Donald Trump‘s hair captured the attention of late night hosts Wednesday following widely circulated footage of the president boarding Air Force One last Friday. In the short video clip, which went viral earlier this week, high winds whip across the tarmac and blow a large portion of hair on the …
Read More »Trump Lawyer Reportedly Paid $130,000 to Cover Up Porn Star Affair With President
A lawyer for President Donald Trump allegedly paid off a former porn star to keep her from talking about a consensual sexual encounter they’d shared in 2006, according to The Wall Street Journal. Attorney Michael Cohen reportedly paid a lawyer representing Stephanie Clifford, who appeared in adult films under the …
Read More »Ellen DeGeneres Responds to Eric Trump's 'Deep State' Conspiracy Theory
Ellen DeGeneres kept things light Thursday when she addressed Eric Trump’s new conspiracy theory that she is somehow involved in the “Deep State,” though she couldn’t resist the opportunity to throw a few jabs at the younger of Trump’s two adult sons. “If you know me at all, you know …
Read More »Seahawks So Woke
They were on the plane when they heard what Trump said. On a late Friday night in September, the Seattle Seahawks were en route to Nashville, where they would face the Tennessee Titans, when the news started blowing up with President Donald Trump‘s comments about NFL players who had been …
Read More »Women Showed Tremendous Courage in 2017 – Will It Make a Lasting Difference?
One of my earliest memories of this tumultuous year was the deep breath heard round the world: a defeated Hillary Clintontaking a second to compose herself before the inauguration of Donald Trump, the politician who had bullied, threatened and menaced her throughout the election. Whatever you think of Clinton politically, …
Read More »Trump Administration: Tillerson Out, Hawks In?
One of the few grown-ups in the Trump administration is on his way out, to be replaced by a super-hawk who’s seemingly been itching for war with Iran, if current, widespread reports are to be believed. The grown-up would be Rex Tillerson, the millionaire businessman and former ExxonMobil CEO who …
Read More »Donald Trump Calls on NFL to Suspend Raiders' Marshawn Lynch
Donald Trump criticized Oakland Raiders running back Marshawn Lynch on Monday morning for standing during the Mexican national anthem and sitting during the American national anthem prior to Sunday’s game against the New England Patriots at the Estadio Azteca in Mexico City. Trump, who recently took aim at the NFL …
Read More »Democrats Try to Keep Puerto Rico's Disaster on the Radar in Washington
San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz was in Washington this week, though you’d hardly know it. Cruz was scheduled Wednesday to testify alongside FEMA Administrator Brock Long in front of the House Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee on the federal government’s response to Hurricane Maria, but that hearing was …
Read More »What the Supreme Court Says About Sitting Out the National Anthem
When the president uses what used to be called his “bully pulpit” – but now is called “Twitter” – to attack a person or an issue, of course it has much broader consequences. For instance, it’s no surprise that after campaigning on a travel ban focused on Muslims and selectively …
Read More »WTF Happened at the White House This Week?
It was supposed to be “American Dream Week.” Sarah Huckabee Sanders even dug up a cloying anecdote about “Frank” — the enterprising 10-year-old who’d written to ask if he could mow the White House lawn — to mark the occasion. But like “Infrastructure Week,” “Technology Week” and the rest of …
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