Kaili Joy Gray

White House: Trump “was making a joke” when he called for police brutality

When Donald Trump gave a speech to federal, state, and local law enforcement last week, encouraging them to be more physically forceful with suspects, he seemed deadly serious. “When you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a paddy wagon, you just see them thrown in rough, I said, ‘Please don’t be too […]

By Kaili Joy Gray - July 31, 2017

Trump fires the new communications director who made him fire everyone else

On Monday morning, Donald Trump tweeted “No WH chaos!” By Monday afternoon, the White House had once again descended into chaos with the shocking announcement that after a mere 10 days, the new communications director, Anthony Scaramucci, is already out. In his extremely brief tenure at the White House, Scaramucci forced out press secretary Sean Spicer […]

By Kaili Joy Gray - July 31, 2017

Trump cabinet members “laugh a lot” about how incompetent they are

Donald Trump said repeatedly on the campaign trail that as president, he would hire only the best. During one interview in September 2016, for example, he cited “great competence” as a key factor for hiring for his administration. That, like so many of Trump’s campaign promises, has turned out to be a lie. And, in […]

By Kaili Joy Gray - July 31, 2017

“Well, you’re probably done”: Even Fox News says the GOP health care repeal is dead

Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans are in a world of hurt now that their plan to repeal Obamacare has failed disastrously. Again. Trump is raging on Twitter, Vice President Mike Pence is in hiding, senior counselor Kellyanne Conway is insulting her fellow Republicans, calling them “Loch Ness monsters of the swamp.” And now they’ve […]

By Kaili Joy Gray - July 28, 2017

Kellyanne Conway calls GOP who voted against repeal “Loch Ness monsters of the swamp”

Donald Trump bragged that he would repeal Obamacare “immediately” if he became president. That didn’t happen. Late Thursday night, the Senate bill absurdly nicknamed the “skinny repeal” failed in what should be the absolute last attempt to repeal a popular seven-year-old bill that has been upheld by the Supreme Court twice and that a majority […]

By Kaili Joy Gray - July 28, 2017

Trump’s rant to Boy Scouts so horrific they apologized for letting him speak

Donald Trump’s shockingly inappropriate speech to the Boy Scouts is an official disgrace. The response to Trump’s rant — in which he whined about “fake news,” boasted about his electoral college win while complaining about the unfairness of the system, and inspired boos against President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton — was swift and outraged. […]

By Kaili Joy Gray - July 27, 2017

Sen. Graham warns of “the beginning of the end of the Trump presidency”

Donald Trump’s presidency is in serious trouble, and every day he is making it worse for himself. In his increasingly desperate attempts to shut down the investigation into his campaign’s collusion with Russia, Trump has hinted at firing special counsel Robert Mueller and is making it plainly obvious that he wants his attorney general, Jeff […]

By Kaili Joy Gray - July 27, 2017

“She’s very rude.” Trump can’t handle question from female reporter on military ban

Donald Trump does not like questions from the press. That’s why he hasn’t held a press conference in 160 days. That’s also why he thinks nothing of dismissing and belittling reporters who dare to ask him questions whenever or wherever they might have a chance. So when ABC News reporter Arlette Saenz asked him on Wednesday […]

By Kaili Joy Gray - July 26, 2017

Trump’s tweet struck fear at Pentagon that he was declaring war on North Korea

Donald Trump kicked off his Wednesday morning the usual way: on Twitter. He congratulated himself for his rally in Ohio Tuesday night, claiming he “broke all records.” (He didn’t.) He attacked his fellow Republican, Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, saying she “really let the Republicans, and our country, down yesterday” because she refused to support repealing Obamacare. […]

By Kaili Joy Gray - July 26, 2017

After House protects transgender military, Trump bans them during “American Heroes Week”

Donald Trump has broken yet another campaign promise no one expected him to keep. During his speech at the Republican National Convention in 2016, he announced, “As your president, I will do everything in my power to protect our LGBTQ citizens from the violence and oppression of a hateful foreign ideology.” He even dared to […]

By Kaili Joy Gray - July 26, 2017

Cowardly Trump hides behind attacks on Jeff Sessions instead of just firing him

Donald Trump has declared all-out war on his attorney general and longtime loyalist, Jeff Sessions. With his presidency, and his family, mired in mounting scandals about collusion with Russia, Trump is seeking someone — anyone — to blame. And lately, that someone is Sessions. Trump’s latest missive against the attorney general came Tuesday morning, in […]

By Kaili Joy Gray - July 25, 2017

Trump’s “victims of Obamacare” actually saved by Obamacare

Donald Trump has done virtually nothing to persuade Americans to support his health care repeal plan. He has stayed away from the public and the press, and the majority of what he says on Twitter about health care is a stream of lies and insults directed at Democrats and even his own party. So in […]

