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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…
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…
They’re coming for you, Trump Don’t you just love the smell of Republican Civil War in the morning? Republican officials and leading figures in the party’s establishment are now preparing for the possibility of a brokered convention as Donald Trump continues sit atop the polls and the presidential race. Seriously, we just cummed all over…
Also, Reince Priebus will be uninvited from my birthday party Doctor Ben Carson would like you all to know he is not one bit pleased about these murmurings that the GOP establishment is plotting to deny the nomination to Donald Trump — or to Ben Carson, which could totally still happen, he thinks. And by…
“Nightly Show” host Larry Wilmore isn’t sure which is worse: Donald Trump for wanting to ban all Muslims or the massive crowd of tea party members who cheered after he said it. He settled on the people cheering but for comedy’s sake, “Donald J. Asshole” is the easier target for Tuesday night’s show. Wilmore was…
Maybe Donald Trump, pictured at a campaign rally in Davenport, Iowa, on Dec. 5, 2015, isn’t out of touch with the electorate. We are.Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images On Monday, in a press release, Donald Trump called for a “complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.” It’s the latest in a series of…
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. (Jay Laprete/Reuters) Let’s not mince words: Donald Trump is a bigot and a racist. Some will think this an outrageous label to apply to the frontrunner for a major party’s presidential nomination. Ordinarily, I would agree that name-calling is part of what’s wrong with our politics. Dana Milbank writes…
“Seriously?” That’s all that CNN’s Jake Tapper could summon during an interview with a top aide for Donald Trump on Monday, where the topic predictably turned to the candidate’s widely debunked claims of having seen footage of Muslims in the U.S. celebrating on the day of the 9/11 attacks. In what has become an almost…