Donald Trump Tries to Dunk on LeBron James, Calls Him Stupid

Donald Trump is too short, too out of shape and possesses hands that are way to small to dunk a basketball.

But the President of the United States nevertheless took some time out of his late Friday night to try and slam one home on…

… LeBron James?

Yes.

The very stable genius, who thinks one needs an ID to purchase groceries, jumped on Twitter around midnight and Tweeted the following about the new Los Angeles Lakers star:

Lebron James was just interviewed by the dumbest man on television, Don Lemon. He made Lebron look smart, which isn’t easy to do.

I like Mike!

There are many things to point out about this Tweet.

For starters, Lemon interviewed LeBron on Monday night, meaning there are only one of two options here:

1. Trump used TiVo to record the interview and watched it days later.


2. Trump was simply watching CNN, the network he often claims “sucks” and is terrible and is full of “fake news,” when it re-aired the Q&A.

Either would be a totally normal thing for the Commander-in-Chief to do, right?

Secondly, LeBron James was interviewed by Lemon (along with other outlets) because he just opened a public school in Akron, Ohio.

To reiterate: James donated millions and millions of dollars to the I Promise school, an institution for at-risk children in his hometown that will offer:

– Free college tuition to the University of Arkon for all graduates.

– All students a free uniform, free bicycle and free helmet.

– Job assistance and GED training for the parents of all students.

– A food pantry for families.

– Free breakfast, lunch and snacks for all students.

One could easily argue this is the most generous and impressive off-court gesture ever made by a professiona athlete.

And THIS is the individual that President Trump has chosen to insult as unintelligent.

We wonder why.

Yes, James has referred to Trump as a “bum” on Twitter in the past and he also said in June that whichever team won the NBA title would turn down an invitation to visit the White House.

But head NBA coaches Steve Kerr and Greg Popovich has been far more critical of Trump.

The latter said in March that Trump is a liar and a hypocrite and that he brings out the “dark side of human beings for his own purpose.”

Yet Trump has never uttered a negative word about Kerr or Popovich. We really do wonder why.

What makes LeBron different from these two other men in his profession. Can anyone out there help explain it to us?

In his CNN interview, James discussed the impact of sports and how it brings people together, contrasting this experience with the way Trump uses “sports to kinda divide us.”

A great example of this would be Trump’s constant bashing of NFL players for being unpatrotic because they are protesting violence against African-Americans by taking a knee during the national anthem.

“Sports has never been something that divides people,” James told Lemon. “It’s always been something that brings someone together.”

A few months ago, LeBron expounded further on Trump’s self-centered and misguided attitude toward… everything and everyone.

“He doesn’t understand the power that he has for being the leader of this beautiful country,” James said. “He doesn’t understand how many kids, no matter the race, look up to the president of the United States for guidance, for leadership, for words of encouragement.

“He doesn’t understand that, and that’s what makes me more sick than anything, that we have someone that’s … this is the most, this is the No. 1 position in the world.”

In his viral Tweet above, Trump said he likes Mike, very likely making a reference to Michael Jordan in the debate for who is the best basketball player of all-time.

The world now waits to see if Jordan will chime in with his opinion of the President.

It also now waits to see if Trump will get impeached for being a traitor.

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Paris Hilton Calls Lindsay Lohan Out as a "Liar," Internet Wonders If It"s 2006

Paris Hilton is celebrating #ThrowbackThursday a few hours early.

But she isn’t doing it via some memorable or funny photos from several years ago.

She’s doing it by reigniting a decades-old feud with the one former celebrity who may be more irrelevant than she is these days.

Yes, Lindsay Lohan, we’re talking about you.

The former A-Listers, both of whom have seen their Q-Rating drop more precipitously than Hilton’s pants in her infamous amateur porn video, are evidently at odds once again as a result of something Paris wrote on Instagram.

This is all a little bit confusing and a whole lot random, but here we go…

A Paris Hilton fan account (yes, these actually exist!) on Instagram shared a montage of paparazzi videos of Lohan in the 2000s this week.

During her darkest period, of course, the ex-actress was involved prominently during this decade in many scandals and disagreements.

