Thursday morning was the annual National Prayer Breakfast and President Trump's first time addressing the room of religious and political leaders. If you expected the newly appointed leader of the free world to take his speech seriously, you would be sadly mistaken. Instead of ...read more
Donald Trump spent the holiday weekend once again making a fool of himself on Twitter. The president-elect continued his trend of misspelling words and discussing critical foreign policies in 140 characters or less. His refusal to put his phone down and act presidential has left ...read more
It has been a few days since Donald Trump sailed to victory thanks to the outdated Electoral College and the cries for unity are getting louder. Political activists and leaders on both sides of the aisle are asking that liberals swallow their fears and support the new ...read more
Former baseball player and current nobody Curt Schilling took to Twitter on Monday to once again show America just how deplorable Donald Trump supporters can be. In a tweet that has since been deleted, Schilling shared a photo of a man wearing a t-shirt with a joke about ...read more
What does a post by Robert Reich and a meme placing a well known Republican's 7-year-old daughter's face in a gas chamber have in common? A very real fear of political violence at the hands of Trump's dangerously unstable supporters. Robert Reich posted the following ...read more
Steve Bannon stepped away from his alt-right propaganda provocateur website, Breitbart.com, to be Trump's campaign CEO. He has not sat down to do any interviews. But he was recently on a plane with CNN's Brooke Baldwin and Brian Stelter who said he was happy to answer questions. ...read more
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump continued to peddle his election fraud conspiracy theory to his low-information supporters on Monday, and this time he chose to blame it on his favorite scapegoat: undocumented immigrants. Just before he took the stage at his rally ...read more
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has spent much of the last week screaming "rigged elections!" And now it looks like this unfounded nonsense has begun to infect his simple-minded supporters, one of whom is an elected sheriff. Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke ...read more
Donald Trump said something during the debate that some may have dismissed as theatrical overreach: he vowed to jail his opponent if he wins. However, as Keith Olbermann lays bare, this overreach isn't theatrical, it's dictatorial. Trump keeps showing us, over and over again, ...read more
The second presidential debate is just two days away and it looks as if Donald Trump may actually be trying to practice for this one. If you recall, the Trump campaign bragged about how he "didn't need to practice" for the last one and he lost "bigly" for it. The Republican ...read more
"They threw in the obvious, ultimate fear bomb. ‘When all else fails, be afraid of his name, and what that could stand for, because it's different.’" —Michelle Obama, February 28, 2008 It's time to once and for all set the record straight on the origins of the "Birther" business ...read more
by Matt Casper Watching last week's Republican National Convention from Cleveland was truly a moment of clarity and confirmation for me, along with being a moment of deep sadness and grief. A bit of personal history is necessary in order to help explain. The truth is that I ...read more
The Associated Press has just reported that U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has officially reached the number of delegates needed to secure the party’s presidential nomination. In other words, the Republican Party is now in the hands of a fascist. According ...read more
They called it the Saturday Night Massacre. Deep into the earth-shattering Watergate fiasco, and long after end-stage cancer, as then-White House counsel John Dean called it, had already infected the Richard Nixon administration, an event occurred which, today, would've ...read more
You probably haven't thought to ask yourself, "Which presidential candidate's supporters have the worst grammar?" But if you had, there's a solid chance you would've picked Donald Trump. And you would've been right. After all, the current GOP frontrunner recently told Values ...read more
Here's the thing about Donald Trump that's gone largely unsaid to this point: He simultaneously manages to be one of America's preeminent bullshit artists, and one of the country's foremost practitioners of jaw-dropping straight talk, depending on the circumstances. It's this ...read more
In case you missed it, real estate mogul and Hawaiian private dick sugar daddy Donald Trump is finally really running for president, much to the delight of Democrats and people who produce political content for a living. His announcement at New York's Trump Tower Tuesday morning ...read more
Donald Trump is running for president. Reality show star Donald Trump, the living embodiment of narcissistic excess and a guy who spends a good portion of his day calling people "losers" on Twitter, is running for President of the United States. This is a date that will be long ...read more
The GOP rush to slaughter in 2016 began in earnest this weekend at the Iowa Freedom Summit. From alleged Bridgegate conspirator Chris Christie to monosyllabic weekend cowboy Rick Perry, a bevy of unelectable candidates came to audition for the campaign season before an audience ...read more
