Thursday evening, Donald Trump delivered another of his screech regattas, this time in Mike Pence's home state of Indiana. We're all familiar with his rallies as well as the all-too-familiar urge to hurl our televisions out the nearest window by the time he blurts the first of a ...read more
Neil Cavuto is no hero. The Fox News Channel host has always been a team player, dutifully cheerleading first for George W. Bush and now for Donald Trump. We've seen Fox News people occasionally criticize Trump and, before him, Bush, but we've never quite seen a ...read more
Fox News must be a strange place to work these days. While the network's coverage of president Trump has been steadfastly supportive, there are a few rogue journalists and presenters who have deviated from Rupert Murdoch's script. Shep Smith, Judge Napolitano, Neil Cavuto, and ...read more
The news that president Trump's personal physician, Dr. Harold Bornstein, released a letter about his health that was dictated to him by Trump will be forgotten about roughly this time next week. We can safely add it to the extraordinary list of lies and unconstitutional ...read more
Ann Coulter and Alex Jones are pissed off. They're not pissed at the usual gallery of enemies: the globalists, the alleged "liberal fascists," or the perennial threat called "knowledge." Today, Jones and Coulter have had it up to here with Donald Trump. In case you missed it, ...read more
When you don't need the majority of the media companies in America to maintain your grip on power, you can say whatever you want to your base and know with absolute certainty they'll never find out you are lying. Today, Donald Trump regurgitated the long-debunked claim that ...read more
According to audio obtained by The Washington Post of a private event in Missouri, Donald Trump told supporters that he flat out lied to Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau. Trump said that he informed Trudeau that the US is currently running a trade deficit with Canada ...read more
Do you remember the days when the biggest presidential scandal of the year was the color of Barack Obama's suit? Now, we have a president embroiled in scandals ranging from cheating on his recently pregnant wife with a porn star to colluding with a foreign government to ...read more
In example number 4297 of the White House directly contradicting president Trump's manic outbursts, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders came out today to refute the notion that Trump is advocating a government shutdown. From The Hill: The White House on Tuesday insisted that ...read more
by Kate Harveston There might be just one thing about Trump that progressives, neo-liberals, republicans and Nazis all agree on: the man speaks his mind. Whether that’s a feather in his cap or a notch against his character is your choice to make as a voter, but it’s fairly ...read more
American corporate news culture is so boringly predictable that it never ceases to amaze me. To run the same repetitive schtick day in, day out, all year, is a testament to the industry's limitless capacity for inanity. The financial pay off is obviously worth it though, and ...read more
Donald Trump is set to give his State Of The Union address tonight to assure Americans the country is in good shape and lay out his grand vision for America. Anyone watching it willingly is either a paid journalist, or a masochist. Because watching the president speak for more ...read more
2017 was not a lot of fun for most sentient beings on planet Earth. As war raged in Syria, the EU began its break up with Britain and America got to grips with the lunatic reality tv star a minority of the population voted in as president (with the help of Vladimir Putin), those ...read more
Donald Trump, Jr. says a lot of stupid shit. For example, he has twice confessed to accusations of conspiring with Russian operatives and Wikileaks by inexplicably posting on Twitter documentary evidence of his contacts with both the operatives and, we assume, Julian Assange. ...read more
Dear Kellyanne, It came to my attention today that you are now vigorously defending president Trump's decision to endorse accused pedophile and sexual deviant Roy Moore for the Senate in Alabama. When Chris Cuomo stated that "it seems like you have no standards of morality, ...read more
In a larger sense, this is why I continue to write with conservative Republicans in mind, specifically Trumpers these days. While I often do my fair share of choir-preaching, I'm routinely geared toward people who disagree with me. It's an endlessly tantalizing puzzle to solve. ...read more
President Trump, a man who has now told well over 1,000 documented lies since he took office in January, was recently caught out lying about donating money to the father of a fallen soldier, and is so dishonest his entire administration works 24/7 to walk back his lies, is ...read more
In the face of relentless criticism, plummeting approval numbers and the growing threat of impeachment, president Trump tweeted this earlier today: On the face of it, Trump's statement appears ridiculous. Trump has failed spectacularly to make good on any of the promises he ...read more
Donald Trump's speech in Phoenix, Arizona last night was a seventy-five-minute screed from an old man about all the things he didn't like. For seventy-five minutes, he offered more praise to Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Jeffrey Lord than to Heather Heyer, mispronounced Minister ...read more
Over the weekend I sat down to watch 20 painful minutes of George Stephanopolous "interviewing" Kellyanne Conway about the disastrous week the president had. Conway is growing more sophisticated as the weeks go by, and has learned that blatant lying creates more trouble than ...read more
Arizona Senator Jeff Flake is a conservative, but he's not on the GOP's lunatic fringe. He has never been a fan of Donald Trump, nor does he like the direction Trump and his supporters are taking the Republican party. On July 31 Flake gave an interview to NPR in which he ...read more
