The Trump Administration
Irony
Irony
Like rain on your wedding day.
Day 712
Tuesday 1 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 11
“It may be immoral for them not to support him because he’s got African American employment to record highs, Hispanic employment to record highs,”
Day 578
Monday 20 August 2018
As her husband continued to rip into his adversaries on Twitter, first lady Melania Trump on Monday warned that social media can be used in a “destructive and harmful” manner
Day 565
Tuesday 7 August 2018
“If you and I fall into bad moral habits, we can harm our families, our employers and our friends. The President of the United States can incinerate the planet. Seriously, the very idea that we ought to have at or less than the same moral demands placed on the Chief Executive that we place on our next door neighbor is ludicrous and dangerous”
Day 552
Wednesday 25 July 2018
The president’s forceful blister against Iran over the weekend, in which he tweeted in all capital letters that Tehran ought to cease and desist threatening the U.S.—or else—was just the latest example in a long line of Trumpisms obstructing a legitimate debate over Iran policy.
Day 531
Wednesday 4 July 2018
Day 530
Tuesday 3 July 2018
Day 456
Friday 20 April 2018
One person was injured in a shooting at Forest High School in Ocala, Fla., Friday morning, a short time before a planned student walkout to protest school violence.
Day 444
Sunday 8 April 2018
An employee handbook for the Trump Hotel Las Vegas also banned ‘[s]exually suggestive or obscene comments or gestures.’ No, seriously.
Day 435
Friday 30 March 2018
"Sexual assault crimes remain tragically common in our society, and offenders too often evade accountability. These heinous crimes are committed indiscriminately: in intimate relationships, in public spaces, and in the workplace"
Day 419
Wednesday 14 March 2018
Day 345
Saturday 30 December 2017
Day 335
Wednesday 20 December 2017
Day 250
Tuesday 26 September 2017
“It’s incredibly ironic that the attorney general wants to come here to talk about free speech but is excluding dissenting voices and potentially dissenting questions from his speech.”
Day 230
Wednesday 6 September 2017
...a practice that lawyers for a civil rights group suing the commission over transparency say violates federal law.
Day 229
Tuesday 5 September 2017
“Audiences around the world will benefit from the same candor, wit and insight that Spicer brought to the White House briefing room”
Day 191
Saturday 29 July 2017
He likes Kelly. He trusts Kelly. But what remains to be seen is whether Trump will listen to him as Kelly seeks to bring order to a White House beset by chaos.
Day 184
Saturday 22 July 2017
Day 178
Sunday 16 July 2017
Trump, whose company outsources the manufacturing of many of its products to overseas factories, is unveiling “Made in America” week at the White House to promote products made in the United States.
Day 160
Wednesday 28 June 2017
Day 158
Monday 26 June 2017
Senior White House adviser Ivanka Trump says she tries to stay away from politics.
Day 154
Thursday 22 June 2017
McConnell, you see, almost landed in a wheelchair himself. He contracted polio in his quadricep at the age of two while living in Alabama.
Day 153
Wednesday 21 June 2017
Day 146
Wednesday 14 June 2017
—Rand Paul (who was present at the baseball shooting earlier today), US Senator for Kentucky, in a tweet from 23 June 2016
Day 145
Tuesday 13 June 2017
Day 144
Monday 12 June 2017
...when you spend the better part of 17 months habitually breaking political norms with your unusually nasty campaign, you can't spend time during your presidency complaining about the nastiness of the political system that you will now oversee as president.
Day 139
Wednesday 7 June 2017
"I've never seen hatred like this, and to me they're not even people. It's so, so sad, I mean morality is just gone, morals have flown out the window we deserve so much better than this as a country."
Day 129
Sunday 28 May 2017
...the Trump Organization took Mr. Davies’s coat of arms for its own, making one small adjustment — replacing the word “Integritas,” Latin for integrity, with “Trump.”
Day 99
Friday 28 April 2017
“We have a number of judges in the country that have departed a bit too far from classical enforcing the law as written and using the law to advance an agenda that they may have personally.”
Day 57
Friday 17 March 2017
...the main character is the same one who campaigned by saying “they laugh at our stupidity” and “we are led by very, very stupid people” and “I have the best words, but there’s no better word than ‘stupid.’ ”
Day 56
Thursday 16 March 2017
"Right now we should be working together, not pulling apart," May told British television.
Day 50
Friday 10 March 2017
...that percentage could very likely be lower ... but there it still enough data to conclude that a very significant number of Americans living in Mexico are not there legally.
Day 48
Wednesday 8 March 2017
Day 36
Friday 24 February 2017
...the bulk of the memo is devoted to arguments for clamping down on unauthorized disclosures of sensitive information, also known as leaking.
Day 28
Thursday 16 February 2017
Bannon told the Atlantic’s Rosie Gray that Breitbart’s report was “absurd.”
Day 27
Wednesday 15 February 2017
Mr. Trump angrily told Mrs. Clinton [...] that if elected, he would instruct his attorney general “to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation because there has never been so many lies, so much deception.”
Day 15
Friday 3 February 2017
Day 12
Tuesday 31 January 2017
Ironically, however, the question came from a deeply concerned Jeff Sessions who really had a bee in his bonnet about how critical it was for the DOJ to be prepared to defy improper directives.
Day 10
Sunday 29 January 2017
Day 6
Wednesday 25 January 2017
Some ethics watchdogs were skeptical.