Paul Ryan Admits He Didn’t Realize Trump Was Insulting Him to His Face
Alex Edelman/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s safe to assume that referring to a 48-year-old man as “boy scout” within a professional context is a less-than-subtle insult, particularly if it’s said by one’s superior. But that seemingly obvious premise appears to have been lost on House Speaker Paul Ryan, whose boss, President…
Trump’s Hollywood Star of Fame One Step Closer to Removal
Ringo Chiu/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The city council of West Hollywood voted unanimously on Monday to permanently remove the president’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, citing the president’s attacks against women and immigrants among the reasons for the resolution’s passage. “Due to his disturbing treatment of…
Ex-Trump Campaign Aides Are Lobbying for Bosnia’s Pro-Russian Separatist Party
Corey Lewandowski with Zeljka Cvijanovic, prime minister of Republika Srpska, in the Trump Tower Hotel on July 25Government of Republika Srpska Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Representatives of a Russian-backed Serbian separatist party in Bosnia, whose leader has been sanctioned by the Treasury Department, have been courting Trump administration officials…
We Asked a California Water Expert to Make Sense of Donald Trump’s Moronic Wildfire Tweets
President Donald Trump at a White House “Made in America” showcase in July 2017 Olivier Douliery/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. With California’s latest wildfires claiming a seventh victim Sunday, President Donald Trump has yet to tweet condolences to those affected by these catastrophic and all-too-familiar disasters. Several thousand…
Trump Claims His Tariffs Will Pay Down Debt—After He Drove Up Deficits With a Billionaire Tax Cut
Brian Cahn/Zuma Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Just before Christmas, President Donald Trump signed a tax bill that will raise the national debt by nearly $2 trillion over 10 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office, while likely saving him and his heirs millions of dollars per year. Eight months later, the…
Trump Just Confirmed What the Trump Tower Meeting Was Really About
Brian Cahn/Li Muzi/Xinhua via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump admitted Sunday morning that the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between his son, Donald, and Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya was designed to get damaging information about Hillary Clinton—contradicting the president’s original claims made last summer that…