One of the few highlights of the past week was hearing more about LeBron James’ I Promise schools, which King James has started for poor kids in Ohio. You can see the kind of groundbreaking project Bron has undertaken, not just putting his money where his mouth is, but also being extremely thoughtful about what it means to be a kid from a financially disadvantaged home. LeBron’s priority is the well-being of these kids, and he’s looking at the bigger picture beyond simply “test scores.” He wants these kids’ parents to have jobs. He wants the kids to know that there will always be food on the table even in income-insecure households. And he wants kids to be able to ride their bikes, like he did as a kid.
Honestly, as I read more about LeBron’s project, I became more and more moved by what he’s doing for his community, for his hometown, for Ohio and for children. But there are still people in this world who can’t see it. One of those people is The One They Call U BUM. LeBron has been vocal about U BUM and how U BUM is a white supremacist, a racist, a misogynist and a terrible person doing terrible things to this country. LeBron appeared on CNN in an interview with Don Lemon last week – an interview which first aired last Monday, but was re-aired on Friday night – and this was what U BUM had to tweet:
Can you even imagine? Can you imagine the country in which we’re now living, that this great man is being mocked and denigrated? This intelligent, thoughtful, compassionate man, who is already creating something positive, something which will likely be an even greater legacy than his history as an athlete? And Donald Trump, who lacks the intelligence God gave a fruit loop, is hate-tweeting about the stupidity of LeBron AND Don Lemon. And of course this sh-t is about race. It’s about race, and it’s about how Bron called him U BUM.
Incidentally, Michael Jordan released a rare public statement on this matter, and I was surprised it was not “I would like to be excluded from this narrative.” No, MJ said this: “I support LJ. He’s doing an amazing job for his community.” Melania Trump also disagreed with her husband. Melania’s office released this statement:
“It looks like LeBron James is working to do good things on behalf of our next generation and just as she always has, the First Lady encourages everyone to have an open dialogue about issues facing children today. As you know, Mrs. Trump has traveled the country and world talking to children about their well-being, healthy living, and the importance of responsible online behavior with her Be Best initiative. Her platform centers around visiting organizations, hospitals and schools, and she would be open to visiting the I Promise School in Akron.”
“She would be open…” Hard pass on that one, Bron. I mean, sure, it would be funny to see U BUM’s eyes pop out of his head when Melania and Bron greeted each other with a warm hug. But also: Melania would totally pull out her “I REALLY DON’T CARE, DO U?” jacket. So… hard pass.
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He’s a wretched embarrassment to humanity (trump, not LeBron, of course).
ALSO, Hope Hicks was seen on Air Force One on the way to the Ohio rally. Witness tampering, perhaps?
This and more . He is a CANCER on our society and if he is not stopped, I am not sure what will be left of our country in a couple years. I am seriously frightened out of my mind at times by what he is saying and doing.
Agreed. The only consolation I take these days is that my dad, who’s always been a conservative and jumped right on the Fox bandwagon, detests Trump. He has perspective, though, that most MAGAts don’t. He lived through the Soviet occupation and witnessed firsthand the exile, torture and murder of people who did anything but go along with the “Reds.”
Saw Hicks lurking at drump’s self pity rally. Frankly, she gives me the creeps. She’s back to dating Rob Porter the wife abuser. She acts confident, but I find nothing appealing about her. She gravitates towards horrible people.
Ugh, I did not know she was back with Porter. That is true insight into her character.
Conspiracy twitter tells me she was wearing a wire. We can only hope.
She’s horrible so she surrounds herself with like minds.
Probably because she is, herself, an awful person.
I couldnt believe hicks was back after extracting herself from that sh*tshow. If she wasn’t wearing a wire, she’s an idiot. Or maybe she’s an idiot wearing a wire. Who knows?
Did you see her outfit? It was skintight and at least one size too small. I wish she were wearing a wire, but I really don’t know where they could have hidden it away. Her dress was like a second skin.
I really think that Hicks showing up is bigger news than is being reported. Seriously, why was she there? It’s not like she has any expertise that was needed for a rally in Ohio. I find this really odd. She knows everything that went on during the campaign and the transition, so you can’t tell me that Mueller doesn’t want to talk to her (if he hasn’t already). Trump has to know that. So were they getting their stories straight?
