We are being told by the corporate media and Donald Trump’s fellow Republicans that some sort of reset in his posture towards the Black community is in the works. This time, the comments came after Trump visited the National Museum of African American History and Culture along the National Mall in Washington. In prepared remarks, […]

Mike Pence was a major player in the scandals enveloping the Trump administration, and no amount of spinning and leaking to reporters from him and his team can change that fact. A spate of stories in recent days — apparently coming from Pence himself or his political team — has attempted to distance Pence from Trump. The Pence […]

Senior White House adviser Kellyanne Conway is a ruthless cheerleader for Donald Trump, with no regard for truth or consequences. She has tried to get journalists fired for criticizing Trump; she used an appearance on TV to tell people to buy Ivanka Trump products, which ethics watchdogs said may have violated federal law; and she ludicrously defended White House press secretary […]

During the 2016 presidential campaign, WikiLeaks played an active role in publishing documents to hurt Hillary Clinton and help Donald Trump. And with the most recent document dump, it is continuing to help Trump now that he is occupying the White House. Releasing what it calls “Vault 7 Part 1” on Tuesday, March 7th, WikiLeaks […]

With much of the corporate media hyper-focused on the supposedly “forgotten” Trump voter and what they think about how Donald Trump is doing, it is easy for those who voted for the candidate who actually won the popular vote by over three million votes to feel ignored. One might even say “forgotten.” But Public Policy Polling […]

In an interview with The Financial Times, Donald Trump said the United States could act unilaterally to contain the threat of a nuclear North Korea, an echo of the argument made 14 years ago by George W. Bush to justify the invasion of Iraq. Trump told the paper, “China will either decide to help us […]

With one month to go before the runoff in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District, Democratic filmmaker and former congressional staffer Jon Ossoff and right-wing Donald Trump ally Karen Handel are locked in a fierce toss-up contest. Despite the conventionally accepted long odds of a Democrat winning a seat in the wealthy, conservative suburbs north of Atlanta […]

As the NRA holds its annual convention in Atlanta, Georgia Rep. John Lewis will be headlining a rally put together by gun safety advocates from Moms Demand Action and the Everytown Survivor Network. The groups hope to “to stand and fight back against the NRA leadership’s dangerous ‘guns everywhere’ agenda that contributes to the more than […]

At the very moment Donald Trump became president of the United States, I was drunk on a beach, trying to pretend it wasn’t happening. Like everyone I know, and millions of Americans I don’t, I’d spent the two months since Election Day swinging uncontrollably between utter hopelessness and gut-wrenching fear. I cried a lot. I drank a […]

Donald Trump has brought on his eldest daughter and her husband as senior White House advisors, giving the multimillionaire couple access to the levers of power without putting in place traditional separations between their private and familial business interests and the affairs of the American state. Writing in USA Today, Richard Painter, Norman Eisen, and […]

White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Sanders recently answered queries about Donald Trump’s frequent visits to his Mar-A-Lago estate by asserting that those visits make Trump accessible to “regular Americans.” Mar-A-Lago is a private club with an initial membership fee of $200,000, annual dues of $12,000, and a nightly rate of $1,000. For perspective, $200,000 […]

Befitting his reality TV resume, Donald Trump is certainly the star of the ever-deepening drama his scandal-ridden young administration has brought to D.C. But as Rachel Maddow concisely and devastatingly laid out on her show, Vice President Mike Pence deserves just as much time in the media spotlight. Pence’s reputation has perhaps benefitted from comparison […]

Donald Trump lost the popular vote to a woman. This is a difficult fact for him to accept, as evidenced by his constant harping on the 2016 election results and most recent habit of handing out electoral college maps to reporters. Speaking at the NRA conference (as the first president to do so since Ronald Reagan), […]

Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) could not be bothered to address the concerns of a mother with a heroin-addicted son at a recent town hall meeting. The woman explained to Zeldin that her son is addicted to heroin, and that she is pleading with him to oppose any possible changes to the health care system that […]

Evidence continues to mount that Donald Trump has so completely botched the early days of his presidency that he could face a major resistance-fueled election tsunami in the 2018 midterms. Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report notes that there currently exists “all the ingredients for a disastrous midterm election in 2018 for the GOP,” […]

Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) was not the only member of Congress to declare Donald Trump an illegitimate president. Here is what Rep. Jerrold Nadler had to say shortly thereafter on CNN: He was legally elected, but the Russian weighing-in on the election, the Russian attempt to hack the election and, frankly, the FBI’s weighing-in on the […]

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), along with other members of the Democratic Women’s Working Group, took to the steps of the U.S. Capitol in order to express solidarity with events held around the country and to highlight the importance of women workers to the economy. Wearing red and holding signs bearing sentiments like “Equal […]

Donald Trump ran for president on a viciously anti-woman platform, threatening to appoint anti-abortion judges to the court, defund Planned Parenthood, fight to overturn Roe v. Wade, and repeal Obamacare — which particularly benefits women. And now he has named Charmaine Yoest, one of the most prominent and radical anti-abortion activists in the country, to be assistant secretary […]

At the White House daily briefing, Press Secretary Sean Spicer’s dramatic opening act starred Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke accepting a check, from Donald Trump to the National Parks Service, for of $78,333.32 — which represents Trump’s government salary for the first quarter of his presidency. That meager donation from the self-described “billionaire” president raised a very […]

An increasing number of House Democrats will be skipping Donald Trump’s inauguration in an act of principled protest. Rep. Gwen Moore will not be among them, because she has chosen a different path of resistance. In a statement Wednesday, she explained her decision (emphasis mine): I support my colleagues in their decision to boycott the […]

Donald Trump took some time during his address to the NRA’s annual meeting in Atlanta to praise Karen Handel, the Republican candidate facing Democrat Jon Ossoff in the runoff for Georgia’s 6th Congressional District. TRUMP: I’d like to congratulate Karen Handel on her incredible fight in Georgia six. The election takes place on June 20th — […]

Recently, the Morning Joe gang declared their fear of the Donald Trump presidency which they helped to enable. After having acted as advisors to the Trump campaign and administration while reporting on “exclusives,” reality seems to be setting in for the show’s team. Now, host Joe Scarborough has awakened to the central tenet of Trump’s governing […]

President Barack Obama marked the upcoming 100th day of Donald Trump’s presidency by noting his failure to repeal Obamacare, and how much more popular the law is than Trump. An attendee at a private speech given by Obama in Manhattan paraphrased his remarks to CNN: “The Affordable Care Act has never been more popular — and […]

Donald Trump, the de facto head of the Republican Party, is infamous for his obscene language, his terrible treatment of women, and for bragging about sexual assault. Yet members of his party are purporting to be shocked and offended about a colorful but accurate attack from Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez. And their laughable attempt is […]

In case you missed it, Donald Trump spent weeks warning that his Muslim ban was all that stood between the United States and a flood of terrorists, first as a way of explaining why his administration offered zero notice to affected federal agencies, and then as part of his campaign against the 48 (and counting) […]

As Shareblue has reported previously, Donald Trump has deviated significantly from the intelligence briefing practices of prior administrations. These sessions — which used to be labeled the “Presidential Daily Brief” or “PDB,” but which the current administration calls the “daily intelligence briefing” — are of debatable value to Trump, as it is not clear whether […]

Omarosa Manigault, former reality television personality and current Trump administration official — ranked by TV Guide as one of the “60 nastiest villains of all time” — was dispatched by the White House to the  National Action Network’s annual conference to sell attendees on Donald Trump. Manigault is the White House director of communications for the Office of Public Liaison, […]

In March, Donald Trump snubbed one of our most important allies, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, refusing to shake her hand or even look her in the eye. That blatant disrespect stands in sharp contrast to how Trump handled his greeting of Egyptian military dictator Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, with plenty of direct eye contact and shaking hands with Sisi, not […]

The Washington Post uncovered an audio recording of House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) discussing the possibility that Donald Trump had been paid off by the Russian government. On the recording, McCarthy said, “There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump.” According to the Post, “House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) immediately interjected, […]

Donald Trump wasted little time in trying to take credit for the record-breaking job growth and strong economy that President Barack Obama bequeathed to him on Inauguration Day, but Trump might not be so anxious to claim the weak numbers contained in the first economic report card of his presidency. Trump has already failed to best […]