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The Washington Post published an intricate investigation into White House chief strategist Steve Bannon’s shady residential history on Saturday, from which one extremely bleak detail stands out in particular, an email sent to Bannon in February 2015 by one of his former Florida landlords that reads, in part, “[E]ntire Jacuzzi bathtub seems to have been…
President Donald Trump, a thousand sausages held together with duct tape, sure loves to tweet. He does it to share news, to both threaten and congratulate people, and to fill the pre-dawn hours before his handlers help him change out of his bathrobe. While a master of the destabilizing 140-character missive, Trump has not yet…
Welcome to Barf Bag, a daily politics roundup to help you sort through the chaotic Trumpian news cycle. That! Photo! Here’s all the shit we couldn’t cover today: Some things Sean Spicer did at today’s White House press briefing: He fed the theory that there is a so-called deep state “burrowed into government”; he said,…
Image via Getty. Welcome to Barf Bag, a daily politics roundup to help you sort through the chaotic Trumpian news cycle. Thank the good Lord that you’re not at CPAC. Here’s all the shit we couldn’t cover today: Ivanka Trump, champion of women, met with members of the House and Senate to push a $500…
Image via AP Photo. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas), who is wrong about most things, inevitably found himself in the tricky position of getting scolded by a small child at an Arkansas town hall meeting on Wednesday night. “Donald Trump makes Mexicans not important to people who are in Arkansas who like Mexicans, like me and…
Another day, another half a dozen stories of extreme dysfunction within the Trump Administration. Omarosa Manigault, the former Apprentice and Celebrity Apprentice reality TV star who now heads communications at the Trump White House (the most terrifying reality TV show experiment of all time), “physically intimidated” a journalist outside the Oval Office last week according…
Photo: Facebook Mar-a-Lago members really got the full benefits of their $14,000 annual dues (after a $200,000 initiation fee) this weekend when esteemed President Donald Trump chose to conduct state business at a dinner table in the most public area of his country club. It was a great sacrifice by Trump, who was forced to…
Esteemed president Donald J. Trump met for the first time with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday. At the meeting, Trump, video shows, tried to pull his trademark unsettling handshake on Trudeau, but ultimately failed in the “endeavour.” Here’s hoping their negotiations go better. Trump has deployed his strange handshake—which involves him yanking the…
Image via 20th Century Fox. Women, you may think that the flesh that covers you and the organs and muscles and neurons that make you breathe and poop and eat are your own, but actually they are not. Oklahoma State Rep. Justin Humphrey can see how might “feel like that is” your body, but if…
Image via Getty. On Sunday, reporters Maggie Haberman and Glenn Thrush published an article in the New York Times providing an inside look at Trump’s White House that will make you laugh until you cry until your brain is oozing out of your butt. The article is packed with descriptions of Trump aimlessly pacing through…