Trump was up at 3:20 AM tweeting his frustrations, something no qualified presidential candidate would ever do. But the indignity wasn’t just the time of morning, but the content. Shortly after 5 AM, he tweeted the following: Wow, Crooked Hillary was duped and used by my worst Miss U. Hillary floated her as an "angel" without […]

With the mass media’s popularity at an all time low, Monday night’s debate can be a redeeming moment for our political press. The New York Times lays down the marker: If the moderators of the coming debates do not figure out a better way to get the candidates to speak accurately about their records and policies […]

Alarmingly, this is not an outlier remark, but emblematic of a campaign designed to intimidate critics: Omarosa: 'Every Critic, Every Detractor, Will Have to Bow Down to President Trump' https://t.co/wJhPmVyukH (VIDEO) pic.twitter.com/WkznzNSdDT — Mediaite (@Mediaite) September 22, 2016 Here is the full quote: Every critic, every detractor, will have to bow down to President Trump. It’s […]

In a Facebook post, former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich handily demolishes the narrative that Donald Trump is a good businessman. His story begins with going to buy coffee and noticing a car sporting a Trump bumper sticker. He approaches the driver to ask if he might inquire why he’s supporting Trump. “I know he’s […]

To Donald Trump, everything is a game. Asked about his position on President Obama’s country of birth, he promised a statement later in the day, saying this: “We have to keep the suspense going.” Asked by @MariaBartiromo if @BarackObama was born in the US, Trump says he will make statement today: "We have to keep the […]

Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has been, since its beginning, embedded with explicit appeals to white voters, and there is no subset of white voters to whom he appeals more than the white supremacist movement, because of his alarming ability to mainstream and empower their hatred. David Duke, the former leader of the Ku Klux Klan […]

Reaction to USA Today’s unprecedented anti-endorsement has been fast and furious: They've never taken sides in a presidential race until now: USA TODAY Ed Board: Trump is 'unfit for the presidency' https://t.co/PKAjrzm4Lw — Katy Tur (@KatyTurNBC) September 29, 2016 Do not vote for 'demagogue' Trump, USA Today tells its readers https://t.co/rqwUMarmnc via @Reuters — of […]

Monday’s presidential debate was widely seen as a disaster for Donald Trump. He came off as flustered and defensive; he talked over Hillary Clinton and moderator Lester Holt; he refused to give straight answers to basic questions. Above all, he failed to show that he had the temperament or preparedness to serve as commander-in-chief. Trump made several unforced errors that […]

Monday’s presidential debate opened with a question about jobs. Hillary Clinton was the first to answer. She spoke about jobs, and then she spoke about equal pay for women. And about paid family leave. And about affordable childcare. Because an economy that works for women includes all of these things, not just a job. Donald […]

Hillary Clinton showed America precisely why she is the best (and frankly, only) qualified candidate running for president. She was firm and steady and displayed a total command of the issues. Donald Trump was nervous, blustering and erratic, with no perceptible grasp of fundamental questions. Here are highlights from real-time coverage: Donald Trump has given us the worst debate […]

“Mirrors,” the new ad from the Clinton campaign, features girls looking at themselves in the mirror as Trump’s demeaning comments about women’s looks echo in the background. “Is this the president we want for our daughters?” asks the ad. Trump does not respect women. (Nor does his running mate.) His vile comments about women’s appearance […]

The New York Times profiles Shareblue today and says this: [Shareblue is] already warming up for the biggest event of the general election so far: the first debate, on Monday night. It has already published a piece calling on moderators to fact-check Mr. Trump on the spot, and will continue through debate night, whipping up support […]

A game-changing story from the New York Times: Donald J. Trump declared a $916 million loss on his 1995 income tax returns, a tax deduction so substantial it could have allowed him to legally avoid paying any federal income taxes for up to 18 years, records obtained by The New York Times show. The 1995 […]

Following Donald Trump’s disastrous debate performance, during which Hillary Clinton confronted him with his body-shaming comments about Alicia Machado, Kellyanne Conway tried to defend her candidate and minimize his history of sexism. Megyn Kelly was having none of it. First, Conway complained that Trump hadn’t been given enough credit for being “gracious” by not bringing up Clinton’s marital history, […]

For decades now, Donald Trump has shown a callous disregard for how his words and actions affect other people — whether it’s calling Latinos “rapists” or calling women “fat” or “flat-chested” or “pigs.” In Alicia Machado’s case, he mocked her further by calling her “Miss Piggy” and “Miss Housekeeping” because she is Latina and she […]

