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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…
Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson waves to supporters after addressing the National Press Club Newsmakers Luncheon Oct. 9, 2015, in Washington, D.C., to promote his new book, A More Perfect Union: What We the People Can Do to Reclaim Our Constitutional Liberties. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images /sl-art-illo-cap /sl-art-illo-cntr There was a time when running…
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,…
Donald Trump’s 4chan fans were driven into a frenzy on Tuesday when Trump retweeted one of the site’s most popular memes: An image of an anthropomorphic frog decked out as the presidential contender. He posted the pic alongside “You Can’t Stump The Trump,” a video compilation of clips from the last Republican primary debate that highlighted some of his more outrageous moments from the evening. 4chan…
This post has been corrected. Each time there’s a Republican debate, the GOP field is one person smaller, making us optimistic that the party will settle on its nominee in only 14 more debates. Or, at the rate of once per month, next November — shortly after the general election. The next debate is being hosted…
More big Donald Trump news today: Now that he’s finally found a Bible verse he likes (even if it doesn’t exist), he is doing his very best to suck up to the wackiest fringes of the evangelist movement. Not necessarily the biggest figures on the Christian Right, but the hucksters and “Prosperity Gospel” crazies, the folks who…
In a video and interview publishing Tuesday, Carl Icahn shares Donald Trump’s criticism of the U.S.’s failure to overhaul taxation and immigration and raise interest rates. Icahn backs Trump’s calls to end carried-interest loopholes and rules that encourage corporations to relocate overseas and avoid repatriating profits. “I would say it’s an endorsement. I think at…
On the opening day of Trump Plaza in Atlantic City in 1984, Donald Trump stood in a dark topcoat on the casino floor celebrating his new investment as the “finest building in the city and possibly the nation.” Thirty years later, the Trump Plaza folded, leaving some 1,000 employees without jobs. Trump, meanwhile, was on…
Donald Trump spoke with CBS’s Scott Pelley on Sunday’s edition of “60 Minutes” and then promptly attacked his interviewer on social media, adding Pelley to the long list of journalists Trump has lashed out against during this campaign cycle. Trump appeared excited enough for the interview that aired alongside an interview with Russian President Vladmir Putin…
Many Stephen Colbert fans worried that his move to CBS and to a market requiring a more mainstream audience would deflate his sharpness. Leaving Comedy Central and an audience of just over 1 million for a network and an audience three times as large was certain to carry with it an adjustment. There would be all…