Misc
Misc
Minor 'news' that's not quite as newsworthy as things tagged with 'News'.
Wednesday 27 March 2019
In an interview with me in October 2017, she answered that question yes. When I asked her again four months later, in February 2018, she said, "I'd probably say no today."
Tuesday 19 March 2019
Inside Fox, staffers believe that C.E.O. Lachlan Murdoch is likely to nudge the network in a less pro-Trump direction. Is this the first step in a larger strategy to sell the newly spun-off company?
Monday 18 March 2019
King was openly pondering violent, armed conflict, apparently joking about Republican-leaning states fighting their Democratic-leaning neighbors in a second American civil war.
Wednesday 13 March 2019
Monday 25 February 2019
Reid [...] said in an interview with CNN that there was “something wrong” with Trump.
Why did Deutsche Bank lend money to Trump business when others refused?
Sunday 17 February 2019
...the U.S. government "informally" asked Tokyo to nominate Trump after he met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore in June
Friday 15 February 2019
Tuesday 12 February 2019
...after President Donald Trump referred to her Green New Deal resolution as a "high school term paper" during his El Paso, Texas rally.
Sunday 10 February 2019
Red states are getting new residents, but it's not clear the newcomers will really vote Republican.
The comments drew immediate blowback on social media, with accusations that the president was making light of one of the worst tragedies Native Americans have experienced.
Friday 8 February 2019
“The threats, the blackmail, that’s their business model”
Thursday 7 February 2019
The torrent of scandals has left state lawmakers finding themselves answering questions about whether they have so-far-undisclosed misconduct.
Tuesday 5 February 2019
"...it’s pathetic that the one time Trump (the biggest bully out there) cares about bullying it’s only because his last name is involved."
Sunday 3 February 2019
To protect our source, we retyped the schedules in the same format that staff receive them.
The president sometimes has meetings during Executive Time that he doesn't want most West Wing staff to know about for fear of leaks.
Friday 1 February 2019
After last fall’s 40-seat electoral disaster, the conservative hard-liners have agreed to a cease-fire with their long-suffering GOP leadership as they work together to try to crush Democrats at the polls next year.
Monday 28 January 2019
Coulter repeatedly accused Gingrich of sycophancy—except in more vulgar terms.
“No one had ever seen the Oval Office!” the current president claimed during a recent meeting with business executives
Saturday 26 January 2019
...we have been asked to make clear that the article contained a number of false statements which we accept should not have been published.
Monday 21 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 31
'Apparently, MLK volunteered to be murdered'
Thursday 17 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 27
In her message, Marci Whitaker says the Mueller investigation is “wrapping up” and that the government shutdown is affecting her family’s ability to earn a living.
Tuesday 15 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 25
The wine blogger-turned State Department official allegedly created a list of career government staffers disloyal to President Donald Trump.
Monday 14 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 24
“When the smoke cleared, 146 men, women, and children lay dead. Others perished from their wounds or froze to death in the hills.”
Friday 11 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 21
“None of you understand. I'm not locked up in here with YOU. You're locked up in here with ME.”
Monday 7 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 17
This is largely to meet Trump’s demands for more “Executive Time,” which almost always means TV and Twitter time alone in the residence
Thursday 3 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 13
During the brief appearance, Trump also claimed that "nobody" knows more about drones than he does.
Monday 31 December 2018
Government Shutdown Day 10
Marine sentries guarding the West Wing normally rotate through their shifts every half-hour when Trump is his office and have done so for the last decade.
Wednesday 26 December 2018
Government Shutdown Day 5
The victory comes amid a coordinated advertiser boycott of Tucker Carlson’s prime-time Fox News show after the host claimed immigrants make America “dirtier.”
No paper evidence has been found to help corroborate the version of events described by the Braunstein family
Tuesday 25 December 2018
Government Shutdown Day 4
Though he called military personnel on Tuesday, Trump did not visit a hospital or a military base.
Monday 24 December 2018
Government Shutdown Day 3
He asked the boy, named Coleman, if he's still a believer in Santa. After listening, Mr. Trump said, "Because at 7, it's marginal, right?"
Friday 21 December 2018
Mercer typically avoids public scrutiny, but his involvement with Trump thrust him into the political arena — an unwelcome development for him.
Sunday 16 December 2018
It’s unlikely that a U.S. court would hear the President’s case against “Saturday Night Live” as parody has historically been protected by the First Amendment.
Saturday 15 December 2018
When their regulated rents started rising more quickly in the 1990s, many tenants had no idea why.
Friday 14 December 2018
But 23 years later, the Weekly Standard is no more. It’s a particularly striking moment because it was the rare conservative media outlet that confronted Donald Trump, rejecting some of his worst personality traits and attitudes.
However, he added, "But at a time when faith in so many of our institutions is at an all-time low, I regret speaking imprudently. I don't believe the President broke the law, but one of the core principles of our country is that no one is above the law. That means anyone who does break the law should face appropriate consequences."
Thursday 13 December 2018
“Are the pathetic deflections that we just heard, when he appeared on ‘Fox & Friends,‘ is that a patriot speaking,” Brzezinski asked, “or a wannabe dictator’s butt boy? Dead serious, I’m asking. Are these the words of a patriot?”
Wednesday 12 December 2018
Look, I am not complaining that the President was absent without authorized leave. This is an improvement.
“I would go back to the ambassadors and say, ‘You know he is pretty upset. I can’t promise you what he is going to do. I’ll tell you, if we do these sanctions, it will keep him from going too far.’”
Monday 10 December 2018
“Okay but I don’t care; all I can say is he’s doing a good job as President”
Kevin McCarthy is singing a very different tune about congressional investigations than he did during the Obama years.