I’m not sure if even Trump is so stupid to openly witness tamper. Haha okay who am I kidding. Of course he is.
Yes. That would be felony witness tampering. Donny is really racking up those charges.
He’s jealous because no one is calling him King Trump, which is what he really wants. And he can’t stand not having the attention on him.
Also, yesterday was President Obama’s birthday, and he got many, many warm tweets from all over the world.
#obamaday was #1 trending. U BUM wishes he was loved and respected the way President Obama is.
U BUM’s own wife doesn’t even like him. His birthday was in June and I can’t recall an outpouring of affection for him.
drump the human garbage bin is eternally aggrieved. Always vigilant about any criticism. He must rip apart other people to show he is aggrieved no matter how minor the comment made against himself. Everyone hates poor Donny (although he said in Ohio he was surprised women liked and elected him–Melania told him so). Yes, Donny, you are a human tick next to LeBron and Lemon and will never earn any real respect.
Thank God for LeBron. He is heroic, brilliant, inspiring. And cares about people who are hugely disadvantaged. And his fellow athletes. Kudos to Don Lemon. Great interview.
And I love MJ, but he never speaks against monstrous 45. Glad he said something, even if it was the minimum.
Melania can continue wearing her childish “I don’t care” jacket. Can’t stand her and her passive aggressive actions, but still staying with drump robot self. Go away Mel and take your hideous husband and his crass adult children with you.
+1000
I wonder if Melania is trying to also separately rehab her reputation. While passive aggressive, gold diggers are known for figuring out which direction the wind is about to blow.
She very well could be, although I don’t see the point because she’s, well, pointless. Also Grifter Ivanka is trying to rehabilitate her own image. Gave a horrendously disingenuous interview. She does not have a clue about the concept of compassion, but tries hard to imitate it.
I wonder if Melania is starting to plan for her life after Trump
Malaria’s spokewoman Stephanie was just doing damage control. She’s done it before. Malaria probably doesn’t even know she issued a statement and that statement does NOT disagree with the Orange Dotard.
As for Princess Nagini, she’s not trying to rehabilitate her image herself; she’s using OUR tax money to do so. The White House official Twitter account has been working overtime the past week promoting Nagini.
I think you hate her more than her money maker @lp. You are correct though. She may have heard of LBJ, but doesn’t know anything about him. Pure damage control, since the simpleton was in Ohio yesterday after his late night twitter fest. Can’t imagine Bron wants her and her false representation. Every day it becomes harder to fathom the reality that is ours.
I’m sure you’re right, LP. Mel is pretty clueless beyond her tiny sphere of spa dates. She’s absent and any FLOTUS efforts are haphazard and repeats of MO’s work.
Yes, Grifter and Jailbird have stolen more than $82 million while in office. She is 45, but with tons of cosmetic enhancements.
@Nancy, I really don’t care enough about Malaria, the birther, to hate her. She’s a grifter, but a lazy one. My feelings towards Nagini, however, she’s even worse than the treasonous scum who fathered her.
She sees all the years she put in being married to this hideous man going down the drain. I’m sure she had dreams of monetizing trump name for the rest of her life. And her son’s legacy is basically being fathered by the most hated, narcissistic unhinged man in America. Oops.
Melania has turned out to be such an a-hole. And a very complicit a-hole at that. I don’t think she can redeem herself at this point, but I also think she has zero desire to.
Although Trump is really a racist orange pig who meant his disgusting tweet against Lebron and Lemon, what he really meant to accomplish was to distract from the ongoing treason probe by Mueller. At this point he is willing to do anything to shift focus from his impending indictment for numerous crimes.
One minor nitpick to Kaiser’s comment that it’s unbelievable that LeBron is being mocked and denigrated…he’s being mocked and denigrated by the POTUS. The person who in another lifetime would happily and respectfully lift up fellow citizens who are doing good instead of trashing them like the worst, weakest bully any mind could conjure up.
Correct! I was just thinking in what other Universe would the Leader of the Free World be so petty and ignorant.
I have more respect for King James than I do for Orangino’s shoes. (Imagine that horrific job!) LOL
PLEASE let this all end sometime soon…..