The first clip from the aforementioned video is from November of 2006; it features Lohan claiming that Hilton had hit her in the arm the night before at a friend’s house and also poured a drink all over her.

Then, in the second section of footage, Lohan takes this statement back and says she loves Paris.

“Paris is my friend. Everyone lies about everything. She’s a nice person…she never did that. She’s a good girl,” Lindsay tells photographers as she ducks into the car with Hilton behind the wheel in this snippet.

Then, there’s a third segment of the video in which Lindsay seemingly calls Paris a “cunt,” prior to immediately claiming she did no such thing,

(A certain President of the United States stand up and applaud Lindsay for her ability to tell fudge the truth, if you will.)

At some point, this video must have made its way into Hilton’s feed because actually left a comment on it that reads:

#PathologicalLiar.

Lohan and Hilton go back a VERY long way.

Lindsay allegedly dated Hilton’s ex-boyfriend, Stavros Niarchos, about 12 years ago.

Lohan, meanwhile, once quipped that Paris is “very comfortable making videos,” a clear reference to her sex tape.

Then, in 2013, Hilton’s younger brother alleged that Lohan was actually behind a beating he took in Miami.

We haven’t heard much about their relationship since then; nor much from either star since then, period.

However, Lohan recently went after Kim Kardashian, indicating that she’s unafraid to stir things up with fellow celebrities just like she did in the old days.

Although she’d claim otherwise.

“I’m a normal, nice person. A good person. I don’t have any bad intentions. And my past has to stay in the past,” Lohan explained in a new interview, adding:

“People have to just let go of it and stop bringing it up because it’s not – it’s gone. It’s dead. And that’s the most important thing to me.”

Okay, fine. Fair enough.

But someone better pass that message along to Paris Hilton.

(At press time, Lohan had not responded to Hilton’s liar diss.)

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Coupon Carl: CVS Manager Calls 9-1-1 on Black Woman Using a Coupon

From a woman who attacked a black teen at a pool to a neighbor calling the police on an 8-year-old selling water, a lot of white people seem to be calling the police on black people for non-crimes.

In a video that made waves on social media over the weekend, a CVS manager dubbed "Coupon Carl" trembles while calling the police.

The reason he dialed 9-1-1? Well, a black woman brought in a coupon and he questioned its authenticity. That"s it.

Camilla Hudson recorded and shared a video of part of a disturbing encounter she had in a CVS.

In the video, while some sort of extremely irritating alarm goes off, a man named Morry Matson appears to tremble while speaking to emergency services over the phone.

As Morry asks for police, Hudson calmly assures Matson that she will be there when the police arrive.

He gives the person a description, as if she might bolt at any moment.

She spells her name and mentions that she has ID and will happily share it with them.

Hudson took to Facebook to share the whole story, though the social media platform removed the post.

"I had the police called on me because I tried to use a coupon at the CVS pharmacy," Hudson warned her Facebook friends.

"I stopped in," she explained. "To make a purchase using a coupon mailed to me by the product manufacturer, as a replacement for problematic/defective product."

She then explains that the manager suspected it of being fraudulent.

When she asked for his name, she reports, he "became agitated and rude."

He apparently stormed off, slammed a door, and called the police.

Hudson reports that 9-1-1 hung up on him the first time that he called, so he called again and claimed that she was harassing him.

On it ssurface, Morry Matson appears to be, at best, a man who abandoned any pretense of customer service and perhaps 

At worst, he seems to be a racist who assumed that a black woman was a criminal because he had never seen her coupon before.

But there"s another layer to this story.

The man who suspected this woman of forgery to the point where he called the police on a customer was actually busted for forgery under two years ago.

What"s more, the incident in which he dabbled with forgery also had a racial component.

Morry was spearheading an effort to build a pricey waterfront bike path to a beach — a path that just happened to be near his home.

He was pushing for a ballot measure to build this on the taxpayer"s dime.

His proposal mentioned that improving the beachfront area would not result in "people from the South Side," which is one of the laziest apparent euphemisms for people of color that we"ve ever read.

The reason that he didn"t get to have his proposal on the ballot was because it was discovered that he had filled multiple pages of his petition with names that he had written himself.

