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Ivanka Trump's New Hair Wishes It Were 2002 Again


Earlier this week, Ivanka Trump celebrated the first anniversary of her Women’s Global Development Prosperity Initiative, a global campaign championing women in the workforce, but it seems her new hair color is getting just as much attention.

The First Daughter appears to have added chunky, stripey dark blonde highlights to her signature icy blonde shade and it’s a definite…throwback. The style—which Trump debuted during an event for her initiative at the State Department in Washington D.C.—was popular in the late 1990s and early 2000s when celebrities like Jessica Simpson, Kelly Clarkson, and Christina Aguilera showed off their foil-sectioned highlights on the regular.

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As with anything related to the Trump family, the internet had some thoughts about Ivanka’s new hair color choice. “Ivanka getting chunky highlights is disrespectful to Thankful-era Kelly Clarkson,” one person tweeted. “Someone tell Ivanka we aren’t bringing back chunky highlights please,” another wrote.

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Kelly Clarkson in 2002

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There were some fans, however. “I like your 90’s chunky hair, Ivanka. You can go sit down now,” another tweet read.

Chunky highlights aren’t the first 2000s trend to be spotted making a comeback lately. You can thank celebrities like Jennifer Lopez, Margot Robbie, and Priyanka Chopra for the return of “prom tendrils,” those two lone pieces hanging in the front of the face with an updo. “Like all trends and styles, the ones that are cool tend to circle back,” hairstylist Laura Polko told Glamour.

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Jessica Simpson in 2001

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See also: French manicures, as seen as stars like Kim Kardashian. But this time around there are some new twists on the classic style when it comes to the color and shape of the nail tips—in case you were worried about looking too retro.

So, that begs the question: which 2000s beauty trend is coming back next?



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Nancy Pelosi Ripped Donald Trump's State of the Union Speech in Half…While He Was Still on the Podium


At the end of President Donald Trump’s State of the Union Address—before he even stepped down from the dais—Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi made her opinion of the speech clear. She seemed to rip one of the copies she had of it clean in two.

While Trump spoke, Pelosi’s anger seemed to mount. At times, she shuffled her papers while he railed against measures that Democrats have undertaken to shield immigrants from deportation. Her expression as he touted questionable statistics on jobs and claimed to have taken a stand on the cost of pharmaceutical drugs was steely. (Per the live New York Times fact check, the assertions were “misleading.”) After over an hour, she had had it, and Twitter got to watch.

The night had gotten off to a poor start. Seconds before Trump approached the podium to deliver the annual speech, Trump seemed to rebuff one of the occasion’s few attempts at bipartisan friendliness. Pelosi—who as Speaker of the House presides over the event—had reached out her hand to offer him a handshake, but Trump seemed to refuse the overture.

He had just walked onto the floor of the House of Representatives to loud applause from Republicans, handing copies of his address (as is tradition) to Vice President Mike Pence and Pelosi. That’s when Pelosi extended a hand—and Trump ignored it.

Reminder: Trump is still impeached for abuse of power and obstruction of justice, although it’s expected that the Senate will move to acquit him on both counts within the week. Given that it was Pelosi who delivered the articles of impeachment and unified her caucus around the move in December, it shouldn’t come as a terrible shock that relations between the two leaders remain just the tiniest bit tense. (Also, Pelosi is a woman in a position of power—accorded the kind of status in politics with which Trump has never seemed quite comfortable.) Still, Pelosi did seem somewhat surprised, grimacing as Trump turned on his heel.

Despite the olive branch, she found her own moment to sneak in a dig—and that was before she tore up his speech on prime time television. While speakers tend to stick to a familiar script at the event, Pelosi made one not-so-subtle edit. Where she would have otherwise read the line, “Members of Congress, I have the high privilege and distinct honor of presenting to you the President of the United States,” she instead opted for, uh, more straightforward language. “Members of Congress,” she said, “the President of the United States.”

Some on Twitter took notice of the perceived snubs—but if there was still some question as to how Pelosi felt, well, she clarified.



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Megan Rapinoe Says Trump's Comments "Unified The Team"


Co-captain of the U.S. Women’s soccer team Megan Rapinoe blazed into the spotlight helping her teammates cinch their fourth and second consecutive World Cup victory this summer but she’s also making an impact off the field, gaining attention for speaking out about politics and gender disparities and helping to lead the team’s equal pay lawsuit against the U.S. Soccer Federation. She’s also at the center of President Trump’s latest Twitter feud.

