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On an MSNBC panel on Saturday, legendary Bill Clinton strategist James Carville laid down why the emerging media consensus that President Donald Trump is a lock for a second term is wrong — and how to beat him. He began by dismissing the significance of the recent Gallup poll showing Trump at 49 percent approval. […]

President Donald Trump’s curious decision to post a highly unflattering photo of himself (which he claimed was both “fake news” and “photoshopped”) on Twitter led to a number of detractors mocking both him and the picture — along with some of the those same people sharing with the president some real photoshopped versions. On Saturday […]

On Saturday’s edition of MSNBC’s “Weekends,” two Black commentators — progressive podcaster Danielle Moodie-Mills and GOP strategist Shermichael Singleton — slammed President Donald Trump’s attempt to win over African-American voters. “What was going through your mind, Danielle, as you were watching the State of the Union?” asked host Alex Witt. “I can’t say that on […]

If many in the public had not seen the viral photo of Donald Trump with his windblown hair and what appears to be a substantial amount of make-up plastered on his face, they likely have seen it now after the president retweeted with a complaint that it is “fake news.” Late Friday night the photo […]

OK, imagine for a moment that you are Donald Trump and you want to strike back at a Congress, at the FBI, at the Deep State and fully half the country for having the temerity to challenge you. I know, you don’t want to put yourself in that situation, but it seems necessary to try […]

The day after his acquittal by the Republican Party in a trial that banned witnesses, the unhinged Donald Trump gloated for over an hour on all the television networks. Trump flattered his courtiers, one by one, and fulminated against his Congressional adversaries, Hillary Clinton and ex-FBI chief James Comey. Donald Trump’s speech degraded his office […]

Welcome to another edition of What Fresh Hell?, Raw Story’s roundup of news items that might have become controversies under another regime, but got buried – or were at least under-appreciated – due to the daily firehose of political pratfalls, unhinged tweet storms and other sundry embarrassments coming out of the current White House. Donald Trump […]

In a column for the Washington Post, Ruth Marcus highlighted multiple policy changes instituted by President Donald Trump’s administration while the press and the public have been focused on his impeachment trial. “It is worth revisiting what the Trump administration did while Congress was impeaching, from the moment the president’s efforts to use Ukraine as […]

No historian or political scientist has better explained the fragility of American democracy than a poet. When I interviewed the poet Rita Dove three years ago, she offered the following assessment of exactly how a sociopathic president like Donald Trump could inflict irreparable damage on institutions of governance, and the norms — written and unwritten […]

In January, Melissa Villaseñor of “Saturday Night Live” made people laugh — and aroused controversy — when she sang a song arguing that various Oscar-nominated films were really just about “white male rage,” including the highest-grossing of the Best Picture nominees, “Joker.” To be fair, Villaseñor made this criticism of many other Oscar nominees, including “1917,” […]

On Saturday, The New York Times reported that President Donald Trump is planning a huge offensive to try to recapture the suburban, well-educated voters the Republican Party lost in 2018 that helped Democrats seize control of the House — a bloc of voters that he will almost certainly need to make inroads with to win […]

On Friday, former White House photographer Pete Souza trolled President Donald Trump with a photo of his predecessor, President Barack Obama, reacting to a supporter giving him “bunny ears,” and laughing in response. As Souza explained, “I’m sure if this guy did this today to IMpotus, the Attorney General would be ordered to investigate his […]

On Friday, former National Security Council official Samantha Vinograd weighed in on the dismissal of Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman — and warned that it is yet another sign of how the president’s short-term whims and vendettas are undermining America’s ability to conduct national security policy. While we ask ourselves what kind of person – let […]

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) says he believes that the impeachment trial has galvanized Republican voters — and furthermore, suggested, “In the end it’s not likely to have much of an impact on any of the races, the presidential or the Senate races.” But according to the Washington Post, he is organizing a weekend […]

President Donald Trump’s move to oust Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman from the National Security Council can be seen as retaliation for coming forward to testify in the impeachment inquiry. But that is not all that Vindman’s departure represents. Indeed, argued NSC expert Dr. John Gans in The New York Times, the removal of Vindman is […]

In President Donald Trump’s mind, a signature achievement of his presidency is the American economy, something he hammered home in his State of the Union address last week. This article first appeared in Salon “Three years ago, we launched the great American comeback. . . . Tonight, I stand before you to share the incredible […]

President Donald Trump attacked Lt. Col, Alex Vindman on Saturday morning, smearing him as “insubordinate” for testifying before a House impeachment committee. Taking to Twitter, the president wrote, “Fake News @CNN & MSDNC keep talking about ‘Lt. Col.’ Vindman as though I should think only how wonderful he was. Actually, I don’t know him, never […]

According to WLWT 5, authorities in Middletown, Ohio arrested a 39-year-old white woman after she harassed a Muslim Uber driver and “hit him several times in the face.” “I’m an American and this is what I pay for all the time! Do you not realize that?” Melissa Lovins could be heard screaming on the 911 […]

In a guest op-ed for the Washington Post, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) went straight for the jugular by accusing Republican Party leadership of becoming “accomplices” to President Donald Trump’s crimes after voting to acquit him in his Senate trial. According to the California Democrat, “For more than 200 years, our republic has endured, not […]

On Saturday, the Washington Post profiled Ed McGinty, the Florida retiree in The Villages who went viral last week for setting up with a golf cart covered in signs labeling President Donald Trump a “racist,” a “filthy pig,” and a “sexual predator.” “Raised Irish Catholic in Philadelphia, the 71-year-old retired real estate broker has always […]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — President Donald Trump, speaking Friday at Central Piedmont Community College, claimed credit for an economic “renaissance” that he said has especially boosted African Americans and lower-income workers.“The forgotten men and women of America are no longer forgotten because we are finally putting America first,” Trump told an audience at CPCC’s Halton Theater. […]

NEW YORK — Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Friday that the state will sue the Trump administration following the Department of Homeland Security’s decision to ban New Yorkers from the Trusted Traveler Program.The lawsuit, which will be brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James, will argue that DHS violated New York’s sovereign immunity, failed to […]

PHILADELPHIA — President Donald Trump turned a Philadelphia fourth grader into a poster child for the school-choice movement Tuesday when he told the nation thousands of students were “trapped in failing government schools” and announced that she was finally getting a scholarship to attend the school of her choice.But the student, Janiyah Davis, already attends […]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — As Puerto Rico is struggling to recover from hurricanes and earthquakes, the White House confirmed Friday that it is appointing U.S. Coast Guard Rear Adm. Peter Brown as its liaison for the island.In a statement, the White House said Brown “will coordinate United States Government efforts to build the infrastructure […]

President Donald Trump late Friday afternoon and evening ended the week by firing three administration and White House officials, he blames for his impeachment in a campaign of retribution that some experts are calling illegal. Trump not only had Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman transferred out of the White House, he had him fired from his […]