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“Late Show” host Stephen Colbert last night weighed in on Donald Trump’s bizarre victory press conference in Pensacola, Florida, Tuesday. As Colbert noted, “Trump’s victory speech had a little bit of product placement.” “Trump gave his victory speech next to a pyramid of raw steak,” Colbert said, referring to the Bush Brothers steak Trump tried to…
This week, Donald Trump won primaries in Michigan, Mississippi, and Hawaii, and then proceeded to give perhaps the strangest victory speech in the history of American presidential races. Trump had assembled a pile of meat, wines, a pyramid of bottled water, and one magazine to make a point that he is a successful businessman. You…
At tonight’s Democratic debate on Univision, moderator Karen Tumulty asked both candidates—point blank—whether or not they believed that noted racist Donald Trump was, in fact, a racist. The candidates’ collective response: Welllll……. More specifically, Hillary began her answer by declaring that, should she be nominated, there will be plenty of time “to talk about [Trump]….
Yesterday, I installed the Drumpfinator. This is the famous Chrome extension, launched by John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight, that replaces the word “Trump” with “Drumpf”—his ancestral name—everywhere it appears in your browser. I wanted to understand the appeal of these extensions, and why they have emerged as a cultural force over the course of the…
It probably won’t surprise you to learn that Marco Rubio very much regrets getting so nasty and personal with Donald Trump on the campaign trail recently. After avoiding going after Trump for months, Rubio unleaashed on The Donald in remarkably personal ways, even his now-infamous implied dick joke. In a preview of Rubio’s MSNBC town…
Donald Trump‘s appearance on the University of Central Florida campus on Saturday made headlines—but not because of anything he said. The Internet was instead captivated by two young men standing to Trump’s left after seeing one feed a chip to the other, airplane-style. Who were these mystery dudes? Were they “Trump bros?” Were they protestors? Sign…
Donald Trump and his tiny hands at a rally in North Carolina (Photo by Sean Rayford/Getty Images, definitely not photoshopped by Gizmodo) Wired published an embarrassing correction to a story by Jason Tanz about Donald Trump today. Apparently he or his editors had a Chrome extension turned on that changed every mention of “Donald Trump”…
Photos via Getty. Ever since Keith Olbermann left the ESPN airwaves eight months ago, there has been a conspicuous lack of uppercutting people into volcanoes and dropkicking them through glass doors in our lives. But there was no way the man who made his post-SportsCenter name exchanging haymakers with the Bush administration could stay away…
While there have been many real-life occurrences we badly wish we could bet money on, “Donald Trump will one day be accused of stealing someone’s tips” was at the top of our all time list. Sure enough, here we are. As reported by DNAInfo’s James Fanelli, on Feb. 13, 2015, a woman named Deborah Garcia…
As a retired military officer, I watched last night’s Republican debate from Detroit (transcript here) with a special focus on which candidate is qualified to lead the military as commander-in-chief. I knew, of course, that Donald Trump had promised in the past to use torture against America’s enemies (last night, he called them “animals”), that…