Sunday 9 December 2018
The first person to destroy Trump’s star was Otis
Thursday 6 December 2018
Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno said Thursday that he had received written promises from the U.K. to not extradite Julian Assange to a country where he could face the death penalty
Tuesday 4 December 2018
The need for the motorcade, however, prompted questions, and a healthy dose of speculation, about why the Trumps were unable — or unwilling — to simply walk across the street.
Sunday 2 December 2018
Despite the president's wishes he did eventually return to the stage, to pose for group photos with the other world leaders.
Friday 30 November 2018
He has been upfront about the lack of time and attention he can give to reading, and he has gone back and forth between publicly declaring his love of reading but also telling the world he does not read much.
Tuesday 27 November 2018
...lining an entire hallway with blood-red Christmas trees that immediately reminded gawkers on social media of fun holiday movies. Like Stanley Kubrick’s Christmas classic The Shining!
Saturday 24 November 2018
Two of the president’s longest-serving advisers allege in a new book that scores of officials inside the White House, Congress, the Justice Department and intelligence agencies are “embedded enemies of President Trump” working to stymie his agenda and delegitimize his presidency.
Tuesday 20 November 2018
This year, many of Trump’s old customers are holding their events at his longtime rival, a Palm Beach resort called the Breakers.
Monday 19 November 2018
“Wouldn’t it have been nice if we got Osama bin Laden a lot sooner than that, wouldn’t it have been nice?”
Trump has a long history of trashing the sacrifices of members of the military and their families and boldly suggesting he would’ve done a better job if plopped down in their place
1. Attacking Bill McRaven
2. Questioning the intel on Jamal Khashoggi
3. ‘I won the Senate’
Friday 16 November 2018
Over the past year, U.S. prosecutors have discussed several types of charges they could potentially bring against the WikiLeaks founder
Thursday 15 November 2018
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wore clothing to work on Thursday, and it became a thing.
The Republican midterm loss and the firing of Jeff Sessions blew up the narrative of the QAnon conspiracy theory
“It was the year of the woman,” McCarthy said, referring to the crush of women who ran for office in 2018, though in the Republican Party, he conceded, “it wasn't that much.”
...a development that could significantly advance the probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election and have major implications for those who publish government secrets.
Tuesday 13 November 2018
A drumbeat of exits is mixing with Trump’s anger after the midterms and a much-criticized trip to Europe.
“It is the position of the Office of the First Lady that she no longer deserves the honor of serving in this White House”
"It was installed earlier this year to help him focus on issues. A Kelly creation. It sometimes goes better than others."
Thursday 8 November 2018
Tuesday 6 November 2018
In its modern incarnation, Fox News effectively serves as an arm of the Trump campaign — echoing his talking points, suppressing unflattering stories, smearing Democrats, and even spreading conspiracy theories that serve the president’s interests. Still, it usually tries to maintain the appearance of being in the business of independent journalism.
"We were all told that Hannity was going to interview the president, but no one that I spoke with expected what happened last night"
Wednesday 31 October 2018
From all appearances, the president and first lady Melania Trump were warmly welcomed by Rabbi Jeffrey Myers — unlike the mayor, the county administrator, the governor, several tens of thousands of people who signed an open letter telling Trump he was “not welcome in Pittsburgh until you fully denounce white nationalism”
Tuesday 30 October 2018
Sunday 28 October 2018
House Republicans changed the rules in 2015 to allow many of their committee chairmen to issue subpoenas without consulting the minority party
Friday 26 October 2018
Wednesday 24 October 2018
But unlike the regular officers licensed by the state, these armed civilians are unregulated.
This lack of oversight continues despite numerous incidents of questionable — even illegal — conduct by reserve officers in recent years.
Friday 19 October 2018
Trump admitted, "I shouldn't say this," but continued and said, "there's nothing to be embarrassed about."
Wednesday 17 October 2018
...the latest in a string of properties that have distanced themselves from the Trump brand since Election Day 2016.
Monday 15 October 2018
Newt Gingrich turned partisan battles into bloodsport, wrecked Congress, and paved the way for Trump's rise. Now he's reveling in his achievements.
"I will give you a million dollars, paid for by Trump, to your favorite charity, if you take the test and it shows you’re an Indian," Trump said at the time.
Sunday 14 October 2018
Amateur art critics sneered on social media that the painting was “tacky,” “a travesty,” or “blasphemy.” Some said it looked like the political version of the famous “dogs playing poker” painting.
Thursday 11 October 2018
Wednesday 10 October 2018
In a crucial period with the midterms less than a month away, some in the White House are worried that the president is losing a megaphone to his base.
Tuesday 9 October 2018
"There's no personal reason," she said, explaining her rationale for departing. "It's very important for government officials to understand when it's time to step aside."
Monday 8 October 2018
Wednesday 26 September 2018
Thursday 13 September 2018
"Through your actions, you have embarrassed us in the eyes of our children, humiliated us on the world stage and, worst of all, divided us as a nation"
Wednesday 12 September 2018
“I think I could beat Trump” in an election [...] “I’m as tough as he is, I’m smarter than he is.”
...for “repeated violations of the terms of our content policy”
The Trump administration says it will ramp up investigations of hotels trying to hire foreign workers for seasonal jobs.
Tuesday 11 September 2018
A nonprofit group founded by conservative political megadonors Charles and David Koch must disclose its largest givers to law enforcement authorities in California
Sunday 9 September 2018
Though his office emphatically denied it was him, the likeliest author is Vice President Mike Pence, according to the website, where he’s listed at -125.
Saturday 8 September 2018
Publicly, Trump has professed love for his base, and it's obvious that he basks in their adoration. He even claimed once, while campaingin in Nevada, to “love the poorly educated.”
