Trump Continues To Crumble By Botching First Post-Election Visit With Foreign Leader
The laziness he has displayed during the transition seems to indicate that he was never really serious about becoming president in the first place.
The laziness he has displayed during the transition seems to indicate that he was never really serious about becoming president in the first place.
“The next American president and I could not be more different…But American democracy is bigger than any one person.”
“Well, I will demand that Europe put in place a carbon tax at its border, a tax of 1-3 per cent, for all products coming from the United States”
It is remarkable to watch conservatives scramble to defend Donald Trump from attacks by “leftists” basing their attacks on Trump’s own words. Historian Victor Davis Hanson writes that the National Review that “The attacks on Trump won’t even wait until he takes office” and that, of course, they are completely unjustified. Hanson actually categorizes the…
The protective press pool that Trump ditched is meant to ensure that the American people know exactly what their president-elect is doing.
Trump is so desperate to have people join his team that he’s seeking the Obama administration’s help in filling roles.
Four years ago, Trump called the electoral college a “disaster.” Today, he thinks it’s “genius.”
‘You should probably go ahead and be afraid now.’ The Stormer tells is readers to ‘troll these people and definitely get some of them to kill themselves’
Trump made it clear during the primaries and his campaign that he intends to take a wrecking ball to the rights of targeted groups of people.
“Trump supporters are sending me messages threatening to send me & my ‘ilk’ to the gas chambers & writing hashtags like ‘#sieg hiel'”
“The party is dedicated to racing as rapidly as possible to [the] destruction of organized human life. There is no historical precedent for such a stand.”
This would be laughable if it wasn’t so terrifying.
Congressional Republicans need to stand up and call out Trump for choosing Bannon as a senior adviser and ‘equal partner’ to Trump’s Chief of Staff”
“2016 will be the hottest year on record, with global temperatures even higher than the record-breaking temperatures in 2015.”
According to Fox News contributor Pete Hegseth, Trump protesters are anti-Semites: “These are Communists. These are anarchists. They’re anti-Semitic.”
A gig as White House press secretary is sure to be a fun-filled, fact-free excursion into the GOP’s imaginary reality for the most dishonest president in American history
“It is easy to see why the KKK views Trump as their champion when Trump appoints one of the foremost peddlers of White Supremacist themes and rhetoric as his top aide”
Racist David Duke reacted jubilantly to the electoral victory of Donald Trump and thanked foreign criminal Julian Assange for his assistance.
Freeway on and off ramps were closed as protesters marched from MacArthur Park to the Federal Building in downtown L.A. to protest Donald Trump
“For continuity’s sake, CNN should keep paying him while he’s in the White House.”
Brexit made the safety pin the symbol of opposition to hate and intolerance, and Trump’s election has made it relevant on our side of the pond
“Fla. AG Bondi added to @realDonaldTrump’s transition team. Trump Fdn gave illegal $25K gift to Bondi’s campaign grp.”
“Beyond any doubt that vote suppression and a conscious effort to shave off 1 or 2 percent of the vote in key states, in all likelihood, influenced the outcome of this election.”
Our planet will suffer, along with our environment and our food and water. Corporations will enjoy it. The rest of us may not be able to sit without a cushioned donut for a few years
“Love the fact that the small groups of protesters last night have passion for our great country. We will all come together and be proud!”
“White nationalists, Vladimir Putin and ISIS are celebrating Donald Trump’s victory, while…innocent Americans cry tears of fear does not feel like America”
Trump got 47% of the vote but with 40% afraid, nearly as many Americans are afraid after Trump’s victory as voted for him.
In losing the popular vote, Paul Ryan said Trump pulled off “the most incredible political feat I have seen in my lifetime. He just earned a mandate.”
“We are not turning this country over to what Donald Trump has sold,” she said. “We’re just not.”
This is the mess Donald Trump created. Before he takes office, he must clean it up.
“I was with Al Gore the night the Supreme Count took the presidency away from him. Never thought I could be more devastated. Until now.”
Sorry, Trump supporters, respect is earned, not given.
The backlash against Donald Trump’s pending presidency is just beginning.
Trump’s pick calls climate change “nothing to worry about” and questions whether humans even contribute to it.
