In response to Donald Trump’s attack and false claim that the cast of Hamilton was rude to VP-elect Mike Pence, cast member Brandon Victor Dixon responded directly to the president-elect that conversation is not harassment.
Donald Trump used his power as President-elect to attack the cast of Hamilton and place a chilling effect on free speech by falsely claiming that the stars of the musical were rude to Vice President-elect Mike Pence.
“It’s like cancer…So it’s like cancer. And it’s a like a malignant cancer, though, in this case. It has metastasized.”
As the media looks at the scourge of Fake News, Fox “News” pretends it does not traffic in mendacity and blames Macedonian teens instead.
NSA Director Admiral Michael Rogers said that Wikileaks “was a conscious effort by a nation-state to attempt to achieve a specific effect.”
Civil rights attorney Lisa Bloom is offering to represent any electoral college elector for free if they defy their state and get into legal trouble by voting against Donald Trump.
A new Gallup poll found that Americans have a more favorable view of Democrats than they do of Republicans after Donald Trump won the White House.
“We still have a long way to go to ensure that every American can live free from the fear of violence or harassment based what they look like, how they worship, or whom they love.”
While the news that Trump settled the Trump University fraud cases is great for the thousands of people he defrauded, the fact that the next President Of The United States had to spend millions to avoid a fraud trial speaks volumes about his lack of ethics.
Less than a day after being chosen, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to be his national security adviser has been reported for a potential violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) laid down the law Friday in reaction to President-elect Donald Trump’s potential nomination of Senator Jeff Sessions for Attorney General, saying 30 years ago he was rejected for a federal judgeship because “there can be no compromise with racism; no negotiation with hate.”
Much is being made about “fake news,” but the biggest purveyor of fake news in the United States has been President-elect Donald Trump and his Twitter account.
Sen. Corey Booker (D-NJ) pointed to an alarming trend in President-elect Trump’s staff picks. Booker said that Trump is staff his administration with people who degrade and demean Americans, promote dangerous fringe ideologies, and threaten Americans’ rights.
David Duke said, “Bravo President Trump! Some great first steps. We’re on the way, folks, to taking America back.”
Donald Trump tried to take credit for keeping a Kentucky Ford plant in the US that was never going to leave. A union contract was the real reason why the plant was always going to stay in the United States.
Three of Trump’s first five appointees have ties or views that are in line with the white supremacist movement. These appointees are likely to be staffing agencies and departments with others who share their views.
“If anyone still thinks that Donald Trump might govern with more responsibility or moderation than he campaigned, this nomination is a wakeup call.”
“Steve Bannon, Michael Flynn, and now Jeff Sessions. It is now news when Trump chooses someone for his staff who isn’t openly bigoted.”
“I told you the shit show would become so intense that the Bannon fiasco would soon seem like distant memory.”
The new media ecosystem, says Obama, “means everything is true and nothing is true,†making it “very difficult to have a common conversationâ€
“Trump supporters are sending messages threatening to send me and my ‘ilk’ to the gas chambers and ‘get ready for the trains.’â€
Sen. Reid is making the most of his remaining time in office.
President-elect Donald Trump is making up fantasy accomplishments before he reaches the White House. Trump tweeted that has successfully kept a Ford plant from going to Mexico. The problem is that the plant was never going to leave.
Trump’s choice of Flynn is unsurprising given the anti-Muslim aura that surrounded the president-elect during his campaign.
Clinton’s growing lead over Trump is giving oxygen to longshot efforts to pressure the electoral college to choose Clinton as the next president.
Senate Democrats are considering a strategy of collaboration with President-elect Trump, which if acted upon would send the Democratic base into a state of total rebellion.
It turns out that Republicans weren’t one hundred percent honest with the voters about ACA repeal. Republicans can pass a bill legislation repealing the law in 2017, but Obamacare will remain, and those who sign up will keep their insurance until at least 2018.
Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) took to the Senate floor Thursday to demand that President-elect Donald Trump do something about the astonishing and increasing “vile acts of hate and intimidation” by a minority of his supporters. Since Reid last asked Trump to step up, the hate crimes increased by 40% according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Millions of blind and visually impaired Americans will be forced to wait for video accessibility access until after Donald Trump takes office thanks to Republican FCC commissioners.
President-elect Trump’s proposed five-year lobbyist ban is a paper move that will accomplish virtually nothing. The special interests will still occupy his White House, and they will still be paid.
There is no honeymoon for Donald Trump, as Gallup has found that the president-elect is the least popular winner of a presidential election in the last 24 years.
