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Michelle Wolf breaks down Kellyanne Conway’s skillful ability to spin the Trump administration’s missteps, from shifting blame onto other people to blatantly lying. 0:01 As the media continues to battle Donald Trump, 0:05 -Steve Bannon and Sean Spicer… -(laughter) 0:08 …there’s one dragon that they cannot slay– 0:11 Kellyanne Conway, the counselor to the president…
Nordstrom announced in early February that the department store would no longer sell Ivanka Trump’s clothing line due to declining sales. Donald Trump, a cow patty, used his platform (Twitter) as the most powerful man in the world (American president) to attack Nordstrom over his bb girl’s hurt feelings. Enter Kellyanne Conway. Conway showed up…
Image by Jim Cooke, photo via Getty Even among all the billionaires, ideologues, and straight-up racist goons Donald Trump has nominated for his cabinet, Betsy DeVos, who was confirmed earlier this week as the Secretary of Education, stands out for how seemingly unqualified she is. As the doomed critics of her nomination were quick to…
WASHINGTON President Donald Trump on Thursday disputed bipartisan accounts that his U.S. Supreme Court nominee had privately voiced dismay over Trump’s attacks on the judiciary, saying Judge Neil Gorsuch’s comments had been misrepresented. Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal said on Wednesday Gorsuch during a meeting with him called Trump’s comments “disheartening and demoralizing.” The Connecticut…
WASHINGTON In his first call as president with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump denounced a treaty that caps U.S. and Russian deployment of nuclear warheads as a bad deal for the United States, according to two U.S. officials and one former U.S. official with knowledge of the call. When Putin raised the possibility…
Predicting Donald Trump’s tweets in response to Neil Gorsuch’s insubordination. /header Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch meets with Sen. Bob Corker on Thursday, Feb. 2.Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, currently a federal appeals court judge, told Sen. Richard Blumenthal in a courtesy meeting on Wednesday afternoon that he found…
Senior White House counselor Kellyanne Conway this week complained that the media has been paying too much attention to only one of President Trump’s executive orders — namely, his temporary ban on refugees and travel from seven Muslim-majority countries — and not enough to the many others Trump has signed since taking office. So Seth Meyers…
President Trump instituted an immediate hiring freeze Monday, signing a presidential memorandum that would affect a large swath of the executive branch but leave wide latitude for exemptions for those working in the military, national security and public safety. The move — coming on the new president’s first full working day in the White House…
“What’s more American,” the Carl’s Jr. narrator asks in a 2015 advertisement for the Most American Thickburger, “than a girl [swimsuit model Samantha Hoopes, biting into a potato-chip-stuffed cheeseburger that’s topped with a grilled hot dog] in a bikini [camera zooms out to reveal she’s wearing a stars-and-stripes string bikini] in a hot tub [covered…
The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Jeff Sessions as the next attorney general, following a bitter debate in the chamber that saw Republicans formally rebuke Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) for the manner in which she criticized her colleague from Alabama. Sessions, a four-term U.S. senator, was the first senator to endorse Trump in February 2016, and…