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Melania channeling Marie Antionette Last week, Melania Trump spoke from her gold-encrusted ivory tower. With Trumpian gall and hypocrisy, she complained about the rising cost of food and gas. Her life, after all, is the literal embodiment of “Let them eat cake.” Now, she’s pretending to commiserate with the common folk. The icing on the… Read more.
Mark Zuckerberg denied his 3.5 billion users the ability to get high (er, likes) on Facebook and Instagram for nearly six hours on Monday. But if you believe his configuration story about this outage, you probably believe Donald Trump’s fraud story about the 2020 presidential election. I think the temperamental Zuckerberg just reacted in a… Read more.
There appears to be a Covid-19 cluster mushrooming inside the White House and beyond. President Donald Trump has tested positive for the coronavirus, as have first lady Melania Trump … White House adviser Hope Hicks, [campaign manager Bill Stepien, former counselor Kellyanne Conway, and countless others who attended a mask-free function at the White House… Read more.
I fully appreciate how serious and consequential this development is – not only for their health but also for the presidential election and national security. But, as I remarked to a friend moments ago, this was about as predictable as the sun rising in the east tomorrow. Trump and his supporters champion political incorrectness as… Read more.
[Note: I am acutely mindful that any headline today that features the words “Int’l Laughingstock” would lead one to think what follows is all about Trump’s taxes. But it’s an indication of how thoroughly laughable his presidency is that this commentary has nothing to do with that. But I promise I’ll get to that “bombshell”… Read more.
I realized many party conventions ago that conventional wisdom about them never fails. That wisdom holds that they have little to no impact on which party wins the General Election. And this has been the case time and again. Which is why I find watching party conventions akin to drinking a vanilla milkshake to soothe… Read more.
Donald Trump’s record of racism dates back decades. He sowed it in the 1970s in joint ventures with his daddy to discriminate against blacks seeking to rent in their apartment buildings. And, with all due respect to his birther conspiracy, he reaped it most notoriously in the late 1980s in full-page newspaper ads. In them, he… Read more.
Ms Trump took centre stage [Monday] to launch her ‘Be Best’ public awareness campaign to help children, including discouraging cyber bullying. Her choice of issues had earlier raised eyebrows given US President Donald Trump’s use of Twitter to attack his political opponents. (ABC News, May 7, 2018) Apropos of raised eyebrows, twits trolled her for… Read more.
The leading Republican presidential candidates, Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, spent most of last week hurling schoolyard insults at each other, all in a vainglorious attempt to defend the honor of their wives, respectively. This latest farce, in a series that has characterized the race for the Republican nomination, stemmed from an anti-Trump ad featuring… Read more.
