Tag Archives: assholery

Bloomberg reports: President Trump on Monday took advantage of the White House Easter Egg Roll to promote his administration’s accomplishments and assure a young attendee that a wall along the southern border is being built. The president joined children to color cards for members of the military when he said a young boy told him, “Keep building that wall.” “It’s …

The Times Of San Diego reports: Rep. Duncan Hunter posted a video Thursday showing himself at the “grand border wall in Yuma, Arizona.” He says: “It looks pretty tough to cross. Let me see if I can do it.” He swings his legs over a horizontal rail less than waist high and declares: “There you go. That’s how easy it …

“Mayor Pete has been pushing this hate hoax along the lines of Jussie Smollett for a very long time now, several weeks, and I find it really ironic that Mayor Pete stayed silent about this so-called hate hoax on him and others during 2015, 2016, 2017 when Mike Pence was governor. There was total silence. It’s ironic that right about …

The Washington Post reports: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Wednesday kicked off his 2020 reelection bid with a video highlighting his successful effort to block President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland — a move that helped reshape the court and over which Democrats are still fuming. The video also includes footage of President Trump hailing McConnell as …

Mediaite reports: When Lynne Patton, the highest ranking black woman in the Trump administration, isn’t fulfilling her duties as regional administrator at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, it turns out she’s shitposting on Instagram. Patton posted an image on her personal Instagram account over the weekend mocking the torrent of death threats received by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), …

The Huffington Post reports: President Donald Trump tweeted a video Friday fanning the flames of the recent right-wing uproar over comments Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) made about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. “WE WILL NEVER FORGET!” Trump tweeted with the video, which alternates between an out-of-context remark Omar made during a speech last month and footage of the terrorist attacks, …

The Guardian reports: Donald Trump not only confirms he considered sending immigrant detainees to sanctuary cities, he says he is still “giving strong considerations” to doing it. “The Radical Left always seems to have an Open Borders, Open Arms policy – so this should make them very happy!” he said in a tweet. “Due to the fact that Democrats are …

Today in infantile Republican assholery: Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), one of President Trump’s closest allies on Capitol Hill, on Wednesday introduced a bill to remove Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) as the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. The Florida Republican introduced the Preventing Extreme Negligence with Classified Information Licenses, or “PENCIL,” Act, a nod to Trump’s insults calling the California …

The Hill reports: President Trump on Tuesday tweeted out a movie-trailer style video that featured footage of his critics and some of his work as president set to the score of “The Dark Knight” trilogy of films. The video begins with the message, “First they ignore you, Then they laugh at you, Then they call you racist.” Trump has used …

The New York Times reports: The White House announced the departure of Randolph D. Alles, the director of the Secret Service, who had fallen out of favor with the president even before a security breach at his Mar-a-Lago club that the agency effectively blamed on Mr. Trump’s employees. Mr. Alles, a retired Marine major general who goes by Tex and …

Esquire reports: On Friday, a Trump supporter was arrested for threatening to murder Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar, one of the first Muslim women ever elected to Congress. And instead of condemning the threat against Omar’s life, Trump mocked the Congresswoman during a speech Saturday, inciting boos from his audience. The president began his Saturday remarks to the Republican Jewish Coalition …

The Christian Post reports: Redefining gender and sexual identity is the “greatest threat” to the moral fiber of America, said former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, and the fault lies with the Church.“The biggest threat to biblical principles today is the failure to apply a biblical standard of maleness and femaleness,”  Huckabee told The Christian Post during a sit-down interview last …

NBC News reports: President Donald Trump spoke at the U.S.-Mexico border in California on Friday, warning that “our country is full” and cannot accommodate any more immigrants. “The system is full. We can’t take you anymore,” Trump said at a roundtable event on Friday with law enforcement officials and local leaders at a border patrol station in Calexico. “Our country …

Junior posted the same meme earlier today: Donald Trump Jr. ridiculed Joe Biden’s mea culpa video — by sharing a meme in which the presumptive presidential candidate creepily touches himself. The president’s eldest son retweeted a doctored video featuring a now-viral photo of Biden with both hands on the shoulders of a woman and whispering something in her ear in …

Last night Fox News host Tucker Carlson went on a bizarre attack on MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, who had the temerity to interview right wing obsession Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Mediaite reports: Carlson said, “Chris Hayes is what every man would be if feminists ever achieved absolute power in this country––apologetic, bespectacled, and deeply, deeply concerned about global warming and the patriarchal systems …

Mediaite reports: Fox News’ Laura Ingraham last night mocked the media’s post-Mueller-investigation coverage, especially Rachel Maddow’s. “You’d feel sorry for these folks if they hadn’t done such damage to the presidency and the country,” she concluded. “But they were exposed as frauds in their coverage of the collusion question and now they’re essentially wishcasting conclusions in the Mueller report.” She …

The Hill reports: President Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign is now selling “Pencil-Neck Adam Schiff” t-shirts, after Trump coined the new nickname at a rally this week. The shirt, which is on sale for $28, shows Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) with a literal pencil for a neck as well as a clown nose. “Little Pencil-Neck Adam Schiff. He spent two years …

Anaheim’s Fox affiliate reports: A customer — confused about a special at a taco restaurant — went on a racially-charged tirade after learning he couldn’t get his $2 taco on Monday. The man scared employees and yelled several threats to them before taking off. Several signs greet visitors to Palapas Tacos on Lincoln Avenue in Anaheim, advertising daily specials in …

The Washington Post reports: At an Oval Office meeting on Feb. 22, Trump asked top advisers for ways to limit federal support from going to Puerto Rico, believing it is taking money that should be going to the mainland, according to senior administration officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to share details of the presidents’ private remarks. The …

The New York Post reports: Has Tucker Carlson started a campaign to sugar-shame Brian Stelter? On Friday, Carlson’s own Daily Caller website reported that the Fox News personality had sent an unsolicited box of doughnuts to CNN’s Brian Stelter, a frequent critic of Carlson who recently said, “I just want Fox News to be a healthy part of the media …