The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is threatening to withhold campaign funds from politicians who railed against approval of Joe Biden’s election victory, but it wouldn’t identify which ones, nor did it call for the ouster of President Donald Trump after last week’s insurrection at the Capitol. The chamber, among the most powerful business groups in […]
Lana Del Rey is no stranger to giving controversial takes, but she might have finally outdone herself with her latest brow-raising political comments! In a lengthy radio interview with BBC Radio 1, the Summertime Sadness songbird spoke about the “madness” of the infernal nightmare that was Donald Trump’s presidency. While LDR maintained that Trump’s time […]
Did y’all really think Donald Trump was about to take some responsibility for the attack on the nation’s Capitol?! Ha! For the umpteenth and hopefully final time, the POTUS with the mostest criminal investigations did something absolutely horrible, so bad that he was in danger of losing the mass of the Republican party writ large instead […]
Professional Holding Corp. said it would no longer provide banking services to U.S. President Donald Trump’s company, as it joins lenders distancing themselves from him after last week’s assault on the U.S. Capitol. “Professional Bank has decided not to engage in any further business with the Trump Organization and its affiliates, and will be winding […]
Who could have predicted this four years ago?! Sigh. We all know by now President Donald Trump’s phone is basically just a useless brick after getting banned from almost all major social media sites following his incitements of last week’s riots at the US Capitol. Now, Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Facebook, is […]
One of the early lessons I learned as a journalist came in 2012 when I was covering the science beat for the Cornell Daily Sun. I was writing up the rare blooming of a Titan Arum, a giant Sumatran plant known as a corpse flower. (The plant smells like death when it blooms—a trait that […]
We all know the story. Donald Trump hires someone unqualified for their position in return for their unflinching support no matter how distasteful or dictator-like his statements. Eventually it gets so bad they quit — then totally burn that Trump bridge the second they get out, spilling about how truly nuts it is behind the scenes […]
Deutsche Bank AG and Signature Bank, two of Donald Trump’s favored lenders, are pulling away from the billionaire president in the wake of last week’s deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol. The German lender has decided not to conduct any further business with Trump and his company, said two people with knowledge of the matter, […]
State capitols across the nation stepped up security Monday, deploying National Guard units, SWAT teams and extra police officers while several legislatures convened amid heightened safety concerns following last week’s violence at the U.S. Capitol. The protections came as the FBI issued a bulletin warning of plans for armed protests at all 50 state capitals […]
This is the web version of the Bull Sheet, Fortune’s no-BS daily newsletter on the markets. Sign up to receive it in your inbox here. Good morning. U.S. futures are slightly higher today, but political risk hangs over the markets with the Democrats determined to push President Trump out of office before next week’s Biden inauguration, […]