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How Will the Brussels Attacks Affect the Presidential Race?
As with everything else that will happen around the world in the next seven-and-a-half months, many people are wondering how Tuesday morning’s terrorist attacks in Brussels will affect the U.S. presidential election. That question probably won’t be settled anytime soon. We’ll likely still be debating the impact or non-impact months from now, just as we’re still…
Sarah Palin Preps Courtroom Reality Show
Sarah Palin is set to star in a new courtroom reality show similar to Judge Judy that could begin airing next year, People reports. The former vice presidential candidate and Alaska governor inked a deal with Montana production company Warm Springs, and is set to film a pilot and shop it to networks with…
Rob Ford, Controversial Toronto Mayor, Dead at 46
Former Toronto mayor Rob Ford, who found himself at the center of a string of scandals that mixed politics, drugs and alcohol, has died after an 18-month battle with cancer, The Toronto Star reports. He was 46. Ford was first diagnosed with pleomorphic liposarcoma, a rare, aggressive type of cancer, in 2014…
Inside the Pro-Israel Conference That Welcomed Trump
Despite promises of walkouts and other protests from American Israel Public Affairs Committee attendees alarmed by Donald Trump’s incendiary statements and violent rhetoric, the Republican frontrunner enjoyed a full house and enthusiastic reception for his speech at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C., Monday night. The positive reaction to Trump appeared…
Donald Trump Immediately Blusters About Brussels Attacks
A series of deadly explosions ripped through the Brussels airport and a subway station in the heart of the city Tuesday morning. The death toll continues to mount — it stood at 34 dead, more than 170 wounded as of this writing — and in the immediate aftermath of the bombings, little other…
All 2016 Candidates Support Legal Weed — Sort Of
Now that Marco Rubio is out of the race, for the first time in U.S. political history, every presidential candidate — of both parties — supports at least states’ rights to do as they please with regard to marijuana legalization. With more Americans than ever (58 percent) believing marijuana should be legalized, many…
Republicans Are Huge Hypocrites About Merrick Garland
At 63, Merrick Garland is one of the oldest Supreme Court nominees in modern history — no one older has been nominated since FDR was in office — and many Court and political observers were surprised President Obama had nominated an old white man, given the other folks reportedly on his…
See 2 Chainz Explain Brokered Conventions on ‘Nightly Show’
2 Chainz returned to The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore for another installment of his segment “2 Chainz Explainz.” In an effort to help the show’s host make sense of “the circus that is the Republican nomination for president,” the rapper helped define the term “brokered convention.” As the rapper explains, a…
Watch John Oliver Break Down Absurdity of Trump’s Border Wall
Throughout Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, the real estate mogul has promised to build a “beautiful wall” on the U.S./Mexican border, explaining that Mexico would pay for it. John Oliver devoted 18 exhaustive minutes to that topic during Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, clarifying the absurdity of such a venture – from the lavish…
Protesters, Supporters Clash at Trump Rally in Tucson
Protesters and supporters continue to clash at Donald Trump’s rallies. While his rally in Fountain Hills, AZ, appeared to only experience a roadblock by protesters on Saturday as Mashable reports, his event that followed in Tucson was not as peaceful. In a video captured by NBC News’ Frank Thorp V, a man…
Watch Michelle Obama Talk ‘Let Girls Learn,’ Role of Fathers at SXSW
On Wednesday, Michelle Obama delivered a keynote address at the South by Southwest Festival where she, Missy Elliott and songwriter Diane Warren spoke about the Let Girls Learn initiative, which seeks to break barriers to education for girls. Now, organizers have released professionally shot highlights of the landmark event. “It’s just a sign of what…
‘Moderate’ John Kasich Is Actually Terrifying
John Kasich is such an appealing guy, isn’t he? He went to a same-sex wedding once. He thinks Donald Trump’s plan to deputize the violent thugs at his rallies so they can kick out all the brown people is pretty unreasonable. His folksy Midwestern-dad charm gives Democrats fits of terror…
Death of a Mannequin: Marco Rubio’s Last Day
On the evening of Tuesday the 15th, when even Marco Rubio must have finally understood that his campaign was over, the 5,000 seats of the Florida International University Arena sat empty as his supporters were herded into a narrow rectangle in the lobby. It was staging for the last time,…
What Went Wrong With Marco Rubio?
