LGBTQ news and entertainment
Riffing on Donald Trump’s infamous “wall,” Tecate Beer trolls Trump with their own idea for a wall.
A three foot high wall where folks can get together and have beers.
Note this “Trumpian” statement from Saatchi & Saatchi New York’s Chris Moreira:
“This is a tremendous idea for Tecate. It really is the best idea. We worked with the best clients and hired the best people to work on it. Only the best. It’s terrific.”
In advance of tonight’s first presidential debate, the Clinton campaign has released this spot highlighting many of the lies Donald Trump has told on the campaign trail, and may try to get away with tonight.
A new PBS Frontline documentary airing next week revisits the night that President Obama humiliated Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents Dinner after the Donald attempted to discredit the president as an American.
Featured in the segment is Omarosa Manigault, former Apprentice contestant, who tells us the true reason why Donald Trump is running for president:
“Every critic, every detractor, will have to bow down to President Trump. It’s everyone who’s ever doubted Donald, who ever disagreed, who ever challenged him. It is the ultimate revenge to become the most powerful man in the universe.”
Longtime advisor Roger Stone says that night in 2011 was “the night that [Trump] resolved to run for president.”
The documentary airs Tuesday night on PBS.
Donald Trump just can’t help himself. All you have to do to get a rise out of him is lay the bait and wait.
As I reported yesterday, billionaire Mark Cuban tweeted the news that he will have a front row seat at Monday’s first presidential debate at the invite of the Clinton campaign.
Cuban, as many know, has been an outspoken critic of the Donald and his presidential campaign for months now.
In what is surely the most predictable response, Trump today tweeted in retaliation.
Of course, along the way he initially misspelled Flowers first name, so he deleted and retweeted.
But what’s most infantile is bringing up a woman from Bill Clinton’s past as some kind of touché.
It does make you wonder if the Trumpster is planning on bringing up Bill’s moral lapses of the 80s or 90s as some kind of failure on Hillary’s part.
I think that’s definitely a losing proposition for Trump, and will hand Hillary the advantage.
Having been with my husband for 22 years – legally married as long as the law would allow, 13 years now – I have respect for those who work their way through marital difficulties.
A whole lot more than someone who cuts and runs on his first two wives.
UPDATE: Ms. Flowers herself took to Twitter to say that she WILL in fact be attending the debate Monday night.
Hi Donald. You know I'm in your corner and will definitely be at the debate!…💋— Gennifer Flowers (@gennflowers) September 24, 2016
The folks at Super Deluxe bring you their remix/re-edit of the now infamous Jimmy Fallon “softball” interview of Republican prez hopeful, Donald Trump, that ended in Fallon playfully humanizing Trump by mussing his hair.
Fallon has been taken to task for his fawning over the Trumpster throughout his last appearance on The Tonight Show. Super Deluxe takes the time to underscore Fallon’s adoration and flattering adulation.
Contrast this with Fallon greeting Hillary Clinton wearing a face-mask upon her subsequent visit.
Spoken word artist and poet IN-Q drops these truths about the current presidential campaign.
‘Sometimes you need a great villain to make a great hero/ And that great villain is here/ And that great hero is you/ there’s no question in my mind what we all have to do’
From IN-Q: I’m #VotingAgainst Hate, Fear, Racism, Sexism, Bigotry, Xenophobia, Violence and Ignorance. What are you Voting Against? Register at Vote.org
IN-Q is a National Poetry Slam Champion and multi-platinum winning songwriter. His groundbreaking performances include selling out the largest one-man poetry show in Los Angeles history, being the first spoken word artist to perform with Cirque Du Soleil, and being featured on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam and ESPN’s World Series of Poker.
His newest video, “The Only Reason We’re Alive,” went viral shortly after it was released and just passed two million views online.
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| Donald Trump (L) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R) |
Writing on his Facebook page today, Sen. Ted Cruz – who came in second for the Republican presidential nomination – announced he will be voting for GOP candidate Donald Trump for president on November 8.
You’ll recall that Cruz has said in recent months that Trump is a “sniveling coward” and that he could never imagine see himself endorsing Trump.
Cruz cites possible Supreme Court nominations as his number one reason for endorsing the devil Trump.
