During a September unveiling ceremony for the newly built section of President Donald Trump’s wall in Otay Mesa, California, the president claimed that his wall was unscalable, even by professional mountain climbers. That, like many of Trump’s fables, was easily proven to be a false claim. And now his other …
Read More »Replace Me With a 'Yes Man' and 'You Will Be Impeached' Former Chief of Staff Warned Trump
Former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly told the Washington Examiner that the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump “pains him” and that during his final days on the job, he warned the president not to hire a “yes man” or “you will be impeached.” Kelly said that while …
Read More »Queen Push Trump to Take Down Campaign Video Featuring 'We Will Rock You'
Queen forced President Donald Trump to remove a video from Twitter featuring the band’s 1977 hit “We Will Rock You” last week, Buzzfeed reports. Trump tweeted the video last Wednesday, October 9th, and it was unavailable on Twitter by Sunday, October 14th. The clip reportedly featured footage of Trump speaking …
Read More »Progressive Lawmakers' Answer to Trump's Racism: Impeachment
President Trump has spent the past two days hurling racist attacks against a group of congresswomen of color who have criticized his immigration policy. He’s suggested they go back to the countries “from which they came,” and accused them of hating the United States “with a passion.” He punctuated nearly …
Read More »Trump Admits Census Citizenship Question Is About Elections and Districting
Before departing for his 202nd day in office spent at one of his golf clubs, President Donald Trump openly admitted that the reason he wants to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census is to discriminate against non-citizens by not counting them when drawing Congressional districts. This would be …
Read More »You Can Now Read Trump's 'Secret Deal' With Mexico
Earlier this week, President Donald Trump appeared outside the White House waving a folded up piece of paper that he claimed was “the agreement [with Mexico] that everybody says I don’t have.” Well, now we can see the terms of the deal, and they are not what Trump claimed. The …
Read More »Trump Administration Directs More Former Officials to Break the Law
Late last month, the House Judiciary Committee issued subpoenas to former White House communications director Hope Hicks and former deputy White House counsel Annie Donaldson for documents and testimony. On Tuesday, the Trump administration directed Hicks and Donaldson to defy the subpoenas. In other words, they were directed to break …
Read More »Trump's Twitter Problem? He Has Less Followers Than Obama
President Trump has just under 60 million Twitter followers. This is a lot. Barack Obama has over 106 million. This is a lot more. The discrepancy is precisely the type of thing that would infuriate the current occupant of the White House and, according to the Daily Beast, it does. …
Read More »What We're Learning From the Redacted Mueller Report
Attorney General William Barr on Thursday released to the public a redacted version of the Mueller report. The special counsel’s findings, which were posted to the Justice Department’s website as PDF file, span 448 pages and are split into two volumes. The first volume focuses on Russia’s efforts to interfere …
Read More »Pelosi Calls on Trump to Take Down 9/11 Video Attacking Rep. Ilhan Omar
The stir that President Donald Trump caused when he tweeted an incendiary 9/11 video targeting freshman Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is showing no signs of slowing down. On Sunday, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) released a statement that called on Trump to take down the video and reached …
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