Donald Trump is going to avoid the gigantic Women’s March on Washington protest in Washington, D.C. on Saturday by taking the oath of office and going on vacation until Monday.
On the heels of nominating former Governor Rick Perry (R-TX) to replace nuclear physicist Ernest Moniz as Secretary of Energy, President-elect Donald Trump bragged that his cabinet had the highest IQ by far of any cabinet ever assembled.
Republicans are already acting drunk on their own power as tempers got heated after Republican Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) told Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) to take a Valium during the confirmation hearing for Trump Treasury nominee Steven Mnuchin.
Republican Senators are begging Democrats to work with them and rescue them from their Obamacare repeal mess.
Trump is planning a massive slash on government spending, including privatizing PBS, with the money saved being spent on tax cuts for the wealthy.
Trump says he was in Trump Tower on November 7, a day after Romney’s loss, when it came to him, but he had used it already in December 2011
Jefferson stating separation of church and state is contained within the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment is “unhistorical” according to Sessions.
This is hardly surprising given Trump’s rhetoric during the campaign.
Fast forward 15 years and Comey’s behavior during the presidential campaign starts to make a little more sense.
It’s been a disastrous few days for Trump’s political appointments as they crumble before each committee that questions them.
Repealing Obamacare has turned into a total political nightmare for Republicans. According to a new CBS News poll, only 22% of Americans want the law repealed.
*The following is an opinion column by R Muse* Once upon a time in America, there used to be an unwritten rule that no-one is above the law, but that rule is fundamentally lost on the rich, the connected, and the politically powerful. It is certainly lost on Donald Trump because it appears there is…
In what could be his last great act of service to his country as president, Obama called Donald Trump and the Republican claims of voter fraud fake news.
The FBI, CIA, NSA, Director of National Intelligence, Justice Department, and the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Network are investigating how Putin funneled money into the United States to help Trump win the presidential election.
During his final press conference, President Obama thanked the press and demonstrated to Donald Trump how the President Of The United States supposed to treat the free press.
“Nearly seven-in-ten Americans say that Trump’s use of Twitter is a bad idea,” Only 9 percent say they “strongly support” his use of Twitter
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It turns out that Trump isn’t bringing jobs back to America. Corporations have quickly learned to reissue old growth plans as new to avoid the wrath of the president-elect’s Twitter. In other words, Trump is being duped by corporate America.
Donald Trump likes his briefings short and in bullet form. Super short, one page if it’s in writing.
Today explained according to the CEOs Trump wants us to ask, the president-elect’s impact on job creation is “very small or nonexistent.”
Nate Silver says, “Here’s the thing. The loss of trust mostly isn’t the pollsters’ fault. It’s the media’s fault. Oh, yes, I’m going there.”
“Do you think … if your family has not made hundreds of millions of dollars of contributions to the Republican Party, that you would be sitting here today?”
Sanders showed how all Trump nominees should be questioned going forward.
The president-elect is only making matters worse by continuing to lash out at the civil rights icon.
“A national 1 percent swing would have changed everything…it would have looked like a solid mandate for HRC”
A new poll has found that the Affordable Care Act has reached a record high in popularity just as Donald Trump and the Republican-led Congress are set to kill it.
Rep. Alma Adams (D-NC) released a statement announcing that she will not attend to Trump inauguration because she refuses to pretend to celebrate his presidency.
Trump will destroy many things, but he won’t destroy the memory of a great president or the wake of hope Obama left behind him.
A new report from the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office blew apart the Republican falsehoods on Obamacare repeal by finding that 18 million people will lose their health insurance in the first year of repeal, and health insurance premiums will double for those who still have insurance.
President-elect Trump called Rep. John Lewis a liar because he is still enraged that the Civil Rights icon questioned his presidential legitimacy, and in the process demonstrated why he is the most hated/least popular president-elect in the history of polling.
If Donald Trump’s 730 jobs are “big stuff,” there is word grand enough to describe Barack Obama’s creation of 15 million jobs
“When is he [President Obama] going away? My goodness gracious. This is just unbelievable, but you know, he’s never gotten over his racism.”
“The same people who did the phony election polls, and were so wrong, are now doing approval rating polls. They are rigged just like before”
The lawmaker says the DAPL protests “are feeling terrorized.” He wants those exercising their constitutional rights to feel terrorized too
Not only will the swamp remain under a President Donald Trump – it may be deeper and murkier than ever.
