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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) went viral for two things last week: For the condescending way she clapped at Trump during his State of the Union Address (SOTU). For the discerning way she characterized Trump’s habitual lies, insults, complaints, and criticisms. I am on record dismissing the SOTU as a spectacle. I refer you to… Read more.
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus fiercely criticized the way Donald Trump delivered his brief admission Friday that President Barack Obama was born in the United States, saying it was insufficient and demanding an apology for Trump’s years-long push of ‘birther’ claims. ‘This is a disgusting day,’ said Rep. G.K. Butterfield, a Democrat from North… Read more.
Frankly, that name now conjures up such racial and religious bigotry, to say nothing of neo-Nazi thuggery, it should make you want to spit too. But more about that later…. Since launching his campaign last summer, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has been spewing anti-Mexican and anti-Muslim rhetoric in a manner that seems pathological. Commentators… Read more.
Donald Trump is nothing more than the P.T. Barnum of business: a huckster who thrives on the notion that ‘there’s a sucker born every minute’… We all knew that Trump was a self-aggrandizing buffoon. But he has now exposed himself as a self-deluding racist as well. This is why I urge all of the rich… Read more.
Alas Donald Trump’s birther nonsense has attained such cognitive dissonance that even Jay Z is trying to explain it. But only one word explains why Trump is continuing to peddle nonsense about President Obama being a foreigner: publicity. Evidently the national embarrassment he caused last year by compelling the president (to condescend) to publish his birth certificate – proving… Read more.
