president trump
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SNL and Melissa McCarthy Are Becoming Anti-Trump Heroes
On paper it doesn’t seem like a likely pairing to have Melissa McCarthy playing White House press secretary Sean “Spicy Facts” Spicer on Saturday Night Live, but it worked beautifully. Somehow, some way, the sketch-comedy show has a direct line to the White House’s insecurities, and it’s pissing off the president and his staff. Shortly…
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Trump’s Labor Pick Is a Mess: Hired Undocumented Worker; Ex-Wife Claimed Abuse
Andrew Puzder, the head of the parent company that owns Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr., paid an undocumented immigrant to work as his housekeeper for years, and of course, he’s Donald Trump’s pick to head the Labor Department. According to CNN, Puzder released a statement Monday admitting that he and his wife had employed the woman,…
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How to Write a Donald Trump Speech
President Asshat has never been an orator. In fact, aside from his popular catchphrase “You’re fired” “Grab ’em by the pussy,” I don’t know if he’s ever said anything remotely memorable. Most of his public appearances in his first two weeks in office have appeared to be off-the-cuff. But besides the universal connection of hate…
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Trump Accuses Media of Covering Up Terrorist Attacks
The presidential hyperbole train continued its run through America Monday when President Donald Trump, speaking to the U.S. Central Command, claimed that the media was intentionally covering up reports of terrorist attacks. According to the Washington Post, Trump went off his prepared remarks to make his claim. “You’ve seen what happened in Paris and Nice.…
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Martellus Bennett Won’t Be Going to Trump’s White House
Turns out there is a black player on the New England Patriots (ha, just kidding; I know they have three black players!), and he isn’t going to the White House. Patriots tight end Martellus Bennett was barely into his celebration in the come-from-behind victory for the ages when he let it be known that he…
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Trying to One-Up Obama, Trump Will Sign Executive Order Supporting HBCUs: Report
Perhaps after the now infamous Frederick Douglass debacle kicking off Black History Month, President Donald Trump wants to make it right with the blacks. According to a BuzzFeed report, the White House is working on an executive order supporting historically black colleges and universities—a way to crow, since some believe that President Barack Obama did…
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The Donald Trump Dictionary of Alternative Definitions
Do you remember when words meant things? I know it’s hard to imagine, but before Jan. 20, 2017, back in the pre-Trumpian era, during the salad days of U.S. history, when Muslims were welcome into the country and the president didn’t have the attitude of a petulant toddler, words had immutable definitions. Back in those…
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Birthing My Half-Black, Half-Pakistani, Full-Muslim Son in the Era of Trump
I went into labor 30 minutes after Donald Trump’s election night speech. I have the worries that any new mother would have about raising a child in the era of Trump, where ugliness is out in the open and civility no longer exists. My son was born pink. Not mocha, like his daddy. I really…
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Trump Administration Modifies Sanctions With Our Play Cousin Russia
The Trump administration has loosened sanctions on America’s new play cousin on our fascist father’s side. That’s right—the Treasury Department announced Thursday a modification of sanctions put in place by the Obama administration after intelligence agencies determined that it was involved in cyberattacks to meddle with the U.S. elections in November, CNBC reports. And now…