Trump’s history of seeking business in the country that helped him win last year’s election is well-documented.
His uncertainty about taking the job is evidence that progressive opposition has been loud and effective.
President Obama is set to leave office with the highest favorability rating of any president in 24 years.
Since Donald Trump attack civil rights hero Rep. John Lewis, the boycott of his inauguration has grown to 30 members of Congress who will not be attending.
The latest ABC News/Washington Post poll contains even more bad news for Trump, as 74% of Americans, including 53% of Republicans, want to see his tax returns.
After Trump press secretary Sean Spicer demanded an apology from CNN, the network responded by defending their reporter and making it clear that Trump and his administration aren’t going to be able to bully the press.
President-elect Trump isn’t going to be a team player with Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell. Trump has made a series of vague promises about how he has his own Obamacare replacement plan that sounds more like Bernie Sanders than the GOP. By promising something Republicans have no intention of passing, Trump just screwed over his own party.
With a single tweet about Martin Luther King, Donald Trump revealed why he is going to be a disaster of a president.
Priebus’s words must be taken as a dire warning to all others that Trump intends to govern not as a president, but as a dictator
“The point is at some point in time the president is going to have to turn to become more presidential and that’s not presidential.”
DeVos has an appalling record on civil rights, no experience in or around public schools, and is intent on dismantling the American education system.
There is no great mystery here: this is good against evil and “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing”
Trump says his inauguration is “bigger than expected” but paid seat fillers and a favorability half that of Obama in 2009 says otherwise
Due to the rise of Donald Trump et al, Human Rights Watch declared that the United States is now a global threat to human rights.
President-elect Donald Trump just pointed his fingers at the outgoing CIA Chief John Brenna for the intelligence leaks that suggest that Trump has been compromised by Russia and might have worked with Russia, a hostile foreign government, to advance his chances in the 2016 election.
Tens of thousands of Americans filled up rallies in 70 locations across the country as a new political movement was born in the effort to save Obamacare.
In a matter of days, Donald Trump will take the oath of office and become the next President Of The United States, so Trump is preparing for this epic responsibility by whining about Saturday Night Live.
On ABC’s This Week President-elect Trump’s incoming chief of staff, Reince Priebus, demanded that President Obama forget about the years of Republican birther attacks and step up to legitimize Trump’s presidency.
One exchange between VP-elect Mike Pence and Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday showed why Pence would not survive Trump’s Russia scandal.
Donald Trump’s chief of staff issued a thuggish threat after the Director of the Office of Government Ethics said that Trump’s plan to deal with his conflicts of interest was inadequate.
You know that trip to the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture that President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team announced he would be taking in observance of Martin Luther King Day? Yeah, that’s not happening now.
During an interview on ABC’s This Week, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) raised serious concerns about Trump’s legitimacy, and when asked didn’t call the president-elect a legitimate president.
The president-elect spun an alternate universe tale of the US where “so many” Obama Democrats voted for him, Democrats are mad because the Obama coalition supports him, and Trump took credit for bringing jobs back that he had nothing to do with.
Illness is indiscriminate and every person must be afforded the care they need when they need it.
Michael Flynn, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for national security adviser, held five phone calls with Russia’s ambassador to Washington on the day the United States retaliated for Moscow’s interference in the U.S. presidential election, three sources familiar with the matter said.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal that he would keep intact sanctions against Russia “at least for a period of time,” and that he wouldn’t commit to the “one China” policy until he sees progress from Beijing in its currency and trade practices.
The National Mall in Washington D.C. could become a sea of bright pink the day after Donald Trump is inaugurated as U.S. president if the vision of a pair of Los Angeles women is realized.
Golden showers bring Trump glowers…
An unprecedented pre-presidential inauguration feud between Donald Trump and intelligence agencies that soon will be under his command could harm U.S. security if not quickly defused, current and former government officials said.
“I sincerely apologize for my lapse of judgment, for being uneducated on the issues…and for causing such dismay and heartbreak to my fans”
“House Republicans’ agenda is clear: intimidate and silence anyone who would raise questions about the President-elect’s vast conflicts of interest.”