If there was a moment during the early primary season when you could almost feel the self-delusion infecting the Republican establishment, it was on the night of the South Carolina primary, when an utterly deflated Jeb Bush, onetime shoo-in for the nomination, suspended his campaign, and Marco Rubio, the supposed…
Watch Stephen Colbert Send Off Triumphant Third-Place Finisher Marco Rubio
With each candidate’s exit from the 2016 presidential race, Stephen Colbert revives the Late Show’s “Hungry for Power Games” to bid farewell to the losing “tributes.” Following a disappointing turnout in Florida, where the GOP vote sided heavily with Donald Trump, Colbert told his audience, “Florida senator, and boy whose birthday…
David Duke Says Trump is ‘Rehabilitating’ Hitler’s Image
David Duke believes comparisons of Donald Trump to Hitler are a good thing. The former Ku Klux Klan leader, who is a Trump supporter, took to his radio show on Wednesday where he suggested that the comparisons have led to Trump “rehabilitating” Hitler’s image. In a clip from the show, which was…
Flashback: Watch ‘The Simpsons’ Predict President Trump in 2000
If a year ago you had asked most political pundits if Donald Trump had a good chance of becoming president, most of them would’ve laughed at you. Even amid rumors of his 2016 run, it seemed absurd at the time to think he’d be a serious contender for the presidency. If…
Donald Trump to Bill O’Reilly: ‘I Always Like to Be a Gentleman’
Republican frontrunner Donald Trump appeared on The O’Reilly Factor Wednesday night to discuss the increasing frequency of protesters at his rallies and a possible shift in rhetoric as the mogul begins to think toward the general election. Host Bill O’Reilly opened the interview by asking Trump if he felt a need to “tone…
Ted Cruz on Trump: ‘Donald is Ducking’ Fox News Debate
Ted Cruz said Donald Trump was “afraid of being challenged,” after the Republican presidential frontrunner pulled out of a scheduled Fox News debate that has since been canceled, Mediaite reports. Speaking with Megyn Kelly, Cruz cracked to the host, “It seems that Donald Trump finds you a very, very terrifying person,” noting that Trump…
Watch Colbert Take Down Kasich, Cruz in ‘Super Tuesday Three’ Recap
Stephen Colbert recapped the primary results from “Super Tuesday Part Three” on The Late Show Wednesday, quipping, “Like all sequels, it’s getting predictable and very expensive.” With Hillary Clinton sweeping the five Democratic primaries, Colbert focused on the Republican races, which were once again dominated by Donald Trump — save for a…
Watch Kimmel’s Lie Witness News Team Tease Fake Supreme Court Nominees
Jimmy Kimmel Live’s “Lie Witness News” segment reached a new branch of low-hanging fruit Wednesday with a hilarious Supreme Court edition centered around Barack Obama’s nomination of Merrick B. Garland. The Kimmel “beat reporter” asked people on the street about everyone but Garland, dropping notable, but definitively non-judicial names like Whitey Bulger. According to one…
Michelle Obama Talks ‘Let Girls Learn’ at SXSW
Michelle Obama delivered the keynote address at South by Southwest in Austin, TX, on Wednesday. The First Lady promoted the Let Girls Learn initiative, which seeks to break barriers to education for girls. Obama said that 62 million girls around the world are not in school. Queen Latifah served as moderator on the…
Meet Merrick Garland, Obama’s Supreme Court Nominee
Over the past several weeks, President Obama and his surrogates have been urging Senate Republicans to do their job and give his Supreme Court nominee a hearing — once he did his job of actually nominating a justice, that is. Obama finally announced Wednesday morning that he was nominating Merrick Garland,…
WTF Happened in Tuesday’s Big Primaries, Explained
The utterly unpredictable 2016 presidential campaign delivered new surprises Tuesday night. Shortly after Donald Trump seized victory in Florida — knocking native son Marco Rubio from the presidential race — Ohio Gov. John Kasich stormed to a win in his home state, keeping alive slim GOP establishment dreams of forcing a…
5 Things You Didn’t Know About Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio dropped out of the 2016 race after a humiliating loss to Donald Trump in his home state of Florida Tuesday night. In an emotional, God-heavy concession speech, the Florida senator who introduced a conversation about hand – and penis – size into this presidential race got in one last…
How the ‘New York Times’ Sandbagged Bernie Sanders
The New York Times ran a piece about Bernie Sanders Monday, a sort of left-handed compliment of a legislative profile. It was called “Bernie Sanders Scored Victories for Years Via Legislative Side Doors.” I took notice of the piece by Jennifer Steinhauer because I wrote essentially the same article nearly 11…
Cyndi Lauper on Hillary Clinton: ‘She Can Do the Job’
Cyndi Lauper gave a quiet, seemingly spontaneous, endorsement of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton during an interview with Rolling Stone Country on Monday, pointing out the former Secretary of State’s record of pragmatism and bipartisan leadership during her time in Congress. “She’s the person who can actually do the job,” Lauper says. “She can…
Watch Orgasmic Preview of Hillary Clinton’s ‘Broad City’ Cameo
No matter how many delegates Hillary Clinton picks up during Tuesday’s primaries, the Democratic frontrunner will undoubtedly receive a bigger boost among young voters the next night: She’s making a guest appearance episode of Broad City. Comedy Central has released a preview clip of the candidate’s cameo, and — given…
Can Donald Trump Be Stopped on Critical Primary Night?
