White House defends $31,000 dining set: It only sounds like a lot
White House chief of staff John Kelly says HUD secretary Ben Carson is justified in using tax dollars to spend $31,000 on a dining set.
By Oliver Willis - March 16, 2018White House chief of staff John Kelly says HUD secretary Ben Carson is justified in using tax dollars to spend $31,000 on a dining set.
By Oliver Willis - March 16, 2018Trump’s White House is slamming journalists for reporting on possible staff shake-ups. But Trump himself is the one leaking the stories.
By Oliver Willis - March 16, 2018Trump is making jokes about the slow-motion disaster his presidency has triggered in America, treating his calamitous staff shake-ups like the storyline of one of his TV shows.
By Oliver Willis - March 16, 2018Trump is firing all of his “best people.”
By Caroline Orr - March 15, 2018Secret emails showed the Trump administration exchanging information from extremist websites as part of a campaign to purge a loyal civil servant, Sahar Nowrouzzadeh, because of her Iranian heritage.
By Oliver Willis - March 15, 2018Trump’s team falls back on alternative facts after the Republicans’ brutal loss in Pennsylvania.
By Tommy Christopher - March 14, 2018Larry Kudlow has made some of the worst financial predictions in history. But he has also repeatedly flattered Trump, and that’s good enough for him.
By Oliver Willis - March 14, 2018Another lie bites the dust. It turns out Carson did know about the $31,000 dining set — and it was personally selected by him and his wife, Candy.
By Tommy Christopher - March 14, 2018Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke had the gall to blame “free passes to elderly, fourth graders, veterans, disabled” park visitors for increased admission prices.
By Matthew Chapman - March 13, 2018After the firings of Rex Tillerson, Steve Goldstein, and John McEntee, get ready for more wheels to come off of this White House.
By Eric Boehlert - March 13, 2018Top Trump aide has again been removed from the White House. John McEntee is reportedly under criminal investigation and was a security risk. This is a Trump team pattern.
By Oliver Willis - March 13, 2018Betsy DeVos tried to do damage control after her embarrassing interview. But it only made her look more incompetent.
By Caroline Orr - March 12, 2018Just like her dad, Ivanka Trump is not even trying to avoid conflicts of interest.
By Matthew Chapman - March 12, 2018Trump’s shadow Cabinet works at Fox News.
By Eric Boehlert - March 12, 2018DeVos completely humiliated herself…twice.
By Tommy Christopher - March 12, 2018“Always consider optics.”
By Caroline Orr - March 10, 2018More than 60% of career diplomats have left in the past year, but Tillerson says he doesn’t “lose a wink of sleep” over it.
By Caroline Orr - March 10, 2018Even Trump doesn’t know what Trump agreed to with North Korea.
By Caroline Orr - March 09, 2018Butch Otter’s scheme was so ridiculous that even the Trump administration admitted it was illegal.
By Matthew Chapman - March 09, 2018Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, who has already been caught misusing taxpayer funds, spent over $139,000 on a door.
By Oliver Willis - March 08, 2018Trump has been a loud voice against women from the perch of his presidency. Then he used a male-dominated cabinet meeting to speak about International Women’s Day.
By Oliver Willis - March 08, 2018The chaos in the Trump White House seems to grow by the hour.
By Oliver Willis - March 07, 2018American taxpayers are bankrolling the six-figure salary of Jon Cordova, a conspiracy theorist who has attacked muslims, black voters, and the Clintons.
By Oliver Willis - March 07, 2018When Americans are asked to name their least admired president since World War II, the results aren’t even close.
By Eric Boehlert - March 07, 2018Dwyane Wade got a hero’s welcome at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
By Tommy Christopher - March 07, 2018The Trump economic team is in complete denial, protesting that they’re “not trying to blow up the world” as their tariff policy implodes and senior economic advisers jump ship.
By Oliver Willis - March 07, 2018Remaining White House staff fear “death spiral” as top advisers continue to flee.
By Eric Boehlert - March 07, 2018Rep. Rosa DeLauro let Labor Secretary Alex Acosta have it over a rule that would allow employers to rip off tipped workers.
By Tommy Christopher - March 06, 2018Even Gary Cohn can’t take any more of this nonsense.
By Matthew Chapman - March 06, 2018Jared Kushner had his security clearance for over a year. The Trump administration is finally admitting that wasn’t a good idea.
By Tommy Christopher - March 06, 2018