Category: Current Events

Trump Chaos

Trump released his Executive Order Friday banning travel and immigration from seven nations without any implementation instructions to the people and organizations who would be responsible for enforcing it, and he made it effective immediately upon its release. At first I asked myself, “Why would Trump release this EO in a way that would create such a high degree of…

Trump Lies

This is beyond absurd. “My crowd was bigger than your crowd,” Trump sends Spicer to lie. (Meaning that the crowd on the Mall in Washington for his inauguration on Jan. 20, 2017 was larger than that for President Obama’s inauguration in 2009.) First it was Trump’s inferiority about his hand size. Then it was his inferiority about his inaugural crowd…

Ben Carson And No “Special Rights”

Oh, Dr. Ben Carson. According to The Hill, “During Ben Carson’s Senate confirmation hearing on Jan. 12, 2017, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) pressed the Housing and Urban Development nominee about whether he would enforce LGBT protections in the public housing sector. ‘Of course, I would enforce all the laws of the land,’ Carson responded. ‘Of course, I think all Americans should be…

Oh Kellyanne Conway, You Terrible Spokesperson

Apparently Trump Campaign Manager and newly christened Senior Advisor (whatever that means) Kellyanne Conway didn’t read the headlines in The New York Times, Washington Post, and on CNN between yesterday afternoon and yesterday evening. The story at this point is that Trump was briefed by intelligence officials last week about the information contained in the 35-page report released by BuzzFeed.…

Comparing POTUS and PEOTUS “Happy New Year 2017” Tweets

President-Elect Trump and Presidents Clinton and Obama all tweeted “Happy New Year” greetings in the last couple of days. Trump’s tweet went out about 8:30 AM EST on December 31, 2016. President Clinton tweeted about 24 hours later, on Jan. 1, 2017, and President Obama tweeted his greeting at noon, also on New Year’s Day. Let’s compare the tweets. President…

Who Has Bought His/Her Spot In The Trump Cabinet? — Part 2

A few weeks ago, I noted that Linda McMahon and Andrew Puzder quite clearly paid for their cabinet positions: Broken Laughter will continue to do research on this and will update this post with the new information as it becomes available, but of the recent Trump Cabinet selections made, here are two who clearly bought their seats in the Trump administration:…