Outside of the U.S. your leader is no longer recognised as the “Leader of the Free World” nor is the U.S. thought of as ‘free’. Trump represents the people of the U.S.A. so to us, you are Trump, Trump is you. The U.S. is no longer the number 1 global superpower and won’t even be a superpower by 2024. The U.S.A and it’s president are the laughing stock of the entire world. Fond Wishes, someone enjoying the demise of the once mighty U.S.A and the rise of the BRIC nations, xoxo from a s**thole country
Jon Lovett said this early on but he is right. Americans elected their worst person as president in 2016. A random person off the street would do a better job with fewer mental health issues.
Can we please not blame mental illness tho? I have mental illness. Trump does not. Narcissism and sociopathy are personality disorders, not mental illnesses.
Thank you, Amill.. personality disorders are not the same as mental illness. Or when they are even mentioned in the same breath. I hate when I see that on here on Celebitchy or on Twitter. It does many people a disservice that are mentally ill to see people like Trump classified in with them.
Thank you, Amill. Stop lumping all personalities into the mental illness category. It’s disrespectful to those of us with actual mental illness. We can get treatment and somewhat compensate for our issues. There’s no pill or talk therapy session on earth that would fix what Trump is. That’s why all these “He’s a baby Christian” excuses are hilarious. He ain’t changing, folks.
His tweet was shameful. This is the most shameful presidency in my lifetime. I was so disgusted. This morning, ITs tweeting off the hook again. My stomach drops when I see his tweets.
I’m to the point where I hope he keeps digging his own hole. Dig, dig, dig!
He’s throwing his son under the conspiracy bus this morning so it’s all good. These admissions against interest are showing up in a court case. I promise you that. Mueller is loving this.
I don’t understand why 45 would say this right before he arrives in Ohio to stump for the Republican candidate in this Tuesday’s special election. With LBJ returning to Ohio to win a championship, dragging a team to the Finals this year against all odds, handling his transition to the Lakers in a classy low-key style and then opening the I Promise school, this man has the adoration of many Ohioans right now.
I live here where Trump rallied last night and it is a small solidly red town. I was shocked by how many people hated that 45 was coming to town. It was nothing but glowing reports when Romney breezed through.
There are supposedly ads in local newspapers to hire people to attend these rallys. I think more needs to be done to expose this because if the public at large knew this, they would realize that not many people actually support this orange turd.
I’ve read that seat fillers are being paid $50. each for Trump’s rallies. I believe it and it wouldn’t be the first time that he’s done this.
This morning, the Dotard has threatened war against our free press.
And he admitted Junior’s 2016 TT meeting was about getting information on a political opponent from foreign adversaries, instead of adoptions. The meltdown goes on…
I’m still reeling over that one. What is the upcoming week going to look like, I wonder. Holy COW.
We need Lester H to conduct another TV interview. He would probably confess in full!
I know. We’ve reached the “we totally colluded and collusion is awesome” episode. I agree with you Frida, this upcoming week is going to be cray. Buckle up!
Emperor Zero just had to bring up abuse enabler Jim Jordan on to the stage at the Nuremberg rally in Ohio too. Sticking up for an abuser (again) are we EZ?
I fully expect Hope Hicks to be interviewed within the next week regarding her travels on AF1 to Ohio as it relates to witness tampering (owing to the fact that she’s a witness in an ongoing criminal investigation).
Oh and don’t forget the doozy put out by the WH: Tyrannosaurus Orange believes that JR may have “inadvertently” crimed when he met with Russians on June 9, ’16.
Bus meet JR…JR bus.
I suspect Hicks is finding it difficult to find a job that she likes in NYC. She admitted she lied for one of the most despicable human being. At any rate, she seems not very bright and desperate to please drump and Porter.
Most of these people are nowhere near as clever as they think they are. They’ve just spent most of their lives protected by money.
I was honestly expecting his Ohio Nuremberg rally to be coordinated with a rally in support of Urban Meyer staying at Ohio State. There’s a strong correlation between the more fanatical, media hating, and Michigan hating parts of that fanbase with some of the people who would show up at one of those rallies.