The day of reckoning is upon us. There are six Republican contests on this Super Tuesday sequel, with 367 delegates up for grabs. By Wednesday morning, 1,423 of a possible 2,460 Republican delegates will have been awarded. We won’t know decisively who will get the nomination — no candidate will be close enough…
Watch John Oliver Reluctantly Talk ‘Donald Drumpf’ on ‘Colbert’
John Oliver returned to The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Monday and spoke about the one thing he was sure he would never have to care about the last time he appeared on the show: Donald Trump. Seven months later, the beleaguered Last Week Tonight host hashed out Trump’s continued ascendency and recounted…
Watch Samantha Bee Attempt to Understand Donald Trump Supporters
Throughout Donald Trump’s campaign, the mogul has shown an unflappable ability to spout anything, retweet racists and provoke violence, yet not lose a single supporter in the process. In an effort to understand the mind of a Trump supporter – and not the virulent ones that scream “Go back to…
Johnny Depp: Donald Trump Is a Brat
During a recent appearance at Arizona State University, Johnny Depp spoke candidly about his disdain for Donald Trump. The actor had previously imitated the frontrunner for the GOP’s presidential nomination in a Funny or Die film. Depp was part of a Q&A at ASU where he discussed his role in the…
What Happens to America If Trump Loses?
Many Americans are afraid of what the U.S. would look like if Donald Trump won November’s election. Would President Trump really ban Muslims — including American citizens — from crossing the border? Would Mexican immigrants have even more to worry about than they do now? Would he usher in an era of American…
Donald Trump’s 13 Biggest Business Failures
Donald Trump has made his vast wealth a centerpiece of his presidential campaign; he says voters can trust him because of his keen business sense. There are some problems with that strategy, however: 1) He’s not quite the self-made mogul he makes himself out to be — he got a considerable head start in business thanks…
Inside the Rowdy, Racist Canceled Trump Rally
“Fuck Donald Trump!” I’ve been outside the UIC Pavilion for about ten minutes when I first hear someone shout it from a passing car. It’s about 2:00 on Friday afternoon. The heckler, in a silver sedan, has come to a rolling stop to yell at the line of rally attendees —…
Rachel Maddow: Donald Trump’s Violent Rhetoric Sparked Chicago Protest
On a night where Donald Trump’s Chicago rally was cancelled after the mogul’s supporters clashed with protestors both inside and outside the UIC Pavilion, Rachel Maddow examined how the Republican frontrunner’s violent rhetoric at campaign rallies sparked Friday’s incident. “This has turned out to be a night that may go down…
Why Young Americans Are Suing Obama Over Climate Change
In Eugene, Oregon, earlier this week, a federal district judge heard oral arguments from lawyers representing President Obama, a range of federal agencies and the fossil fuel industry on their motions to dismiss a landmark climate lawsuit, one climate observers call “the most important case on the planet right now.” The…
Remember When Donald Trump Endorsed Johnny Manziel?
