FBI/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “‘RT @foxandfriends: This is one of the most damning rebukes of the FBI that I think we’ve ever seen.” -@jasoninthehouse https://t.co/9DoTim…’” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 15, 2018 6:56 am […]
Category: A- Trump As President
6/15/2018
FBI/MEDIA/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @foxandfriends: IG REPORT BOMBSHELL: Anti-Trump FBI agent Peter Strzok texted his lover Lisa Page ‘we’ll stop’ Trump from becoming presi…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 15, 2018 6:56 am […]
6/15/2018
FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @foxandfriends: DOJ IG report finds that an FBI lawyer told a bureau employee ‘Viva le resistance’ after President Trump was elected htt…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 15, 2018 6:56 am […]
6/15/2018
FBI/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @foxandfriends: .@jasoninthehouse: Anything Mueller is doing with his investigation is tainted by the anti-Trump FBI agents https://t.co…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 15, 2018 6:55 am […]
6/15/2018
HILLARY CLINTON/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “‘RT @foxandfriends: .@jasoninthehouse: All of this started because Hillary Clinton set up her private server https://t.co/rLzjDRxxxm‘” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 15, 2018 6:55 am […]
6/15/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “‘RT @foxandfriends: .@jasoninthehouse: The DOJ IG report is 562 pages of nothing but bias and animus https://t.co/7IeXfmvo1M‘” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 15, 2018 6:55 am […]
6/15/2018
JAMES COMEY/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “‘Why in the world didn’t Barack Obama fire this guy (Comey)?’ asks Mark Levin!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 15, 2018 6:53 am […]
6/15/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Wow, the highest rated (by far) morning show, @foxandfriends, is on the Front Lawn of the White House. Maybe I’ll have to take an unannounced trip down to see them?” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 15, 2018 6:50 am […]
6/15/2018
ECONOMY/JOBS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S.A. Jobs numbers are the BEST in 44 years. If my opponent (the Democrats) had won the election, they would have raised taxes substantially and increased regulations – the economy, and jobs, would have been a disaster!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 15, 2018 6:45 am […]
6/15/2018
SPORTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Thank you for all of the compliments on getting the World Cup to come to the U.S.A., Mexico and Canada. I worked hard on this, along with a Great Team of talented people. We never fail, and it will be a great World Cup! A special thanks to Bob Kraft for excellent […]
6/15/2018
FBI/JAMES COMEY/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The IG Report is a total disaster for Comey, his minions and sadly, the FBI. Comey will now officially go down as the worst leader, by far, in the history of the FBI. I did a great service to the people in firing him. Good Instincts. Christopher Wray will bring it […]
6/15/2018
FBI/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “FBI Agent Peter Strzok, who headed the Clinton & Russia investigations, texted to his lover Lisa Page, in the IG Report, that ‘we’ll stop’ candidate Trump from becoming President. Doesn’t get any lower than that!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 15, 2018 5:35 am […]
6/15/2018
CABINET/MIKE POMPEO/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “After his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, President Donald Trump repeatedly singled out one person for helping put the historic meeting together: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Since the Senate confirmed Mr. Pompeo in April, the president has relied on his secretary of state—who backed the decision […]
6/15/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen has indicated to family and friends he is willing to cooperate with federal investigators to alleviate the pressure on himself and his family, according to a source familiar with the matter. Cohen has expressed anger with the treatment he has gotten from the […]
6/14/2018
SPORTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “On a Wednesday afternoon late last month, at a ceremony on the White House South Lawn, President Trump introduced several new members of the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition. Former Yankees great Mariano Rivera, the former running back Herschel Walker and the gold-medalist beach volleyball player Misty May-Treanor were […]
6/14/2018
ASIA/MIKE POMPEO/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/SANCTIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Asian powers on Thursday [6-14-18] that President Trump was sticking to demands that North Korea surrender its nuclear weapons, as he sought to hold together a fragile consensus on maintaining tough sanctions against the North despite Mr. Trump’s declaration that it was ‘no longer […]
6/14/2018
ECONOMY/SENATE/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Two senators have asked President Trump’s Council of Economic Advisers to turn over an analysis that shows the administration’s tariffs would slow economic growth. The internal analysis, which was first reported by The New York Times last week, contradicts the public statements of several Trump administration officials who have said that Mr. […]
6/14/2018