Wednesday 5 September 2018
Sunday 2 September 2018
Trump once said that, as president, he was "not going to have time to go play golf." He also spent years attacking former President Barack Obama for golfing and taking vacations while in office.
Wednesday 29 August 2018
Instead of fixing its diversity problem, the White House would rather just keep it under wraps
Monday 27 August 2018
With his closest allies defecting, the president increasingly trusts only his instincts. He “got joy” from stripping former C.I.A. director John Brennan’s security clearance. And after betrayals by Allen Weisselberg and David Pecker, a former White House official says, Trump “spent the weekend calling people and screaming.”
Sunday 26 August 2018
...the prevalent theory is that he looked at the recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, which shows him with a 52 percent disapproval rating.
Saturday 25 August 2018
Under the new plan [...] superdelegates retain their power to back any candidate regardless of how the public votes. They will now be largely barred, however, from participating in the first ballot of the presidential nominating process at the party’s convention — drastically diluting their power.
Friday 24 August 2018
“This president is a president for all Americans,” one joked, including conspiracy theorists.
Wednesday 22 August 2018
Two days after the president praised Paris Dennard as ‘wonderful’ on Twitter.
Monday 13 August 2018
“He was like, ‘What is this stuff in between and these other countries?’”
Thursday 9 August 2018
The crew laminated the vinyl stars and placed them on blank squares on the Walk of Fame, though kept them covered until all were secured into place so that onlookers would not know exactly what was happening.
Tuesday 7 August 2018
Because the Walk of Fame, which holds 2,500 stars, is the property of the City of Los Angeles, the city has the final decision.
Sunday 5 August 2018
Saturday 4 August 2018
"It looks like LeBron James is working to do good things on behalf of our next generation and just as she always has, the First Lady encourages everyone to have an open dialogue about issues facing children today"
Friday 3 August 2018
After just six months on the job, first lady Melania Trump’s top policy aide has left the White House
Thursday 2 August 2018
Republicans fear loss of financial support and growing rift over trade could hurt the party in November.
Tuesday 31 July 2018
"(Is) he's kinda used sports to kinda divide us, and that's something that I can't relate to."
Friday 27 July 2018
Anti-Trump protests have been taking place at the Walk of Fame over the past few days, along with pro-Trump demonstrations, following the destruction of his star Wednesday.
Wednesday 25 July 2018
...at least the second time in the past two years that the symbol has been destroyed.
Sunday 22 July 2018
Spencer apologizes for ‘ridiculously ugly’ episode but refuses to step down
Friday 20 July 2018
A new line of punditry is bubbling up among the president’s followers online: It was a positive thing that the Russians hacked the 2016 election.
Monday 16 July 2018
Sunday 15 July 2018
Rather than back the president and Republicans, the Midwest has begun to flirt with candidates who would keep them in check.
Tuesday 10 July 2018
Trump on Tuesday pardoned father-and-son cattle ranchers in southeastern Oregon who were sentenced to serve prison time on two separate occasions for the same charges of arson on public lands
Saturday 7 July 2018
For Trump and Jordan, the locker room is a place, both metaphorical and literal, where men can be men. Their version of manliness values bravado and aggression above the needs of others.
Friday 6 July 2018
There was a time, in the pre-Trump era, when Republicans would have erupted in fireworks over an Independence Day visit by submissive American lawmakers to the country the 2012 Republican presidential nominee called “our number one geopolitical foe.”
Thursday 5 July 2018
“I have broken more Elton John records, he seems to have a lot of records. ... So we break all of these records. Really we do it without like, the musical instruments. This is the only musical: the mouth. And hopefully the brain attached to the mouth. Right? The brain, more important than the mouth, is the brain. The brain is much more important.”
...as a tight and still-solid labor market led to a slower pace of hiring
Monday 2 July 2018
By claiming that their agreement is void, Broidy is putting Bechard in a position to tell her story — whatever it may actually be — in whatever forum she likes.
“Obviously, I’m disappointed, you know? … Is there a cutoff for tragedy?” ... “This was an attack on the press. It was an attack on freedom of speech. It’s just as important as any other tragedy.”
A barrage of critics online accused Bartiromo of peddling Trump's propaganda and following an administration-approved script.
Wednesday 27 June 2018
“We got more money, we got more brains, we got better houses and apartments, we got nicer boats, we’re smarter than they are and they say they’re the elite.”
Tuesday 26 June 2018
...but they did not specify how long it will last.
Monday 25 June 2018
It is apparent as the Democratic Party gradually sheds Michelle Obama's declaration that “When they go low, we go high” and trading it for “We fight fire with fire.”
...the burden will fall heaviest on the working-class, rural white voters on whom President Trump has staked the future of their party.
Red Hen’s last inspection was completed on Feb. 6, 2018, when it received a clean bill of health with no violations or required follow up visits.
Saturday 23 June 2018
Wilkinson had no regrets about her decision.
Friday 22 June 2018
“I literally got the other day, ‘Thanks but no thanks. Just Googled you and it said you were a mouthpiece for the Trump administration. Go fuck yourself’”
The congressional Republican caucuses must be substantially reduced. So substantially that their remnants, reduced to minorities, will be stripped of the Constitution’s Article I powers that they have been too invertebrate to use against the current wielder of Article II powers.
Thursday 21 June 2018
Mrs. Trump did not wear it while visiting with the children, but she did wear it upon her return to the capital, in full view of the news photographers who had gathered to capture her arrival.
