Since July of this year, Trump has taken up a clearer posture as a politician-cum-comic. He marshals the pleasure of jokes to do the dirty work of dehumanizing people and groups he sees as a threat to ...
In both cases, “it’s just a joke.” What Trumpian humor and rhetoric have unleashed will not disappear under a Harris presidency, as the supposedly “post-racial” Obama era made clear.
But it was one of the event’s opening acts, a stand-up comic brazen in his use of explicitly racist jokes, who struck the rawest nerve in a country long plagued by the problem of white ...
The fallout from that deeply racist joke about Puerto Rico at Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally over the weekend continues to snowball, as a Reggaeton superstar who initially endorsed Trump ...