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- The Washington Post. Trump lied to me about his wealth to get onto the Forbes 400. Here are the tapes. REVEALED: Trump used his ‘John Barron’ alias to lie about his wealth — and sneak onto the Forbes 400. Motherjones. WATCH: Trump and Stormy sex tape on Jimmy Kimmel Live. ‘Get up’: Trump demands farmers give him a standing ovation at Nashville speech. And the Trumpie goes to . . Of all the scandalous revelations in the Michael Wolff book, the most revealing may be the one about the apricot swirl atop the president’s head.

And the Trumpie goes to . .

For years, Donald Trump has labored to convince us that “I actually don’t have a bad hairline,” that “it’s not really a comb-over,” that “it’s my real hair.” His personal physician attested that Trump “has all his hair.” Whom were we to believe: Trump or our own eyes? Now, via Wolff, comes a plausible explanation from Ivanka Trump of her father’s bouffant: “She often described the mechanics behind it to friends: an absolutely clean pate — a contained island after scalp-reduction ­surgery — surrounded by a furry circle of hair around the sides and front, from which all ends are drawn up to meet in the center and then swept back and secured by a stiffening spray.”

And the color “was from a product called Just for Men — the longer it was left on, the darker it got. ‘Megalomaniacal rant’: The internet burns Trump to the ground for ‘off-kilter’ tweets about his ‘genius’ smarts. 16 Donald Trump Hair Memes So Funny You’ll Actually Be Grateful He’s Running For President. The Hunt for Donald Trump’s Hairdresser, and How to Make ‘It’ Better.

Ivanka Reveals the Truth About Trump’s Hair—And Mocks It, Too. ‘I replaced Donald Trump with his Disney animatronic figure and honestly, it’s an improvement’ ‘I replaced Donald Trump with his Disney animatronic figure and honestly, it’s an improvement’ There’s not really much to say here except that Born Miserable replaced the real Donald Trump in photos with the Disney animatronic Donald Trump, posted it all on Twitter and the results are pretty funny.

‘I replaced Donald Trump with his Disney animatronic figure and honestly, it’s an improvement’

There’s been some speculation that the robot Trump was hastily refashioned from a Hillary Clinton one they’d been working on, assuming she’d win. Take a close look at the face. Fake news? Who honestly cares? What the botched phone call to a soldier’s widow says about Trump. Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images October was supposed to be a month of progress for President Trump, when he and Congress could focus on crafting a budget and clearing a path for tax reform.

What the botched phone call to a soldier’s widow says about Trump.

Instead, it’s been another month of turmoil, from his eruption at the NFL over player protests of police brutality to this week’s clash with a military widow and her representative in Congress. Politics.theonion. Newrepublic. Donald Trump Jacked Up His Campaign’s Trump Tower Rent Once Somebody Else Was Paying It. Trump spent $55K in campaign money to buy his own book — which is probably illegal. Donald Trump may have broken the law by using campaign donations to buy thousands of copies of his own book at retail cost.

Trump spent $55K in campaign money to buy his own book — which is probably illegal

His campaign raised eyebrows this week when a filing with the Federal Election Commission revealed a $55,055 expenditure on May 10 to Barnes & Noble, but The Daily Beast reported that money was used to artificially boost sales for Trump’s latest book and line the candidate’s pockets with donor money. The expenditure amounts to more than 3,500 copies of the hardcover version of Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again, or more than 5,000 copies of the retitled paperback version, Great Again: How to Fix Our Crippled America. Related: Trump campaign spends $55,000 at Barnes and Noble and the internet has some ideas on what A Trump spokesperson told the website the books were purchased as gifts for attendees at the Republican National Convention — which the representative said the campaign was required to do.

Trump Wonders Aloud Why US Didn't 'Work Out' The Civil War. Trump wants to kill the Energy Star program. Guess what his motive might be? Another day, another grift.

Trump wants to kill the Energy Star program. Guess what his motive might be?

The EPA's Energy Star program has been, for consumers, a raging success. A label, right there on each of the displayed home appliances in a store, tells you flat-out how much electricity your latest purchase is going to use and what it's going to cost you; if you want a version that costs less, you can easily find a brand that's more energy-efficient and go from there. If the program didn't exist, such comparisons would be impossible. So of course Team Trump wants to murder the thing. And of course there's a link to his own businesses involved here, because the program also includes voluntary scoring of commercial real estate buildings. Donald Trump has 'dangerous mental illness', say psychiatry experts at Yale conference.