Tuesday 19 June 2018
It also comes as the United States faces intense criticism for detaining children separated from their immigrant parents at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Monday 18 June 2018
"We are going to have the Air Force, and we are going to have the Space Force, separate but equal"
Thursday 14 June 2018
“[Trump’s] not ever going to become president, right?” asked a top F.B.I. lawyer, Lisa Page, in one text. “Right?!”
Peter Strzok, the agent overseeing the F.B.I.’s investigation into links between Mr. Trump’s campaign and Russia, answered, “No. No he won’t. We’ll stop it.”
A series of outbursts in Thursday’s White House briefings follows weeks of increasing strain.
Tuesday 12 June 2018
The president, a harsh critic of Time Warner-owned CNN, took aim at the deal when it was announced in the weeks before his election.
You realize this paper ripping story is a violation of law, right?
Monday 11 June 2018
This feels like something from a William Gibson cyberpunk dystopia novel, where the government has become so weak and useless, private corporations have been taking over the basic upkeep of the nation.
Sunday 10 June 2018
The president's unofficial 'filing system' involves tearing up documents into pieces, even when they're supposed to be preserved.
Thursday 7 June 2018
...in what it described as "just the beginning" of a crackdown on "political Islam" and foreign-funded Islamic communities.
Wednesday 6 June 2018
The peculiar Alabama law dates to an era “when county jails were more of a mom and pop operation and feeding inmates was often the responsibility of a sheriff’s wife”
Fotiadis did not respond to a call or an email. But eight hours later, he announced on Twitter that he was closing his firm, John Fotiadis Architect, or JFA, after 10 years in business. A few days later, Fotiadis closed the Twitter account he had used to announce he was closing down his firm.
Tuesday 5 June 2018
Although the players said they were demonstrating against police brutality in black communities, Trump criticized them for disrespecting the flag, sparking a fierce public debate. No Eagles players had participated in anthem protests, however.
Monday 4 June 2018
Less than 24 hours before the players were expected to arrive in the Rose Garden, Trump said he would celebrate with fans only because some members of the team were skipping the ceremony in protest of him.
Jackson faces a slew of allegations that he drank on the job, overprescribed medications and created a hostile work environment.
Friday 1 June 2018
First lady Melania Trump isn't accompanying the President to Camp David this weekend, marking the 22nd day since she was last seen publicly.
While the White House brushed off any notion that Mr. Trump had crossed a line, legal experts said the tweet raised possible insider trading concerns and economists said it was a blatant misuse of presidential power.
Thursday 31 May 2018
The president has taken a prerogative intended to temper justice with mercy, and turned it into an instrument of the culture war.
The most popular read on President Trump's pardon ... is that he may be sending a signal to other allies — hello, Michael Cohen! — that he will pardon them if they stay loyal.
Trump pardoned him on Thursday, saying that Mr. D’Souza had been “treated very unfairly by our government,” echoing a claim the commentator has often made himself.
Monday 28 May 2018
The tweet struck some as self-serving.
"This is one of the most inappropriate, ignorant and tone-deaf things our Commander-in-Chief could have said on a day like today"
Tuesday 22 May 2018
The legislation — most commonly referred to as the Crapo bill after its author, the Senate banking committee chair Mike Crapo — is the result of more than a year of negotiations
Monday 21 May 2018
“I'm supporting what my beliefs are, I strongly support traditional family values,” Cunningham said of the clause in an interview. "That if you marry a person of the opposite sex, that’s Caucasian, that’s Christian, they will get a distribution."
Saturday 19 May 2018
The tweet, which fosters an unsupported theory circulating on Capitol Hill and conservative media outlets about an intelligence "informant" spying on the Trump campaign, appears to be the first time Trump has called for the department to allow lawmakers to see the documents.
Medical experts have puzzled over why Mrs. Trump would have remained in the hospital for almost a week when the recovery for the kind of procedure she underwent — an embolization that cuts off the blood supply to the kidney — is typically a day.
Wednesday 16 May 2018
With only three of 51 Republicans committed to voting against Haspel and six Democrats indicating that they will support her, she appears set to become the agency’s first female director.
Monday 14 May 2018
Melania Trump underwent a medical procedure on Monday morning to treat what the White House called a “benign kidney condition” and was reported to be recovering without trouble at a military hospital outside the capital.
Sunday 13 May 2018
Unlike on Fox & Friends, where Trump learns new (frequently incorrect) information, Hannity acts to transform Trump’s pervasive ambivalence into resolve by convincing him what he’s already decided he believes and what he’s decided to do is correct.
Wednesday 9 May 2018
Haspel, a 33-year C.I.A. veteran who oversaw a secret prison in Thailand in 2002 while a Qaeda suspect was waterboarded there, said that she and other spies were working within the law.
Monday 30 April 2018
Sunday 29 April 2018
Sean Conley, a Navy officer who took over Jackson’s role as the president’s personal doctor last month, will continue in the role
"Like a porn star says when she's about to have sex with a Trump, let's get this over with."
Saturday 28 April 2018
All of it has emboldened President Trump and the White House to accuse Tester of a smear campaign — and has muddied the case against Jackson, who not only removed his name from consideration for VA secretary but also continues to face scrutiny as White House physician.
Thursday 26 April 2018
"You look at the corruption at the top of the FBI, it’s a disgrace. And our Justice Department – which I try and stay away from, but at some point I won’t – our Justice Department should be looking at that kind of stuff, not the nonsense of collusion with Russia. There is no collusion with me and everyone knows it."
In a statement announcing his withdrawal, Jackson slammed allegations of improper behavior leveled against him as "completely false and fabricated."
Wednesday 25 April 2018
Jackson is growing weary of a process that has been besieged from the start.
Tuesday 24 April 2018
It also prompted a new round of criticism of how President Trump has been filling top administration posts — often without first conducting the kind of vetting that uncovers problems before they explode in public.
