ArchiveJune 2018

Trump’s favorite morning show tried to pretend that Trump’s family separations didn’t affect his poll numbers. But one of the show’s co-hosts let the truth slip out. On Tuesday morning’s edition of “Fox & Friends,” co-host Steve Doocy introduced a segment claiming Trump’s approval ratings have been unaffected by outrage over child separations...

Trump continued to lash out at Harley-Davidson on Tuesday, threatening to hit the iconic motorcycle manufacturer with an unprecedented tax burden just as Trump’s needless trade war claims more American manufacturing jobs. Facing higher costs from increased tariffs, thanks to Trump, Harley-Davidson announced Monday it’s shifting production of motorcycles sold to European customers from...

Here’s something I never thought I’d say: my bachelorette party made national news over the weekend. Here’s something I wish I’d never have to say: it happened because two of my dear friends were victims of anti-LGBTQ discrimination, in the nation’s capital, in 2018. And here’s something I have trouble believing, after a different controversy erupted this...

Trump’s namesake company owns more than 3,600 domain names, some of which were purchased with the intent to use them, while others — like TrumpScam.com, TrumpFraud.com, and TrumpNetworkFraud.com — were scooped up to prevent someone else from using them against him. But he forgot one. On June 20, Atlanta attorney Loren Collins registered the domain name TrumpHotels.org — and now, he’s...

Trump’s one-sided love affair with Harley-Davidson is officially over. On Monday, the bike maker announced it will be moving production of the some of the bikes it exports to the European Union overseas, out of reach of Trump’s damaging tariff hikes, which the company says will cost it an additional $100 million a year. To Trump, however, there is no greater betrayal from the company...

Republicans have been warning the White House all year that Trump’s reckless trade war is going to hit red states hard, with real job losses, and the evidence is pouring in. America’s largest nail manufacturer, Mid-Continent Nail, located in a Missouri county that voted 79 percent for Trump, says it is shedding hundreds of jobs and will likely have to shut down by Labor Day. The...

Having essentially kidnapped more than 2,000 children and separated them from their parents, the Trump administration is now offering a demented deal: If parents who have been detained at the border agree to leave the country and give up their asylum claims, they can have their kids back. Maybe. As Vox’s Dara Lind explains, the Department of Homeland Security released a fact sheet Saturday...

The GOP tax giveaway to the rich is so unpopular that the party has already abandoned it as an electoral strategy. Now, a United Nations panel on extreme poverty and human rights has rebuked it as well. At the 38th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday, Philip Alston, the U.N.’s special rapporteur on extreme poverty, presented his report on the United States, which...

When outrage over Trump’s child confiscation crisis reached a fever pitch, Trump feigned compassion for the kids by signing a sham executive order that doesn’t actually protect families from being separated. But now, Trump reportedly wishes that he hadn’t taken even that meager action — because ripping children away from their parents was playing well with his supporters. The...

Months after Trump’s tax scam forced Harley-Davidson to shutter its Kansas City manufacturing plant, the iconic motorcycle manufacturer has been bitten by Trump again. This time, Trump’s trade war has forced the company to move production of some bikes out of the United States. In response to Trump’s tariffs on European steel and aluminum, the European Union has raised tariffs...