There’s a cloud over America. It’s a cloud my mother experienced as many Jewish children did in the 1930’s.
The environmental activist group Friends of the Earth are vowing to fight President Elect Donald Trump’s agenda every step of the way to protect the planet.
“Tonight, there are millions of Americans who, I am sad to say, fear their liberties will be challenged by a Trump administration.”
“Now it’s time for America to bind the wounds of division. We have to get together. To all Republicans and Democrats and Independents across this nation, I say it is time for us to come together as one united people. It’s time.”
Sometime in the wee hours of the morning, after 2 am Eastern Time, Hillary Clinton called Donald Trump to concede, something Trump had promised never to do, even if he clearly lost.
This is the first U.S. Senate seat picked up by Democrats on the evening.
This is the kind of happy talk that one may expect from Democrats – not a prominent Republican pollster.
“Wait, wait. At least” 4 grandparents? Just how many are we expected to have? We’re not all Trump children with three possible moms.”
Hillary Clinton’s superior organization is routing Donald Trump on the ground according to a new election day exit poll.
Donald Trump is filing a lawsuit because officials in Clark County, Nevada legally kept the polls open so that people who were waiting in line could vote:
Asked on Instagram, “Gisele I heard you and Tom were backing Trump! Is that true??” Tom Brady’s wife responded with a resounding “NO!”
Donald Trump was booed as he arrived at his polling place, a New York City school, P.S. 59 around 11 a.m this morning
“Only In States Controlled By Republican Legislatures Has Early Voting Been Reduced”
“You have to take all of this incredibly seriously. We are the oldest political party and we are under constant attack from Russia and/or maybe others.”
“In the case of Jay Z, the language he used was terrible. She talks about me and the language was unbelievable that Jay Z and Beyoncé used.”
“America was great, is great and will stay great, and might perhaps get even greater, but not if it elects a great pretender like Donald Trump.”
‘It’s late,’ tweeted CBS News’ Sopan Deb, ‘but a decent chunk of the crowd here started filing out shortly after Trump started speaking.’
Clinton said tomorrow is “just the beginning” of the work ahead.
“We are one day away from once again making history,” the First Lady said.
The choice in this election could not be any clearer, and it’s not just because Donald Trump is so dangerous.
With 24 hours to go, the wind is at Hillary Clinton’s back as she stands on the doorstep of history.
President Obama got to the heart of the problem with Donald Trump Monday saying it’s bad enough being arrogant when you know what you’re talking about, but “It’s really bad being arrogant when you don’t know what you’re talking about.”
“I just don’t put a whole lot of faith in polls…Like I’ve said before, polls are only good for strippers and cross-country skiers.”
Trump fan in Minnesota sports t-shirt saying ‘Rope. Tree. Journalist. Some Assembly Required.’
“Her plan will import generations of terrorism, extremism, and radicalism into your schools and throughout your communities…we will keep them out”
Things are getting ugly in Trump Land as some supporters are outraged that Trump is running more than two hours late after scheduling five rallies for Sunday and not being on time.
In moments of the campaign when his polling has improved, the markets went into a freefall.
*The following is an opinion column by R Muse* Over the past eight years it has been glaringly apparent that Republicans are opposed to democracy and their attempts to either obstruct or suppress voting have resulted in several federal court rulings ordering them to stop; to absolutely no effect. Fascist Donald Trump’s takeover…
“I’ve got your blue state right here, baby,” Nugent said.
“If somebody starts tweeting at three in the morning because SNL made fun of you, then you can’t handle the nuclear codes.”
The Cleveland basketball star knows a thing or two about comeback wins.
The Trump campaign has spent months questioning the legitimacy of the FBI.
This is just a confirmation of what most of us have known all along: The Hillary Clinton email story is much ado about nothing.
President Obama will appear in Michigan on behalf of Hillary Clinton at a public “Get Out The Vote” event in Ann Arbor on Monday
Trump claims he is going to “drain the swamp.” The problem is he plans to fill it up with Russians only too eager to take the job of running our country
“I’ll tell you what. He should not be campaigning for Hillary Clinton. He should be at the Oval Office working on jobs.”