...a White House official said the doctor would “certainly not be railroaded by a bitter ex-colleague.”
They said they did not mean to suggest vetting would “uncover anything improper” about Jackson, but as it turns out, his confirmation hearing was just postponed over questions about his qualifications and conduct, which would have come up during that process.
Friday 20 April 2018
McCabe denied the allegations and said he was being targeted in an effort to undermine special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russia's election interference.
Thursday 19 April 2018
...after the inspector general concluded McCabe had lied to investigators or his boss, then-FBI Director James B. Comey, on four occasions, three of them under oath.
Wednesday 18 April 2018
The tabloid news company American Media Inc. agreed to let a former Playboy model out of a contract that had kept her from talking freely about an alleged affair with Donald J. Trump.
Under the plan, Mr. Schneiderman, a Democrat, seeks to exempt New York’s double jeopardy law from cases involving presidential pardons, according to the letter
“With all due respect, I don’t get confused”
Sunday 15 April 2018
Trump's 2020 reelection campaign has spent about $835,000 in legal fees so far this year, or about 22% of its total spending
Thursday 12 April 2018
Mr. Libby’s case has long been a cause for conservatives who maintained that he was a victim of a special prosecutor run amok, an argument that may have resonated with the president.
Tuesday 10 April 2018
Trump quietly signed a long-anticipated executive order on Tuesday intended to force low-income recipients of food assistance, Medicaid and low-income housing subsidies to join the work force or face the loss of their benefits.
Sunday 8 April 2018
On Sunday morning, Trump posted about a half-dozen tweets on a variety of subjects... But he has not revisited the Trump Tower fire, even after news of Brassner’s death.
The future president backed off on panning the proposal after it was tweaked to grandfather existing buildings — such as Trump Tower — or structures for which building permits had already been filed, such as the Trump World Tower.
Saturday 7 April 2018
New York City did not mandate sprinklers in every unit and common hallways of new residential buildings until March 1999 when then-Mayor Rudy Giulini signed council legislation. That was well after the opening of Trump Tower in February 1983.
The president suddenly has a chance to seat a judge with a markedly different judicial outlook, giving conservatives a greater voice on the liberal-leaning court, which has been a particular thorn in Mr. Trump’s side.
Friday 6 April 2018
...continuing a boycott that began his first year in office
Tuesday 3 April 2018
...the president has failed to appoint any of the nine governors to the 11-member Board of Governors of the U.S. Postal Service.
A CNN KFile review of his social media found that Johnson posted birther conspiracies about then-President Barack Obama and shared a video that claimed Obama was the Antichrist.
Monday 2 April 2018
As such, Dobbs doesn’t get to just interview and socialize with the president; he is involved in some of the administration’s more sensitive discussions.
"Out of self-respect--be Republican. Democrats love poor people because they think that poor people will vote Democrat. Republicans hate poor people because they think the dignity of man is above being poor."
Wednesday 28 March 2018
Boutrous added the President is a "notoriously difficult client who disregards the advice of his lawyers and asks them to engage in questionable activities."
Sunday 25 March 2018
“The president is disappointed that conflicts prevent Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing from joining the president’s special counsel legal team”
Thursday 22 March 2018
Karen McDougal confirmed to CNN in an interview on Thursday that she had a 10-month sexual relationship with Donald Trump before he was President
Wednesday 21 March 2018
The Federal Reserve raised interest rates on Wednesday by a quarter of a percentage point and signaled that the central bank is on track to raise rates twice more in 2018.
To calm Mr. Trump, Donald F. McGahn II, the White House counsel, drew up a broad document barring White House officials from publicly disclosing what they heard and saw at work. But he privately told senior aides that it was mainly meant to placate an agitated president ... Mr. McGahn made it clear the agreement could not ultimately be enforced
Tuesday 20 March 2018
Monday 19 March 2018
In just under 14 months on the job, Trump has had more Cabinet turnover than 14 of his predecessors had in their first two years.
Friday 16 March 2018
Despite the fact that Smith is becoming known as a critic of some Fox commentary, the news release announcing his contract carried no hint of discontent.
Tuesday 13 March 2018
Trump’s personal assistant, John McEntee, was escorted out of the White House on Monday ... The cause of the firing was an unspecified security issue
Sunday 11 March 2018
Shulkin and Trump were discussing legislation to reform veterans' health care during an Oval Office meeting last week when Trump reportedly called "Fox & Friends" co-host Pete Hegseth to get his opinion.
Saturday 10 March 2018
Trump mentioned a 1999 appearance he made on NBC's "Meet the Press," which he noted is "a show now headed by Sleepy-Eyes Chuck Todd." "He is a sleeping son of a b----, I'll tell you," Trump added.
Friday 9 March 2018
To minimize damage to Washington’s streets, the parade will include only wheeled vehicles — and not the heavy military vehicles, like tanks
Trump acknowledged the expense but insisted it would be “great for our country.”
Tuesday 6 March 2018
“I did not think it was going to be a therapy session, but I think it became a therapy session.”
Monday 5 March 2018
The removal of the Trump name from the Trump International Hotel Panama came after a days-long standoff between the majority owner, Cypriot businessman Orestes Fintiklis, and the president’s company.
Saturday 3 March 2018
Trump is now a president in transition, at times angry and increasingly isolated. He fumes in private that just about every time he looks up at a television screen, the cable news headlines are trumpeting yet another scandal. ... And he confides to friends that he is uncertain about whom to trust.
Thursday 1 March 2018
A person appears to have stolen someone’s identity to nominate President Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize — for the second year in a row.
Tuesday 27 February 2018
"The president of the United States has now moved beyond live-tweeting Fox to tweeting "highlights" from the last few days of programming."