Urban Meyer, OSU’s head football coach, is on administrative leave this past week for lying about not having any knowledge of one of his assistant coaches, Zach Smith, repeatedly abusing his ex-wife. Smith was fired on July 23, when his ex-wife was finally granted a restraining order against him. Smith was charged twice in 2009, when he was in Florida as part of Meyer’s staff there, and in 2015 with domestic abuse. OSU Athletic Director Gene Smith was aware of the 2015 charge because he directly intervened. Smith’s now ex-wife filed for divorce after the 2015 incident.
Meyer lied to the press that he was unaware of any prior incidents at the Big 10 media days in late July after the restraining order went through. Courtney Smith, Smith’s ex-wife, shared text messages including some with Meyer’s wife Shelly who acknowledged in the texts that her husband knew what was going on and photos taken after multiple times he beat her with reporter Brett McMurphy. McMurphy posted his story on his Facebook page Tuesday morning along with the photos and text screenshots. Meyer was placed on administrative leave later that day.
Meyer renewed his contract this spring and there’s a clause that states that if he failed to act on knowledge that any of his staff or players was involved in domestic abuse, he could be fired. It seems to have been added because some of his notable former players have been accused of domestic abuse, including Ezekiel Eliot, now playing for the Cowboys, and J.T. Barrett. Meyer has a huge buyout if he ever got fired, well over $30 million, but OSU does not have to pay him that money if he was fired for cause.
My guess is that he’ll be gone by the end of this week, likely before most of the students get back on campus. That way they’ll avoid a repeat of the riots at Penn State when Joe Paterno got fired.
It’s bad for the Big 10 and OSU. Meyer would be the second coach in a row to be fired for cause. OSU is already trying to do damage control from the Jim Jordan/OSU wrestling affair. I would also not be too surprised if it became an issue in this year’s governor and US Senate races there.
Michigan State is in the first stages of addressing what happens after the Larry Nasser situation. Already, they’ve had to pay out over $500 million in settlements to his victims and there’s some uncertainty where that money is coming from. It could be some state money and money from their insurance company, but likely is more state money than they want to admit. It’s unsure how that will affect their big moneymakers – football and basketball. Part of the reason that nothing was done when most of Nasser’s abuse occurred was to prevent scrutiny of football and basketball players who were involved in multiple sexual assaults. It’s already costing them money and could potentially more than that. Both programs could have to forfeit wins from 2011 to 2016, when Nasser was fired and both coaches could be gone.
It’s also having an effect on the Michigan governor’s race. The GOP frontrunner is the state Attorney General who didn’t do anything until the feds took control of the investigation. Nasser’s abuse occurred in multiple counties – the state AG should have coordinated the investigation. The Democratic frontrunner was the state’s attorney for Ingram County where most of the abuse took place and tried to prosecute Nasser in 2014 and 2015 but couldn’t get enough victims to come forward in open court. The Michigan primary is this coming Tuesday and most polls show the Democrat frontrunner beating her likely GOP opponent.
The Penn State scandal had some effect on the 2014 election there – the AG who was also a Penn State alum was defeated.
Ohio State does not have a good track record when it comes to valuing its PR over addressing crimes committed. Look up Michael Swango.
Melania is always traveling, looking out for the welfare of children? News to me.
EZ gets more fatter and orange every day – he’s turning into an orange Jabba the Hut before our very eyes. You can see the fear and unhingedness in his eyes.
Please. 1 Melania is doing damage control or separating herself from U BUM. 2 “It looks like”? Her statement starts out that it looks like Lebron James is doing great things… it doesn’t look like at all, HE IS, and to state it like that is not a complement, especially when the rest of the statement is all about the good things she’s always done (LIES). It’s not about him, it’s for her good press. So done with her.
U BUM, as always, is a jealous, racist baffoon.
Do you think LeBron has been meeting with that other guy that heard is doing great things? That Frederick Douglass guy?
You mean at the Bowling Green Freedom Summit? I heard Harriet Beecher Stowe was supposed to be the keynote speaker but it didn’t work out.
What ever this tit-for-tat of a sham marriage is playing out, they can keep that BS over there, somewhere. She’ll pull some petty, nonverbal crap, and he’ll make up some ignorant convo/complaint or oversell her visit, as if he gave his approval, so I HATE to say this but: SAVE THAT SILLY SHIT FOR THE WH GROUNDS.