Donald Trump has a “dangerous mental illness” and is not fit to lead the US, a group of psychiatrists has warned during a conference at Yale University.

Donald Trump has 'dangerous mental illness', say psychiatry experts at Yale conference

Mental health experts claimed the President was “paranoid and delusional”, and said it was their “ethical responsibility” to warn the American public about the “dangers” Mr Trump’s psychological state poses to the country. Speaking at the conference at Yale’s School of Medicine on Thursday, one of the mental health professionals, Dr John Gartner, a practising psychotherapist who advised psychiatric residents at Johns Hopkins University Medical School, said: “We have an ethical responsibility to warn the public about Donald Trump's dangerous mental illness.” Donald Trump responds to Paris shooting: 'It looks like another terrorist attack' “Worse than just being a liar or a narcissist, in addition he is paranoid, delusional and grandiose thinking and he proved that to the country the first day he was President.

Remember Those Temporary Officials Trump Quietly Installed? Some Are Now Permanent Employees. Last month, ProPublica revealed that the Trump administration had installed hundreds of political appointees across the federal government without formally announcing them.

Remember Those Temporary Officials Trump Quietly Installed? Some Are Now Permanent Employees.

The more than 400 officials were hired in temporary positions for what the White House calls “beachhead teams.” Government hiring rules allow them to have those positions for up to eight months. Now some of them are getting permanent federal jobs, oftentimes with little or no public notice. A review of federal agencies’ staffing lists, obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests and department websites, found the Trump administration has made at least 25 of its beachhead hires permanent. The White House and federal agencies don’t have to make public hires that don’t require Senate confirmation. At least five of the new permanent staffers are former lobbyists or consultants now working at the agencies they once sought to influence. Take the Department of Homeland Security’s new chief of staff, Kirstjen Nielsen.

White House ‘put out an all-points bulletin’ to ‘find something’ to back Trump’s wiretap charge: report. Trump says ‘100 day’ benchmark is ‘ridiculous’ — after spending 2 years bragging about what he’d do in first 100 days. Trump’s Five Worst Tax Secrets, Revealed. <a class="icopyright-article-tools-noscript" href=" target="_blank" title="Main menu of all reuse options"><img height="25" width="27" border="0" align="bottom" alt="[Reuse options]" src=" Click here for reuse options!

Trump’s Five Worst Tax Secrets, Revealed

</a> Thousands of demonstrators marched on Saturday to demand that Donald Trump release his tax returns. But, barring an unexpected surprise – a W2 form issued by Vladimir Putin, or a 1099 from mafia boss Anthony ‘Fat Tony’ Salerno – we already know Trump’s ugliest tax secrets. We will reveal those secrets… … right after this break. Trump has deep ties to organized crime — federal investigators know it, and the public is catching up. HERSHEY, PA - DECEMBER 15, 2016: President-Elect Donald Trump speaks of his relief to have won the state of Texas on Election night during his speech at the "Thank You Tour" rally at the Giant Center (Shutterstock).

Trump has deep ties to organized crime — federal investigators know it, and the public is catching up

As President Trump discovers the prerogative of unilaterally making war, the media gaze has turned away from the ongoing FBI, House and Senate investigation of his Russia ties to the simpler dramas of cruise missiles, big bombs, and tough but loose talk on North Korea. Yet even “the mother of all bombs” cannot obliterate the accumulating body of evidence about his relationship with Russian organized crime figures and the not unrelated question about whether he and his entourage colluded with Russian officials in the 2016 presidential election.

The story, notes Talking Points Memo’s Josh Marshall, is “Hiding in plain sight.” The evidence of pre-election collusion between Trump and the Russians, while growing, is far from definitive. Hot Money Cyprus. All the Presidents' Taxes. The CNN anchor persisted, circling back to the tax returns when the interview turned to Trump's repeated and repeatedly unproven claims that he had given millions to charity.

All the Presidents' Taxes

"Part of why people are calling on him to release his taxes is so we do know how much he himself has given to charity," she explained. "Will you or the campaign release exactly what that number is? " "I doubt it," Conway said defensively. "This is like badgering. I don't see it as journalism, I see it as badgering. " The Trump campaign insisted that only the media cared about his tax returns, but polling showed otherwise.

