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Trump Trashes Democrats After Claiming What Biden Said Was Mean

Donald Trump is back to his usual self, mere hours after complaining about Joe Biden’s “garbage” comment.

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Mere hours after Donald Trump was falsely preaching love and acceptance and accusing Kamala Harris of “running a campaign of hate,” the former president was back to his same old antics.

“These are horrible people,” said Trump at a North Carolina rally Wednesday afternoon, referring to Democrats. “Oops, we should get along with everybody. They’re horrible people. Some people you just can’t get along with.”

With a wink and a nod, Trump is showing his supporters he doesn’t really care about being polite to those he considers his political enemies.

Late Tuesday evening, Trump went on a posting rampage on Truth Social and Twitter, accusing President Joe Biden and Harris of not spreading positive enough vibes.

“While I am running a campaign of positive solutions to save America, Kamala Harris is running a campaign of hate,” he wrote on Truth Social just after midnight. “She has spent all week comparing her political opponents to the most evil mass murderers in history. Now, on top of everything, Joe Biden calls our supporters “garbage.” You can’t lead America if you don’t love the American People.”

Biden, for what it’s worth, says he was only calling one specific Trump supporter “garbage”: the comedian at Trump’s rally who called Puerto Ricans the same.

Clearly Trump is playing the fiddle here. We all know that much more offensive and frightening stuff comes out of his own mouth nearly every day.

Cognitive Decline? Trump Goes on Weird Tangent Explaining Water

Watch how Donald Trump tried to explain Hurricane Helene to a crowd in North Carolina.

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Former President Donald Trump should leave the meteorology to the professionals.

After taking jabs at Kamala Harris and his second debate moderators at a North Carolina rally Wednesday afternoon, Trump suddenly turned to Hurricane Helene, the category storm that devastated large swaths of the state earlier this month, leaving 130 people dead and damaging key infrastructure beyond repair.

“I must’ve been the first one, I followed that storm right in,” the former president said. “I saw the devastation, it was a travesty, it was viscous, it was water. The water was the worst we’d ever seen. It was a water hurricane, that’s what it was.”

This may have been a part of Trump’s usual meandering rally ramblings, or he may just be truly unaware of what a Category 4 hurricane entails. Either way, he spent an ample amount of time explaining how a hurricane works to a crowd that just experienced one of the deadliest hurricanes in two decades.

After more ranting, Trump then re-upped the false claim that the federal disaster response was a complete failure due to Democrats taking money out of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to “give” to immigrants.  

“They don’t have any money for North Carolina, or a lot of other states, you find out they don’t have any money. FEMA spent money on bringing illegal aliens into our country.”

This conspiracy has been thoroughly debunked. FEMA has approved $100 million of aid to North Carolina. It did not spend any of its disaster funds on the southern border, and even Republicans have pushed back on this claim. But as with his meteorology report, Trump seems to be making it all up as he goes along. 

Weird Statues of Donald Trump Keep Popping Up in Different Cities

Incredibly on the nose, some of the statues of the former president are appearing behind naked statues of women.

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Mysterious statues of Donald Trump are popping up across the country leaving some amused, some perplexed, and Republicans, of course, offended.

In Philadelphia and in Portland, Oregon, golden statues of the former president have popped up behind statues of naked women in their respective downtowns, bearing the title, “In honor of a lifetime of sexual assault.”

Each statue had a plaque quoting Trump in the infamous 2005 Access Hollywood tape: “I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star they let you do it. You can do anything.”

Twitter screenshot Jennifer Bendery @jbendery: A reader in Philly has flagged another mysterious new monument that has magically appeared in a public park to "honor" Trump. It looks a lot like the ones popping up in DC. Titled "In Honor Of A Lifetime Of Sexual Assault," it features Trump's "grab em by the pu**y" comment. (photo of the Trump statue behind a naked woman statue and a close-up photo of the plaque)

While in Philadelphia, the statue was quickly removed by city workers, in Portland, the golden Trump was beheaded.