No one with a name that even merely RHYMES with this bum’s needs to set a complicit toe anywhere NEAR this school or affiliates. It’s privately funded, it’ll prob now receive even MORE donations, and hopefully the kids and the cause will flourish.
I’m still half asleep and misread that sentence , I thought it said Trump had the intelligence of a fruit loop.I was about to write, “How day you insult a fruit loop”.
I was watching A.M.Joy and this guy pointed out that several white sports guys including NBA coaches Steve Kerr and Gregg Popovich have criticized Trump far worse than LeBron yet he has never tweeted about them or contacted them or their reps.
It’s only people of color that Orangino attacks and hits back at. If you have white skin then it’s okay to say what you want about him. Eminem, the rapper, goes in hard on Trump, but Trump never responds. Let a rapper of color say something and the clap back is swift. Orangino shows his racism everyday.
I didn’t think it was possible for me to be any more angry or disgusted with this man, but this proves me wrong.
Actually, I realize, he must be investing VAST amounts of energy into HIDING what he really is— although we can all interpret and deduce this from his filtered and advised words and actions, because they all speak volumes about him–and thats what we’ve been upset about, all this time– but its all been deduction.
Until now.
The volumes all his other words and actions speak, are all summed up plain as day in this tweet.
He’s beyond garbage. Not only to say and do these thoughts indirectly but now to do them directly?
You know, I think now, his next step is likely to make prison camps and to place every minority- and their children- and the poor and elderly- into them and to kill them off:
Hes just missing a moustache….
There is no bottom. This offended me so much. We are all living in a nightmare.
Everything you said. I loathe this hateful, racist motherfucker.
I LOVE LeBron James and Don Lemon!
Melania is either too dumb or too scared to do anything about anything, or both.
U BUM belongs in D PRISON.
Malaria Melanie still doesn’t care.
Breathless Vanky Baby needs a new twitter tactic.
The whole Trump fam/mob is raising my BP. Someone impeach him for I have a stroke.
If I were Lebron and Promise School, I would completely ignore the “official” statement from Ms. IDRCDU (“I don’t really care, Do U?”).
It’s an absolute shame that his week of glory had to be littered with nonsense, but then again, it gives more people the chance to realize what a bad example of a human being we have in our midst.
The whole state is proud of him for fulfilling his promise to bring Cleveland it’s long awaited championship. He can play ball around the country, but Akron is where his heart and soul are. For this wench to come and soil the halls with her phony bullshit photo ops makes me sick. I so hope LeBron doesn’t invite her. He may just to bring attention to the school. As everyone has been saying all weekend, LeBron puts kids in school, 45 puts kids in cages.
I hope he invites Michelle.
I was hoping that was fake news… I just knew there was no wAy even the treasure troll would say something like that as the POTUS. But yup there it is… I just wanna cry
Wait, his Twitter account is real? What is going on in your country?
Yes sadly it’s real.
Trump is a racist. He’s circling the drain. Kudos to LeBron for making a difference in the world!
The Dotard treats the presidency like it’s a stand up comedy show. Putin invaded this country without actually sending in military troops and sadly the Dotard will be reelected in 2020 because the press and republicans are complicit, civility democrats are afraid of the Dotard’s bot base, and the WH press reporters are more concerned about having access to the Dotard and so they sit there and take Sarah’s lies and abuse instead of boycotting the briefings. While the press is being distracted by the Dotard’s tantrums, Stephen Miller, Wilbur Ross, Sessions, Mick M, Kris K, and Ryan Z, are in the shadows creating chaos.
Melania didn’t disagree with her husband, she just saw that this would be a great opportunity to show off her expensive clothes, hair, shoes, and make-up just like her Theresienstadt-like staged visits to the detention centers. It’s time for the press to be honest, Melania isn’t writing those tweets, remember how she keeps stealing Michelle’s speeches and claiming them as her own? Please don’t praise Melania for the Lebron tweet, if she cared about kids, she would be working with the Democrats and the ACLU to kids back to their parents and relatives, but instead she sits in her house in DC and leaks stories about how she can watch whatever channel she pleases. If Melania cared, she would be forcing her husband’s administration to reunite the families instead of making excuses.