LAWSUIT/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The New York State attorney general’s office filed a scathingly worded lawsuit on Thursday [6-14-18] taking aim at the Donald J. Trump Foundation, accusing the charity and the Trump family of sweeping violations of campaign finance laws, self-dealing and illegal coordination with the presidential campaign. The lawsuit, which seeks to dissolve […]
6/14/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/PAUL RYAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Speaker Paul Ryan on Thursday [6-14-18] said he’s not comfortable with the Trump administration’s push to separate migrant children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border, even as he refused to blame President Donald Trump on the issue. ‘We don’t want kids to be separated from their parents,’ Ryan told reporters, […]
6/14/2018
RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House and the Kremlin are ‘exploring’ a possible meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to a White House aide. Richard Hooker, a senior director for Europe and Russia on the National Security Council, told the Russian news agency TASS Wednesday [6-13-18] that the idea is […]
6/14/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/HILLARY CLINTON/JAMES COMEY/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Justice Department’s internal watchdog found that former FBI Director James Comey’s actions in the Hillary Clinton email investigation were ‘extraordinary and insubordinate’ and flouted the department’s norms but that Comey was not motivated by political bias. The inspector general released a sweeping report Thursday detailing a series […]
6/14/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/HILLARY CLINTON/JAMES COMEY/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The report that had much of Washington buzzing on Thursday [6-14-18] required 500 pages to outline its findings, but to President Trump, three words mattered most — ‘we’ll stop it.’ Those were the words that a senior F.B.I. agent texted in August 2016 to a colleague who was […]
6/14/2018
CHILDREN/HHS/IMMIGRATION/TEXAS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration has selected federal land in Texas as a place to temporarily house unaccompanied immigrant children, as the agency seeks more capacity amid the increasing number of families separated at the border because of the administration’s policies. In a statement, the office that handles child settlement within the Health and […]
6/14/2018
MILITARY/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Thursday [6-14-18] President Donald Trump was using ‘common courtesy’ when he returned a military salute from a North Korean general during Tuesday’s [6-12-18]summit in Singapore. ‘It’s a common courtesy when a military official from another government salutes, that you return that,’ Sanders told CNN’s […]
6/14/2018
CANADA/G7/NAFTA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Discussions on the North American Free Trade Agreement will continue into the summer, Canada’s Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said following a face-to-face meeting in Washington with the Trump administration’s chief trade envoy on Thursday [6-14-18]. The pledge to carry on with Nafta renegotiations comes on the heels of a tumultuous Group of […]
6/14/2018
NORTH KOREA/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Republican Senate leaders on Thursday [6-14-18] voiced no objections to President Donald Trump’s apparent defense of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un’s strong-arm tactics, instead highlighting their hopes for peace on the Korean Peninsula. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told CNN that Trump’s eyebrow-raising defense of Kim’s authoritarian tactics is fine […]
6/14/2018
CALIFORNIA/EPA/TRANSPORTATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “White House officials will have a new round of meetings with an automakers trade group and California’s ‘clean air’ agency next week before unveiling a proposal to reverse rules aimed at increasing fuel efficiency, participants said on Thursday. The rules, negotiated with automakers by President Barack Obama’s administration in 2011, aimed to […]
6/14/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/DEMS/GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Family separations at the border have become a political football. Lawmakers and party leaders in Congress are increasingly fighting over how best to address the issue — blaming each other for the heart-wrenching situation. House Speaker Paul Ryan argued Thursday [6-14-18] that Congress should step up and resolve the problem with a […]
6/14/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/HILLARY CLINTON/JAMES COMEY/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT: “A long-awaited watchdog report sharply criticized top officials at the Justice Department and FBI, particularly former FBI Director James Comey, over how they handled the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server, but found no evidence that the probe’s conclusions were affected by bias or other political […]
6/14/2018
MILITARY/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/SOUTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Harry Harris, the Trump administration’s nominee to be ambassador to South Korea, said North Korea continues to be a nuclear threat and that major military exercises should be paused to give Kim Jong Un a chance to prove whether he is ‘serious.’ President Donald Trump announced in Singapore that the […]
6/14/2018
HOLIDAY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Happy #FlagDay?? https://t.co/KEUMfnoHIv “ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 14, 2018 12:34 pm […]
6/14/2018
MILITARY/DEMS/LAWSUIT/MILITARY/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Happy 243rd Birthday to the @USArmy! Thank you for your bravery, sacrifices, and dedication to the U.S.A. We love you! https://t.co/XlQYstu3Vo“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 14, 2018 11:33 am […]