If Ben Carson is right, and there really are “two Donald Trumps,” then both of them were wrong about Johnny Manziel. Back in 2014 – well before Trump turned his orange-hued fury into a successful political campaign – he was touting the talents of Manziel, Texas A&M’s Heisman-winning quarterback who was…
Why Trump’s Endorsements Should Scare Your Pants Off
Earlier this week, an African-American protester was sucker-punched by a 78-year-old man in a cowboy hat at a Trump rally in North Carolina. The video went viral, and reporters later tracked down John McGraw, the red-faced Trumpthusiast who’d thrown the punch. McGraw explained why he’d belted Rakeem Jones: “Number one, we…
David Cross: Why Donald Trump Will Not Be President
Last week, comic Louis CK sent fans a long, unsolicited message about why voters are misguided in casting votes for Donald Trump; in doing so, he joined the chorus of voices, including many conservatives, urging Americans to consider alternatives to the businessman and reality TV star. Many politically inclined comics like…
Meet the GOP Mega-Donors of the 2016 Election
The big money coursing through American politics in the current primary contest is shattering all records. Through March 10, more than $245 million in Super PAC money had been spent on the 2016 presidential race, compared to less than $80 million at the same point in 2012. “What’s going on in the 2016…
Sarah Silverman as Hitler: Trump Comparisons ‘Bum Me Out’
The New York Daily News recently ran an issue with the headline “Trump Is Hitler,” referencing comedian Louis C.K.’s e-mail to fans noting the similarites between the Republican presidential candidate and the evil dictator. With those unflattering comparisons running wild, Conan invited the Führer – played by Sarah Silverman – on…
‘Kimmel’ Supercut: Donald Trump Has a Lot of Famous ‘Friends’
“Donald Trump has made a lot of enemies over the last several months,” Jimmy Kimmel observed during Thursday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! “But he also – as he has been known to mention – has a lot of friends.” The above clip incorporates a video montage of the Republican frontrunner touting his important…
30 WTF Moments From the Miami GOP Debate
Voters in Florida and Ohio — the delegate-rich, winner-take-all states that have been glittering in the distance throughout this Republican primary race — will finally head to the polls next Tuesday. So Thursday’s GOP debate in Miami was the last shot for the three trailing candidates to knock Donald Trump off the steamroller he’s riding toward the Republican National Convention. Trump’s path…
Donald Trump’s Meanest Twitter Insults
Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter says that for years after he dubbed Donald Trump a “short-fingered vulgarian” in Spy magazine, Trump would send him glossy photos of himself, digits circled in gold Sharpie, with a note: “See? Not so short.” When Marco Rubio revived the short-fingered insult on the campaign trail recently, Trump…
Watch Mac Miller ‘Whitesplain’ to ‘Racist F–kwad’ Donald Trump
Mac Miller brought his feud with Donald Trump to The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore Wednesday, “whitesplaining” the Republican presidential frontrunner’s own problematic platform back to him. The unlikely feud between the rapper and candidate dates back to Miller’s 2011 song, “Donald Trump,” which the mogul initially liked. But after the song went platinum, Trump threatened to sue…
Samantha Bee on ‘Full Frontal,’ Trump Steaks and President Hillary
Samantha Bee only has four episodes of her weekly late-night program — Full Frontal With Samantha Bee — under her belt, but the Canadian comedienne has already carved out a spot as the “fierce, fiery” feminist voice of late night. Those who followed her work on The Daily Show, where she spent 12…
Hillary Clinton: Adele Is My Go-To Voice
Hillary Clinton sat down with SiriusXM while in Miami to discuss, among other things, her taste in music. The presidential candidate praised Adele and noted her love for classic rock while in conversation with Miami Beach’s mayor Philip Levine. During their conversation, Levine asked Clinton what she would play on her…
Watch Colbert Soothe Trump’s Ego With Meat-Covered Trophy
Stephen Colbert gave Donald Trump a self-esteem boost on The Late Show Wednesday, hoping to provide the Republican frontrunner with the validation he needed to stop his attention-seeking, presidential campaign charade. The bit began with Colbert recapping Tuesday’s primaries, in which Trump won three more states and gave a victory speech surrounded by various…
29 Realest Moments From the Univision Democratic Debate
Like two cantankerous snowbirds, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders ambled onto the debate stage at Miami-Dade College in Florida Wednesday evening, one week before the state’s voters cast primary ballots, and just three days after they debated in Michigan. It looked and felt a lot like the debate in Flint, except this time…