How many times are the civility democrats going to just sit back and let the Dotard call Warren Pocahantas and say that Maxine has a low IQ? The people who have the power to stop the Dotard are just sitting there being complicit. Twitter needs to ban the Dotard, I don’t care if it’s just for a day. They need to make it plain to him that they are not going to tolerate him violating their policies. The press also needs to hold Melania accountable, she keeps talking about how she is an advocate against cyberbullying, but she does nothing as her husband uses twitter to cyberbully people.
I’m not a fan of Melanie or Ivanka. Their complicity has been clear.
I do however believe, that the public move to disavow him in this way, along with the move on the part of the Trump administration’s security agency chief signals a coming decisive split from Trump/Miller/Putin/Bannon et al. They all know something serious is up that they are aligned with.
Melanie and Ivanka are left with thinking about their children and the legacy of grief they will be saddled with and making a move to protect them. Again. Zero empathy for them but this red flags the beginning of the end.
Melania isn’t breaking with Trump. This is classic Trump strategy at this point. He says something stunningly racist (or sexist or misogynistic, etc etc), and his army of loyal racists pound their cheats and call the cops on their neighbors, content in the knowledge that the president of the United States is one of them. Then one of his more traditionally popular family members (Melania, in this case but Ivanka does it too) comes in with a contradictory statement that isn’t really contradictory. In reality, this statement is only so much nonsense, offering to make a visit to the school when she knows no invitation will ever come. But the media jumps on it and the story becomes about the contradiction, which in turn convinces those Trump followers who aren’t openly racist (or even just don’t like to think of themselves as such) that he’s not really that bad because Melania doesn’t believe it. The story becomes about Melania’s statement and not his and he keeps both sides of his “coalition” in line. I really wish that the media would stop falling for this but they keep doing it because it works EVERY time.
Unless she needs to save herself from imprisonment, malaria is going to ride that syphillitic old pony until the cash runs out. No sympathy should ever be given to her or Ivanka. They are all shameless soulless grifters.
Does anyone really think Melania knew she had released a statement? They realized how unpopular trump’s tweet was and since there was no way he’d back down from it, they put out some inane message that was supposedly from Melania to soften it. She doesn’t give a shit about LeBron’s school or the kids there, or any kids. She has no opinion on this or anything other that what shoes go with what outfit.
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Jeez oh jeez, he wouldn’t know intelligence and listens too hard to #PresidentMiller for how to respond to anything, especially to people of color. He also doesn’t know class, which would have been to stay silent or send kudos. But, that’s a dream world right now.
Hard pass on Melania too. I read this comment elsewhere: good cop/bad cop, they’re both still cops. I think she’s looking to the future and attempting to distance herself. Sad.
I think I’m gonna have some Blaze pizza for dinner.
(For those who don’t know LeBron is one of the co owners)
Did he purposely throw his son under the bus with that tweet or is he just that stupid? I think this horrible man is actually going to let his son take the blame and go to jail so he won’t have to. Can you imagine having a father like that?
I thought he said that CNN was fake media. Why would you watch fake media if you hate it so much?
And yeah, how can big ol Dumdum blame anyone who try to do an honorable thing while he was convicted to swindling money from students for his fake university.
Also in other news a judge ordered Trump to start up DACA again and put the responsibility to re-unite families with their children on him after his lawyers unsuccessfully tried to get the ACLU to do that. He created this mess and now thinks that someone else is more than happy to clean it up . Nothing but a coward through and through.
Or that the first tweet about the fires in California were about blaming the laws, the trees and oh something about dumping water in the Pacific?! How about some kind words for the firefighters, the people who lost their lives and homes.
I think i’ve expressed my zero sympathy with Melania before. So far she has done everything to keep it that way. Ivanka ditto.
Or that yes there was a meeting with Russians so DumDum jr and the rest of the clown posse tried to get some dirt on Hillary (even though he said that he had no knowledge of the meeting and it was all about adoption of Russian children. But no big deal you guys this happens ALL the time so it wasn’t collusion.
Man he manages to drop everyone’s IQ in one single sentence. Just exhausting.
Nothing he ever says or does makes sense except in his topsy turvy mind where the can do no wrong.
Please promise the world that you elect better next time and by better i mean no asshole, racist, misogynist, con man, uneducated idiot. That would help us a lot, thanks.