How do you save face when America’s most prominent racist fires you from his campaign for doing something racist? The answer is simple: endorse the racist’s less-racist opponent, and claim you’re doing it because the racist is too racist for you.

Ivanka Trump, who has been pregnant, is no longer pregnant. (She gave birth.) Her newborn son’s name is Theodore James. A nickname for ‘Theodore’ is ‘Ted.’

In two lengthy conversations with a pair of New York Times reporters (full transcript here) Donald Trump elaborated on his foreign policy, such as it is. Basically, what he proposes amounts to something like a protection racket.

Brandon Stanton, the guy who runs the digital empathy farm “Humans of New York,” recently decided to go public with his very brave belief that Donald Trump is bad. He was reluctant to do so, however, because he doesn’t like to be political—so reluctant, in fact, that he talked to the New York Times all about it.

On Friday, Meriwether County Sheriff Chuck Smith said that police had arrested a 15-year-old Georgia boy accused of using social media to make death threats against Republican frontrunner Donald Trump.

Ted Cruz has a curious way of taking a situation he has every right to be mad about and responding to it so bombastically that it’s almost impossible to feel sympathetic to him. Today, he continued this trend by implying he’d happily fuck a rat, as long as the rat wasn’t Donald Trump.

On CNN this morning, former Ted Cruz communications director Amanda Carpenter and pro-Trump newspaper columnist Adriana Cohen were asked to discuss the two candidates’ ridiculous feud over their wives. As soon as Cohen began speaking, talk turned to...something else.

“When we started, there were 17 candidates in this race,” Ted Cruz told WTMJ radio host Charlie Sykes on Wednesday. “It was a wonderfully diverse, talented, dynamic, young field. It had really incredible talent. If you look at a number of the candidates that took on Donald Trump early on, they ended up as roadkill.”

As you know, Donald Trump has been saying mean things about Ted Cruz’s wife, Heidi. First he insinuated that he has some sort of dirt on her, and then last night he essentially called her ugly. Today, Cruz decided he’d had enough and delivered into the television cameras his best impression of someone who is very tough and not to be messed with anymore.

Every day the media officers of the Islamic State wake and give thanks for the candidacy of Donald Trump, which delivers one propaganda coup after another for global jihad. Today’s video celebrating the Brussels attack, prominently featuring Trump’s face and words, is no exception.

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On Wednesday, a federal judge in Manhattan dismissed a lawsuit filed against Trump Model Management, ruling that Alexia Palmer, the Jamaican model who brought the putative class-action suit, had provided insufficient evidence that she’d been defrauded or had been denied fair wages.

Individual instances of Donald Trump’s (seemingly ambivalent) embrace of Twitter’s white supremacist community have been well documented. However, according to a report from Fortune, Trump’s affinity for right-wing social media accounts goes beyond intermittent retweets.

History regularly offers up events that turn out to be litmus tests for political courage, wisdom, and judgment. The last one was the Iraq War. The new one is the candidacy of Donald Trump.

Donald Trump, who once claimed to have ended his partnership with Macy’s over the fact that his “shirts and ties were made in China,” is in for a rude awakening as far as his daughter’s own fashion line is concerned. Exclusive photos shared with Gawker confirm that Ivanka Trump, the smokin’ hot apple of her father’s eye, is in fact part of the problem.

Ted Cruz won the Republican caucus in Utah on Tuesday, the New York Times reports, capturing all 40 delegates. Mitt Romney recorded a get-out-the-vote call for Cruz on Monday, and an anti-Trump PAC encouraging Mormons to vote for the Texas senator promoted a nude photo of Melania Trump on Instagram.

Turnout in Arizona on Tuesday was high, the New York Times reports, as Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump won the Democratic and Republican presidential primaries, respectively. For the Republicans, Arizona is a winner-take-all state, awarding Trump 58 delegates.

On Tuesday evening, Donald Trump threatened Senator Ted Cruz, via Twitter, over a social media advertising campaign funded by the anti-Trump political action committee Make America Awesome. The campaign included a nude photograph of Melania Trump, originally shot for British GQ in 2000.

First, it was offensively inauthentic sushi at the Oberlin dining halls. Now, a new—and somehow worse—wickedness torments America’s students: Someone drew the word “Trump” on the ground at a college.