Clinton Campaign Does Damage Control After Sanders’ Huge Upset
When the polls opened in Michigan Tuesday morning, Bernie Sanders did not have a lot to be optimistic about. His campaign was at a clear disadvantage: The Real Clear Politics average of polls had Hillary Clinton leading in the state by 20 points — and none of the surveys taken this…
Watch Mitt Romney Read Donald Trump Supporters’ Mean Tweets
Former governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live on Tuesday night as part of his campaign to prevent Donald Trump from securing the Republican nomination. While he was there, Kimmel forced Romney to read some of the mean tweets that have been directed at the 2012 Republican presidential nominee since he began…
Mitt Romney on Bernie Sanders: ‘He’s Authentic, but Terribly Misguided’
As Republican primary voters headed to the polls in four more states on Tuesday, Mitt Romney sat down with Jimmy Kimmel to talk, with increasing urgency, about stopping divisive real estate mogul Donald Trump from becoming his party’s nominee. Kimmel asked Romney who he would pick if he had to choose between Trump or Democratic frontrunner Hillary…
Hillary Clinton vs. Bernie Sanders: The Good Fight
Hillary Clinton’s Super Tuesday speech, delivered before a gathering of supporters in Miami, was a more polished version of a speech I’d heard her give three days earlier in Columbia, South Carolina. The Columbia rally took place at an indoor volleyball court at the University of South Carolina. The floor…
WTF Happened to Hillary Clinton in Michigan, Explained
Overcoming a consensus 21-point deficit in the polls, and odds against winning pegged at 99:1, Bernie Sanders stormed to victory over Hillary Clinton in the Michigan primary Tuesday night. Sanders’ stunning upset win has altered the momentum of the Democratic race. Will it be enough to change the delegate math? Here’s…
Watch 2 Chainz Explain Why Presidential Candidates ‘Suspend’ Campaigns
2 Chainz dropped by Larry Wilmore’s The Nightly Show on Tuesday not to rap, but to share his political insight. Before bringing out his guest, Wilmore took a moment to “acknowledge a loss in the comedy community:” Ben Carson, or “Black Droopy the Dog,” suspending his presidential campaign. “Why do candidates…
Watch Stephen Colbert Bid Farewell to ‘Ambien-American’ Ben Carson
With each passing week, the number of candidates in the once-bloated Republican presidential race shrinks. “So little remain, you could count them on one of Trump’s teensy little doll hands,” Stephen Colbert said on Tuesday’s Late Show. The latest GOP hopeful to drop out was the perpetually drowsy Ben Carson, so Colbert…
Why Conservatives Increasingly Care Where You Pee
South Dakotans narrowly missed the detonation of a precedent-setting bomb on Super Tuesday when Gov. Dennis Daugaard vetoed a bill that would have been devastating for the transgender community. HB 1008, which was designed to “restrict access to certain restrooms and locker rooms in public schools,” would have required that…
Meet the Trans Woman Challenging Caitlyn Jenner on Her Conservatism
Author and activist Jenny Boylan was on a bus full of trans women, barreling down a highway in the Southwest, when she learned that a high-profile trans rights measure on the November ballot, the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance, or HERO, had been voted down. In Houston and nationwide, the religious right had…
5 Things We Learned About the Suicide of Tom Schweich
In our investigative feature about former Missouri candidate for governor, Tom Schweich, who took his own life shortly after announcing his campaign in early 2015, it became clear that a number of forces weighed on him. The GOP hopeful was a lifelong overachiever — degrees from Yale and Harvard, partner at…
Conservatives Can’t Escape Trump, Even When He No-Shows
Somewhere around midday Thursday, the first day that anyone really pays attention to the Conservative Political Action Conference, people in the media started substituting a question in the place of more conventional greetings, like “Hello.” They’d bump into each other in lines or in the halls, dropping off stuff in…
‘Daily Show’ Sends Off Ben Carson With ‘I’ll Be Missing You’ Parody
The Daily Show bid a bittersweet farewell to ex-Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson Monday with an emotional parody of Puff Daddy’s Police-sampling Notorious B.I.G. tribute, “I’ll Be Missing You.” The bit was preempted by a eulogy from correspondent Roy Wood Jr., who defended Carson not as a candidate, but an inspiration to the black…
How the GOP Race Became a Penis-Measuring Contest
There’s a long history of presidential races becoming contests over masculinity and virility. When Thomas Jefferson was running against John Adams, for example, Jefferson accused Adams of having “neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman.” Stephen Douglas accused Abraham Lincoln of…
Watch Stephen Colbert Size Up Donald Trump’s Penis Comment at Debate
