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Donald Trump is an American businessman, media personality, and politician who served as the 45th President of the United States from 2017-2021. Known for his real estate empire, reality TV show 'The Apprentice', and controversial political career, Trump remains one of the most polarizing figures in American politics.
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Before September 11 2001, the world was by no means a peaceful place. Violence happened, wars happened - and yes, terrorism happened. Al-Qaeda was already a known presence in the 1990s, but until the planes hit those towers, nobody could truly fathom how divisive a single event could be. Nearly…
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The 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump, has only continued to become more of a divisive figure. In the last two months alone, he has announced that he plans to reinstate a ban on transgender individuals serving "in any capacity" in the US military, while also failing to condone…
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Tom Hanks seems like a good guy, doesn't he? You get those celebrities who just seem like really nice people, and Hanks is one of them. Whether it's his portrayal of the legendary Forrest Gump, Woody or randomly appearing in the music video for Carly Rae Jepsen's hit single "I…
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Hurricane Irma has begun to reach landfall in Florida as residents prepare themselves for the 130mph winds that are set to batter their way through the state in one of the worst storms to have ever hit the area. In the hours before the hurricane hit the Lower Florida Keys,…
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It's been an incredibly strange year between the US and Russia, to say the least. Russian oligarchs seem to have some strange web of ties with US oligarchs, including Donald Trump, though no clarity or finality has been brought to these theories. It remains unproven conjecture that Russia swayed the…
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In the novel Neuromancer, there is an ancient Chinese businessman who has his genetics reset every 100 years, to keep himself permanently alive. He will live forever, so long as he keeps hitting refresh on his decaying genetic code, rebooting that frayed and exhausted DNA. We always suspected this day…
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Ivanka Trump is a psy-op. By that, I mean that she, like the rest of her family, are the continual source of psychological fetishization, the eternal search for a perfect mandala, a hint of order or meaning, only to find that they are black holes with not much to offer;…
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While America’s President has always been backed up by his righthand man, the Vice President, everyone knows that it’s the First Ladies of the USA who run the show. She's the woman who Americans look up to. Some would say she's every bit as important as the Head of State…
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Celebrity births are always such major news. It's like a holdover effect of royalty, where pop culture icons are expected to maintain meaningful family lines, and descendants to carry forth the tabloids - whether or not these children will grow into fame seekers is another question entirely. Babies North and…
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In the wake of the devastating Hurricane Harvey, just a week later, Hurricane Irma is surging through the Eastern Caribbean. Wind speeds at the Leeward Islands have been measured at 185 miles per hour, designating it as “potentially catastrophic", particularly to small islands like Barbuda, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.…
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The barriers between university-trained artists and working class people are extremely serious. Cultural-class conflict is at the root of England's recent Brexit decision, as well as the election of Donald Trump in the US, and his perception as a 'blue-collar billionaire'. For better or worse, there is a perception of…
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Kim Jong-Un, it's fair to say, is young, rich and famous. Yes, he's a ruthless dictator who rules his own people with an iron fist, but the sad and sorry truth is that if any of us were born into the role of a mythically-exalted monarch in an isolated country…
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Amidst the near constant enmity, startling militaristic rhetoric and general bluster and bombast, there remains one American who appears to be on relatively good terms with Kim Jong-un. 2017 has been characterised by the United States' rapidly evaporating relations with North Korea, For months now, the two countries have appeared to…
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Donald Trump always said he would build that wall. And it seems things are starting, though officials fear a backlash the size of last year's Dakota Access Pipeline protests in North Dakota. The wall is surely at the top of Trump's controversial proposals, among his healthcare plan, militarized police, increased…
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The Dreamers were America's most beloved category of immigrants. Protected under President Barack Obama in 2012, 'Dreamers' were immigrants under the age of 31 who lacked legal immigration status. Their deportation was to be deferred, giving them the chance to acquire work or student visas, and other ways to stay…
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In the 21st century, it can no longer be said that politics, culture, entertainment or celebrity are separate domains. They are all conjoined in a dim mural, a Pollock painting we have yet to comprehend, the strangest mirage and the facts of our being simultaneously. The election of Donald Trump…
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“It’s a protest against politics itself,” stated so many concerned parents to their children. “But it’ll never happen.” Of course, it did happen. And the blonde, bigoted billionaire businessman - complete with his lavish lifestyle and supermodel wife - is now the President of the United States. Trump managed to…
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In the era of social media that we live in, it's far too easy to get invested in the lives of the rich and famous. Whether we choose to keep up with Kim Kardashian's latest business endeavours or remain on top of whatever trouble that Shia LaBeouf has got himself…