By Kaili Joy Gray - July 24, 2017

House GOP seeks revenge on CBO for saying Obamacare repeal would be a disaster

Republicans really, really, really want Americans to think their health care “plan” would not be a disaster for the country. Unfortunately for them, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has said otherwise. Repeatedly. The House and Senate versions would kick millions off their insurance, increase the cost of health care, and allow insurers to refuse coverage to patients […]

By Kaili Joy Gray - July 24, 2017

Liveblog: White House holds first on-camera press briefing in almost a month

Donald Trump’s disastrous presidency, which seems to be unraveling right before our eyes this week, has finally forced someone to go on the record with the cameras rolling. The White House has not held an on-camera press briefing in nearly a month. Press secretary Sean Spicer, who resigned Friday morning, has not appeared on camera […]

By Kaili Joy Gray - July 21, 2017

Even Sean Spicer is done being humiliated by Donald Trump

It only took six months for Sean Spicer to decide he’s had enough of Donald Trump. The White House press secretary has repeatedly suffered humiliation and outright scorn at the hands of the president he serves. And now he’s calling it quits. On Friday morning, less than two hours after the White House announced the […]

By Kaili Joy Gray - July 21, 2017

Russia hints at blackmailing Trump with threats of exposing more secret meetings

Russians are enjoying humiliating Donald Trump. Russian media mercilessly mocked Trump’s weakness after his meeting with Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit. Russian officials quickly released their version of the meeting before the United States had a chance to offer its spin — not that the U.S. version was much different. And now Russia appears […]

By Kaili Joy Gray - July 21, 2017

Trump’s blame game backfires: No one wants to work for his administration

Donald Trump is having a hard time finding people willing to work in his scandal-plagued administration. Trump has failed to even name appointees for hundreds of critical positions in the government, but those who have been named are dropping out in frustration. The reason? Too many financial conflicts of interest and ethical guidelines to follow. […]

By Kaili Joy Gray - July 20, 2017

Kellyanne Conway on kicking 23 million Americans off health care: “This should be easy!”

While Donald Trump recently learned that health care reform is harder than he thought it would be, his senior adviser Kellyanne Conway is still saying it should be a piece of cake. Appearing on the always-friendly Fox network, Conway insisted that it “should be easy” to repeal Obamacare and replace it with Trump’s “plan” — […]

By Kaili Joy Gray - July 20, 2017

Trump considers outsourcing American cybersecurity to Russia

The Trump administration’s eagerness to cooperate with Russia is getting scarier by the day. Just as the State Department announces that it will be shutting down its Office of the Coordinator for Cyber Issues, Russian media is reporting that the joint cybersecurity task force Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin discussed during their extended meeting at […]

By Kaili Joy Gray - July 20, 2017

Paul Ryan is shockingly unpopular, even for Paul Ryan

Paul Ryan, the uber-conservative Wisconsin Republican who reluctantly accepted the role of House speaker in 2015 after no one else would take it, is failing. Badly. And Americans are not happy about it. Only 34 percent have a favorable view of him, compared with 48 percent who do not, according to a new Bloomberg poll. […]

By Kaili Joy Gray - July 19, 2017

Former Bush spokesman: Failure on health care is a “dismal day for Republicans”

When even die-hard Republican loyalist and former George W. Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer is bashing the GOP’s failure on health care, you know it’s bad. Fleischer, the unflappable press secretary who infamously warned Bush’s critics to “watch what they say,” offered a stinging assessment of the Senate Republicans’ failure to pass their disastrous bill […]

By Kaili Joy Gray - July 18, 2017

White House reporter baffled by Sean Spicer’s “incredibly strange” press briefing

The White House press secretary has been almost as AWOL as the president he supposedly speaks for — when he bothers to speak at all these days. Sean Spicer has not held a press briefing in nearly a month. And he hasn’t held one on camera for even longer than that. So when he finally […]

By Kaili Joy Gray - July 17, 2017

“I don’t know what to say”: Even Fox hosts are stunned by “all these lies” from Trump team

The constant stream of lies coming from Donald Trump’s White House and his inner circle has reached a new level of absurdity when even Fox News doesn’t know what to say. Fox News is not exactly a strong critic of the Trump campaign’s apparent collusion with Russia. It is the official safe space for White […]

By Kaili Joy Gray - July 14, 2017

Jeff Sessions “reluctantly” asks Supreme Court to let Trump ban Muslim grandmas

While Donald Trump is either hiding out in his bedroom or humiliating himself on the global stage, his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, is keeping his eye on the ball: fighting to ban Muslims. On Friday, Sessions went running to the Supreme Court — claiming to do so “reluctantly” — to enforce the Trump administration’s new […]