This is according to forensic experts, which is what got the ballot measure removed in 2016. But apparently people looking at the petition could determine that it was fraudulent with the naked eye.

He had also been gathering names for well beyond the 90 day limit imposed.

"You’re calling me a liar, you’re calling me a thief, you’re calling me a forger,” Hudson says..

“It’s not that they didn’t take the coupon or refused to take the coupon, it’s how he did it," she explains.

"He was nasty, he was unprofessional, he was dismissive, he was accusatory," Hudson says. "His entire tone and demeanor was offensive and problematic."

Speaking of problematic, Morry says that he was a state delegate for Donald Trump in 2016. He is now running for Chicago"s 48th Ward Alderman.

CVS released a statement that they are investigating this troubling incident.

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While of course no child should have to work, when kids want to sell water on a hot day or mow some lawns for cash, that"s admirable. But some people will always try to ruin it.

An enterprising 12-year-old boy started up his own lawn business, but had the police called on him by a client"s neighbor. It was an outrageous story.

In a heartwarming twist, things turned out okay — and business is booming.

Maple Heights is a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. It has a lot of homes with a lot of lawns and a lot of grass that needs to be trimmed.

Reggie Fields is the enterprising 12-year-old boy runs Mr. Reggie"s Lawn Cutting Service.

That"s not a joke — because this small landscaping crew is not a one-person operation.

Fields runs the small company that also employs his cousins, who work starting as early as sunrise.

They were mowing the lawn of a resident named Lucille Holt when one of her neighbors called the police.

As Holt revealed in a video to Facebook that soon became widely circulated, her neighbors called the police because a narrow strip of grass that Fields mowed was technically in their yard and not in Holt"s.

Plenty of neighbors can be petty, or simply strict about defending which parts of a property belong to them. Most would simply come outside and tell the landscapers to avoid their part of the lawn — not call the police.

(She actually lists a number of occassions on which these neighbors have called the police, and while one was over concerns of domestic violence, it sounds like they have also made 9-1-1 calls that most would consider frivilous)

It is strange for anyone to call the police on children — one of whom is as young as nine — for crossing an imaginary boundary while being helpful.

"I"m so glad you"re out here doing something positive," Holt said of the enterprising young people. "You should not be getting the police called on you because you"re out here cutting grass.

While everything turned out okay, it was not lost on Lucille Holt — or, really, on anyone reading the story — that calling the police on a young black child can have horrible, permanent consequences.

We have all read too many heartbreaking horror stories of innocent, unarmed children dying because the wrong person was wearing a badge.

Fortunately, this situation did not become a tragedy.

In fact, the police officers who arrived were quick to realize that this had nothing to do with the hardworking children.

And the police seemed intent on diffusing the situation of tension between neighbors before things escalate. Which is exactly what you want to see from law enforcement.

It is, of course, the responsibility of the homeowner to inform their landscapers where the property boundaries are to avoid conflict.

Reggie Fields was apologetic for the role that he inadvertently played in this squabble between neighbors.

"They said I was cutting their grass. I didn"t know it," Fields says. "I was like, that"s a shame. I didn"t know."

Reggie"s mother says that this story has been a massive boon for his business.

"Some people are calling from out of town, saying, "Can you come cut my grass?" she reports.

It is no surprise that many people in the Cleveland area want to encourage these young entrepreneurs. Especially after someone chose to put them at potential risk.

There are also businesses and other property owners interested in hiring his team.

When a story goes viral like this, it creates an easy opportunity for good PR for local businesses. They look good, they help someone, and they get their grass trimmed.

Reggie Fields" cash app is $ mrreggies18. His service line is 216-482-4308.

Reggie will be entering the seventh grade, but he already has plans for how to continue his business in the fall — by purchasing more rakes so that they can pick up leaves.

For the winter, he plans to purchase snow shovels. That"s amazing.

We hope that people exercise careful judgment when contacting emergency services.

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Remember when that woman called the police over black people barbecuing? Over the weekend, there was yet another incident of a white woman getting very worked up over what appears to be black people existing.

This time, a woman announced that she was calling the police over an enterprising 8-year-old girl selling water on a hot day.

