Delivering his latest monologue from the at-home Late Show, Stephen Colbert took one of his favorite targets, President Donald Trump, to task. Earlier this week, Trump announced that states on lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic may soon be ready to reopen and invigorate the damaged economy, even before his …
Read More »Seth Meyers Criticizes Trump's Coronavirus Response on 'Late Night'
Seth Meyers welcomed viewers to an episode of Late Night from his hallway to discuss how President Trump is handling the current global pandemic. In a new edition of the late-night show’s “A Closer Look” segment, Meyers addressed how the world is reacting to COVID-19. “It may be weird that …
Read More »Trump's New Budget Goes After Social Safety Net Programs
Only a week removed from the president’s State of the Union address, where he did plenty of boasting about the economy, Trump will submit a budget that looks to cut programs from Americans most in need. According to the Wall Street Journal, Trump is expected to release a $4.8 trillion …
Read More »Republican Senator Warns Biden: Impeachment Could Start 'Day After' If He Wins the Presidency
Senator Joni Ernst said the impeachment of President Trump has opened the door for Republicans to follow suit if Joe Biden were to win the presidency. “I think this door of impeachable whatever has been opened,” the Republican senator from Iowa told Bloomberg News on Sunday. Ernst then specifically warned …
Read More »Trump, Guns, and White Fragility
As the definition of whiteness in America has expanded over generations, the unearned advantages that come with it become harder to kick. While racism is rightly regarded as a social disease, the privilege that it affords white people can be more like a drug. So even when Donald Trump becomes …
Read More »Oh Look, More Evidence Trump Was Using Ukraine for Personal Gain
President Trump has claimed repeatedly that he had the welfare of the United States in mind when he withheld military aid to Ukraine and pressured its president to investigate the Bidens. The impeachment inquiry yielded a mountain of evidence suggesting otherwise, much of it surrounding the involvement of Rudy Giuliani, …
Read More »The Most Ridiculous Ways the GOP Tried to Defend Trump in Its Impeachment Report
On Tuesday, Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee released a damning 300-page report detailing President Trump’s efforts to extort Ukraine into investigating his political opponents. The report was based on a mountain of evidence accumulated over the course of several hearings that featured an array of witnesses with knowledge of …
Read More »Trump Replies 'See You Soon' After Kim Jong-un Calls for Biden to Be 'Beaten to Death With a Stick'
On Sunday, President Donald Trump took a quick Twitter break from trying to intimidate those who’ve testified during the impeachment inquiry to once again say friendly things to his favorite pen pal, North Korean tyrant Kim Jong-un. Only this time, it was in response to Kim calling for the death …
Read More »All the Evidence of Trump's Ukraine Quid Pro Quo, Together in One Place
House Democrats’ impeachment case hinges on whether the Trump administration pursued a quid pro quo with Ukraine, withholding military aid and a White House invitation in order to extort new President Volodymyr Zelensky into investigating Joe Biden and the 2016 election. If President Trump did engage in such a quid …
Read More »Trevor Noah Explains Trump's Fascination With Hero Dog From Baghdadi Raid
A very good dog who was involved in the raid that led to the death of ISIS leader Abu Baker al-Baghdadi is set to visit the White House, and Trevor Noah has some thoughts on why President Trump is so excited. “I’m not surprised that Trump invited the dog, because …
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