As the election nears, Donald Trump is sounding less like the leader of the free world, and more like an aspiring dictator. In the latest demonstration of his tin-pot tendencies, Trump is refusing to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses the November election to Democrat Joe …
Read More »Flashback: The 'Greatest Music Video of All Time,' According to Donald Trump
In a newly released excerpt from a book by Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the former White House press secretary reveals that Donald Trump told her and former White House communications director Hope Hicks to add Guns N’ Roses “November Rain” to his rally playlist back in 2018. “He told us it …
Read More »'It's Politics,' Says VA Secretary of Trump Denigrating POWs
Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie shrugged off some of President Trump’s past disparaging comments made about US prisoners of war as “just politics.” On Sunday, Wilkie was first asked by CNN’s Dana Bash if he had ever personally heard the president, as The Atlantic reported this week, call Americans …
Read More »Trump's RNC Con: Warm and Fuzzy Fascism
For his entire life Trump has been a confidence man. A master of illusion. A young “athlete” too bone-spurred for the army. A “Wharton” grad who cheated his way into regular old Penn. A pitchman for phony diet vitamins that let you “have the silhouette you choose.” (This is an …
Read More »Obama Condemns Trump in Powerful Democratic National Convention Speech
Barack Obama condemned President Trump and urged Americans to fight to preserve democracy in a powerful speech during the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday. “Donald Trump hasn’t grown into the job because he can’t,” the former president said after railing against his successor’s inability to “find common ground” or use …
Read More »Chief Justice Roberts Cements Himself as the Supreme Court's New Swing Vote
When Justice Anthony Kennedy retired in June 2018, the Supreme Court lost its swing justice, the justice in the court’s “middle” who controlled the outcome in its most contested cases. This year, Chief Justice John Roberts cemented his position as the new heir apparent to this title. But like Kennedy …
Read More »Administration Reassures Public Trump Won't Actually Commit Basic Act of Humanity
In an interview with Telemundo’s José Díaz-Balart, President Trump said that he is planning to sign an executive order on immigration that will include “a road to citizenship” to “Dreamers” covered by the Obama Administration’s DACA protections. But that is a lie. The president does not have the power to …
Read More »Neil Young on His Music at Trump's Mount Rushmore Rally: 'This Is NOT OK With Me'
Neil Young has again voiced his disapproval of his music featuring at Donald Trump rallies after the rocker’s “Like a Hurricane” and “Rockin’ in the Free World” were played during the president’s Mount Rushmore event Friday night. “This is NOT ok with me…,” Young tweeted after video of his music …
Read More »Trump Threatens to Shred First Amendment to Defend 'Free Speech'
After weeks of tweeting misinformation about mail-in voting, Twitter on Tuesday decided to slap a small disclaimer on some of President Trump’s posts on the subject. “Get the facts about mail-in ballots,” reads a link to a string of reputable reports about proxy voting, which is practiced in both Democratic …
Read More »A 'Profile in Courage,' National Security Advisor Praises Trump's Virus Leadership
While the official U.S. coronavirus death toll moves closer to 100,000 and President Trump played golf for a second consecutive day, his national security advisor heaped praise on the president saying Trump’s move to limit travel from China this winter “was a profile in courage.” Sunday morning on Meet the …
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