Former presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, and Jimmy Carter–bygone reminders of leadership with dignified hair–are holding a country-themed disaster relief benefit concert at Texas A&M this evening, and prettymuch everyone thinks Donald Trump wasn’t invited. It’s a concert to…
CNN reports that it has obtained the letter Barack Obama gave to President Trump on Inauguration Day. The traditional presidential hand-off letters are eventually made public, but CNN claims to have gotten it from someone Trump showed it to, as he does to White House visitors. Describing it to ABC News in January,…
“In the absence,” to paraphrase Barack Obama, “of American leadership,” at least we still have Rihanna, who is Anti- a lot of things in ideals and in principle, not the least of which is anti-isolationist.
Where does the body of dead president James K. Polk belong? Apparently, the answer is more complicated than, “in the ground, somewhere.”
According to a Gallup poll released on Wednesday morning, Donald Trump’s presidential transition has a 48 percent approval and a 48 percent disapproval rating among Americans, significantly lower than that of Obama, Bush, and Clinton during the same period. Still pretty high, in my opinion! Let’s get down to zero,…
The 2016 general election takes place tomorrow, November 8, which means that at some point tomorrow (November 8), unless you’ve already participated in early voting, you get to be a great American and cast your vote for the next President of the United States of America, among other significant seats and state ballot…
A recent poll suggests that some Americans like Clinton, some like Trump, and some like the idea of a giant ball of dust and ice destroying us all where we stand. As the kids say: Me af.
According to reports, presidential candidate and Woman Hillary Clinton tried very, very hard to make sure no one found out about her $600 haircut at New York’s John Barrett Salon. But we did and now that’s a thing we know about her.
Earlier this month, 90-year-old former President George HW Bush broke his neck in a fall from bed. He spent four days in the hospital, and doctors said they expected his recovery to take months. And then, from what I can gather from his facial expression in a Tweet sent today, they either gave him one helluva pep talk…
New Jersey Gov. and potty-mouth Chris Christie will officially announce his presidential campaign on Tuesday, June 30, so start finalizing your Sopranos-and-garbage-based joke packets now.
Jeb Bush wants to be your president. The lesser Bush, who’s in politics but hasn’t risen much higher than trying to “streamline the execution process” in Florida, knows that there are two things Americans really care about when it comes to voting for the leader of their country: issues and a trim body that any…
Finally, after centuries of unloading crap upon the unwashed masses, the art world is at long last about to unleash the visionary work of a true artist. George W. Bush, 43rd president of these United States and long-suffering art genius, is set to have his first gallery show.
OK, admittedly this is a pretty cool gimmick to try, especially for a high school student. After watching a documentary, Chaz Rorick of Rochester, New York noticed a resemblance to his outfit and President Harry Truman's. The realization sparked a pretty amazing idea.
There are tasteful ways to talk about the looming anniversary of the JFK assassination, and then there's the New York Post's way, which involves mentioning the little-known-fact that JFK and Jackie totally boned on Air Force One during a short flight from San Antonio to Houston on Nov. 21, just 24 hours before the…
Did you hear? Thanks to Scandal and new novel "The First Affair," having sex with the president is totally having a moment right now. Fine, have your moment, Sex with the President — but if we're really going ahead with this trend in pop culture, I think we better fully commit to it.
In related news, Americans have shitty, shitty memories.
Depending on who you ask, former President Richard Nixon's legacy was either one of a paranoid megalomaniac or visionary of foreign policy realpolitik. Now, add another set of conflicting descriptors to the Tricky Dick's legacy — impassioned, inflamed penner of love notes.
All of this speculation about Chris Christie's weight — and whether or not it will affect his ability to become the next President — gives us the perfect reason to take a look back at the size, weight, and height of political candidates of the past. This Op-Chart, published in 2008 by the New York Times, does exactly…
There's more to the newly released tapes of Jacqueline Kennedy than her disdain for Martin Luther King Jr. The young widow of the tapes also voices some unfavorable opinions towards several women in public life, many of whom had a different view of a woman's role than she did at the time.
Check out this great treasury of holiday Santa-political awkwardness, because nothing says "Christmas" like Nancy Reagan flirting with Mr. T.