Rapinoe became the target of Donald Trump’s tweets after video emerged of her saying that she was “not going to the fucking White House” as would be customary if the team won the World Cup. In response, Trump tweeted that she should “WIN first before she TALKS!”

“One of our media people sent me a text … [and] I was like, ‘Oh, I’ve done something. I’ve done something bad,’” Rapinoe told Kara Swisher on the Recode Decode podcast last week. “I went on Twitter and looked at it and I was like, ‘This is crazy. I mean, what is going on? This is so insane.’ And we’re like, ‘We’re going to win. So this is not going to age well.’ And I was also like, ‘You know what? This is so rude.'”

Trump’s comments were also baffling considering his “America first” attitude. “It’s the World Cup. It’s America. You love America. Like, ‘Go USA,'” Rapinoe said. “This is the biggest thing and you’re heaping down this bold beep on all of us. This is ridiculous.” The tweets only helped to unite the team. “I felt like it actually sort of unified the team. Everyone was like, ‘You’re a G, Rapinoe!’ Like, ‘Get him!’ From the back of the bus,” she said, doubling down on her refusal to visit the White House, joking that the only way she’d be stopping by is if she were being inaugurated.

During the interview, Rapinoe also opened up about the heat that both she and her teammates have received from critics who feel that they are too “arrogant” or “cocky.” (Rapinoe previously defended her teammate Alex Morgan, who faced backlash for making a tea-sipping gesture after scoring against England in a semifinal match in the tournament.) These women deserve to enjoy their success, she told Swisher, recounting a conversation with teammate Ashlyn Harris. “We were just like, ‘You know what? We deserve this. We deserve everything. We deserve this parade, we deserve all the champagne that people are giving us. We deserve all this shine. We’ve worked very hard for it.’ A little bit in jest of course,” she said. “To be that outspoken voice in the country right now, we’re not just thankful to be there, I’ve worked very hard to get there and feel like, ‘Yeah, I deserve it.'”



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Michelle Obama Responded to Trump's Latest Twitter Rant Against Baltimore


As former First Lady Michelle Obama once famously said, “When they go, we go high”—and that’s exactly what it appears she’s doing following President Donald Trump‘s latest Twitter rant. Only a week after a racially charged Twitter attack on four female congresswomen of color, Trump lashed out on Saturday (July 27) at Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings, attacking both Cummings personally and his district in Baltimore.

“Rep, Elijah Cummings has been a brutal bully, shouting and screaming at the great men & women of Border Patrol about conditions at the Southern Border, when actually his Baltimore district is FAR WORSE and more dangerous. His district is considered the Worst in the USA,” Trump wrote. “As proven last week during a Congressional tour, the Border is clean, efficient & well run, just very crowded. Cumming District is a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess. If he spent more time in Baltimore, maybe he could help clean up this very dangerous & filthy place.”

The attack, which Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and many others also called out as racist, likely stems from some recent political drama: NPR reported that on Thursday, the House Oversight and Reform Committee, a committee overseen by Cummings, voted to authorize subpoenas for records of senior White House officials’ to ascertain their use of personal emails and text services for work purposes.

Cummings quickly responded to Trump’s tweet, writing in reply, “Mr. President, I go home to my district daily. Each morning, I wake up, and I go and fight for my neighbors. It is my constitutional duty to conduct oversight of the Executive Branch. But, it is my moral duty to fight for my constituents.”

Obama was among those who quickly defended Cummings—and Baltimore—on Twitter. Her response was subtle, but extremely classy: She clapped back against the President’s invective with a tweet highlighting one of her favorite Baltimore organizations, the Lethal Ladies.

“On #NationalDanceDay, I’m shouting out the Lethal Ladies, a Baltimore STEP team who I saw perform back in 2017. I’m so proud of you all—and everyone who’s dancing today,” she tweeted, along with a short video of their performance.

In the video, the young women not only display their talents but send their own powerful message as well.

“What Michelle Obama taught us when someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you don’t stoop to their level,” their instructor says adding, “Our motto is…” Then, the young women reply in their dance, “When they go low, we go high/Raise our standards to the sky.” Hear, hear.





