Trump clearly didn’t appreciate being asked why he only wants immigrants from white countries.

A Trump adviser tried to spew defamatory lies about the Clintons. Joy Reid was having none of it.

Leading Republicans are covering up for Trump’s racism, but the facts are not their friends.

She took him to church.

There is nothing new about Donald Trump’s despicable and overt racism. But the willingness to dismiss, excuse, explain, or minimize it is rapidly disappearing in the wake of his most recent ugliness. In a meeting with congressional leaders Thursday, Trump described Haiti and African nations as “shithole countries” — an atrocious comment that was confirmed […]

Donald Trump’s complaint to lawmakers that Haiti and African countries are “shitholes” and his wish to limit immigration to mostly white places like Norway has set off a furious debate on racism in the media. And in their quest to defend Trump, his supporters are resorting only to more racism, as right-wing talk radio host […]

CNN anchor Anderson Cooper delivered an emotional takedown of Donald Trump on Thursday, ripping into him for referring to Haiti and several African nations as “shithole countries.” Cooper used the majority of his show Thursday evening to discuss Trump’s comments about immigrants from Haiti and Africa, which were first reported in the Washington Post. In an emotional […]

On the eve of Martin Luther King Day, the Washington Post revealed that Donald Trump told lawmakers trying to broker protected status for immigrants that Haiti and countries in Africa are “shitholes,” and that the United States should seek to bring in people from countries like Norway instead. The comment forced the political world, once […]

Donald Trump’s characteristic racism reportedly reared its ugly head during an Oval Office meeting on immigration, so much so that Republican MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace could scarcely believe what she was reading. According to a new Washington Post report, Trump stunned lawmakers when he went off on an unsubtle rant about immigrants from primarily black […]

Donald Trump has endured an absolutely horrendous news cycle the past week, with the release of Michael Wolff’s instant bestseller spurring fresh debate about Trump’s mental stability. On Tuesday, Trump tried — and failed — to strike a completely different tone in his bipartisan immigration meeting with congressional leaders. But while nothing really meaningful got done, […]

While some journalists have taken to deferring to Donald Trump and his administration, CNN’s Brianna Keilar showed how it’s done when she hammered a senior Trump press official who refused to answer her simple question. Trump’s lawyers are desperately trying to shield him from special counsel Robert Mueller’s questioning, despite the fact that Trump told reporters […]

As Michael Wolff’s tell-all book — and Trump’s own recent actions — renew concerns about Donald Trump’s mental fitness, Joe Scarborough reveals that he was twice prevented from reporting on Trump’s mental state when it would have mattered most: during the presidential campaign. During an interview with “Fire and Fury” author Michael Wolff Monday morning, […]

White nationalist and despotic-minded White House senior adviser Stephen Miller was sent out to quash the firestorm from author Michael Wolff’s controversial tell-all book Sunday morning, but wound up self-immolating instead. In a lengthy interview on CNN’s State of the Union, Miller tried, very unsuccessfully, to minimize the role of ousted White House senior strategist Steve […]

Though it seems like ages ago, Sean Spicer was very recently the White House Press Secretary. During his brief tenure, he reduced his office to a new low of dishonesty and ignorance, between blatantly lying about the size of Trump’s inauguration crowd and claiming that Hitler did not use chemical weapons. In the midst of […]

Steve Chaggaris, the political director for CBS News, was fired by the network after “accounts of inappropriate behavior” surfaced. In a statement, CBS News announced it had “severed ties with Mr. Chaggaris for violating company policy, effective immediately.” Since 2012, Chaggaris served as the outlet’s senior political editor, then was promoted to political director in […]

Donald Trump kicked off the new year with a flurry of absurd and reckless distractions, but the Russia investigation continues to be an existential threat to his presidency. And he just lost one of his favorite deflection tactics. While Trump was enjoying his golf vacation and throwing a lavish for-profit New Year’s Eve party in […]

