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Perhaps you’ve heard the news—a vulgar man used a vulgar word. Who cares? “She was favored to win, and she got schlonged,” Mr. Trump, using a boorish word for a penis, said at a rally in Grand Rapids, Mich. “She was favored to win, and she got schlonged,” Trump said, turning a vulgar noun for…
Polls may be underestimating Donald Trump’s support, according to intriguing new research that says the Republican front-runner benefits from a “social desirability bias”—some people who plan to vote for him are too embarrassed to admit it. The study, published Monday by Morning Consult, found that Trump fares about six percentage points better among likely Republican…
Story highlights The dig at Trump comes after he attacked Clinton in a Monday night rally The campaign used Palmieri’s Twitter account to serve as its only reaction “We are not responding to Trump but everyone who understands the humiliation this degrading language inflicts on all women should. #imwithher,” Clinton Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri tweeted…
“Even a race to Obama, she was gonna beat Obama. I don’t know who would be worse, I don’t know, how could it be worse? But she was going to beat — she was favored to win — and she got schlonged, she lost, I mean she lost,” Trump said, using a vulgar Yiddish word…
Facebook has gone out of its way this year to clarify its hate speech policy, explaining in March that it aims to be consistent with the type of content it removes. So why has the social network appeared to have made an exception for Donald Trump, who recently posted a video saying Muslims should…
Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a qualified endorsement of Donald Trump’s candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination on Thursday, saying he hoped Trump’s election could improve Moscow’s relations with the United States. “He’s a really brilliant and talented person, without any doubt. It’s not our job to judge his qualities, that’s a job for American…
From calls to ban non-American Muslims to pledges to carpet bomb densely-populated cities, the rise of hateful rhetoric among 2016 presidential candidates—and the real, violent consequences for those communities targeted—has raised widespread concern. But also on display during the fifth GOP debate on “national security” was the role of corporate media outlets such as CNN…
More The Republican Debate Was the 3rd Most-watched EverHow Republicans Finally Got Under Donald Trump’s Skin 0 minutes. CNN told you to start watching this debate 10 minutes ago. Sucker. “We’re just moments away from the main event,” says Wolf Blitzer at 40 minutes past the hour, because the rules don’t apply to the only…
On December 2nd, GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump gave an interview to the New York Times in which he said that the next president needs to project toughness, and that Harrison Ford’s performance in “Air Force One” was a model of such projection. “My favorite was Harrison Ford on the plane,” Trump said. “I love…
Over a long weekend on assignment for Playboy magazine, Mark Bowden found that behind the garish Trump façade lies only more ugliness. I spent a long, awkward weekend with Donald Trump in November 1996, an experience I feel confident neither of us would like to repeat. He was like one of those characters in an…