6/14/2018
LAWSUIT/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “New York state’s highest court on Thursday [6-14-18] rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest bid to avoid potentially having to answer questions under oath in a defamation lawsuit by a former contestant on his television show ‘The Apprentice.’ The state’s Court of Appeals dismissed Trump’s request to halt Summer Zervos’ lawsuit […]
6/14/2018
DEMS/HILLARY CLINTON/LAWSUIT/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….Schneiderman, who ran the Clinton campaign in New York, never had the guts to bring this ridiculous case, which lingered in their office for almost 2 years. Now he resigned his office in disgrace, and his disciples brought it when we would not settle.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 14, 2018 […]
6/14/2018
DEMS/LAWSUIT/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The sleazy New York Democrats, and their now disgraced (and run out of town) A.G. Eric Schneiderman, are doing everything they can to sue me on a foundation that took in $18,800,000 and gave out to charity more money than it took in, $19,200,000. I won’t settle this case!…” –Donald Trump, […]
6/14/2018
DEMS/JAMES COMEY/MEDIA/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “So, the Democrats make up a phony crime, Collusion with the Russians, pay a fortune to make the crime sound real, illegally leak (Comey) classified information so that a Special Councel will be appointed, and then Collude to make this pile of garbage take on life in Fake News!” -Donald Trump, […]
6/14/2018
NORTH KOREA/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/SINGAPORE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Now that I am back from Singapore, where we had a great result with respect to North Korea, the thought process must sadly go back to the Witch Hunt, always remembering that there was No Collusion and No Obstruction of the fabricated No Crime.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 14, 2018 […]
6/14/2018
CONGRESS/DREAMERS/GOP/IMMIGRATION/PAUL RYAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The U.S. Congress’s highest-ranking Republican on Thursday said he could not guarantee passage of legislation in coming days that some lawmakers hoped would address the uncertain status of hundreds of thousands of young ‘Dreamer’ immigrants…The Dreamers are hundreds of thousands of young people, mostly Hispanic, who illegally entered the country years […]
6/14/2018
ECONOMY/GOP/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Republican Party is starting to show very big numbers. People are starting to see what is being done. Results are speaking loudly. North Korea and our greatest ever economy are leading the way!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 14, 2018 7:34 am […]
6/14/2018
BUSINESS/CHINA/SUPREME COURT/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The U.S. Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration and against China on Thursday [6-14-18] on a disputed aspect of their fraught trade relationship, throwing out a lower court ruling that had allowed two Chinese vitamin C makers to escape $148 million in damages for violating American antitrust law. In […]
6/14/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Rudy Giuliani insisted Wednesday [6-13-18] evening that Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, would not flip on his ex-boss by cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe. ‘I checked into this last night. It’s not so,’ Giuliani told Laura Ingraham of Fox News. The former New York […]
6/14/2018
EXPORT-IMPORT BANK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration is moving to bring back to life a long-hobbled agency that smooths export deals between U.S. manufacturers and overseas buyers, potentially ending a three-year freeze that has held up more than $40 billion of export deals. The White House is expected to soon nominate Kimberly Reed to fill […]
6/13/2018
CANADA/NAFTA/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said the US decision to slap tariffs against Canada on national security grounds was ‘absurd’ and that her country was moving forward ‘more in sorrow than in anger’ with retaliatory tariffs…Freeland was in Washington on a trip planned long before the relations between the two allies veered […]
6/13/2018
MIKE POMPEO/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday [6-13-18] that the U.S. hopes to achieve ‘major disarmament’ of North Korea’s nuclear arsenal during President Donald Trump’s first term in office and would resume joint military exercises with South Korea if the talks stall. ‘We’re hopeful that we can achieve that in […]
6/13/2018
BUSINESS/CHINA/SENATE/TECHNOLOGY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House moved to protect its deal with Beijing to rescue ZTE Corp, taking steps to head off a bipartisan effort to use a must-pass defense bill to reinstate a ban on sales of U.S. components to the Chinese telecommunication company. A senior White House official said Wednesday [6-13-18] that the […]
6/13/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/OBAMACARE/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Tens of millions of people who get health insurance through their job could face waiting periods for coverage or find that specific medical conditions aren’t immediately covered if the courts back a request by the Trump administration to toss key provisions of the Affordable Care Act. Most of the attention […]
6/13/2018
NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump declared Wednesday [6-13-18] that the North Korean regime no longer poses a nuclear threat following his summit with Kim Jong Un, even though the meeting produced no verifiable proof that the rogue regime will discontinue its nuclear program. In a series of tweets, Trump sought to take political […]