Stephen Colbert takes his job very seriously, and as such could not let last week’s Republican presidential debate/penis-measuring contest go unnoticed on The Late Show Monday. Colbert was off last Friday, and while Donald Trump’s reassurance about his “large hands” had been covered everywhere since, the comment still caused the host to endearingly flub his first attempt at this…
Watch Samantha Bee Bid R.I.P. to GOP on ‘Full Frontal’
On Monday’s Full Frontal, host Samantha Bee held a memorial for the GOP. “Last week, the Republican party, home to more than a century of great statesmen, died the way Republican president Chester A. Arthur did: Violently tearing itself in half,” Bee said. “The death throes started Thursday morning when the…
Pop-Culture Legacy of Nancy Reagan’s ‘Just Say No’ Campaign
Former First Lady Nancy Reagan died Sunday at age 94. Reagan lent her name to an assortment of causes while her husband was in office — and to Alzheimer’s research after he’d left — but none more famously or worthlessly than the anti-drug “Just Say No” campaign. The slogan was borne of an achingly earnest…
John Oliver Taunts Trump’s Penis: ‘Cheeto With Cheese Dust Rubbed Off’
John Oliver has largely kept his distance from Donald Trump, but he changed course last week with a hilarious takedown of the Republican presidential candidate. Sunday’s episode found the Last Week Tonight host devoting another segment to the “Clowntown Fuck-the-World Shitshow 2016” after Trump secured seven states on Super Tuesday and two more…
32 Important Moments From the Flint Democratic Debate
During the Republican debate in Detroit last week, Ted Cruz earned booming applause from the hometown audience for his quip that the city had been “utterly decimated by 60 years of failed left-wing policy.” The Democratic debate in Flint, Michigan, Sunday was in many ways a defiant reproof of that idea. Two days…
Watch ‘SNL’ Mock Racist Donald Trump Supporters in Campaign Ad
During Saturday Night Live’s two-week hiatus, Republican frontrunner Donald Trump briefly came under fire for not immediately disavowing an endorsement from former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke, further perpetuating a belief that Trump’s racially charged platform is attracting racist voters. SNL mocked that slice of the Republican frontrunner’s fan base with…
Louis C.K. Rips Donald Trump in Epic Email: ‘The Guy Is Hitler’
Louis C.K. ripped Donald Trump in an epic email to fans Saturday, comparing the mogul to Hitler and pleading with his Trump-supporting fans to cease voting for the Republican presidential frontrunner. “Please stop it with voting for Trump. It was funny for a little while. But the guy is Hitler,” C.K. wrote…
Gifted Hands and Grain Silos: RIP, Ben Carson’s Campaign
“Could I sit down right now and enjoy the rest of my life in complete luxury? Absolutely.” As far as answers to the “What now?” question go, Ben Carson could have given a much better one on a day when the AP reported that his campaign raised more money than any other…
Watch Every Time Fox News Attacked Trump at the GOP Debate
If there was any question that Fox News was quietly, begrudgingly accepting the fact that Republican voters had anointed Donald Trump the party’s new standard bearer, it was put to rest Thursday night when the network went directly for the mogul’s fleshy, bronzed jugular. It was worth sitting through the ten mind-numbing debates that preceded…
Slipknot’s Corey Taylor Talks Trump: ‘We’re Going to Shut This S–t Down’
Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor said last December that Donald Trump running for president was the worst thing he’d seen in pop culture in 2015. Now he tells Rolling Stone he’s seen enough of the GOP candidate riling up “base, ugly bigotry and racism” that he’s reached a breaking point. “The thing…
Communing With Ronald Reagan’s Ghost at CPAC 2016
If you have a white-collar job, you’ve probably been to a national conference, sitting through a weekend of presentations, held mid-winter in a warm-weather state. By day, you sit in a convention center and eat $20 sandwiches in between racking up accreditation or business cards. Later, bei Nacht und Nebel,…
Stephen Colbert Begs Mitt Romney to Save GOP From Donald Trump
Stephen Colbert has spent the past few weeks coming to the realization that President Trump might happen, and it’s a concern he now shares with the Republican party itself. However, on The Late Show’s latest “Road to the White House,” the host examined the not-so-secret weapon that could usurp the party’s presidential…
31 Phallic, WTF Moments From the GOP Debate
The final four Republican tributes gathered in the Fox Theater in Detroit Thursday night for the eleventeenthousandth primary debate. Megyn Kelly, Chris Wallace and Bret Baier brought the heat — or rather the graphics, statistics, video footage and legal affidavits — to systematically dismantle Donald Trump’s claims. Trump, meanwhile, wanted to talk…
Bushisms vs. Trumpisms: See Who Wins Battle to Sound Stupider?
