All posts tagged "Slur"

President Donald Trump's communications director Steven Cheung escalated a feud with a Senate staffer using an ableist slur to attack her on social media, according to reports on Wednesday.

Steven Cheung, Trump's "top spin doctor," got into a clash with Rachel Cohen, communications director for Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) and Senate Intelligence Committee communications director, The Daily Beast reported.

Cohen was asking why CNN decided to book Tricia McLaughlin, former Department of Homeland Security communications assistant, during a live panel broadcast on Tuesday. McLaughlin had left the Trump administration in February. ...

Donald Trump on Friday was ridiculed online following a Minnesota speech during which the former president is said to have confused his own criminal cases.

Trump began his GOP dinner keynote address with complaints about the teleprompters, which he said were "falling down," and continued by whining that the podium itself needed work as well. During the speech, the ex-president also said that Special Counsel Jack Smith was prosecuting him in New York. In reality, Smith's cases are in D.C. and Florida.

"We have deranged Jack Smith in New York. He's a deranged individual, Washington," Trump said Friday. ...

Donald Trump was ridiculed online after his rally on Saturday, including for appearing to "slur" his words.

The former president spoke in New Jersey over the weekend, where he confused people with his comments about "O.J." and appeared to mistake Beijing for Taiwan.

But that's not all that stood out to online viewers....

Donald Trump's campaign on Saturday pushed President Joe Biden's administration to apologize to "Catholics and Christians," prompting insiders to wonder why Trump drew a distinction between the two denominations of the shared faith.

Trump's campaign demanded Biden apologize for declaring Easter as "Trans Visibility Day," but the former president's own former advisor blew apart that claim by showing that the date for Trans Visibility Day was set 10 years ago and Biden wasn't involved.

But political onlookers on both sides of the aisle noticed an interesting line in Trump's reply....