MSNBC’s unabashed liberal primetime lineup produced a stunning ratings success for the network in 2017, boosting its viewership by nearly 50 percent compared to the 2016 campaign cycle. MSNBC finishes the year with its largest daily audience since the network debuted in 1996. The primetime home of Chris Hayes, Rachel Maddow, and Lawrence O’Donnell posted […]

Donald Trump’s Republican allies in Congress have been promoting a smear campaign against special counsel Robert Mueller and his investigation of the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia. The latest manifestation of this attempt to obstruct an investigation has come from Rep. Francis Rooney (R-FL), who called for a “purge” of the FBI and Department of […]

In a baffling denial of reality, Utah Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch seemed to take a recent local editorial that took him to task in no uncertain terms as a compliment. But an editor from the paper wants to make it crystal clear for Hatch exactly what they think of him in the Trump era. When […]

Fox News’ Sean Hannity is on the top tier of pro-Donald Trump propagandists at the right-wing “news” network, so it is perfectly in character for him to completely fall flat on his face while trying to attack real journalists. In an echo of Trump’s childish taunts about “fake news,” Hannity tweeted a message directed to […]

As the investigation into Russia breaks new ground, Donald Trump and his allies are ramping up their baseless attacks on the FBI and senior Justice Department officials for allowing it to continue. And the lack of any meaningful reaction from Republicans in Congress is reprehensible. On MSNBC, Nicolle Wallace — communications director for George W. […]

Donald Trump’s tweets — like the comments he makes when he’s not reading from a teleprompter — are largely incomprehensible and unintelligible. Making sense of his missives could occupy the attention of an entire nation if it were possible to take time away from his other immense failures. MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle demonstrated this as she […]

As the unofficial propaganda arm of the Trump White House, Fox News has played a key role in the escalating smear campaign against special counsel Robert Mueller and his team of investigators. Nearly every week, Fox pundits like Sean Hannity, Jeanine Pirro, Greg Jarrett, and Lou Dobbs invent a new scandal in a coordinated effort to try to […]

Pushing back on the ugly and unprecedented attempt by the Republican Party and the conservative media to destroy public trust in the FBI and in law enforcement’s ability to prosecute public corruption — all in an effort to save Donald Trump’s presidency — Chris Cuomo called out of a former Trump campaign adviser on CNN […]

To Sean Hannity and his panel, the news that an FBI agent assigned to special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation had sent anti-Trump text messages was “bigger than Watergate.” “Watergate on steroids, human growth hormone overdoses,” Hannity intoned on his show Thursday night. Hannity has been leading the attacks against Mueller for some time, and his […]

For the Trump administration, no news is good news, because almost any news is “fake news.” And the stubborn, panicked fear of journalists doing their jobs is pushing this White House to extremely undemocratic ends. During a contentious press briefing Monday, Sarah Huckabee Sanders grew visibly and vocally aggravated with CNN’s Jim Acosta, when he […]

Donald Trump and his cronies, including those in right wing media, continue to push the “no collusion” line in an effort to evince a lack of concern about the Russia investigation. And they have persisted in attempting to smear special counsel Robert Mueller in the hope of discrediting him in the eyes of the public, […]

In an epic and wide ranging interview on Wednesday night, CNN’s Anderson Cooper delivered a masterful takedown of Roy Moore’s spokeswoman Janet Porter, nailing her on everything from the GOP candidate’s past positions on homosexuality, Muslims, and President Obama’s birthplace, to the absurd conspiracy theories the campaign has peddled in the face of mounting sexual […]

Atlanta news anchor Sharon Reed sent a clear message on Tuesday: If you come for her, she will clap back. Reed, an evening anchor on local station CBS 46, had been discussing the racial dynamics of Atlanta’s recent mayoral race between Keisha Lance Bottoms, who is black, and challenger Mary Norwood, who would be the first […]

American Urban Radio Networks (AURN) White House correspondent April Ryan has been a consistently tough journalist during her 20-year tenure in the Brady Briefing Room, but doing her job well has earned Ryan nothing but overt hostility from Donald Trump and his minions. That hostility was expressed this week when Ryan was inexplicably excluded from […]