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Weekday Trumpdate: Donald Tweets That He Doesn’t Use a Cell Phone From a Cell Phone
World’s Worst President Getty Images Welcome to your Weekday Trumpdate. What’s Donald been up to besides playing FarmVille and binging his own name lately? Grab that gas mask and read on! Well that didn’t last long. Less than 24 hours after calling for “unity” in light of some terrorist sending bombs to prominent Democrats through […]
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Weekday Trumpdate: Hating on Migrants, Loving on Cruz, Lying About Saudi Arabia
Fifteen days until the midterms. Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images • Does Donald Trump actually have a well-honed philosophy of life and the presidency? Is it, fundamentally, nihilism? Or is it nihilism for others, “wins” for Trump, and plenty of manufactured distraction along the way to help everyone pass the time? Dan Zak explores: It […]
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Weekday Trumpdate: Campaigner-in-Chief Raises Unprecedented Campaign Funds, Calls Stormy Daniels a Horseface, This Is Hell
LEAVE HORSES ALONE. Getty Images I don’t know. Where do we even begin? With the money? The “horseface” comment? Sigh. Maybe with what Savage wrote this morning: This president is the most presidential president we’ve had since Lincoln was president, according to our current president, and here’s what our second most presidential president was tweeting […]
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A Message From the President of the United States
This president is the most presidential president we’ve had since Lincoln was president, according to our current president, and here’s what our second most presidential president was tweeting out this morning… The intended insult—directed at Stormy Daniels—is by definition presidential behavior. (Call it “Conway’s Law.“) But to be clear: the president—this president—took to Twitter this […]
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Reminder: Exactly One Week Ago The New York Times Exposed Trump’s Tax “Fraud”
Trump continues to be a DDoS-style attack on our democracy’s normal circuits of accountability.
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Weekday Trumpdate: Nikki Haley Gets the Fuck Out, Trump Tweets “Multilayered Nonsense”
Maybe Ivanka will go to the UN.
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Weekday Trumpdate: Mocking Dr. Ford, Presidential Alarms, and Tax Fraud Fallout
It is the 621st day of Trump’s presidency, and Trump can now text us whenever he wants.
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Weekday Trumpdate: It’s a Scary Time for Men in America, Says Scary Man Tormenting America
This mop would be a better president. MSCORNELIUS/GETTY Like Gaga, Trump lives for the applause, as evidenced in his constant rallying. He’ll be holding a rally in Mississippi, his third in four days, at 7:40 p.m. ET. He will, presumably, yell about this: President Trump has sold himself as a self-made billionaire but a Times […]
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Weekday Trumpdate
President Trump today at the United Nations. Spencer Platt / Getty Images • Why fire Rosenstein today when you can set up a cliff-hanger for Thursday? White House officials said Monday that Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein will stay in his job for now, but will meet with the president on Thursday to discuss […]
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Weekday Trumpdate: Soft Touches Addition
Good hair day. Win McNamee/Getty SIGH. It’s my turn to dig into Donald’s latest fuck-ups again. Let’s get this shit show started, shall we? On a video posted to Twitter on Thursday, Donald said, “For many years countries have been taking total advantage of the United States on trade. Whether they are allies or not, […]
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Trump Made It Clear to Virginia That Blue States Now Get Treated Like the Brown People of Puerto Rico
The aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. Joe Raedle / Getty Yesterday, Virginia’s entire Congressional delegation begged Trump to issue a federal emergency declaration for Virginia, which is currently more exposed to the destructive force of the monster hurricane Florence than North Carolina, and is likely to be hit as hard as South Carolina. […]