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…
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