Donald Trump may have been educated at the University of Pennsylvania, one of the eight Ivy League schools, and taken undergraduate Wharton classes, but it doesn’t mean he’s any less ignorant than Bush, who graduated from Yale. As Matt Taibbi writes: “Bush showed no interest in learning and angrily rejected the…
Who Would Hillary Clinton’s Vice President Be?
After a strong showing on Super Tuesday, the Clinton camp is pretty confident Hillary has the nomination all but locked up. Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook sent around a memo Wednesday morning outlining his assessment that it will very soon be “mathematically impossible” for Sanders to make up his delegate deficit,…
How Trump Ran Over the Anti-Abortion Movement
On his way to the Republican presidential nomination, Donald Trump ran over the anti-choice movement. Never in the post-Reagan era has a Republican presidential candidate exhibiting such flippant disregard for the movement’s priorities even come close to becoming the party’s standard-bearer. Trump voters have effectively sidelined one of the Republican Party’s…
Fallon as Trump Delivers Goofy, Grandiose Super Tuesday Victory Speech
Jimmy Fallon once again overheated himself in a tanning bed and doffed the fur of some strange animal to play Donald Trump and deliver an outrageous, pompous Super Tuesday victory speech on The Tonight Show Wednesday. Fallon, as Trump, opened by boasting how he was on track to win at least a million states and then…
Watch Stephen Colbert Break Down Trumptastic Super Tuesday
Following a Super Tuesday that was dominated by Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, Stephen Colbert hopped back on The Late Show’s “Road to the White House” to examine the results, or as he called it, “My God, What Have We Done? Wednesday.” On the Democratic side, Colbert noted that while Bernie Sanders won a handful…
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog Talks Donald Trump’s Super Tuesday
Four-legged political pundit Triumph the Insult Comic Dog took a break from the campaign trail to stop by Katie Couric’s Yahoo! panel and shed some light on Donald Trump’s Super Tuesday win, which came after yet another controversial week for the mogul. “[Trump] overcame a lot. All the other candidates were saying,…
Supreme Court Abortion Arguments Show Why Elections Matter
With thousands of abortion supporters (and exponentially fewer abortion opponents) rallying outside on a crisp early March morning, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in the biggest abortion case to reach the high court in decades. The justices appeared sharply divided on the case, but possibly not on the…
Bernie Sanders on Phish: ‘One of the Great Bands in This Country’
Undeterred by a not-so-Super Tuesday, Bernie Sanders was back on the campaign trail Wednesday accompanied by a special guest: Phish drummer Jon Fishman, who played drums and spoke at the Portland, Maine rally. While speaking to supporters, Sanders praised the Vermont jam band. “Let me thank, I guess, one of Vermont’s heroes who…
Reasonable Republicans, It’s OK to Sit This Election Out
So, there it is. Donald Trump essentially swept Super Tuesday, winning every state but Ted Cruz’s home of Texas, nearby Oklahoma, Alaska and Minnesota, where even the Republicans are too nice to vote for a megalomaniac. He has beaten Marco Rubio in every single state so far, save one. It’s over….