And Washington, D.C., residents spotted a new statue at the Capitol this week, a bronze tiki torch sculpture titled, “The Donald J. Trump Enduring Flame.”

Conversation Jennifer Bendery @jbendery · Oct 28 NEW: Another mysterious and absurd monument has appeared in D.C., this time by the White House and this time it's a tiki torch monument honoring Trump for calling neo-Nazis "very fine people." From huffpost.com Jennifer Bendery @jbendery “The Donald J. Trump Enduring Flame” monument appeared early Monday near the White House. It depicts a hand holding up a flaming tiki torch -- a nod to the torches carried by white nationalists at the violent "Unite the Right" rally in 2017 in Charlottesville, Va. (photo of tiki torch statue)

“This monument pays tribute to President Donald Trump and the ‘very fine people’ he boldly stood to defend when they marched in Charlottesville, Virginia,” the plaque accompanying the statue reads, referencing the infamous neo-Nazi march in 2017. The over eight-foot-tall sculpture is under 24-hour surveillance at the Freedom Plaza, where it will remain until 5 p.m. Thursday.

This followed the Nancy Pelosi poop desk that appeared at the National Mall to honor “the brave men and women who broke into the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021 to loot, urinate and defecate throughout those hallowed halls in order to overturn an election.”

The Washington Post scored an interview with one of the anonymous artists who created the tiki torch and poop displays. “We are hoping they spark conversation about what we view are certain political issues that are relevant to voters and how they make their decision voting,” he said.

Shortly after their call, the tiki torch had been snapped in half. “We’ll fix it,” the artist texted the Post.

Meanwhile, a giant 43-foot-tall naked Trump marionette has been touring around the United States, stopping in Las Vegas, Phoenix, Madison, and Detroit. The 6,000-pound statue is being trotted around by the anonymous collective as part of the Crooked and Obscene Tour, which the group says is meant to spark dialogue about “transparency—or lack thereof—in politics.” Predictably, Republicans across the country are mad. The Republican Party in Nevada, where the statue first debuted, said it “strongly condemns” the marionette, calling it “offensive.”

Twitter screenshot TheeGirlNextDior🌹 @mwah_maya So im driving to work this morning and all of a sudden i see a 30ft Trump statue flashing me (two photos of giant nude Trump statue)

Whether any of these sculptures actually reach the category of art or satire, or sway any voters, is yet to be seen.

Judge Brutally Roasts Rudy Giuliani for Not Being Able to Shut up

Rudy Giuliani was shut down—literally—during his sexual harassment trial.

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A New York Supreme Court judge stripped Rudy Giuliani of his ability to talk during his sexual harassment trial Wednesday, insisting that the former New York City mayor was only hurting himself by continuing to speak.

“Mr. Giuliani, you’re going to cause yourself harm by doing this, OK? So I’m going to protect you from yourself at this time,” Judge Nicholas Moyne said, according to the New York Daily News.

“These are not legal arguments that you’re making right now.… These are personal attacks, and this is not the time for that, OK?” Moyne continued. “I’m not going to allow it, I’m sorry. I tried to treat you with respect and with deference, but you have to follow my rules.”

The mute order came after Giuliani openly disparaged one of his former employees, Noelle Dunphy, who is suing the ex–Donald Trump attorney for $10 million for constantly sexually harassing her after he hired her as a consultant in 2019 to help develop his businesses. Her suit alleges the 80-year-old forced her to engage in “violent sex,” reported the Daily News, as well as required her to work in revealing clothing he had purchased and attend video calls in the nude.

Giuliani is also accused of regularly making sexual comments about her body and failing to pay Dunphy approximately $2 million in wages. Dunphy submitted a transcript of some of Giuliani’s comments to the court, which she caught on tape.

Just an hour into Wednesday’s hearing, which was intended to deal with several motions related to the case, Giuliani went on a rant, deriding Dunphy as a “professional extortionist” who was barred from hotels.

Moyne reportedly yelled at Giuliani several times before the judge forced him into silence.