If you have a spare 25 minutes and don't mind the prospect of inducing severe psychosis in yourself, sit down and watch Kellyanne Conway lying through her teeth on CNN for the umpteenth time this year. The 'interview' where Brian Stelter essentially gave Conway unfettered ...read more
One of the reasons why people like myself spent the better part of 18 months desperately pleading with the American public to vote for whoever won the Democratic primary was to protect millions of Americans from Republicans destroying Obamacare and booting them off of their ...read more
On Monday, Paul Krugman took note of a recurring theme in Trump's presidency: Nothing the president says is wrong, whether it’s his false claim that he won the popular vote or his assertion that the historically low murder rate is at a record high. No error is ever admitted. And ...read more
One of the many reasons why Donald Trump has been such a disaster, and will continue to be a disaster, is because the only rules he follows are the whimsical, ignorant demands of his loyalists. In other words, Trump doesn't care about any boundaries on the presidency other than ...read more
Yesterday, Bob Cesca had me on his podcast 'The Bob Cesca Show' (formerly 'The Bob and Chez Show') where we discussed this past week's political madness. At one point in the conversation that included Trump's insane claim that Obama wiretapped him, I asked Bob and fellow guest ...read more
Barring new evidence to the contrary, it's safe to assume that President Trump's Tuesday morning tweet-storm was once again inspired by his habit of watching the giggling couch tumors at Fox & Friends. In two of his Tuesday tweets, he specifically tagged @foxandfriends, as if to ...read more
It's well established by now that President Trump is far beyond a typical politician with a rather contentious relationship with the truth. Trump doesn't just lie, he seems to truly believe the lies he tells, which, if true, makes him clinically delusional. The flip-side to this ...read more
While a good portion of the country is rightly fixated today on the new details of the Trump administration's ties to Russia, the country that helped put Donald Trump in the White House in the first place, it's necessary once again to remind you that, irrespective of that, Trump ...read more
I keep coming back to this, but it really is astonishing how off-the-mark I was in my pre-inauguration predictions of what we could expect from a Donald Trump presidency. I said it would be a deluge, a daily gangbang of incompetence, scandal, dishonesty, corruption and general ...read more
Kellyanne Conway is a shameless, serial liar who lies so consistently and so effortlessly that it is now impossible to know when she is telling the truth. Over the past week, Conway lied about a massacre occurring on US soil, lied about lying about it, and was then exposed for ...read more
Serial liar Kellyanne Conway spends the vast majority of her day covering up her boss's lies with new lies. Conway even made up a massacre this week to cover Trump's lies about the dangers Muslim immigrants present to America -- a lie so egregious that she had to tell more lies ...read more
Donald Trump is a malignant narcissist whose self-obsession is so profound and unrelenting that he can tell lie after lie without even knowing he's doing it. It's entirely possible he truly believes the bullshit that regularly comes out of his mouth. Kellyanne Conway is a ...read more
If you thought Donald Trump's obsession with make believe illegal voters and the size of his inauguration was strange, Kellyanne Conway's revelation that a make believe massacre occurred under President Obama's watch takes the weirdness to a completely new level. Speaking to ...read more
How does it feel, Donald, to know that you lost the popular vote by almost 3 million people? How does it feel, Donald, to know that you are the least popular president in modern history after only a few days in office? How does it feel, Donald, to know that your cabinet is ...read more
Update 8pm ET: It didn't even take a full day for another lie, a blatant one, to dominate the news cycle. Earlier today, during an address to the CIA, Donald Trump couldn't help himself and pivoted to the subject of the crowd size at his inauguration yesterday. Put simply, he ...read more
The following piece was originally published as part of our digital magazine, Banter M, back in June of this year. The phenomenon it dealt with -- our new age of post-reality politics -- feels as if it's since become preeminent and paralyzing. The triumph of Donald Trump's ...read more
In February of 2008, I lost my job as a senior producer at CNN. Well, it's not like I lost it, as if it were a set of car keys that had somehow slid behind the cushions on the couch; I was unceremoniously fired because my bosses found out that for the previous two years I'd been ...read more
Donald Trump is a liar. So much so that over a period of 9 days, one reporter found that Trump told 64 lies. He repeated those lies a lot, making him one giant lie dispenser, but he told 64 individual whoppers. Yet, somehow, there was one day in which he told none at all. ...read more
For now, Donald Trump has abandoned Twitter. The last time the GOP presidential nominee and potential possessor of our nuclear codes popped off at a political enemy on his favorite social media platform was 6:43 a.m. Wednesday morning. Since then, he's only tweeted "thank you" ...read more
When it comes to Donald Trump, punditry has taken on the conspicuous air of psychoanalysis. Writing about him, certainly trying to predict his behavior, feels less like an exercise in political prognostication as it does a hapless attempt to analyze his various personality ...read more
Donald Trump is a liar. There's just no other way to say it. It's an undeniable fact that only Trump, as a liar, would deny with a straight face. As if any more proof was necessary that Trump is an unrepentant, pathological fabulist and fantasist, Lester Holt of NBC News's ...read more
