Trump managed to lie about the economy 64 times in just one tweet
Trump is ‘desperately cherry-picking the data’ on the economy, according to the Washington Post.
By Dan Desai Martin - September 10, 2018Trump is ‘desperately cherry-picking the data’ on the economy, according to the Washington Post.
By Dan Desai Martin - September 10, 2018The story behind Trump’s inauguration fiasco is even more pathetic than we thought.
By Eric Boehlert - September 06, 2018Mick Mulvaney couldn’t lie his way out of this one.
By Tommy Christopher - August 19, 2018July’s jobs report, like Trump’s entire term in office so far, was a disappointment.
By Tommy Christopher - August 03, 2018Queen Elizabeth may have thrown some royal shade at Trump during his visit to the U.K. last week.
By Caroline Orr - July 18, 2018Former Republican Sen. Rick Santorum literally tried to blame President Obama for racism under Trump. Former Obama White House staffer Karine Jean-Pierre was not having it.
By Tommy Christopher - June 03, 2018Motorists are set to pay a big price this Memorial Day weekend because of Trump’s Iran mess.
By Eric Boehlert - May 23, 2018‘First of all, I don’t know for sure, and neither does the president.’
By Eric Boehlert - May 18, 2018When Trump touted the economic recovery in Elkhart, Indiana, on Thursday, he accidentally celebrated President Obama’s legacy.
By Caroline Orr - May 10, 2018Trump’s desperate Twitter attacks are backfiring.
By Tommy Christopher - March 05, 2018Trump’s Twitter tantrums are now imperiling the entire U.S. auto industry.
By Caroline Orr - March 03, 2018Trump had a very bad Presidents Day, and it shows.
By Tommy Christopher - February 20, 2018Fox News spent Friday spewing alternative facts and throwing shiny objects at the camera to distract viewers from the latest indictments in the Russia investigation.
By Caroline Orr - February 17, 2018In every way, Trump just can’t measure up to President Barack Obama.
By Oliver Willis - January 31, 2018Career State Department officials are being relegated to menial jobs in what is increasingly seen as political retribution for their association with President Obama.
By Matthew Chapman - January 26, 2018Paul Ryan is lying about his own party, and lying about President Obama.
By Tommy Christopher - January 21, 2018Donald Trump and his inner circle have repeatedly expressed frustration that voters are not crediting them for the state of the economy. But the reason is not that complicated. And on Wednesday evening, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders accidentally admitted that reason when she tweeted out the latest Quinnipiac University poll: 66% of voters […]
By Matthew Chapman - January 11, 2018Donald Trumps administration wants you to know that, far from being gutted, the Environmental Protection Agency is actually more effective than ever. As proof, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt points to seven Superfund toxic waste sites that have been successfully cleaned up and delisted in the first year of Trumps administration. But, as the Associated Press […]
By Matthew Chapman - January 08, 2018The Democratic groundswell continues to grow for this year’s crucial midterm elections. With forecasters suggesting a “wave” election cycle is looming for Democrats as the historically unpopular Donald Trump weighs the GOP down, a whole new generation of Democratic candidates is emerging. That swarm now includes a pack of former aides and officials who served […]
By Eric Boehlert - January 03, 2018A second act was added to the White House’s preposterous production Tuesday, where Donald Trump took credit for the fact that no commercial passenger planes crashing in 2017. The additional absurdity came when a Republican congressman thanked Trump for safety regulations that President Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats actually passed into law. Worse, these are regulations that […]
By Eric Boehlert - January 02, 2018One of the most dramatic political about-faces in recent years has been how white, conservative evangelical voters have come to view politics. Once the group that most most adamantly demanded moral purity from politicians, poll after poll now shows white evangelicals are suddenly OK with politicians who commit “immoral” acts in their personal lives. Such voters […]
By Matthew Chapman - December 27, 2017Donald Trump’s streak of receiving less support than his Democratic rivals continues in the latest edition of Gallup’s survey of the most admired man and woman in the United States. But even worse for Trump, he has broken a record — he is the first first-year president not to be named most admired. Trump comes […]
By Oliver Willis - December 27, 2017Donald Trump enjoys repeating the lie that the tax package he signed into law is the biggest tax cut in U.S. history. But it isn’t even the biggest tax cut in the last decade. Even when it comes to cutting taxes, which is generally associated with the right than the left, Trump comes up short […]
By Oliver Willis - December 22, 2017Donald Trump’s plunging approval rating has officially made him the most unpopular first-year president in the history of presidential polling, according to the latest figures from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. The new poll shows Trump’s approval rating sitting at a historically low 32 percent, while his disapproval rating has soared to 67 percent. […]
By Caroline Orr - December 16, 2017“Alternative facts” just won’t die in the Trump administration. Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders took the latest stab at attempting to supplant actual reality with the Donald Trump version of it, in which everything good is thanks to him, and anything bad is the fault of someone, anyone, often everyone, else. Sunday morning, Sanders took […]
By Alison R. Parker - December 10, 2017Special counsel Robert Mueller’s footsteps are ringing loudly in Donald Trump’s ears, and rattling Trump’s defenders into some of the most desperate spin we’ve seen yet. On the heels of disgraced former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s guilty plea Friday, Trump himself cluelessly insisted that Flynn’s guilty plea somehow proved there was “no collusion,” after […]
By Tommy Christopher - December 02, 2017It has been many years since President Barack Obama released his birth certificate to prove, once and for all, that he was born in the United States. But for Donald Trump — who helped fuel the disgusting, racist birther conspiracy that Obama’s birth certificate was somehow fake and thus he was not a legitimate president […]
By Kaili Joy Gray - November 28, 2017The cover of the most current issue of the trashy Globe supermarket tabloid features a completely fabricated smear attacking Malia Obama, the teenage daughter of President Barack Obama. The headline screams “Malia Obama Questioned In FBI Probe,” and describes the made-up event as “Barack & Michelle’s Worst Nightmare.” The story represents a dangerous new phase […]
By Oliver Willis - November 13, 2017Nearly three weeks after four U.S. Special Forces troops were killed by ISIS gunmen during an ambush in Niger, Donald Trump has steadfastly refused to knowledge the terrorist attacks, and has refused to denounce “radical Islamic terror” at the root of the assault. Trump’s silence stands in sharp contrast to his 2016 campaign when he […]
By Eric Boehlert - October 23, 2017The head of the National Rifle Association finally came out of hiding following one of the worst gun massacres in American history, and his statement was predictably inane. NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre appeared within the safe confines of Fox News Thursday night to attempt to spin the Las Vegas massacre, which claimed the lives of […]
By Eric Boehlert - October 06, 2017