Ted Cruz's latest straight-faced dishonesty: 'You didn't see us try to pack the court'
Ted Cruz has been accused of a lot of things: being the Zodiac Killer; being from Canada; being a churlish Sea Monkey that grew out of control...
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Trump: 'If [Biden is] elected the stock market will crash' (through the ceiling to Dow 30,000)
So today, Donald Trump called an impromptu press conference in order to swiftly take credit for the rising stock market. After the Dow cleared 30,000 for...
Obama on Trump: 'complaining, lying, doesn’t-take-responsibility-for-anything type of figure'
One thing I’ll never understand until the day I die is how so many people ascribe “toughness” and “manliness” to Donald Trump. (I’ll also never...
Obama remembers RBG, calls out GOP on blatant SCOTUS hypocrisy
President Obama has weighed in on the passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the confirmation battle that’s sure to ensue. Here’s his statement in its...
Is it rude to throw this quote from Trump's 2015 campaign launch back in his face?
I vividly remember Donald Trump’s campaign kickoff speech at Trump Tower on June 16, 2015 — a day which will live in imbecility. I recall...
Trump has reportedly turned on Lindsey Graham over Obama-bashing strategy
The redoubtable Gabe Sherman has another dispatch from the land of cray-cray kookaburras. And in this episode of the Fluorescent Lipo-Fat Golem Show, our intrepid protagonist...
Child POTUS refusing to unveil Obama's presidential portrait at White House
I’d like to believe that, in a closet or an attic somewhere, there’s a portrait of Donald J. Trump that’s emotionally maturing at a normal...
Trump calls Obama a 'grossly incompetent' president
The day after our last real president said today’s leaders (i.e., Trump) weren’t even “pretending to be in charge,” Trump responded with this: xThe level...
Trump admin claims Obama pandemic playbook was a 'paper packet' and much worse than Trump's 'plan'
People have now discovered that the Obama administration left the Trump administration a detailed pandemic response playbook, so there’s only one thing to do: Release...
Trump campaign statement on Obama's Biden endorsement shows how terrified they are
Okay, so this is childish: https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/1250081929245995009? “Barack Obama spent much of the last five years urging Joe Biden not to run for president out of...
There's far more than a hare's breadth of difference between Obama's and Trump's Easter messages
Get it? Hare? As in the Easter Bunny? Come on! First, let’s cue up the Paas-hued horror who keeps Cadburying the Oval Office carpet with his...
8 in 10 black Americans say Trump is racist, two-thirds think it's a bad time to be black in America
Donald Trump once said he’d get 95 percent of the black vote when he ran for reelection. I’m thinking no. A new Washington Post-Ipsos poll...
Trump on Obama: 'They could impeach him' … 'they could've killed him'
My lord. Donald Trump would have made Sigmund Freud shart his brains down his breeches. Yes, this was a … slip, of the Freudian variety....
Trump claims Obama left him with a military 'very low on ammunition'
It’s a metaphysical certitude that either 1) Trump made this up out of whole cloth or 2) James Mattis told him this because Trump wanted...
Trump still freaking out over Obama's Netflix and book deals
The little man just can’t stand the idea of another president making money. In this case, a former president. Ever since the black man had...
Remember when Trump ripped Obama for negotiating with the Taliban?
Back when Donald Trump was just a dangerously uninformed civilian instead of a dangerously uninformed pr*sident, he thought negotiating with the Taliban — “our sworn...
Petition to rename street in front of Trump Tower after Obama has 140,000 signatures (and counting)
This is simply delicious. People across the nation are furiously signing a petition to rename a portion of Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue — specifically the stretch...
Obama responds to El Paso and Dayton like a real president should
President Obama just responded on Facebook to the weekend tragedies in El Paso and Dayton. This speaks for itself: Michelle and I grieve with all...
Obama shares impassioned anti-Trump op-ed on Twitter
President Obama rarely comments on the puerile antics of Donald J. Trump. Let’s hope that changes when election season gets into full swing and he...
New Trump appointee spread multiple ugly conspiracy theories about Obama
Well, so did Trump, of course, and he’s allegedly president. Apparently, Monica Crowley has a penchant for saying Barack Obama is secretly a Muslim. You...
Mitch McConnell: Obama's ancestors also owned slaves
You know, if you go back far enough, most people today probably have ancestors who “owned” slaves. Slavery was rampant in the ancient world, after...