Sunday 25 February 2018
John Dunkin, Trump’s longtime pilot, who flew him around the country on a Boeing 757 during the 2016 campaign, is on the Trump administration’s shortlist to head the FAA, which regulates civil aviation in the United States.
For traditional conservatives, the past two years have felt like a Twilight Zone episode. Politicians, activists and intellectuals have succumbed with numbing regularity, betraying every principle they once claimed to uphold. But there remains a vigorous remnant of dissenters.
Saturday 24 February 2018
The majority owner of President Trump’s only hotel in Latin America abruptly ordered Trump employees out of the property on Thursday, triggering a confrontation in which Trump employees refused to leave and asked police to intervene
At other times, Pirro's camera showed her, mouth agape, trying to get in a word but unable to halt the monologuing president.
"Hey @FLOTUS you say that your mission as First Lady is to stop cyber bullying," 14-year-old Lauren Hogg tweeted Friday. "Well then, don't you think it would have been smart to have a convo with your step-son @DonaldJTrumpJr before he liked a post about a false conspiracy theory which in turn put a target on my back."
Wednesday 21 February 2018
After what appear to be four questions he planned to ask those assembled, No. 5 is an apparent reminder for Trump to tell people, “I hear you.”
That's at once pretty striking for a president and not at all striking for Trump. Through tragedy after tragedy, empathy has been the quality clearly missing from Trump's reactions.
The lack of clarity about when and how Viktor and Amalija Knavs obtained their legal residencies raises questions about whether the couple secured their residency through family-based immigration, which President Trump calls chain migration and has said he wants to restrict.
Monday 19 February 2018
Donald J. Trump makes his ranking debut at the very bottom of the list.
Self-identified conservatives and somewhat conservatives are largely the same population and thus generally consistent with the Republican pattern, .... Both groups are somewhat more favorable, though not overwhelmingly so, to Donald Trump, ranking him 40th in each case, compared to the overall ranking of 44th.
Wednesday 14 February 2018
Rather than simply fighting judicial rulings, elected officials in some states across the country — largely Republicans, but Democrats as well — are increasingly seeking to punish or restrain judges who hand down unfavorable decisions, accusing them of making law instead of interpreting it.
Tuesday 13 February 2018
"...the insurgent-like features of the Trump campaign and the relatively small campaign staff limited the pool of experienced applicants. While it created new opportunities for many individuals who had not previously worked in the White House, such inexperience may have led to poor performance and a slew of first-year departures."
Friday 9 February 2018
Several intelligence experts said that the president’s aversion to diving deeper into written intelligence details — the “homework” that past presidents have done to familiarize themselves with foreign policy and national security — makes both him and the country more vulnerable.
Tuesday 6 February 2018
Trump officials had discussed Memorial Day on May 28, and July 4, but the Pentagon prefers Veterans Day on Nov. 11 — in part because it would coincide with the 100th anniversary of the victorious end of World War I and therefore be less associated with the president and politics.
Thursday 1 February 2018
“It’s taking the lessons and transgressions noted on the part of this administration and preventing those things from happening again in the future.”
Wednesday 31 January 2018
"We would like to invite you to come to shithole Namibia, one of the best shithole countries out there."
Monday 29 January 2018
In a fundraising solicitation on Monday, Trump offered those willing to pay at least $35 the opportunity to see their name displayed during a live streaming of the address on his campaign website.
Mrs. Trump and the president have had a tumultuous relationship at times over the years, but few episodes have roiled the peace as much as the news surrounding Ms. Daniels. The reports of a payoff blindsided the first lady, who was furious with her husband.... She has kept a low profile since.
Friday 26 January 2018
Trump invited the world to share in resurgent U.S. economic success for which he took credit Friday, wrapping his “America first” message of sovereignty in a salesman’s offer to other nations and businesses.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/trump-booed-davos-2018-jeered-fake-news-media-speech-us-president-wef-latest-a8179471.html
Thursday 25 January 2018
House Representative John Ratcliffe told Fox News on Tuesday that “in the immediate aftermath” of the 2016 election, “there may have been a secret society of folks within the Department of Justice and the FBI” that were working to prevent Donald Trump from becoming president.
Sunday 21 January 2018
Government Shutdown Day 2
On Saturday, the White House released a handful of images of the president working during the government shutdown; what happened next probably won’t surprise you.
Saturday 20 January 2018
Government Shutdown Day 1
“People say, ‘You know, you’re so harsh,’” he said on Warrior Talk Radio in August 2014. “I was called an Islamophobe and I was like: ‘No, no, no, no, no, I’m not afraid of them. I don’t like them. Big difference.’ And they were like, ‘Well, you’re racist.’ I was like, ‘Fine, if that’s the definition of it, then I guess I am.’”
Friday 19 January 2017
A year later, why does anyone still listen to Seth Abramson?
Sunday 14 January 2018
Weyeneth’s ascent from a low-level post to deputy chief of staff is the result, in large part, of staff turnover and vacancies.
Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) said Sunday that President Donald Trump's declaration that media is "the enemy of the people" is a throwback to Josef Stalin that should have no place in political discourse.
Friday 12 January 2018
The brief statement did not include any basic information about Mr. Trump’s health, including his weight, blood pressure or cholesterol levels. The president’s doctors did not indicate what tests they performed during the exam or whether Mr. Trump, 71, was taking medications.
It remains unclear whether doctors performed any mental acuity, cognitive or neurological tests during the president’s physical exam.
Haiwainet, a news portal of China’s state newspaper People’s Daily, used lan guo, or 烂国, which means “countries that suck.”