And yes, the woman"s angry phone call was caught on camera — even though she tried to hide.

An 8-year-old"s idea to sell water at San Francisco"s AT&T park would be seen as clever to some. One woman, Alison Ettel, was apparently unfuriated.

Twitter user Raj shared a video on Twitter.

"So my little cousin was selling water and didn"t have a permit," Raj tweeted. "So this lady decided to call the cops on an 8 year old. #PermitPatty"

In the video, the 8-year-old girl"s mother can be heard saying: "you can hide all you want. The whole world is going to see you."

Ettel, after ducking behind a stone wall to hide, explains that she is calling the police because the little girl lacks a permit to sell water.

She and the mother disagree about whose property the girl is on, but that is honestly beside the point.

Most people consider calling the police on an 8-year-old who is perfectly safe and also not harming anyone to be reprehensible.

The video went viral, and Raj followed up on Twitter.

"I can"t reply to everybody bc it"s been so many responses," Raj tweets. "But my family thanks you all for the funny comments memes & words of encouragement." 

Raj continues: "My little cousin is doing okay for those who are asking and her mom is going to be pressing charges for harassment."

Obviously, as always seems to be the case, some people played devil"s advocate. Some people won"t accept that racism may have been a factor until they"ve eliminated every other possibility.

Raj had some words for them.

"For all of you saying it"s not about race why didn"t she stop to harass the white mean that we"re selling tickets and teeshirts," Raj asks. "But thought calling the police on a child was okay?"

Raj quickly clarifies that she is not asking for answers; her question is rhetorical.

"Don"t answer. Just ask yourself that."

Here, you can see Ettel ducking behind a wall when she realizes that she is being recorded.

Raj follows up those tweets by making it clear (though we think that it was obvious to most) that she is not suggesting that this behavior is universal to white women.

"Clearly I didn"t mean every single white woman," Raj tweets. "But it"s a reoccurring pattern all the videos I"ve seen of black people minding their business it"s a white woman harrashing them & threatening to call the police."

Raj then points out that while having the police called on you can change anyone"s life forever and for the worst, one never knows when one of those "bad apple" police officers will show up and turn an unpleasant day into someone"s last.

Raj tweets: "y"all do realize police kill black people for any reason they want."

Sadly, many racists in uniform then go on to get away with it.

But it doesn"t appear that Ettel hesitated to make her phone call.

Someone on Twitter who saw this video remarked that they had observed in these recurring viral stories that "white people call the police like they"re customer service."

(This, by the way, is the entrepreurial 8-year-old who was selling water)

Alison Ettel spoke to The Huffington Post in an effort to defend her actions … sort of.

First, she says that she was totally justified in calling because the water-selling was just too darn loud.

"They were screaming about what they were selling. It was literally nonstop. It was every two seconds, ‘Come and buy my water.’" Ettel claims. "It was continuous and it wasn’t a soft voice, it was screaming."

We don"t like noise that much either, but the video makes it clear that this is a crowded park area.

She also says that she didn"t really call the police, claiming that it was just a bluff.

"I have no problem with enterprising young women," Ettel claims. "I want to support that little girl. It was all the mother and just about being quiet."

Ettel herself has a business, a cannabis tincture company aimed at dogs called Treatwell Health. Magnolia Oakland has announced that it will no longer carry her products.

"It was stupid,” Ettel admits. “I completely regret that I handled that so poorly. It was completely stress-related, and I should have never confronted her."

Ettel continues: "That was a mistake, a complete mistake. Please don’t make me sound horrible."

She also insists that there was no racial component to her outrage and claims that she ducked behind the wall, not to hide, but to hear the security guard to whom she says that she was speaking.

If the park was so loud that she had to duck and hide (conveniently when she sees someone recording her), that begs the question of how she was able to single out an 8-year-old girl and her mother as the noisy culprits.

We all wish that Ettel had made better choices. Perhaps no one wishes this as firmly as Ettel.

The next time that someone tries to attribute this kind of behavior to southern "rednecks," remember that a California woman who sells marijuana to dogs made a fuss over an 8-year-old girl.

Yikes.

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