This behavior is reminiscent of Trump’s campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, grabbing a female reporter by the arm during the primaries. https://twitter.com/leximccammond/status/780604698160136192 https://twitter.com/leximccammond/status/780604905799254020 McCammond elaborates on her encounter with Trump: I asked, “How would you respond to young women who are nervous about voting for you?” This question was inspired by the countless students I spoke to earlier […]

I am a born and raised New Yorker. My parents immigrated from the south of India. My skin is a darker shade of brown, my hair is jet black, giving me what has been called an “ethnically ambiguous” look. Since I was a young child, I have been asked the question, “Where are you from?” Most people […]

https://twitter.com/anamariecox/status/776913384625344513 In August, Trump said at a rally: “Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish, the Second Amendment. By the way, and if she gets to pick— [boos from audience] If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although, the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know.” That led to […]

The media want a horse race, so a new Bloomberg Politics poll of likely voters in Ohio, showing Trump with a 5-point lead over Hillary Clinton, is getting a lot of attention. However, as with any individual poll, this is just a snapshot of one moment in time. The average over time still shows Clinton with […]

There are really no words to describe this. https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/782393839986368512 As if that wasn’t enough, there’s this: Trump on Clinton: "I don’t even think she’s loyal to Bill, you want to know the truth. And really, folks, really, why should she be, right?" — Thomas Kaplan (@thomaskaplan) October 2, 2016 No one exhibiting this kind of depraved behavior should […]

If there’s one message I want to deliver to everybody: If you don’t vote, that’s a vote for Trump. If you don’t vote, that’s a vote for Trump. If you vote for a third-party candidate who’s got no chance to win, that’s a vote for Trump. In addition to what the President is saying here, […]

The people of Flint, Michigan made a fine political backdrop for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump when he needed to convince white voters that he’s not an uncaring bigot, but when it comes to actually helping the folks who have been suffering through a GOP-caused water crisis, the party’s lawmakers are prepared to let the […]

One of the questions surrounding the Trump Foundation is why Trump hasn’t contributed any money himself since 2008. Washington Post reporter David Fahrenthold may have found the answer: Because Trump was reportedly directing money owed to him or his businesses to the foundation. The laws governing the diversion of income into a foundation were written, […]

Injecting some satire into pre-debate discussion, I launched #TrumpSoftballs to mimic the corporate media’s sheepish treatment of Trump. Funny and scary at the same time: https://twitter.com/SuZeeQP/status/780148792578441216 #TrumpSoftballs Do you like me? Wink twice for "Yes, I like you." OMG he winked! Twice!! Swoon!! — Eric Schmeltzer 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 (@JustSchmeltzer) September 25, 2016 Who's the man? #TrumpSoftBalls — […]

The New York Times sounds the alarm about the upcoming presidential debates: There was not much of a contest in [NBC’s Commander-in-Chief] forum with Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Mrs. Clinton answered the questions of the moderator, Matt Lauer, in coherent sentences, often with specific details. Mr. Trump alternated between rambling statements and grandiose boasts when he […]

As part of his “outreach” to the Black community, Donald Trump, the self-proclaimed “law and order candidate,” has weighed in on what he described as “violence in the Black community.” Trump’s solution is a return to controversial and ineffective “stop and frisk” policies that were once implemented in New York City. Said Trump: “You have […]

During an interview with Philadelphia station WPHT, Donald Trump Jr. “argued that the media unfairly under-covered various Clinton controversies,” then asserted: “The media has been her number one surrogate in this. Without the media, this wouldn’t even be a contest, but the media has built her up,” Trump said. He added: “They’ve let her slide […]

In September 2013, Republican Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that Florida would be “reviewing the allegations” in a class-action lawsuit filed in New York against Trump University, which has been accused of fraud by people who paid to attend seminars. Days after Bondi made the announcement, the Donald J. Trump Foundation made a $25,000 […]

Matt Lauer’s moderation of NBC’s Commander-in-Chief forum was widely panned—and deservedly so—but Lauer’s fault was not that he did something unusual. To the contrary, Lauer’s performance was a one hour microcosm of a year’s worth of media coverage. It included the three core elements of what has been a relentless double standard: Antagonism and scorn for Clinton, an unhealthy obsession with her emails, and sheepish acquiescence […]

It’s Tuesday, which can only mean that there’s yet another Donald Trump controversy that would end any other politician’s career, but which the national political media will move on from in three, two… On Monday night, Donald Trump, Jr. tweeted out a meme that compared our alleged “Syrian Refugee Problem” with a bowl of Skittles: […]