From his Facebook page:
This election is unlike any other in our nation’s history. Like many other voters, I have struggled to determine the right course of action in this general election.
In Cleveland, I urged voters, “please, don’t stay home in November. Stand, and speak, and vote your conscience, vote for candidates up and down the ticket whom you trust to defend our freedom and to be faithful to the Constitution.”
After many months of careful consideration, of prayer and searching my own conscience, I have decided that on Election Day, I will vote for the Republican nominee, Donald Trump.
I’ve made this decision for two reasons. First, last year, I promised to support the Republican nominee. And I intend to keep my word.
Second, even though I have had areas of significant disagreement with our nominee, by any measure Hillary Clinton is wholly unacceptable — that’s why I have always been #NeverHillary.
You can read the full text at the link. But, you get the picture.
The timing is interesting in that recently the RNC and Trump have mentioned “sanctions” against future runs for the White House for any of this year’s GOP wanna-be’s who don’t support Trump.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign responded to the endorsement by retweeting a post from Cruz this past spring urging Trump to release his tax returns.
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| Mark Cuban |
For months now, billionaire Mark Cuban (Dallas Mavericks, Shark Tank) has been an outspoken critic of Republican Donald Trump’s run for the White House.
Just last week, Cuban offered Trump $10 million if he would sit down to a four hour, one on one interview with Cuban. It goes without saying Trump didn’t respond.
But, Cuban will have a ringside seat to the first presidential debate at Hofstra University this coming Monday as news comes that the Hillary Clinton camp has given Cuban the best ticket they have so he can attend.
Cuban is famous for being down front, yelling at referees, throwing shade during his Mavericks basketball games, so expect some posturing from the Shark Tank star.
Just got a front row seat to watch @HillaryClinton overwhelm @realDonaldTrump at the “Humbling at Hofstra” on Monday. It Is On !— Mark Cuban (@mcuban) September 23, 2016
If you have ever seen @mcuban courtside at a Mavs game, you know he’ll be fired up for Monday’s debate. #ImwithHer— Brian Fallon (@brianefallon) September 23, 2016
Ladies and gentlemen of the Republican party – your ‘brilliant’ presidential candidate.
His watered down, simplistic approach to this deep, complex, visceral issue is almost painful to read.
The quote, via CNN:
“It just seems that there’s a lack of spirit between the white and the black. I mean, it’s a terrible thing that we’re witnessing,” he said. “You are seeing it, I’m seeing it, and you look at what went on last night in Charlotte, a great place, and you just see it. There’s somewhat — and I see it even going out. There’s such a lack of spirit. There’s a lack of something, something that’s going on that’s bad, and what’s going on between police and others is getting worse.”
Trump went on to suggest stop-and-frisk as a viable tool to stopping crime in America.
New York City’s controversial stop-and-frisk program led tons of complaints that the practice led to racial profiling.
In 2013, a federal judge ruled the practice was unconstitutional as data bore out that it unlawfully targeted blacks and Latinos.
Trump’s answer to America’s criminal and/or racial woes is to enact some version of an unconstitutional practice. As he attempts to woo the black vote, he’s saying “relinquish your civil liberties.”
After calling the Black Lives Matter movement “a stupid waste of time,” and saying low voter turnout on behalf of African-Americans is indicative of “the way they’re raised,” Donald Trump’s Ohio campaign chair, Kathy Miller, has resigned.
Oh, did I mention she told the Guardian, “I don’t think there was any racism until Obama got elected?”
Seriously.
Kathy Miller, who is white and chair of the Republican nominee’s campaign in Mahoning County, made the remarks during a taped interview with the Guardian’s Anywhere but Washington series of election videos.
“If you’re black and you haven’t been successful in the last 50 years, it’s your own fault. You’ve had every opportunity, it was given to you,” she said.
“You’ve had the same schools everybody else went to. You had benefits to go to college that white kids didn’t have. You had all the advantages and didn’t take advantage of it. It’s not our fault, certainly.”
That @realDonaldTrump Mahoning County, OH Volunteer Chair has resigned. “My personal comments were inappropriate, and I apologize.” pic.twitter.com/T4xX8Bd3IW— Candace Smith (@CandaceSmith_) September 22, 2016