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Donald Trump's Attacks on Congresswomen Are Racist and Sexist. Ignoring That Is a Mistake We Can’t Afford


Donald Trump is spending his week doubling down on his racist suggestion that four Democratic lawmakers—Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan—should “go back” where “they came” from. Last night, he presided over a crowd in North Carolina that at one point chanted “Send her back!” in reference to Omar. At times, when Trump mentioned the women, people in his audience shouted “Treason!” and “Traitors!”

It’s utterly irrelevant to Trump and his supporters that three of four of the women were born in the United States and that the fourth, Omar, immigrated from Somalia as a child and has spent more than half her life as a citizen. In focusing attention on these particular women, Trump activates the well-documented passions and fears of his supporters, people demonstrably threatened by the browning of America. But, he also activates the disgust and repugnance that too many people feel about women claiming power and authority, particularly the power and authority to decide what America is and should be. It would be a foolish and dangerous mistake, particularly as we move towards a presidential election in which more women than ever are candidates, to ignore the confluence of these prejudices.

Trump’s “go back” dictate makes an assumption about who “real Americans” are, and research shows he’s not alone in his warped thinking. For most of our history, the notions of “citizenship” and “manhood” have been as inextricably linked in most people’s minds as “American” and “white” are. Only in our recent past have minorities and women been extended rights, like the freedom to vote, to run for office, to bear arms, to serve in juries, and to work, as elite white man have since independence. Studies show even now, in the words of one social science researcher, that “to be American is implicitly synonymous with being White.” In the same vein, many people’s explicit, and implicit, belief systems continue to support the notion that men are “natural” leaders, but that women are not; that men serve in public capacities, and women private ones. Trump appeals to the specific combination of these beliefs to undermine women as not only incapable of self-governance, but as unfit to govern others. That’s the hateful core of this latest diatribe; people like them aren’t suited to tell people like us what to do.

Trump’s casual “go back” is a dogwhistle to racists and xenophobes but it also reinforces age-old biases against the rise of a “feminized elite.” Women who are educated and progressive, the old chestnut goes, are dangerous to men and to the nation. This tired equation allows Trump’s most extreme supporters to rationalize threats against women as legitimate act of patriotism and renders violence against them a form of twisted self-defense. Trump’s campaign rallies were frenzied carnivals of this misogynistic idea, with thousands of mostly white Americans chanting “lock her up” and parading around effigies of a caged Hillary Clinton. It’s how a West Virginia Republican lawmaker tweeted, “she should be ’hung’,” and another proclaimed, “Hillary Clinton should be put in the firing line and shot for treason.” One of Trump’s supporters was particularly clear when he explained, during the 2016 race that “Hillary needs to be taken out“ and that he was prepared to do it himself. “[I[f I have to be a patriot, I will,“ he said. The same ideas were more subtly conveyed when, earlier this year, a video was aired during a Memorial Day Fresno-Grizzlies game in which Ocasio-Cortez was depicted as an “enemy of freedom“ alongside Kim Jong Un and Fidel Castro.

But Trump isn’t just content to question women’s patriotism. He also impugns their expertise and knowledge. The charge that people of color and women “don’t understand” the complicated affairs that animate our national discourse is a popular right-wing talking point drawn from racist and sexist science. It suggests that people of color and women lack the intellectual capabilities and emotional wherewithal to lead. Of course, that means that women of color who work in the public sphere are special targets of these attacks. A Media Matters supercut of Fox News’s coverage of AOC, for example, demonstrates the network’s near-obsession with portraying her—a woman with a degree in economics and the recipient of a fellowship awarded to high academic achievers—as “ignorant,” “idiotic,” and someone who “doesn’t know what she is talking about.” She is, the hosts emphasize, a “pompous little twit,” who “makes no sense.” In a similar vein, Trump has referred to black athletes, politicians, and media representatives as “low IQ individual[s]” and “dumb.”



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A Timeline of Donald Trump's Inappropriate History With Women


1993: Jill HarthThat same year, Trump also allegedly subjected makeup artist Jill Harth to a “steady string of sexual assaults, as The Guardian reports. He allegedly groped her under a dinner table at the Plaza Hotel’s Oak Room and, later, he allegedly pinned her against a wall in one of his children’s bedrooms and and groped her. “He pushed me up against the wall, and had his hands all over me and tried to get up my dress again,” Harth recalled, “and I had to physically say: ‘What are you doing? Stop it.’ It was a shocking thing to have him do this because he knew I was with George, he knew they were in the next room. And how could he be doing this when I’m there for business?” Harth later formally accused Trump of attempted rape in a 1997 lawsuit.