Taiwan’s Central News Agency tried niao bu sheng dan de guo jia, or 鳥不生蛋的國家, meaning “countries where birds don’t lay eggs.”
South Korean news portal joins.com went with 거지소굴, pronounced “go-ji-so-gul,” meaning “beggars’ haunts.”
The Japanese daily Sankei opted for 便所のように汚い国, or “Benjo no yō ni kitanai kuni,” meaning “countries that are dirty like toilets.”
Thursday 11 January 2018
The new United States ambassador to the Netherlands refused on Wednesday to answer questions about his 2015 statement that politicians and cars had been burned by Muslims in the Netherlands, a claim he has not substantiated.
“This is the Netherlands, you have to answer questions”
The president’s alarm was unfortunate, since the Trump administration strongly supports reauthorization of this law.
Tuesday 9 January 2018
On Friday, Mr. Trump, 71, will undergo his first comprehensive physical examination as president, and the first formal check on his former doctor’s Trumpian 2015 campaign claim that he’d be the “healthiest individual ever elected” to the office.
The Wikileaks founder has been confined to the Ecuadorean embassy in London since 2012, claiming political asylum.
Donald Trump’s staff knew he shouldn’t be president. Now they have to deal with the fact that he is.
Sunday 7 January 2018
This is largely to meet Trump’s demands for more “Executive Time,” which almost always means TV and Twitter time alone in the residence
Friday 5 January 2018
The president is just live-tweeting Fox, particularly the network’s Trump-loving morning show, Fox & Friends.
There is no strategy to Trump’s Twitter feed; he is not trying to distract the media. He is being distracted. He darts with quark-like speed from topic to topic in his tweets because that’s how cable news works.
"Fire and Fury: Inside The Trump White House" by journalist Michael Wolff went on sale at midnight in at least one Washington, D.C., bookshop (and reportedly sold out in less than 20 minutes). It had already reached No. 1 on Amazon's best-seller list.
Wednesday 27 December 2017
And he has now signed the fewest number of bills into law of any first-year president dating back to Dwight Eisenhower
Tuesday 26 December 2017
...the newspaper published a scathing editorial that took aim at the senator's recent record, most notably his part in the Trump administration's decision to shrink two national monuments in the state, and said that the designation was meant to anoint the Utahn who had had the most impact, “for good or for ill.”
Saturday 23 December 2017
A March special election in a conservative-leaning stretch of western Pennsylvania that Donald Trump won by 20 points is the next big test of whether a Democratic wave will sweep the party into the House majority for the first time 2010.
The F.B.I.’s embattled deputy director, Andrew G. McCabe, ... is expected to retire after he becomes eligible for his pension early next year
In other words, people reading, sharing and linking to Fox News and Breitbart were, for the most part interacting only with other right-wing news sites, and not mainstream outlets like The New York Times, Washington Post, or even Wall Street Journal. That means, Benkler said, that conservatives are Fox News’ only potential audience.
Friday 22 December 2017
And the national motto, “E pluribus unum” — a Latin phrase that means “Out of many, one” — is gone. Instead, both sides of the coin feature Trump’s campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again.”
“I didn’t call that fake news,” he said. “I didn’t use the words today. I don’t think I did.”
Monday 18 December 2017
Matthew Petersen, a nominee to the federal judiciary, has withdrawn from consideration days after a video clip showed him unable to answer basic questions about legal procedure
Petersen ... is the third Trump judicial pick to withdraw in the past week amid criticism from Democrats and others about their qualifications.
Friday 15 December 2017
While the Democrats have seen an uptick in the percentages of black and other nonwhite Americans, driving the segment of the party that is white to about 60 percent ... the Republicans have seen much less of a shift.
Monday 4 December 2017
“Sooner or later, everybody who works for Donald Trump will see a side of him that makes you wonder why you took a job with him in the first place”
“On Trump Force One there were four major food groups: McDonald’s, Kentucky Fried Chicken, pizza and Diet Coke”
Monday 27 November 2017
"I just want to thank you because you are very, very special people. You were here long before any of us were here," Trump said. "Although, we have a representative in Congress who has been here a long time ... longer than you -- they call her Pocahontas!"
Wednesday 15 November 2017
The appointment of Brett Talley, 36, for a lifetime post as an Alabama federal judge is raising eyebrows because he has never tried a case.
Thursday 2 November 2017
“What kind of son have I created?”
Wednesday 18 October 2017
Trump sent a $25,000 personal check to the family of a fallen soldier the same day that The Washington Post reported that he had promised the soldier's father a personal donation during a June condolence call but never followed through.
Tuesday 29 August 2017
Trump has yet to brag about his electoral college victory in the state, but the day’s not over yet.
Sunday 20 August 2017
A group of alumni from one of the country's most influential evangelical Christian universities is condemning their school's president for his continued alignment with President Trump.
Friday 18 August 2017
"The President has not yet been able to demonstrate the stability nor some of the competence that he needs to demonstrate in order to be successful,"
The gilded and glittering Mar-a-Lago has been a favorite spot for holding charity events and a money maker for the Trump Organization.
Thursday 17 August 2017
Most people who are on the Trump train say they are definitely, absolutely never getting off -- no matter what.
Wednesday 16 August 2017
“You cannot be against General Lee and be for General Washington,” the email reads, “there literally is no difference between the two men.”
“I see no equivalence between those who propound fascist views and those who oppose them,"
Tuesday 15 August 2017
“Nothing can stop the #TrumpTrain!!"
Saturday 12 August 2017
White nationalists descended on Charlottesville, Virginia, on Friday and Saturday to protest the city’s decision to take down Confederate monuments. But not only have the protests done nothing to change Charlottesville’s mind on this issue, it’s apparently prompted at least one other city to speed up action to remove its Confederate statues as well.