This isn’t the first time there’s been controversy surrounding Trump and Ryan. It likely won’t be the last.
Clinton used her final TV spot to end the campaign on a positive note.
“Trump’s commandments are like the regular commandments with LOL at the end. Adultery? Check. Cursing? Check. Stealing? Check. Bearing false witness? Check”
Nobody seems to be paying attention to Iowa anymore, but it’s a tight contest that Hillary Clinton’s ground operation could quietly steal it from Trump.
“Trump/Pence supporter comes to press pen to express displeasure w/ Univision: ‘F*ck Jorge Ramos!’ Tells me he’s not ‘a real journalist.'”
“!!!! Trump just said he’s never used language like what Jay-Z said last night in his life! (“Locker room talk”?)”
Donald Trump is the candidate who campaigned on building a wall, but it is Hillary Clinton who has built an early voting firewall in Nevada and Trump is paying for it.
“‘He became unhinged!’ … And he spent so much time screaming at this protester and frankly, it was a disgrace.”
President Obama has US military hackers ready to make Russia pay if they try to cyber attack the presidential election.
A Democratic electoral college elector in Washington state is refusing to vote for Hillary Clinton even if she wins the popular vote. If he sticks to his word, Clinton will need 271 electoral college votes to win the White House.
Donald Trump’s gloom and doom campaign may have been dealt a final blow by an October jobs report that showed unemployment falling below 5%, and 161,000 new private sector jobs created.
“Trump does his totally false they-don’t-show-the-crowds riff again as — you guessed it — the cameras are showing his crowds.”
“I think they’re different. I think the endorsement is far different than who you actually vote for. And it’s the one vote I actually do for myself”
“It is a mortal sin to vote Democrat … immediately after death the souls of those who die in a state of mortal sin descend into hell.”
The Republican nominee – a guy who calls himself a champion of the people – is only truly good at championing one person: himself.
If you’re keeping score at home, Melania Trump has plagiarized in each of the two major speeches she’s given during this campaign.
If the latest poll of the Peach State is accurate, then Clinton’s ground game could be all she needs to steal the deep red state from Trump.
There is an anti-Clinton faction in an FBI office that is suspected of releasing and leaking information in an attempt to get Donald Trump elected president.
New polling shows that newly registered and voters who sat out the 2012 election are breaking strongly for Hillary Clinton in North Carolina, Florida, and Pennsylvania.
A new Politico/Morning Consult in-depth study of the electorate has found that there is no silent majority of hidden Trump voters. Trump voters aren’t hiding their support, and that if Republicans were counting on a silent election day wave, they’re likely to be disappointed.
The Economist endorsed Hillary Clinton, saying they would rather vote for Nixon even knowing how it would end than vote for Donald Trump. They also endorse the Democratic Party down ballot, saying it’s time for Republicans to lose Congress so that they can begin the process of reforming their broken party.
Donald Trump is the champion of those who don’t want to share, not only their bathrooms but “their” country.
“She’s the most interesting woman in the world. I don’t usually endorse candidates, but when I do they’re extraordinary. Vote wisely my friends.”
“We believe that Clinton is not only the best candidate for the job, but the only candidate.”
Katy Tur asked, “Does Donald Trump know how to read a balance sheet?” The answer would be no, he does not.
Sometimes the best arguments come from the most unlikely sources. For example, comedian Louis C.K. delivered the best argument for voting for Hillary Clinton that you will hear from anyone during this election.
“Well, I can tell you I’m not voting for Hillary Clinton. We still have six days before I walk into the booth. On November 8th, I’ll have a decision.”
In the category of unintentionally funny today, we have a statement from the Trump campaign denouncing his “endorsement” by the KKK. The paper’s editor denied to The Washington Post it was an “official” endorsement but many took it as such. Trump camp statement on KKK's official newspaper endorsing Trump: pic.twitter.com/2TUaewGSWD — Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) November…
“You know, I am sick and tired of the negative, dark, divisive, dangerous vision and behavior from people who support Donald Trump.”
A new poll not only shows Clinton leading in Florida 48 to 40, but that 28 percent of early GOP voters cast their vote for Clinton