On last night’s Last Week Tonight, John Oliver devoted the majority of his show to President Donald Trump’s growing pile of problems. The focus was on how the president may have tried to influence investigations into possible links between his campaign team and Russia. An exasperated Oliver described the developments as “Stupid Watergate”, in reference to Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal
Last night on VICELAND’s Desus & Mero, the team gave the “Spiceman”, aka Sean Spicer, the night off as they poked a big stick at the heavy jowled and slow-talking senator from Kentucky, Republican Mitch McConnell. In their hilarious segment, the senator is likened to a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. Desus Nice called him the fifth
John Oliver covered all the high “low” notes of Trump’s past week in office on Last Week Tonight — including his draconian “skinny budget” proposals. The show saw Oliver dissect what was an eyebrow-raising week for the former reality TV star and real estate mogul, who he described as “consistently monstrous”. It included insulting the British Intelligence
Morning Joe co-anchor Mika Brzezinski on Monday — the day before President Donald Trump is set to make his first address to a joint session of Congress — suggested he is acting like a dictator by banning media from an informal briefing. On Friday, White House press secretary Sean Spicer barred reporters from newspapers including the New York
Morning Joe co-anchor Joe Scarborough told President Donald Trump to get some perspective Friday, after he complained on Twitter that the FBI has failed to stop “leakers” in the federal government from divulging classified information. Trump, ratcheting up his war with the intelligence community, tweeted Friday morning: “The FBI is totally unable to stop the national security ‘leakers’
Stephen Colbert, on the Thursday edition of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, resurrected rumors of the “golden shower” President Donald Trump allegedly ordered from Russian prostitutes, while knocking him for barring transgender students from using the restroom of their choice. Earlier this week, Trump launched an effort to roll back former President Barack Obama’s rule requiring
Is President Donald Trump’s administration deliberately bringing about the death of the Republic? Or are they just plain stupid? Rachel Maddow considered this quandary on the Thursday night installment of her MSNBC program, The Rachel Maddow Show, weeding through the still-seething controversy over Trump staffers’ communications with Russian officials. The scandal over whether Russian spies
Staffers for President Donald Trump claim they’ve “cracked the code” on keeping his infamously inflammatory Twitter habits under control. But have they? On Thursday’s edition of Morning Joe on MSNBC, co-anchors Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough dissected Politico White House correspondent Tara Palmeri about her recent article, “How Trump’s campaign staffers tried to keep him
Republican Senators and Representatives are back in their home districts while Congress is in recess. But it’s hardly a time for them to hit the links or kiss babies — instead, they’re facing the wrath of constituents who are furious over potential cuts to health care. During Wednesday night’s Trump: The First Month special on
We all know that President Donald Trump is “a hothead, loose cannon, powder keg, dump truck, pull tab” — so said Stephen Colbert on Wednesday night’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Accordingly, he needs to be counseled by someone who is “even-keeled”, Colbert said — like Alex Jones, the far-right conspiracy theorist who is “apparently