more than what a lot of our passive-ass senators and representatives are willing to do. At…
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‘State of Black America’ Town Hall Lays Out a Plan for Surviving the Trump Era
Every year around this time, the National Urban League releases a “State of Black America” report, with its successes and challenges for the future. This year, under the Trump administration, the need for a cohesive plan is more urgent than ever. “I think we are in a state of disarray,” said CNN commentator Angela Rye…
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Hillary Clinton Should Troll 45 Forever With Her ‘Bitch, I Told You So’ Tour
For five months, Hillary Clinton stayed relatively quiet. If I’d lost the presidential election to the former host of The Apprentice, I would have gone to the woods, too. Yet, to some, Clinton’s silence and self-imposed exile were a disappointment—even if it was only mere weeks after the inauguration. At the time, I wrote that…