For months now, we’ve all been trying to gain some sort of insight into Donald Trump as a way of better understanding what motivates him. And Meet the Press host Chuck Todd just helped shed more light on the enigma that is the Donald. On the Politico podcast “Off Message,” Todd revealed that Trump watches […]
President Obama was just named the most admired man of the year, the ninth time consecutive he has won that title, and he beat out Donald Trump by a pretty hefty margin. Trump Twitter tantrum set to begin in 3, 2, 1….. The Gallup organization releases a poll annually as the year ends to determine […]
During the 2016 race for the White House, Donald Trump repeatedly accused former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of using the Clinton Foundation as a way of enriching herself by providing favors to those who would make large donations. Trump said it was the perfect example of “pay-for-play.” But now it appears Trump and his […]
General Michael Flynn, who has been chosen by Donald Trump to serve as his National Security Adviser when Trump takes office in January, met recently in Austria with a man named Heinz-Christian Strache. Strache, it should be noted, is head of the virulently anti-immigrant Freedom Party, which was founded after World War II by former Nazis. […]
Treason against the United States is one of the most serious charges you can make against anyone, especially if that person happens to be the President-elect. But an expert on law and human rights is now saying Donald Trump may already be guilty of having committed treason. Writing in the Boston Globe, John Shattuck, a […]
During the 2016 race for the White House, Donald Trump regularly excoriated George W. Bush and his team for their entry into the Iraq War. Trump would proclaim that he had been opposed to the war and what a disaster it had been. So you might expect that the key architect of that failed incursion–former Vice […]
If there a more craven and politically immoral figure in the Republican Party than Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, that person must be hiding in the long shadow of utter evil McConnell casts wherever he goes. Even though McConnell knew about the hacking of the Democratic National Committee by Russian operatives, he strongly refused to […]
Well, that sure didn’t take long, did it? Donald Trump has not even been in office for a month, but Republicans already have their long knives out, and they’re going after Social Security. Thursday, Texas GOP Congressman Sam Johnson, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee’s Subcommittee on Social Security, unveiled a plan that […]
The more we learn about chief counselor Steve Bannon, the more apparent it becomes that he is a monumental douchebag and racist asshat. The New York Times reports this morning that it spoke with Julia Jones, who was co-writer with Bannon on the Reagan documentary In the Face of Evil. Jones says Bannon once commented that it wouldn’t […]
Even though Donald Trump has allegedly been warned by some Senate Republicans to not nominate former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani for any position which would require confirmation, it would appear that Giuliani is still one of the top contenders to be the next Secretary of State. Earlier today on Morning Joe, it was […]