On Sunday morning, President Trump retweeted a GIF featuring a doctored video of him striking Hillary Clinton with a golf ball that was originally posted by a user named “Fuctupmind.” That user has posted many racist tweets about the Obama family, along with Islamophobic and anti-Semitic memes.
In recent weeks, Trump has repeatedly retweeted bigots, accounts that traffic in wild conspiracy theories, and memes depicting violence against his perceived enemies.
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Lindsay Graham embraces Breitbart
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who has often painted himself as a responsible Republican who will call out President Trump for his misdeeds, appealed to Trump’s nationalist base over the weekend, appearing on Breitbart News Radio to promote his bill that would repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
The bill, which Graham has proposed with Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), would repeal the individual and employer mandate as well as a number of the taxes established under the ACA. The...
McCain joins new legislative effort to overturn Trump’s trans military ban
It became clear Thursday that the Senate would not consider an amendment to the defense budget addressing President Trump’s ban on transgender people serving in the military, but lawmakers have not given up. On Friday, they introduced a separate bill addressing the ban, with new bipartisan support: Sen. John McCain (R-AZ).
The bill expands upon bipartisan support the amendment already enjoyed from Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Jack Reed (D-RI), and Susan Collins (R-ME), but...
Trump: Bernie Sanders’ universal healthcare plan a ‘curse’ on Americans
President says he would veto senator’s Medicare for All single-payer plan, prompting quick rebuke from Sanders
Donald Trump on Thursday called Bernie Sanders’ universal healthcare plan a “curse on the US & its people” and promised to veto it if it ever landed on his desk.
Related: Bernie Sanders unveils universal healthcare bill: 'We will win this struggle'
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Trump doesn’t actually think single-payer is a horrible idea
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has proposed the only health care plan that would fulfill all the health care promises made by President Trump—but White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders slammed the single-payer health care plan Wednesday, saying Trump thinks it would be a horrible idea.
“I think that the president as well as the majority of the country knows that the single payer system that the Democrats are proposing is a horrible idea,” Huckabee Sanders told reporters. “I ...
Memo to the New York Times: Donald Trump is a Republican
The North American Republican is a wily creature. Territorial. Obsessed with tax cuts. And, like the coral snake, difficult for some people to distinguish from its less venomous cousins.
Crikey! That’s quite a blunder by the Grey Lady. And it’s not a blunder limited to ju...
‘I cannot believe the Republicans are extending the debt ceiling’: Trump’s awkward tweets
During a meeting with congressional leaders at the White House on Wednesday, President Trump struck a deal to provide aid to victims of Hurricane Harvey, raise the debt ceiling, and keep the government funded — with Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer.
Not only did Trump strike a deal with the leaders of a party he’s repeatedly decried as mere “obstructionists,” but in talking about the deal with reporters on Air Force One, the president didn...