George Takei loves this country, and sees its promise. Yet he was imprisoned in a Japanese Internment camp, the very camps cited by a Trump spokesman as precedent for a Trump policy. Takei said his father explained, “He told me that our democracy is a people’s democracy, and it can be as great as the people can be, but it is also as fallible as people are.â€
Carl Higbie, a former Navy SEAL and Trump PAC spokesperson, tried to justify President-elect Donald Trump’s Muslim registry plan by citing World War II Japanese Internment camps as precedent.
“There are certain norms about the press and the presidency that are there for a reason. And the early signs from Donald Trump are worrisome”
Trump promised his base he wouldn’t even think about or entertain any proposal to touch Medicare; now he vows “modernization” with a Paul Ryan coupon.
Context: When people attacked New Balance, the reason, ironically enough, was its opposition to the TPP, an agreement many on the left oppose
The honeymoon phase that most incoming presidents enjoy at the beginning of their tenures appears to be nonexistent for Donald Trump.
The former Secretary of State is just as upset as we are – but she also urged Americans to keep fighting.
The laziness he has displayed during the transition seems to indicate that he was never really serious about becoming president in the first place.
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) is demanding answers after President-elect Donald Trump tried to jeopardize America’s biggest secrets by taking his son in law, who lacks national security clearance, into the President’s Daily Briefing.
President-elect Donald Trump will last no more than four years in the White House, a period when corporations and Wall Street will retain the upper hand over the struggling workers who helped elect him in a populist wave, bond manager Bill Gross of Janus Capital Group Inc
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) gave President-elect Trump a small taste of what the next four years are going to be like for him by ripping Trump’s choice of Steve Bannon to be his senior White House advisor.
A truly humiliating moment for America came when the Chinese government informed US President-elect Donald Trump that they did not invent climate change as a hoax.
The Democratic Party has begun their retooling efforts by returning to their liberal grassroots, as Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has endorsed Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) to be the next DNC chair.
The Bernie Sanders political revolution is joining the Senate Democratic leadership, as Sen. Sanders was named chair of outreach. His job will be to reach out to blue-collar voters.
There are worse signs of danger than Steve Bannon’s appointment, argues conservative Never-Trumper national security expert Professor Eliot A. Cohen. The darker danger is the Republican leaders who are excusing and normalizing Bannon’s “sinister character.”
“Failing @nytimes story is so totally wrong on transition. It is going so smoothly. Also, I have spoken to many foreign leaders,” Trump whined
“The next American president and I could not be more different…But American democracy is bigger than any one person.â€
“Well, I will demand that Europe put in place a carbon tax at its border, a tax of 1-3 per cent, for all products coming from the United States”
It is remarkable to watch conservatives scramble to defend Donald Trump from attacks by “leftists” basing their attacks on Trump’s own words. Historian Victor Davis Hanson writes that the National Review that “The attacks on Trump won’t even wait until he takes office” and that, of course, they are completely unjustified. Hanson actually categorizes the…
The protective press pool that Trump ditched is meant to ensure that the American people know exactly what their president-elect is doing.
Trump is so desperate to have people join his team that he’s seeking the Obama administration’s help in filling roles.
Four years ago, Trump called the electoral college a “disaster.” Today, he thinks it’s “genius.”
Trump appointee to be his senior White House adviser, Steve Bannon, was reported to the FBI and accused of a felony violation of campaign finance laws that occurred during Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) only has 45 days left in office, but he made the most of his time by tearing into President-elect Donald Trump on the floor of the United States Senate on Tuesday.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) told President-elect Donald Trump to get the Wall Street insiders off of his transition team, or she will oppose him every step of the way for the next four years.
Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) are warning that the Koch brothers have already infiltrated Donald Trump’s administration.
Democratic Senator Al Franken (D-MN) isn’t going to stay silent in the face of Donald Trump’s announcement that he would be appointing hate-monger Steve Bannon as the Chief White House Strategist, saying Bannon should not be allowed to hold any position in the White House.
Ben Carson doesn’t want to serve in the Trump administration because he feels he has no government experience. Carson ran against Trump to be the Republican nominee for president.
‘You should probably go ahead and be afraid now.’ The Stormer tells is readers to ‘troll these people and definitely get some of them to kill themselves’
Trump made it clear during the primaries and his campaign that he intends to take a wrecking ball to the rights of targeted groups of people.
“Trump supporters are sending me messages threatening to send me & my ‘ilk’ to the gas chambers & writing hashtags like ‘#sieg hiel'”
Trump’s economic plan will confer vast monetary gains on the very wealthiest Americans while leaving Trump’s electoral base further behind.