The unpaid Trump ally has been practically buried in a legal hellscape of his own making in recent months. Last week, Giuliani was court-ordered to surrender his assets—including his Manhattan penthouse—to mother-daughter duo Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, a pair of 2020 Georgia poll workers whom he had repeatedly defamed.

Giuliani was ordered in December to pay nearly $150 million in damages to Freeman and Moss. Since then, the former Trump attorney unsuccessfully filed for bankruptcy, lost his accountant over his insurmountable debts, begged Trump for help settling his seven-figure legal fees (Trump refused), had his WABC radio show canceled for spewing 2020 election lies, and miserably started his own coffee brand, “Rudy Coffee,” in an effort to funnel in some extra cash, before ultimately losing his bankruptcy case due to his outlandish spending habits, with the deciding New York judge branding the former city mayor a “recalcitrant debtor.”

Giuliani is also under the gun for a lawsuit from his former legal representation, who accused him of failing to pay his bill and allegedly only dishing out $214,000 of nearly $1.6 million in legal expenses. Giuliani, meanwhile, claimed he was stiffed by his favorite client, Trump, to the tune of millions of dollars.

Amazingly, Giuliani’s legal troubles don’t end there, either: The MAGA henchman is also one of 19 co-defendants in the Georgia election-interference case and was named in April in an Arizona indictment charging another slew of Republican officials and Trump allies for their alleged involvement in a scheme to overturn the state’s 2020 presidential election results. Earlier this month, an Arizona judge torched a legal filing raised by Giuliani in the case, ruling that the ex-Trump aide had “not one scintilla” of evidence to question the legitimacy of a grand jury assigned to his lawsuit.

Trump Doubles Down After Elon’s Shocking “Tank the Economy” Confession

Donald Trump seems to have no concerns about Elon’s Musk’s recent admission.

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Just hours after Elon Musk admitted Donald Trump’s policies will tank the entire economy, the former president confirmed his plans to let Musk be a part of the destruction, claiming that “nobody is going to feel it.”

In an interview with Sean Hannity on Tuesday night, Trump lauded Musk as a “very exceptional guy” and a “great cost-cutter” when asked about a potential role for the billionaire CEO in his Cabinet. But even more unbelievably, the Republican candidate said with confidence that the American people wouldn’t “feel” the economic impacts of cutting trillions from the budget.

“He’ll cut costs without anybody even knowing it—nobody’s going to notice—nobody is going to feel it,” Trump told Hannity, confirming that Musk does indeed plan to slash $2 trillion from the government’s budget.

Musk has proposed heading a “Department of Government Efficiency” under a Trump Cabinet—and the former president has clearly taken him up on it. At Trump’s hate-filled Madison Square Garden rally over the weekend, Musk announced that the target is $2 trillion in cuts.

Trimming the budget to the level would have to include cuts to essential government services like Medicare and Social Security—and could result in an initial huge economic crash. But Musk admitted Tuesday that that’s all a part of the plan, agreeing with a far-right troll on X that crashing the economy would lead to “sounder footing” in two years.

The plan sounds strikingly similar to that of Musk and Trump’s friend Javier Milei of Argentina. When campaigning for president, Milei promised to “take a chainsaw to the state,” cut public spending on education and health care, and eliminate the central bank and tens of thousands of government jobs. Since his election last year, Argentina has suffered a deep recession and the worst economic downturn in the country in decades, with 57 percent of the population now in poverty and inflation up 270 percent.

As journalist Kevin Drum noted, “Elon is claiming we should literally zero out the entire rest of the federal budget. Everything. The FBI, national parks, food stamps, Medicaid, education, NASA, the EPA, farm support, the NIH, all federal R&D grants, embassies worldwide, the FAA, the Department of Justice, the VA, the weather service, the border patrol, etc. etc. Everything.”

Meanwhile, Trump’s other horrible economic plans would simultaneously dramatically hike inflation and slow U.S. production and economic growth. But perhaps it shouldn’t be a surprise that two bumbling billionaires are planning to manufacture an economic disaster that will disproportionately harm poor Americans.