Trump's Travel Costs At This Pace? $691 Million. <a class="icopyright-article-tools-noscript" href=" target="_blank" title="Main menu of all reuse options"><img height="25" width="27" border="0" align="bottom" alt="[Reuse options]" src=" Click here for reuse options! </a> CNN looked at the massive money Trump has spent on himself travelling to Mar-A-Lago and whatnot and he's already spent 21.6 million dollars on travel and security in eighty-four days. In comparison, President Obama spent 97 million in eight years. Leaked Email: President Trump's Modeling Agency Is Shutting Down. Donald Trump started Trump Models in 1999. Alex Brandon/AP; Trumpmodels.com One of President Donald Trump's favorite businesses will go the way of Trump Steaks, Trump University, Trump Airlines, and Trump Magazine: his embattled New York modeling firm, Trump Model Management, has officially told its business associates around the world to prepare for its closure, according to an email obtained by Mother Jones.

Over the weekend, Corinne Nicolas, president of Trump Models, informed industry colleagues of the pending closure of the 18-year-old agency, in which Trump owns an 85 percent stake (according to his most recent financial disclosure). "The Trump Organization is choosing to exit the modeling industry," Nicolas wrote in the email. "On the heels of the recent sale of the Miss Universe Organization, the company is choosing to focus on their core businesses in the real estate, golf and hospitality space.

" Trump Winery, Explained. President Donald Trump owns a lot of property and has licensed his name to many different businesses. One of those properties is a winery, which is, unsurprisingly, called the Trump Winery. The business has floated in and out of the headlines since the Trump family took over the winery in 2011, when Trump was a contender for the 2012 presidential election. Since the 2016 race and his subsequent election, the winery has made even more news with controversy and bouts of success. Trump restaurant deposition video released. Captions Settings Dialog Beginning of dialog window.

Escape will cancel and close the window. Trump sends lawyers after teen for site where kittens can punch POTUS. Trump sued over disclosure of personal debts. A Washington lawyer is suing President Donald Trump for allegedly obscuring the extent of his personal debts on his federal financial disclosure form. Attorney Jeffrey Lovitky filed the case in federal court in Washington this week, claiming that Trump's May 2016 disclosure intermingles his personal indebtedness and loans made to businesses or development projects Trump is affiliated with. While Trump or his businesses are facing at least four lawsuits alleging unfair competition or violations of the Constitution's foreign emoluments clause, Lovity's suit makes no claims of impropriety — it simply alleges that the public is being deprived of accurate information about Trump's debts.

All Trump's debts are covered on a single page of his 104-page disclosure. The listed loans exceed $300 million in total, according to the report. Confirmed: Rybolovlev's Jet & Yacht were in Dubrovnik the same time as Ivanka and Jarred Kushner. Contractor sues for $2 million in unpaid bills on Trump's D.C. hotel. Trump may have violated the Constitution to trademark massage parlors and escort services in China. China has granted preliminary approval to 38 new Trump trademarks that would allow the U.S. president and his family to develop name-branded hotels, golf courses and other hospitality services.

Donald Trump’s lawyers applied for the trademarks in April 2016, when the Republican presidential candidate was attacking China at campaign rallies, and their approval raises potential constitutional issues after his inauguration as president, reported the Associated Press. The provisional approvals were published Feb. 27 and Monday by China’s Trademark Office, and they’ll be formally registered if no objections are filed after 90 days. Team Trump Took Illegal Cash, Watchdogs Say. OUCH! Newsweek exposes Trump as the business fraud he is. Felix Sater: The Crook Behind the Trump-Russia 'Peace' Plan. Sater is one of the most notorious and shady characters in the American president’s past, including his very recent past. Felix Sater is an immigrant who did prison time for stabbing a man in the face with the broken stem of a margarita glass, and he would surely qualify for the label “bad hombre” were he from Mexico instead of Russia.

FBI files: former Trump property doorman ordered to lie to Black people to block them from renting. Tracking Donald Trump's Ethics-Related Promises and Conflicts Of Interest. Although Donald Trump sits in the Oval Office now, he continues to own stakes in hundreds of businesses, both in this country and abroad. Trump Vineyard Requests Visas For Still More Foreign Workers. Trump claim of being ‘first in his class’ at Wharton was another lie: report. Throughout his campaign and nascent presidency, Donald Trump has maintained that he is “a very smart guy” who graduated from Pennsylvania University’s Wharton School of Business at the top of his class.

