Donald Trump’s inauguration ceremonies are shaping up to be one of the worst concerts in history, and though many feared Kanye West would take the stage in further support of Donald Trump, his presence would have at least enlivened the festivities. No dice.
Former Dancing With the Stars contestant and current Trump pick for Secretary of Energy Rick Perry reportedly had no idea what the job he accepted entailed, according to a report from the New York Times.
Donald Trump’s transition team has been making everyone extremely nervous with its inquiries into employees who believe in climate change, “gender-related” programs, and the money spent on aid to Africa. Now, GOP lawmakers are picking up their cues and are beginning to push hard on legislation that will likely be…
At a press conference Tuesday afternoon, celebrity attorney Gloria Allred announced that former Apprentice contestant Summer Zervos is suing Donald Trump for defamation. Zervos alleged in October that Trump subjected her to unwanted sexual touching in 2007, and that he withdrew an implied job offer after she refused…
In October, Donald Trump, a golden goblet filled with backwash and our next president, stayed home a lot. Trump, like everyone else, believed he was about to lose the election, and the New York Times reported that he was holed up in his “enormous penthouse,” becoming “increasingly upset and isolated.” Now, with three…
In a breathtaking act of geopolitical trolling, Russian President Vladimir Putin is accusing the Obama administration of trying to “undermine” Donald Trump. He also said that a dossier of allegedly weird and compromising information on Trump is “fake” and that the people who created it are “worse than prostitutes.”
Perhaps it’s because the inauguration of Donald Trump is shaping up to be one the worst concerts in history or perhaps it’s because many lawmakers are boycotting it, but for some reason tickets to Trump’s swearing in are not really selling.
On January 5, CNN reported that Donald Trump’s pick for a top national security position, conservative TV personality Monica Crowley, had plagiarized 50 times in her book What The (Bleep) Just Happened. The Trump administration supported her in a statement, but it looks like the tides have turned.
In their continued quest to give everyone a raging stress-ulcer, the Trump transition team has already demanded the names of everyone who worked on climate change programs under President Obama as well as “gender-related” programs the State Department implemented, mostly under Hillary Clinton’s leadership, to aid…
Republican Congressman Jason Chaffetz has sent a furious letter to the Office of Government Ethics for openly criticizing Donald Trump’s very shaky plans to deal with his conflicts of interest. Chaffetz chairs the House Oversight Committee, which funds the ethics office. He indicated that maybe they won’t fund the…
Marine Le Pen, an alarming person who would like to lead France into far-right nationalism and xenophobia, is in New York. She is in Trump Tower. But her aides say she’s not planning to meet with Donald Trump or his transition team staff, good heavens no. She’s just using her “private visit” to New York to have coffee…
At his first press conference since getting elected, Donald Trump casually and briefly defended himself against reports that Russia has collected compromising financial and personal information about him. Then he lied in a breathtaking blue streak about a variety of things and viciously insulted reporters in the…
Donald Trump spent much of what was intended to be a press conference on his finances attacking news organizations for reporting on intelligence reports suggesting he might be compromised by Russia.
Andrew Puzder is the CEO of CKE Restaurants, which the parent company of chains that include Carl’s Jr and Hardees. He is president-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for US labor secretary, which is alarming for many reasons, not least of which are the incredibly high numbers of sexual harassment reports at his restaurants.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an activist who’s pushed the debunked theory that vaccines cause autism for a very long time, says Donald Trump has asked him to chair a commission on vaccine safety. This isn’t like asking the fox to guard the henhouse; it’s more like asking someone to redesign the henhouse after they’ve told…
The Women’s March on Washington, planned for January 21, is expected to be massive, the single largest anti-Trump protest of Inauguration Weekend. Anti-abortion groups are loudly pouting that the march is supported by pro-choice groups like Planned Parenthood, and so they plan to “infiltrate” it. They’re going to do…
Because nepotism laws are merely an obstacle to living one’s best life, Donald Trump will reportedly try to appoint his son-in-law to a White House position. Jared Kushner is best known for running the New York Observer and being a real iffy landlord; now, with his zero years of public policy experience and his…
Apricot hobgoblin Donald Trump is preparing to take office in just 11 days, and so are the people he’s hired to fill his Cabinet. Somehow, most of them haven’t found the time to complete an intensive ethics review that would reveal their conflicts of interest, financial and otherwise. Trump’s picks are a collection of…
Six people were arrested Tuesday night after staging an daylong sit-in at the office of Jeff Sessions, Donald Trump’s presumed pick for Attorney General and a man who was once deemed too racist to become a federal judge.
Women had absolutely no excuse to vote for noted pussygrabber Donald Trump, and yet 53 percent of white women did just that. Worse still by far, though, were his female surrogates: the women who showed up to support Trump publicly, often for many interminable hours on my television. They placidly defended everything…
