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Trump explains hoarse voice during Oval meeting: ‘I was shouting at people’

President Donald Trump‘s voice was noticeably hoarse during a meeting inside the Oval Office on Monday, as he shared with White House reporters that he had a screaming fit. “Your voice sounds a little rough. Are you feeling OK?” a reporter asked Trump, who held a news conference to announce a new FIFA passport ahead of next year’s World Cup hosted in the United States. Trump assured, “I feel great,” but added that he lost his voice because “I was […]

November 17, 2025

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Philadelphia ends DEI standards for business contracts amid Trump’s federal ban and people are reacting

Philadelphia is ending its DEI standards for government contracts with businesses throughout the city, ending a decades-old practice as public and private sectors grapple with President Donald Trump‘s crusade against diversity programs. According to The Philadelphia Inquirer, the administration of Mayor Cherelle Parker, the city’s first woman and Black female mayor, will no longer enforce its goal of ensuring 35% of contracts go to minority, women, or disabled-owned enterprises. The government contracts are worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The […]

November 14, 2025 1

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‘We can’t give everything away’: Trump suggests SNAP money goes to people who don’t want to work

President Donald Trump defended his administration’s decision to only partially disburse SNAP to more than 42 million Americans, before ultimately appealing a federal judge’s order to fully fund the food assistance program. “We have to remain liquid. We can’t give everything away based on a number,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Thursday night. “Our country has to remain very liquid because problems, catastrophes, wars, could be anything.” On Friday, the Trump administration asked an appeals court to […]

November 7, 2025

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Trump nominee for special counsel texted that MLK Day should be in ‘hell’ and used slur against Black people

The nomination of President Donald Trump‘s pick to lead the U.S. Office of Special Counsel has imploded after leaked racist text messages he sent were made public. Paul Ingrassia said the federal holiday dedicated to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. should be in “hell” and that it was Black people’s “natural state” to be victims, among other racist and inflammatory remarks, according to a bombshell investigation published by Politico. In a now-dissolved group chat with Republican operatives and influencers, Ingrassia […]

October 21, 2025 1

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Trump photographed with young Republicans who called Black people monkeys, joked about watching people ‘burn’

Despite the White House’s efforts to distance itself from a bombshell investigative report exposing the racist and violent text messages of several young Republican leaders, a new photograph of President Donald Trump with a pair of those Republicans is sure not to put the controversy to bed. As theGrio previously reported, Black leaders, including NAACP President Derrick Johnson and Congressional Black Caucus Chairwoman and U.S. Rep. Yvette D. Clarke, slammed the shocking text messages leaked from a group chat among […]

October 16, 2025 1

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‘All people are equal’: Ms. Rachel slams Obama’s comments on Gaza

Barack Obama has his fair share of critics, but his latest one might be one of the most unexpected. Famed YouTube personality Ms. Rachel, best known for her educational videos for toddlers, publicly called out former President Obama over his language in a recent statement regarding the ongoing war in Gaza. The children’s content creator, who has over 4 million followers on Instagram and 17.2 million subscribers to her YouTube channel, posted an open letter on Friday (Oct. 10), criticizing […]

October 12, 2025 2

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‘We, the People, deserve better’: Kamala Harris joins chorus condemning Trump pressure to suspend Jimmel Kimmel

Former Vice President Kamala Harris joined a chorus of elected officials and political figures condemning the Trump administration for pressuring media conglomerates to suspend Jimmy Kimmel from his decades-long late-night television show. “What we are witnessing is an outright abuse of power,” said Harris in a public statement released Thursday. The former 2024 presidential opponent to now-President Donald Trump continued, “This administration is attacking critics and using fear as a weapon to silence anyone who would speak out.” The former […]

September 19, 2025 1

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Charlie Kirk called Jasmine Crockett a ‘circus act’ part of the ‘great replacement’ of white people. Here’s her reaction after his shooting

A month before his shooting death, conservative activist Charlie Kirk attacked U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, blaming her and Democrats for being part of a “sinister” plan to replace white people in America. While discussing the issue of redistricting congressional maps, which played out dramatically in Texas last month, Kirk said on his Aug. 4 podcast show, “The great replacement of white people is far more sinister than any redistricting project.” “That is at the core of the Democrat project,” […]

September 18, 2025

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Trump repeats false story about Wes Moore and claims ‘a lot’ of people would ‘rather have a dictator’

During a three-hour-long Cabinet meeting before the White House press pool on Tuesday, President Donald Trump gabbed about a flurry of topics, railing against Democrats about crime in inner cities, among other policy issues. Touting his declared crime emergency response in Washington, D.C., and his threat to send the National Guard to majority-Black cities, Trump again called out Democratic Maryland Governor Wes Moore, who in recent days has sharply criticized Trump’s signaling that he would send troops on the ground […]

August 26, 2025