“The party is dedicated to racing as rapidly as possible to [the] destruction of organized human life. There is no historical precedent for such a stand.”
This would be laughable if it wasn’t so terrifying.
Other protesters quickly de-escalated the situation before police arrived at the scene.
House Republicans came back to Washington, and the first thing that they did was kill Donald Trump’s wall with Mexico, and the president-elect’s plan for a mass deportation of immigrants.
Once Trump is sworn in, he would have the power to clear his children on his own.
With a single answer during a press conference, President Obama showed Democrats the path back to victory in 2018 and beyond.
Democrats remember all of the obstructionist tactics that Republicans used to block their agenda during the Obama years and come January 2017; it’s payback time.
Congressional Republicans need to stand up and call out Trump for choosing Bannon as a senior adviser and ‘equal partner’ to Trump’s Chief of Staff”
“2016 will be the hottest year on record, with global temperatures even higher than the record-breaking temperatures in 2015.”
This isn’t a partisan thing, this is a humanity thing. A democracy thing.
Economic growth, declining deficit, lower taxes, and historical record of job creation means “the country going in the wrong direction.”
Trump’s infrastructure plan is another buy now pay later short-term gimmick that will cost the economy dearly in years to come.
According to Fox News contributor Pete Hegseth, Trump protesters are anti-Semites: “These are Communists. These are anarchists. They’re anti-Semitic.”
A gig as White House press secretary is sure to be a fun-filled, fact-free excursion into the GOP’s imaginary reality for the most dishonest president in American history
“It is easy to see why the KKK views Trump as their champion when Trump appoints one of the foremost peddlers of White Supremacist themes and rhetoric as his top aide”
Racist David Duke reacted jubilantly to the electoral victory of Donald Trump and thanked foreign criminal Julian Assange for his assistance.
Trump has broken another campaign promise as he walked back his pledge to put Hillary Clinton in jail during an interview on 60 Minutes.
Three new tweets from the president-elect show why Donald Trump is a failed president waiting to happen.
Donald Trump has named his campaign manager Steve Bannon who has it has been stated in court does not like Jews as his senior White House adviser.
Sen. Bernie Sanders built his campaign around the need for grassroots popular action. Now that Trump has won the election; Sanders is reminding Democrats that they are the majority in the country, and they should be prepared to pound away at the president-elect with their issues.
I give you the Heroic Racists of Our Times.
Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) called Donald Trump a sexual predator, so the president-elect responded by threatening to abuse his presidential power and sue a US Senator.
On CNN’s State Of The Union, host Jake Tapper hit Speaker of the House Paul Ryan with the reality that millions of Americans are terrified of Donald Trump’s presidency.
The not my president movement is very real as a new Washington Post/ABC News poll found that more than half of non-whites who supported Hillary Clinton do not accept Donald Trump as the legitimate President Of The United States.
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A reminder of his greatness in times of grief as we face it once again. He has promised to lead us now, no less, and he will continue to give nothing short of his wholehearted very best.
Demonstrators planned to gather again on Saturday in cities across the United States to protest against President-elect Donald Trump, who they say will threaten their civil and human rights, a day after a protester was shot in Portland, Oregon.
Freeway on and off ramps were closed as protesters marched from MacArthur Park to the Federal Building in downtown L.A. to protest Donald Trump
In a post-election episode of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough and political analyst Mark Halperin insisted that the Trump victory should have been foreseeable by anyone watching and thinking rationally. The signs of disaffection with Washington were everywhere, and the antipathy to Hillary Clinton—and the Clintons as an institution (and foundation!)—glaringly saturated the electorate. If,…
Seattle financial worker Harrison Karlewicz had been considering joining an environmental activist group for a while. The day after Donald Trump won the White House, he signed up.
“How to stop riots. 1)Declare state of emergency.2)Impose early curfew. 3)Mobilize Nat Guard.4)Authorize ALL non lethal force. 5)Tear gas.”
“For continuity’s sake, CNN should keep paying him while he’s in the White House.”
After a presidential race fueled by brash but constantly shifting policy proposals, Trump’s millions of followers — from social conservative activists to struggling blue-collar workers to hardline militant groups — say if he does anything less than take a wrecking ball to business-as-usual Washington, they will be disappointed.
Brexit made the safety pin the symbol of opposition to hate and intolerance, and Trump’s election has made it relevant on our side of the pond
The Defense Authorization bill should be about making our country safe; not about codifying evangelical Republican hatred and intolerance.