By Kaili Joy Gray - July 14, 2017

Trump campaign adviser admits they’d have erased Russian emails if they’d broken the law

Jack Kingston, a former Republican representative from Georgia and a senior adviser to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, offered a jaw-dropping defense of the Trump campaign’s newly revealed meetings with a Russian attorney and former Soviet spy. The meeting, which Donald Trump Jr.’s emails showed was for the explicit purpose of obtaining dirt on Hillary Clinton […]

By Kaili Joy Gray - July 14, 2017

Kellyanne Conway attacks “lazy” journalists: Cover what Trump wants, not Russia scandals

White House spinmeister Kellyanne Conway was at it again Friday, complaining that the “lazy” media refuses to trumpet “all the good that’s happening in this administration.” During an appearance on the most pro-Trump show, “Fox & Friends,” on TV’s most Trump-friendly channel, Conway attacked non-Fox reporters for their “Russia obsession.” The problem, according to Conway, […]

By Kaili Joy Gray - July 14, 2017

GOP compromises national security to protect Trump son-in-law

Republicans in Congress are protecting Donald Trump’s family at the risk of America’s national security. On Thursday, Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee voted unanimously to block two amendments to address members of the Trump administration who are under investigation for possibly conspiring with Russia, particularly Trump’s son-in-law and close adviser, Jared Kushner. The first amendment would […]

By Kaili Joy Gray - July 13, 2017

Watch: Trump embarrasses himself by leering at French president’s “beautiful” wife

It is fast becoming tradition to ask how Donald Trump will embarrass himself when he travels to foreign countries. During his trip to France, the answer is extremely cringe-worthy. “You’re in such good shape,” he said to France’s first lady, Brigitte Macron, while Melania Trump stood beside him. Then, turning to President Emmanuel Macron, he […]

By Kaili Joy Gray - July 13, 2017

Donald Trump wanted a lot of horses for his welcome reception in France, apparently

It seems Donald Trump wanted a pony. Several of them. The president of the United States was invited to France — a nation that is not particularly eager to have him — to participate in the country’s celebration of Bastille Day. Since before taking office, he has demonstrated a remarkable and frankly bizarre hostility toward […]

By Kaili Joy Gray - July 13, 2017

Youngest Dems in Congress will give their generation a voice on education, economy

When Florida Democrat Patrick Murphy was elected in 2012, he was the youngest member of Congress, at only 29. Two years later, he and his fellow young colleagues created the House Future Forum — a caucus of the youngest representatives, many of them millennials — to make sure that legislation focused not only on the […]

By Kaili Joy Gray - July 12, 2017

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White House: Trump “was making a joke” when he called for police brutality

Trump fires the new communications director who made him fire everyone else

Trump cabinet members “laugh a lot” about how incompetent they are

“Well, you’re probably done”: Even Fox News says the GOP health care repeal is dead

Kellyanne Conway calls GOP who voted against repeal “Loch Ness monsters of the swamp”

Trump’s rant to Boy Scouts so horrific they apologized for letting him speak

Sen. Graham warns of “the beginning of the end of the Trump presidency”

“She’s very rude.” Trump can’t handle question from female reporter on military ban

Trump’s tweet struck fear at Pentagon that he was declaring war on North Korea

After House protects transgender military, Trump bans them during “American Heroes Week”

Cowardly Trump hides behind attacks on Jeff Sessions instead of just firing him

Trump’s “victims of Obamacare” actually saved by Obamacare

House GOP seeks revenge on CBO for saying Obamacare repeal would be a disaster

Liveblog: White House holds first on-camera press briefing in almost a month

Even Sean Spicer is done being humiliated by Donald Trump

Russia hints at blackmailing Trump with threats of exposing more secret meetings

Trump’s blame game backfires: No one wants to work for his administration

Kellyanne Conway on kicking 23 million Americans off health care: “This should be easy!”

Trump considers outsourcing American cybersecurity to Russia

Paul Ryan is shockingly unpopular, even for Paul Ryan

Former Bush spokesman: Failure on health care is a “dismal day for Republicans”

White House reporter baffled by Sean Spicer’s “incredibly strange” press briefing

“I don’t know what to say”: Even Fox hosts are stunned by “all these lies” from Trump team

Jeff Sessions “reluctantly” asks Supreme Court to let Trump ban Muslim grandmas

Trump campaign adviser admits they’d have erased Russian emails if they’d broken the law

Kellyanne Conway attacks “lazy” journalists: Cover what Trump wants, not Russia scandals

GOP compromises national security to protect Trump son-in-law

Watch: Trump embarrasses himself by leering at French president’s “beautiful” wife

Donald Trump wanted a lot of horses for his welcome reception in France, apparently

Youngest Dems in Congress will give their generation a voice on education, economy