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President Trump said today that his administration would ban the sale of the type of flavored e-cigarettes favored by kids. The move came as an epidemic of lung illnesses appears to be sprouting, with some experts claiming the trend is caused by the rise of vaping among teens. Trump made the comments during an Oval…

Always caustic Seth Meyers took on President Trump’s decisions on the firing of National Security Adviser John Bolton and his caution in not allowing Bahamian refugees into the country in tonight’s A Closer Look segment. As expected, Meyers was not a fan of either move. Meyers thought that Trump’s decision to require…

Sean Hannity defended President Donald Trump tonight on Fox News, claiming that weather maps prove he was correct that Hurricane Dorian could have hit Alabama. “Pretty much every newsroom in America screwed this up and lied to you by accusing the president of lying. Now the president issued this Tweet – oh look at…

President Donald Trump insists that Hurricane Dorian had Alabama in danger. The Late Show host Stephen Colbert insists that it was not. That was the showdown on tonight’s show, with Colbert insisting Trump stayed “laser-focused” on the hurricane’s path, using maps “from a week ago” to prove his point that Alabama was…

UPDATE:  Debra Messing has responded via Twitter to President Trump and others who accuse her of Joseph McCarthy style tactics in her call for identifying and shaming donors to Trump’s re-election. Using her own tweetstorm, Messing addressed Trump’s earlier comment that he hasn’t forgotten her obsequious behavior when…

President Donald Trump emerged from a rare day of Twitter silence late this afternoon, renewing his frequent war on three of his big MSNBC critics in “Little” Donny Deutsch, Joe Scarborough and “his very angry Psycho wife,” (aka Mika Brzezinski). Trump reminisced about his days on NBC’s The Apprentice, recalling how…

UPDATED: Rapper A$AP Rocky has been released from jail pending the August 14 trial on assault charges. President Donald Trump, who had raised eyebrows with his vigorous lobbying efforts on the recording artist’s behalf, triumphantly tweeted, “"It was a Rocky Week, get home ASAP A$AP!" Prosecutors are recommending a…

UPDATE, with morning tweet President Donald Trump couldn’t resist an additional observation about the second Democratic debate, getting in two of his go-to nicknames after what he “heard” was “not a good day” for Joe Biden or Bernie Sanders. “I am in Japan at the G-20, representing our Country well, but I heard it was…

An impromptu press conference by President Donald Trump shed little light but created some heat when a CNN question about conversations with Russia’s Vladimir Putin came up. Heading to Marine One on Wednesday, Trump was asked by CNN’s Sarah Westwood whether he will ask Putin “not to meddle in the 2020 election” when…

President Trump apparently threatened a Time magazine journalist with prison time for taking a picture of a private letter without permission. The incident happened Monday, June 17, when a group of Time staffers visited the Oval Office for a story about Trump’s re-election campaign, according to a transcript posted onl…

Ah, the dangers of pre-taping topical television. Stephen Colbert experienced that tonight, as his obviously pre-recorded monologue focused on Kellyanne Conway and her alleged violations of the Hatch Act was a beat behind the actual news. Colbert started off strong. When he said Conway’s name, resounding boos filled…

President Donald Trump had much to tell us on Sunday, but kept running into the 280 character limit on Twitter. Thus, the President had his own thread, carefully laying out how the “fake media” in general, and the New York Times and CNN in particular, got it wrong on his deal with Mexico to avoid the imposition of…