Last month, the North Carolina Board of Elections unanimously refused to certify the election of Republican Congressman-elect Mark Harris, who beat his Democratic opponent, Dan McCready, by about 900 votes. Harris, the only representative not to be seated when the new Congress ...read more
I didn't watch the Emmys last night, but I was sent the clip of Sean Spicer 'crashing' the event when he came onstage with Stephen Colbert on his signature White House press secretary podium by several outraged friends. "Am I the only one finding this completely irresponsible ...read more
One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician’s objective. Election and power are. –Cal Thomas. As a political writer, I’ve always found voluntary humiliation in the political world fascinating to witness. The men and women who enter politics are ...read more
The Mad King just fired his communications director after only 10 days on the job -- a communications director who may well have destroyed his own marriage in order to work for the Trump White House. This on top of the announcement that Russia is expelling 755 American diplomats ...read more
If you thought the insanity of last week couldn't be topped, think again. After 10 days on the job (10 days!) White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci has been unceremoniously fired by Donald Trump and escorted off the premises. Reported the Huff Post: Anthony ...read more
Covfefe. Trump tweeted it and the internet went crazy. Everyone assumed it was exactly what it looked like -- a 70-year-old man on the internet late at night, ready to go to sleep, and bitching for the hundred-millionth time about the terrible, awful, very bad press coverage he ...read more
On Tuesday night, Donald Trump demonstrated that not a goddamn soul is regulating his Twitter use as the bumbling orange bag of dementia and (alleged) sexual assault fired off the following half-finished, incoherent tweet and left it up for hours: Needless to say, the internet ...read more
In the midst of perhaps the most depressing and confusing period of American political history, comedians are giving us perhaps the best tools to cope with it. By mocking the Trump administration relentlessly, America's comics are our greatest weapons against the ongoing war on ...read more
A week ago, if you would've asked me what motivates Donald Trump's decision-making process, I would've answered senility and a cartoon duck with giant breasts that only he can see. But that was before Trump made two recent comments that seem to suggest there might actually be a ...read more
Before we begin, allow me to steer you directly into the arms of Charles P. Pierce who spelled out exactly what should've happened to Sean Spicer the second his stupid blocky frame - I'm convinced the man is 85% rhombus. - stepped off the podium today after a jaw-droppingly ...read more
In what has to be the most epic week for PR screw ups, Sean Spicer has managed to top two of the the worst branding disasters in living memory with a line so spectacularly ignorant and offensive that you wonder whether he is a Democratic mole working to make Trump even stupider ...read more
Everybody have a good weekend? Awesome. Here are all the different ways the world lurched towards Armageddon while you hopefully cherished your time with friends and loved ones. Or in my case, let my daughter repeatedly win at Scrabble Junior because there probably won’t be ...read more
As egomaniacs resting their fat, gilded asses on the seat of power are wont to do, Donald Trump waved his big boy pee-pee around last night by launching 50+ Tomahawk missiles into Syria in an effort to teach Syria a lesson about bombing Syrians that Donald Trump specifically and ...read more
By now it is painfully clear that the Trump administration and its allies are doing everything they can to make plausible the president's unfounded claim President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower. Apparently, that includes pretending to offer new information. To wit, early ...read more
Taking heed from every crackpot dictatorship in modern history, the Trump administration has blocked several major media outlets from a White House media briefing on Friday. Reports The Daily Beast" CNN, The New York Times, Politico, and other mainstream news organizations ...read more
They say patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel but for the Trump administration, it's become the first port of call to hide from criticism. After Sen. John McCain blasted Trump for the botched Yemen raid that left dozens of civilians and one Navy SEAL dead, Sean Spicer ...read more
Sean Spicer is the best TV sitcom running right now. He's laughably hapless, painfully hopeless, and utterly inept, and what makes his one-man show so watchable is his level of commitment to the part. Spicer's incompetence is matched only by his relentless rage at having to put ...read more
According to a report running at Politico right now, the Trump White House has made a semi-official decision to effectively freeze out CNN, pulling its spokespeople off the network's air for an indefinite period of time. “We’re sending surrogates to places where we think it makes ...read more
Donald Trump's advisor Kellyanne Conway created a controversy on Sunday when she tried to address the disastrous press conference held by White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer on Saturday. Spicer offered a bizarre, patently false claim about the size of the inauguration crowd. ...read more
Donald Trump's incoming White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer dodged questions about Russia's influence on the election this weekend by claiming that Hillary Clinton is the person who should really be punished. Last week President Obama enacted sanctions against the Russian ...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
As a longtime White House reporter, I understand the utility of political spokespersons, but 98% of what they do is completely useless, especially on cable. That's why I love this Stephanie Ruhle grilling of RNC spokesman Sean Spicer so much, because no matter how hard he tries ...read more