Sen. Markwayne Mullin tried to blame former President Barack Obama for Jeffrey Epstein‘s 2008 plea deal, despite Obama not being president at the time. Mullin made the comments while being interviewed by Jake Tapper on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday. First, Tapper and Mullin debated over whether the …
Read More »Poll: Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' Is a Flop With Voters
Donald Trump‘s “One Big Beautiful Bill” doesn’t look so beautiful to American voters. According to a new Wall Street Journal poll, more than half of respondents oppose the president’s landmark legislation. Considering the bill gives huge tax breaks to the rich, kicks up to 15 million people off Medicaid and …
Read More »Trump's Senior Moments Are Getting Worse
Donald Trump‘s bizarre combination of speech mannerisms, physical quirks, and garish physical appearance has over the past decade of his political career often functioned as teflon. The president’s absurdist, abhorrent political persona is endlessly mockable — as Saturday Night Live or any late-night host can attest — but it’s also …
Read More »Trump Rages About Windmills and Whales, Claims He Sent Aid to Gaza But No One Said 'Thank You'
Donald Trump turned a press availability in Scotland that was supposed to be focused on a trade deal with the European Union into a long list of his personal grudges against windmills, the Jeffrey Epstein case, Democrats, and Gaza. Appearing alongside E.U. President Ursula von der Leyen, Trump said the …
Read More »The Democratic Party's Brand Is Cooked
Voters have increasingly little faith in the Democrats, a new Wall Street Journal poll found, with the party reaching its lowest favorability rating in more than three decades. Voters overwhelmingly believe that Republicans are better able to handle key issues in Congress than Democrats. The survey found that the majority …
Read More »Oklahoma's Trump-Loving, Bible-Thumping Superintendent Faces Porn Probe
An investigation is underway in Oklahoma after a television screen in the MAGA state school superintendent’s office reportedly showed a video of nude women during an executive session of the State Board of Education on Thursday. The images reportedly appeared on a screen in the office of Ryan Walters, Oklahoma’s …
Read More »Yes, America Is an Oligarchy
Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin has recently been fretting about the increasing use of the term “oligarchy” by her fellow Democrats. Slotkin apparently feels that “oligarchy” has no resonance beyond America’s coasts. Meanwhile, Sen. Bernie Sanders has been drawing record crowds beyond those coasts to his anti-oligarchy rallies. Americans, Sanders has …
Read More »I Worked With Stephen Colbert. Here's Why His Cancellation Should Scare You
Stephen Colbert makes me laugh so hard, sometimes it pisses me off. I loved him on Exit 57 and Strangers With Candy, but it was in 1997 — when I was the co-creator and head writer of The Daily Show — that I saw him do what I love most: …
Read More »Trump Claims Someone May Have Forged His Signature on Birthday Letter to Epstein
President Donald Trump has, at this point, provided several implausible excuses for a slate of reports concerning his former friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Today, Trump threw out a new rationale for a Wall Street Journal report alleging he wrote a raunchy birthday letter to Epstein in 2003: …
Read More »Trump Praised Epstein as 'The Greatest' in Note: Report
As allegations over Donald Trump‘s relationship with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein escalate, the latest report claims that the president’s name appears in a list of contributors for a 50th birthday book to Epstein, and that in another book, a copy of Trump: The Art of the Comeback, Trump left Epstein …
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