As the president took his potential super-spreader events on the road, Trump supporters in New Hampshire on Friday not only ignored their own state’s mandate to wear masks, they jeered an announcement requesting they do so. The Republican governor of New Hampshire, Chris Sununu, imposed a mask mandate for events …
Read More »Trump Wore a Mask. Sadly This Is News
The president of the United States finally decided to act like an adult on Saturday and wore a face mask during his visit to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Washington. This marks the first time the president has been seen in public wearing a facial covering that his …
Read More »In Bizarre Interview Trump Advisor Denies Systemic Racism Because Whites Voted for Obama
In a trainwreck of an interview, one of President Trump’s economic advisors was asked to clear up past remarks he’d made about the non-existence of systemic racism in America and only made matters worse for himself. CNBC’s Closing Bell anchor, Sara Eisen, confronted Trump’s director of the National Economic Council, …
Read More »Trump Blocks Fauci Testimony Before Democratic House, But He Is Free to Speak Before Republican Senate
In a move that is all but impossible to label as anything but partisan, the White House has blocked their top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, from testifying before a Democratic-controlled House subcommittee next week, but will allow the doctor to testify in front of a Republican-led Senate committee …
Read More »What Would Happen to Your Body If You Actually Injected Bleach?
Last night, Trump sent all reasonable individuals’ heads spinning when he appeared to suggest during his daily COVID-19 press briefings that injecting disinfectant could help eliminate the virus from people’s bodies. “I see the disinfectant where it knocks [the virus] out [from a surface] in a minute, one minute, and …
Read More »Stephen Colbert Tells Trump 'Do Your Damn Job'
Stephen Colbert recapped Donald Trump‘s recent news briefing and criticized the Wisconsin Supreme Court in his latest homemade version of The Late Show on Tuesday. Colbert kicked off by noting how grateful he is to still be able to host his show, despite the fact that he’s not even sure …
Read More »The Coronavirus Nightmare Crippling New York Will Soon Be in Cities Nationwide
WASHINGTON — It was possible until now to view the novel coronavirus pandemic in the U.S. as a crisis concentrated in a few densely populated regions: New York City, Seattle, the San Francisco Bay Area. New York is now considered the global epicenter of the pandemic. Some of the most …
Read More »Report: Trump Dropped the Ball on Coronavirus Testing Because He Only Wanted Good News
President Trump has demonstrated on several occasions that he views the coronavirus pandemic not through the lens of keeping Americans safe, but of how it will impact his re-election chances. He all but said as much last week, telling reporters that he’d rather keep passengers on a Grand Princess cruise …
Read More »Useful Idiots: James Adomian and Anthony Atamaniuk on Playing Trump and Bernie
In this week’s episode of ourUseful Idiotspodcast, hostsMatt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by comedians James Adomian and Anthony Atamaniuk from ‘Trump vs. Bernie.’ No politicians or pundits are spared the wrath of Adomian and Atamaniuk impersonations, from Joe Biden to Bernie Sanders and Alex Jones to Chris Matthews. …
Read More »Elizabeth Warren Calls for Border Wall Money to Be Redirected to Fight Coronavirus
Sen.Elizabeth Warrensaid that funds being used to construct the president’s border wall with Mexico should be redirected to help containcoronavirus, a quickly spreading epidemic with origins in China. “I’m going to be introducing a plan tomorrow to take every dime that the president is now taking to spend on his …
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