Tag: Donald Trump
Ask SNL and We Shall Receive: What If the Trumps Were Black?
The prosecution’s closing in. Legal papers are being dotted and crossed. Impeachment is evident. But it turns out even if Darius Trump isn’t a 72 year-old white dude with terrible hair from Queens, the FBI is still going to descend up…
Kim Kardashian, Of All People, Helped Kathy Griffin Stay Sane Through Her Trump Photo Ordeal
Kathy Griffin went to hell and back following her decision to pose in a photo with a bloody, severed head of Donald Trump last spring, and the extent of her 9 Circles of Hell went a lot deeper, more inferno-y, than we previously imagi…
In Fiction, It Was the Year of the Woman
In 2014, about a million readers sobbed ugly tears over Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See. The following year, everyone (really, 11 million everyones) took in the drunken hijinks of Paula Hawkins’s titular girl on the train….
Stephen Colbert Makes His Case for Donald Trump Being Unable to Tell Time
Move over, Trump-can’t-read conspiracy. Because after witnessing one of his speeches during this week’s G20 summit in Argentina — you know, the country all the good guys flee to — Stephen Colbert wants a piece of that sweet, sweet, Tr…
Jay-Z Calls Out Kanye’s Trump Support on Drake’s New Album
Where one rap feud ends, another can always be found still going strong. On Meek Mill’s new album Championships, he and Drake bury the hatchet and reunite on a song after endlessly sparring years ago. One point of contention that rema…
Surprise Surprise, Donald Trump’s Book Recommendations Are All About Him
It’s customary for presidents to share their reading lists, especially near the end of the year. Barack Obama made yearly book and music recommendations. And according to Karl Rove, George W. Bush read two books a week. Today, Trump r…
Stephen Colbert Is Suing Donald Trump for Stealing a Colbert Report Joke
A legal showdown between Donald Trump and Late Show host Stephen Colbert is brewing. During last night’s show, Colbert highlighted a quote from Trump’s recent interview with the Washington Post in which he said, “I have a gut, and my …
Bill Maher Blames Trump’s Election On, You Guessed It, the Work of Late Comic Book Legend Stan Lee
Today in Arguments That Probably Could Have Waited A Week, Bill Maher is coming hard for the real reason Donald Trump got elected in 2016: comic book creator Stan Lee, who passed away on Monday. While most people would have put a pin …
Elvis Presley, That Hound Dog, Is Receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom
What an interesting coincidence how Donald Trump, in his list of honorees for this year’s Presidential Medal of Freedom, decided the two pop culture icons would be receiving it posthumously. Yeah, definitely a coincidence. Entertainer…
Stephen Colbert Did the Math, and There’s Something Fishy With Fox and Friends’ Caravan Coverage
If you were able to avoid clips of Steve Doocy repeatedly yelling caravan! into Ainsley Earhardt’s blonde highlights, Stephen Colbert subjected himself — or rather, subjected his footage department on “doctor’s orders” — to watch Fox …