Tuesday 8 August 2017
...the folders are filled with screenshots of positive cable news chyrons (those lower-third headlines and crawls), admiring tweets, transcripts of fawning TV interviews, praise-filled news stories, and sometimes just pictures of Trump on TV looking powerful.
“We are wondering why President Trump has not tweeted about this. He seems to want to tweet about security and terror issues.”
Monday 7 August 2017
This was an underwhelming way to attract local job-seekers. But that wasn’t the point. The ads were actually part of Mar-a-Lago’s efforts to hire foreign workers for those 35 jobs.
Both men received multiple draft deferments during the Vietnam War
This year, on the first day of its term, the Supreme Court will consider the much-anticipated Gill v. Whitford. That case brings up the hot-button question of whether a state legislature may draw electoral districts that favor one party over another.
Friday 4 August 2017
We organized the high-profile members of President Trump's West Wing staff into six key groups, based on their backgrounds and allegiances. Many are members of two or three of these groups.
Thursday 3 August 2017
Trump made clear that he thinks he deserves credit for the latest record high, tweeting, “That doesn’t just happen!”
Tuesday 1 August 2017
...the reason he frequented the golf property so often was because "that White House is a real dump."
Friday 28 July 2017
“When you guys put somebody in the car and you’re protecting their head, you know, the way you put their hand over?”
“I said, you can take the hand away, okay?”
Wednesday 26 July 2017
“I’m 9 years old and you are my favourite president,” Sanders read. “I like you so much I had a birthday about you.”
Wednesday 5 July 2017
Trump will land in Poland Wednesday and is guaranteed a rapturous reception: Supportive crowds literally will be bused in to cheer for him.
Sunday 2 July 2017
Trading broadsides on everything from tax and climate policy to a California ban on state-sponsored travel to the Lone Star State, the two poles of American politics have in recent days revived a feud
Tuesday 27 June 2017
Huckabee Sanders even qualified — twice — that she couldn't vouch for the accuracy of O'Keefe's new video. But she nonetheless said everyone should watch it.
Sunday 11 June 2017
Melania Trump and Barron remained in New York so the 11-year-old could finish out the school year
Tuesday 6 June 2017
"I've been in motorcades for a couple of years now ... I've never seen so many people flip the bird at an American motorcade as I saw today"
Monday 29 May 2017
Wednesday 19 April 2017
Brady was the most prominent Patriot absent on Wednesday. He also skipped his team’s visit with Obama, also citing family issues.
Tuesday 18 April 2017
Monday 17 April 2017
“Just like any other damn president”
Wednesday 12 April 2017
First, Trump forgot to order the eggs, which is a thing that happens when you "dismantle the administrative state" and fire everyone who knows what they're doing.
Monday 10 April 2017
“We have United employees that need to fly to Louisville tonight. … This flight’s not leaving until four people get off.”
Friday 17 March 2017
A California man carrying Mace roamed for nearly 17 minutes inside the secured White House perimeter before he was taken into custody March 10
With all due respect to the president's reputation for scrupulously checking his sources, I don't think this is an Irish proverb.
Wednesday 15 March 2017
“Jackson was a forceful president who attracts presidents who believe in a forceful presidency”
Saturday 11 March 2017
“I am a friend of the president. I have an appointment”
Trump hosted several Cabinet secretaries at the club to discuss healthcare reform efforts, the economy and national security issues
Tuesday 7 March 2017
The insinuation that Carson could zap a patient into reciting, from cover to cover, a book read in 1957 was not true, experts said.
Monday 6 March 2017
...released in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed by BuzzFeed News and other media
Sunday 19 February 2017
Charges will be filed with the Palm Beach County State Attorney’s Office, authorities said.
Thursday 16 February 2017
”You get a lot of snake oil like this in data work”
Wednesday 15 February 2017
Mr. Trump causes severe distress rather than experiencing it and has been richly rewarded, rather than punished, for his grandiosity, self-absorption and lack of empathy.
Tuesday 14 February 2017
OkCupid [...] refreshed its mobile app to include 50 new questions for singles to answer, including: "Trump?" (the response options "Hell no," "No," "Yes," and "Hell yes")
Sunday 12 February 2017
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who has been openly antagonistic toward President Trump from the beginning of his presidential campaign, told Star-Telegram.com that CEOs face a challenge in speaking out on politics.
Friday 10 February 2017
On the other hand, there was a huge increase in interest in travel to the US from Russia.
Wednesday 8 February 2017
Urban Dictionary has your NSFW definition of "Easy D," though Trump may have meant "easy decision."
Tuesday 7 February 2017
Mr. President, on asset forfeiture, we got a state senator in Texas who was talking about introducing legislation to require conviction before we can receive their forfeiture.
Tuesday 31 January 2017
Monday 30 January 2017
"...we will — as per chief Jim Hopper — punch some people in the face when they seek to destroy what we have envisioned for ourselves and the marginalized."
Friday 27 January 2017
...they are choosing to remain anonymous and continue tweeting out facts about climate change and directly opposing the Trump administration.
Wednesday 25 January 2017
Jackson’s legacy is also rife with controversy. He signed the Indian Removal Act of 1830, paving the way for what is now known as the "Trail of Tears"
Monday 23 January 2017
Sunday 22 January 2017
Could he get through an entire five minute speech to the press without slipping in an attack on his arch-enemy Dippin’ Dots, The Ice Cream Of The Future?
Saturday 21 January 2017
A Time magazine reporter erroneously tweeted that a bust of civil rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr. was removed from display in the Oval Office
...the Trump cake was intended to be more of a prop: All but a three-inch slice at the bottom was inedible.