Partisan America’s fetish with the feet of our presidents By Nate Thayer March 1, 2017 Partisan Washington’s fetish with presidential feet dominated news headlines yesterday, trumping the global consensus the leaders of the Free World have lost their minds. Trump presidential advisor KellyAnne Conway was spanked throughout official Washington for kneeling and putting her feet […]
Documents Contradict Trump, Show Campaign Officials Agreed to Limit Ohio Rally Size
Oh, and that Colorado fire marshal Trump accused of being a Democrat? He’s a Republican. By Nate Thayer August 02, 2016 Politico Magazine Here is the text of my piece in Politico magazine published this evening. The story is partly based on documents obtained that show that Donald Trump and his senior campaign officials were […]
Trump Attacks Firefighters in Colorado, Ohio: Who’s Next? Mother Theresa?
Trump Takes National Campaign Against Firefighters from Colorado to Ohio By Nate Thayer August 1, 2016 Republican party presidential nominee Donald Trump took his campaign attacking firefighters–the equivalent of calling into question the virtue of Mother Theresa–from Colorado to Ohio today. In Columbus, Ohio Monday, Trump held a gathering at the Columbus Convention Center and accused […]
Trump Rescued by Firefighters, Attacks them in Speech Moments Later
By Nate Thayer July 31, 2016 Donald Trump demonstrated a degree of breathtaking self-obsession in Colorado yesterday that was as revealing as a psychological profile of the republican nominee for president as it was in its political self-destructiveness. Early Friday afternoon, Trump got stuck in an elevator at his hotel in Colorado Springs, Colorado […]
Trump and White Racism: Which Came First? The Chicken or the Egg?
Trump and White Racists: Which Came First? The Chicken or the Egg? By Nate Thayer April 5, 2016 With Donald Trump’s fevered rise to the top of U.S. electoral politics, racial tension in America has come under the harsh glare of public scrutiny. But racial polarization in America has not spiked since the Trump presidential […]
Angry Yelling as Political Debate in the Age of Trump
Political Discussion in the Polarized Age of Trump By Nate Thayer March 20, 2016 Recently, I posted a short primer on white supremacist tattoos and their meaning after a Donald Trump for president worker was interviewed by U.S. TV network PBS who failed to note the racist and neo-Nazi symbols prominently inked on […]
Anti-federal government ‘birther’ & N.H. Trump for President co-chair arrested
Anti-Gay, anti-Muslim, anti-federal govt, ‘birther’, & N.H. Trump for President co-chair arrested Candidate for Sheriff had “desire and willingness” to shoot police and “used guns and threats of violence to intimidate and interfere with federal law enforcement officers,” Feds say By Nate Thayer March 3, 2016 The New Hampshire co-chair for Veterans for Trump, an extremist […]
Draft dodger Donald #Trump seeks job of U.S. military commander-in-chief
Draft Dodger Donald Trump has “secret plan” to destroy ISIS but doesn’t “want the enemy to know what I’m doing.” By Nate Thayer June 17, 2015 While Donald Trump confidently trumpeted his “secret plan” to destroy ISIS, one of the “greatest threats to the security of this nation” yesterday, he is more than vague […]