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Not one of them can win, but one must. That’s the paradox of the race for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, fast becoming the signature event in the history of black comedy. Conventional wisdom says that with the primaries and caucuses rapidly approaching, front-running nuts Donald Trump and Dr. Ben Carson must soon give way…
Trump is still bringing the bump. With Donald Trump hosting, Saturday Night Live jumped to its biggest overnight rating since 2012. RELATED: Saturday Night Live’s 25 All-Time Best Characters According to NBC, SNL had a whopping 6.6 household rating on Saturday night, easily beating the season’s previous high: the 41st season premiere last month, hosted by Miley Cyrus and with a guest…
“I knew this was going to happen, who is that?” Trump asked. SNL’s cold open may have featured Larry David appearing once again as Bernie Sanders, but it did not include any glimpse of host Donald Trump. We had to wait until the monologue to see The Donald make his case to the nation as…
Stephen Colbert has Donald Trump’s new book, and he’s not afraid to use it. Wednesday evening on the “Late Show” the comedian was eager to talk about the way that Trump puts the country in such high regard with his new book Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again. “Crippled America is just a…
The Republican presidential campaigns seeking to influence network control over the debate formats are dealing with a handful of defections as they seek to cobble together a coalition with enough heft to achieve their demands. Late Tuesday, Jeb Bush joined the list of candidates who would not sign on to a letter many of the…
More Watch the Republican Debate on CNBC in Less Than 4 MinutesHere’s What Democratic Operatives Thought of the Republican Debate 0 minutes. Debates are hard at sea level. But in the Republican field this year, even the amateurs are pros. So the Republican National Committee has made this one harder. We’re in Boulder, Colo., 150…
During a town hall held and broadcast by NBC’s Today, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said that he had a life full of adversity, because he only ever got a million dollar loan from his father. An audience member asked Trump if at any point in his life, anybody had ever told him ‘no.’ “Oh, many times,” he…
While Donald Trump is bragging about closing mosques to fight Islamic terrorism, there has been an under-reported surge of right-wing terrorism recently in the U.S. Since July, when anti-choice crusaders released hoax videos that falsely claimed that Planned Parenthood sells fetal body parts, there has been a rash of arsons at clinics, at least one…
If you ask a friend about what they do or don’t like about Donald Trump’s platform, they’ll probably tell you where they stand on his immigration policies…and then not go much further. There may be several reasons for this, but one is probably that Trump has been surprisingly silent on other issues, especially social ones,…
Photo Donald J. Trump at the No Labels Problem Solver Convention in Manchester, N.H., on Monday.Credit Ian Thomas Jansen-Lonnquist for The New York Times Conservatives have criticized Donald J. Trump for expressing liberal views on health care, abortion and taxing the rich. On Friday, Mr. Trump, who is leading most Republican presidential polls, offered his…