Outgoing President Barack Obama will hold his final news conference as U.S. leader on the afternoon of Wednesday, Jan. 18
Chaffetz’s position is that wealth puts you above the law: “The president and vice president are exempt. The voters understood this was a wealthy individual.â€
U.S. civil rights activists kicked off a week of protests ahead of Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration with a march in Washington on Saturday, vowing to keep fighting for equality and justice under the upcoming administration.
The backlash has been swift and severe as members of Congress are laying into President-elect Donald Trump after he criticized Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) on Twitter.
After Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) expressed his opinion that Donald Trump is not a legitimate president, the president-elect launched a childish and foolish attack on the Civil Rights hero.
In his final weekly address, and perhaps the last for at least the next four years, President Obama spoke with humility and grace about the honor of serving as president while delivering a warning about the need to protect US democracy.
The Independent reveals that Former MI6 agent Christopher Steele watched as a cabal within the FBI sat on his Trump-Russia file for months
In a week when Der Googalizer taught ‘Merka about golden showers, another sexual harassment suit against Bill O’Reilly almost disappears.
Michael Flynn, Trump’s pick as national security advisor, undermined Obama’s foreign policy on behalf of a man who isn’t president yet
As Donald Trump prepares to take office, the Senate Intelligence Committee has announced a bipartisan investigation into Russian election hacking and any connections between Russia and any members of campaigns.
According to the First Amendment, it is a problem when a public servant, speaking of the whole of the American people says something like, “To worship our lord and celebrate our nation at the same place is not only our right, it is our duty.†The First Amendment says it is our right. By forbidding…
Civil Rights icon Rep. John Lewis echoed the views of the majority of Americans who didn’t vote for Trump when said that in his view, Trump is not a legitimate president.
According to a new poll, a majority of Republicans who are earning less than $30,000 a year want government ensured health care, which means that they voted for the wrong candidate if they supported Donald Trump.
Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) is standing up for Democratic Party values by announcing that he will vote against the nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions to be the next attorney general.
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan made it clear during his CNN healthcare town hall that his plan to reduce healthcare costs involving moving cancer patients to high-risk pools that will be run by the states with benefits capped. In other words, cancer patients will be given less healthcare and lower odds of survival.
Trump blames “Totally made up facts by sleazebag political operatives, both Democrats and Republicans – FAKE NEWS! Russia says nothing exists”
Republicans blocked amendments that would protect the “most popular and effective provisions†of the ACA, including some with no fiscal impact.
If testimony by some of his nominees this week is an indicator, Trump’s pledge to torture people may, thankfully, be in trouble.
Jason Chaffetz attacked the ethics office for publicly questioning Trump’s ethics, leading Chuck Schumer to call his bullying “deplorable”
The mainstream media has proved guilty of two sins – repeating fake news generated by Trump, and failing to report real news about Trump
In an ideal world where politics is centered around issues that matter, Hillary Clinton – not Trump – would be getting sworn in next week.
“I want to thank President Obama from the bottom of my heart because I would be dead if it weren’t for him.”
Lies weren’t being fed to the public from the media as much as they were from the Trump team.
It’s so bad for Trump that even those he’s chosen to serve in his administration are distancing himself from him – all so they can get a job.
Trump turned a news conference into an anti-media circus event like he is still entertaining his sycophants at campaign rallies.
The most unpopular president-elect in history is going to be greeted by waves of protesters as he begins his term in office.
An openly crying Vice President Joe Biden went from tears to shock as President Obama awarded the final Medal of Freedom of his time in office to the Vice President.
The Justice Department has announced that they will review the FBI’s actions on Hillary Clinton’s emails ahead of Election Day.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) tore apart Ben Carson’s non-answer on whether or not any HUD money would go to Trump and his family to expose an incoming administration that is creating a climate of corruption.
On Thursday, President-elect took to Twitter to fill the swamp even more with an unethical push for L.L. Bean, the company of Trump PAC donor.
President-elect Donald Trump is still full on histrionic about CNN running the bombshell Trump Russia Compromise story and he just can’t get over it, even though he spent eight years doing much worse to President Obama, based on much less.
To taint Cory Booker’s testimony, Trump’s team presented the committee with a story accusing “black Democrats†of voter fraud.
Sam Nunn praises Tillerson but seems to be forgetting we are vetting a Secretary of State and not a CEO – particular of a Russian company
The GOP move hampers the government’s ability to protect “public health and safety, the environment, workplace safety and consumer financial protections.”
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