Miley Cyrus: ‘Donald Trump Is a F–king Nightmare’
Donald Trump took a major step toward securing the Republican presidential nomination following the mogul’s Super Tuesday victory, and faced with the prospect of a President Trump, Miley Cyrus turned to Instagram Tuesday to tell her 38.1 million followers, “Donald Trump is a fucking nightmare!” Cyrus wrote the caption next to a publicity…
Watch ‘Kimmel’ Grill Californians About Phony Super Tuesday Votes
“There’s always pressure to seem like you’re informed, like you’re participating when it comes to politics, whether you are or not,” Jimmy Kimmel says in his Super Tuesday installment of “Lie Witness News.” “The California primary doesn’t happen until June, so there’s no way that anyone here could have cast…
Meet the Woman Behind the Supreme Court’s High-Stakes Abortion Case
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the most significant abortion case to reach the high court in decades. Even with the legal ramifications of an eight-justice Court taken into consideration, the outcome of Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt will have an enormous impact on the ability of women in Texas…
Watch Chris Christie Die Inside Beside Donald Trump on Super Tuesday
Voters in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Vermont and Virginia delivered a clear message to the Republican Party Tuesday, declaring human-sized gumboot chiton Donald Trump their preferred candidate for president. Trump’s one-time rival for the nomination, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, introduced him. “Tonight is the beginning of Donald Trump bringing the Republican Party…
Barack and Michelle Obama to Speak at SXSW
This year’s South by Southwest festival will boast a pair of well-known names among the sea of emerging artists and established rockers: Barack and Michelle Obama are scheduled to head to Austin in March to speak at a pair of panels during the fest. President Obama will appear March 11th as part of…
Watch Bernie Sanders Sing Woody Guthrie Classic on Super Tuesday
Bernie Sanders declared victory early Tuesday night; his home state of Vermont, which he won by an overwhelming 73 points, was one of the first contests to be called. Sanders delivered his victory speech not knowing yet that he would go on to win Minnesota, Colorado and Oklahoma, and put…
WTF Happened on Super Tuesday, Explained
Any candidate who can take primary elections in both Massachusetts and Alabama — the yin and the yang of American political life — is probably a lock for their party’s nomination. Both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton scored that rare feat on Super Tuesday, storming to big delegate victories. The day nonetheless…
Revenge of the Simple: How George W. Bush Gave Rise to Trump
To hear GOP insiders tell it, Doomsday is here. If Donald Trump scores huge on tonight and seizes control of the nomination in the Super Tuesday primaries, it will mark the beginning of the end of the Republican Party, and perhaps the presidency. But Trump isn’t the beginning of the end….
See Trump’s Absurd Similarities With Wrestler ‘Ravishing’ Rick Rude
In his damning report from the GOP campaign trail, Matt Taibbi notes the disturbing similarities between the bullying tactics of lead candidate Donald Trump and those of Eighties wrestling champion “Ravishing” Rick Rude. “The ninth Republican debate, in Greenville, South Carolina, is classic Trump,” he writes. “He turns these things into…
Bernie Sanders’ Plan to Survive Super Tuesday
If Bernie Sanders’ political revolution really is coming, tonight — once the Super Tuesday returns roll in — is when we’ll know. It won’t necessarily be easy for Bernie. The demographics in states like Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Texas and Virginia are more similar to South Carolina, where Sanders took a nearly 50-point…
Watch Colbert Slam Trump for Failing to Renounce David Duke, KKK
Stephen Colbert admonished Donald Trump on The Late Show Monday for failing the easiest test in politics: Not disavowing the support of former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke. The gaffe in question came during an interview Trump gave with CNN Sunday, in which he said he knew nothing about, and…
Super Tuesday 2016: Republican Races to Watch
It’s Super Tuesday, the day before What Have We Done Wednesday, when America may well wake up with a presumptive Republican nominee and a hangover that will last eight months. Donald Trump is expected to win the majority of Republican contests today. Winning might not mean much, though, since almost every state has…
Everything You Need to Know About the Biggest Abortion Case in Decades
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Wednesday in a case that boils down to: Who decides what’s best for a woman’s health? Anti-abortion Republican legislators who have no experience in the field, or medical professionals, in conjunction with the women they serve? Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt amounts to the most…
Not Just Trump: Every GOP Candidate Is an Extremist
In the race to Stop Trump, virtually every Republican candidate has been held up as a potential beacon of moderation in comparison to the Donald. If Rubio can’t play the role, perhaps Kasich can? If no one knows who Kasich is, well, at least Cruz isn’t quite as extreme as…
Morning Blow-back: Watch Joe Scarborough Call Trump KKK Comments ‘Disqualifying’
The cozy relationship Donald Trump has enjoyed with MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski may have finally met its end. Scarborough and Brzezinski, who were criticized recently by Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi and other outlets for failing to hold Trump accountable for his near-constant stream of bigoted comments and extreme policies, expressed surprise Monday that Trump had failed to…
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