1994: A 13-year-old GirlTrump has been accused of raping a 13-year-old girl in the apartment of convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. The case, which was recently filed for the third time in New York City, where the alleged rape occurred, consists of two affidavits filed by “Joan Doe” and “Tiffany Doe” which corroborate the victim’s story, as Buzzfeed reports. “Joan” says she was told about the assault after it happened, while “Tiffany”—who was apparently hired as a “recruiter” to bring young girls to Epstein’s apartment—alleges Trump and Epstein raped the victim more than once. Trump’s attorney has denied these accusations, though more information on the case may yet unfold—a hearing has been set for this December in New York.

1995 or 1996: E. Jean Carroll

The advice columnist wrote in a June 2019 New York Magazine cover story that in 1995 or 1996, Trump allegedly raped her in the dressing room at Bergdorf’s. Carroll writes that Trump asked her for advice buying a gift for “a girl,” which led to him asking her to try on a piece of lingerie. According to her account, “the moment the dressing-room door is closed, he lunges at me, pushes me against the wall, hitting my head quite badly, and puts his mouth against my lips.” Carroll alleges that he pins her against the wall, then “the next moment, still wearing correct business attire, shirt, tie, suit jacket, overcoat, he opens the overcoat, unzips his pants, and, forcing his fingers around my private area, thrusts his penis halfway—or completely, I’m not certain—inside me. It turns into a colossal struggle.” She also notes that the friends she told after the alleged assault corroborated her story to the magazine. Trump denied her allegations in a statement.

1996: Five or Six ModelsLisa Boyne, a health food business entrepreneur who apparently shared a dinner from hell with Trump, told The Huffington Post that she and a friend, along with “five or six models,” were seated at a semi-circular table with Trump in 1996. When the models wanted to get up to leave, Trump refused to get up to let them do so, instead forcing them to walk on top of the table where he “stuck his head right underneath their skirts,” per Boyne’s account, and remarked on their underwear and genitalia. “It was the most offensive scene I’ve ever been a part of,” Boyne said. “I wanted to get the heck out of there.”

1996: Alicia MachadoWhile Trump’s behavior towards former Miss Universe winner Alicia Machado wasn’t physically sexual, it was the definition of predatory and verbally abusive behavior. “He was very overwhelming. I was scared of him. He’d yell at me all of the time,” says Machado in a video clip executed by Hillary Clinton’s campaign. “He’d tell me, ‘You look ugly,’ or, ‘You look fat.’ Sometimes he’d ‘play’ with me and say, ‘Hello, Miss Piggy,’ ‘Hello, Miss Housekeeping.'” Trump also body-shamed Machado when she gained 40 pounds after winning her title, which led to her developing eating disorders. “Long after, I was sick with eating disorders,” she recalls. “I wouldn’t eat, and would still see myself as fat because a powerful man said so. This is a man who doesn’t realize the damage he causes.”

After Machado told her story, Trump reacted by slut-shaming her.

1997: Five Miss Teen USA ContestantsBack in 1997, Trump created discomfort for at least five teenage Miss Teen USA contestants—including one who was as young as 15—when he visited their dressing room as they were changing. “I remember putting on my dress really quick because I was like, ‘Oh my god, there’s a man in here,’” former Miss Vermont Teen USA
Mariah Billado told Buzzfeed. His response, according to Billado, was something along the lines of “Don’t worry, ladies, I’ve seen it all before.” Other contestants referred to the incident to Buzzfeed as “shocking” and “creepy.” While 11 of the other contestants from that year’s pageant told Buzzfeed they don’t remember the incident, Trump has gone on the record bragging about his access to dressing rooms before. “I’ll tell you the funniest is that I’ll go backstage before a show and everyone’s getting dressed,” he told Howard Stern. “No men are anywhere, and I’m allowed to go in, because I’m the owner of the pageant and therefore I’m inspecting it. … ‘Is everyone OK?’ You know, they’re standing there with no clothes. ‘Is everybody OK?’ And you see these incredible looking women, and so I sort of get away with things like that.”



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