However, according to a Thursday report from The Daily Pennsylvanian, academic records and the recollections of his classmates don’t line up with Trump’s claims — including a 1984 boast to the New York Times that he graduated “first in his class.” Trump's Repeal of Anti-Corruption Measure Proves He's a Fake - Rolling Stone. Why Won't the Feds Go After Trump for His Huge Contract Breach? - Rolling Stone. Dope Man: Trump’s dad nearly ran for Mayor of New York, watch his racist 1969 test commercials. Donald Trump: a man so obnoxious that karma may see him reincarnated as himself. Another Trump Lie: 'I’m Smart' The White House Won't Say Whether Donald Trump Played Golf. Here's Why. Are Men OK? The Fragile Masculinity of Donald Trump's Fragrances. Donald Trump’s History of Lying Under Oath. Trump's Campaign Paid Millions To His Own Properties, FEC Documents Say. Donald Trump Gets a GQ Makeover. Judge Orders Trump Golf Club To Pay Nearly $6 Million To Former Members.

Trump reconsiders immigration 'ban' after learning it could affect his future ex-wife. Trump's Tie Was Held Together With Tape At The Inauguration. Donald Trump Expanding Scottish Golf Resort After Vowing Not To Make New Foreign Deals. Uncle Sam to Donald Trump: Please explain these shady practices and dubious donations. Donald Trump Poised To Become Misstater In Chief. Publicintegrity. Dirty money: Trump and the Kazakh connection.

Donald Trump Was Bailed Out of Bankruptcy by Russia Crime Bosses. Beyond ‘golden showers’: Here are 9 explosive claims from intel memo on Trump-Russia collusion. Trump used $258,000 from his charity to settle legal problems. Donald Trump's businesses owe $1.8bn to more than 150 different institutions, new study suggests. Legal battle: Trump to face sworn deposition in coming days. Spain Sent America Its Best in José Andrés. Now Donald Trump’s Suing Him. Trump’s inability to tolerate critics may be his biggest problem. Did Donald Trump Cheat on Social Security and Medicare Taxes, Paying Less Than Minimum Wage Workers? This week in Donald Trump’s conflicts of interest: Trump’s getting what he wants at Mar-a-Lago. “This is not Woodstock”: Donald Trump adviser doesn’t even care if no celebrities show up to inauguration.

Donald Trump’s War Against Facts. Denying Conflict, Trump Family Tries to Resolve Potential Problems. Trump's conflicts of interest: a visual guide. ‘Explosive’ Newsweek story details how ‘Trump’s business ties are already jeopardizing US interests’ Donald Trump’s Campaign Paid $11 Million to Trump Businesses. In Carrier Deal, Trump Is Taking Credit for Some Blatant Crony Capitalism. Trump, the Dragon, and the Minotaur by Yanis Varoufakis.

Carrier To Keep Jobs In U.S. After Trump Offers State Incentives. Trump: I Will Quit Business ‘in Total’ for Presidency. Donald Trump to leave his business ‘in total’ to focus on presidency. We May Not Know If Trump’s Foreign Business Deals Violate the Constitution. Here are 5 deeply obnoxious things we learned about Donald Trump this week. It Costs New York City Taxpayers $1 Million a Day to Protect Tax Dodger Donald Trump. The Donald J. Trump Foundation Broke IRS Rules by Self-Dealing: Report. 5 Deeply Obnoxious Things We Learned About Donald Trump This Week. An Unhinged Trump Flies Into A Rage Over Recount That He Planted The Seeds For. This week in Donald Trump’s conflicts of interest: What was the president-elect doing this week to possibly make himself rich? PLEASE Do Not Use This Photo Of Trump!

Trump’s excess serving of braggadocio makes this election year a particularly baffling one. 'The Slime Factor Is Overwhelming': Charles Blow Decimates Charlatan President-Elect Trump. Donald Trump, Merrick Garland, and Las Vegas: a tale of unionization. Donald Trump Basically Says Conflicts Of Interest Aren't Illegal If The President Has Them. What, Me Torture? Donald Trump’s Week of Wild WTF Reversals. Trump Foundation admits to violating ban on ‘self-dealing,’ new filing to IRS shows. Trump denies any conflict of interest over business empire. Donald Trump Is Really Upset Mike Pence Got Booed At 'Hamilton' President-elect: I had to settle Trump University case 'to focus on our country' Paul Krugman Exposes Trump's Most Blatant Bait-and-Switch Lie. Log In. Donald Trump reverses course, settles Trump University lawsuit for $25 million. Rebecca Solnit: The Loneliness of Donald Trump.