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The news has been so batshit this week that we almost forgot to tell you there’s a new tell-all book from a pissed off former Trump staffer! This dude’s name is Cliff Sims and he was a communications aide — you know, when the comms department wasn’t quite as much of a wasteland as it…
President Trump informed FBI Director James Comey he had been dismissed on May 9, stemming from a conclusion by Justice Department officials that he had mishandled the probe of Hillary Clinton’s emails. (Bastien Inzaurralde/The Washington Post) White House press secretary Sean Spicer wrapped up his brief interview with Fox Business from the White House grounds late…
Aude Guerrucci-Pool/Getty Images There is an old African proverb that has been passed down from the ancestors through generations of black people that goes like this: “Never trust anyone who lets people put their feet on the couch.” After meeting with the Trump administration for two days and reviewing Cheddar Bob’s executive order on HBCUs,…
Sears and Kmart have also dropped Ivanka Trump’s collection of Trump Home items, because no one wants to buy them. Sears Holdings, the parent company of both Sears and Kmart, patiently explained in a statement to ABC news on Saturday that they care too much about making money to continue selling the Trump line. “As…
Nordstrom announced in early February that the department store would no longer sell Ivanka Trump’s clothing line due to declining sales. Donald Trump, a cow patty, used his platform (Twitter) as the most powerful man in the world (American president) to attack Nordstrom over his bb girl’s hurt feelings. Enter Kellyanne Conway. Conway showed up…
Senior White House counselor Kellyanne Conway this week complained that the media has been paying too much attention to only one of President Trump’s executive orders — namely, his temporary ban on refugees and travel from seven Muslim-majority countries — and not enough to the many others Trump has signed since taking office. So Seth Meyers…
This story has been corrected since it was originally published. Kellanne Conway appears to be dabbling with “alternative facts” again. In an interview with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews that aired on Thursday night, Donald Trump’s former campaign manager and now an adviser in his administration, referenced the “Bowling Green massacre” when justifying the president’s controversial executive order…
Getty Images A journalism professor raises some excellent points. It’s damn near impossible to turn on a cable-news show and not see Kellyanne Conway sitting there, doing verbal parkour to try to explain how whatever awful thing Donald Trump (or his press secretary) just did was actually neither offensive nor terrifying, and really, it’s all…
Credit Illustration by Barry Blitt Barrier Status: ‘none’ In late September, when Donald Trump spoke in Chester Township, Pennsylvania, outside Philadelphia, he wasn’t the only star at the event. Kellyanne Conway, his new campaign manager, who grew up nearby, and who has become ubiquitous on television, was greeted as a celebrity. “Did you see the…