6/13/2018
CHINA/NORTH KOREA/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration, deepening its global trade offensive, is preparing to levy tariffs on tens of billions of dollars of Chinese goods in the coming week, perhaps as early as Friday [6-15-18]—a move that is likely to spark heavy retaliation from Beijing. Senior trade officials in the White House, the Commerce […]
6/13/2018
BUSINESS/CANADA/EU/FOREIGN POLICY/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump’s eager embrace of Kim Jong-un of North Korea this week, on the heels of an acrid falling-out with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada, raised an obvious, if confounding, question: Why would an American president offend allies and cozy up to adversaries? If there was an answer in […]
6/13/2018
DEMS/GOP/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Lawmakers from both parties, deeply mistrustful of a leader who has brutalized his own country, greeted a joint agreement between the United States and North Korea coolly on Tuesday [6-12-18] , with top Republicans warning President Trump that any final accord on Kim Jong-un’s nuclear program should be submitted to the […]
6/13/2018
NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/SOUTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A day after its leader’s historic talks with President Trump, North Korea wasted no time on Wednesday [6-13-18] spinning the results in its favor, claiming it had won major concessions from the United States. The authoritarian country’s state-controlled news media said that Mr. Trump had promised to eventually lift sanctions […]
6/13/2018
ELECTION/GOP/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Senate Republican campaign arm doesn’t plan to get behind the party’s newly nominated candidate in Virginia, the group’s leader said, after a Tuesday primary that threatens to put the party on the defensive in several key races in the state..Corey Stewart, who won Tuesday’s primary, has repelled GOP leaders over […]
6/13/2018
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. Representative Mark Sanford is the latest Republican to learn a tough lesson – challenging President Donald Trump can be political suicide. The South Carolina Republican congressman’s upset loss on Tuesday [6-12-18] to a primary opponent who questioned his commitment to Trump, along with a recent setback for Trump critic Martha […]
6/13/2018
DREAMERS/HOUSE OF REPS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Unless the U.S. House of Representatives can beat the legislative odds, America’s young ‘Dreamer’ immigrants will have to keep dreaming about living without fear of deportation. That was the gloomy outlook on Wednesday [6-13-18] in the House for an effort to solve the long-standing issue of the Dreamers that is […]
6/13/2018
GOP/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Corker ramped up his criticism of his Republican colleagues Wednesday [6-13-18], railing on GOP leadership for not wanting to take on President Donald Trump on core Republican issues like trade. ‘We’re in a strange place. It’s becoming a cultish thing, isn’t it?’ the Tennessee Republican told […]
6/13/2018
NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Just over half of all Americans say they approve of how President Donald Trump has handled North Korea, but only a quarter think that his summit this week with Kim Jong Un will lead to the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Wednesday [6-13-18]. […]
6/13/2018
MEDIA/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “So funny to watch the Fake News, especially NBC and CNN. They are fighting hard to downplay the deal with North Korea. 500 days ago they would have ‘begged’ for this deal-looked like war would break out. Our Country’s biggest enemy is the Fake News so easily promulgated by fools!” -Donald […]
6/13/2018
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Rep. Mark Sanford, a South Carolina Republican who’s a critic of President Donald Trump, will lose his GOP primary to his conservative challenger, state Rep. Katie Arrington, CNN projects. The outcome — one that national Republicans working on House races said as recently as Tuesday [6-12-18] morning they did not anticipate […]
6/13/2018
OIL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Oil prices are too high, OPEC is at it again. Not good!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 13, 2018 6:52 am […]
6/13/2018
CANADA/MEXICO/SPORTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The U.S., together with Mexico and Canada, just got the World Cup. Congratulations – a great deal of hard work!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 13, 2018 6:49 am […]
6/13/2018
MILITARY/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We save a fortune by not doing war games, as long as we are negotiating in good faith – which both sides are!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 13, 2018 6:10 am […]
6/13/2018
NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Before taking office people were assuming that we were going to War with North Korea. President Obama said that North Korea was our biggest and most dangerous problem. No longer – sleep well tonight!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 13, 2018 5:01 am […]
6/13/2018
NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Just landed – a long trip, but everybody can now feel much safer than the day I took office. There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea. Meeting with Kim Jong Un was an interesting and very positive experience. North Korea has great potential for the future!” -Donald Trump, […]
6/13/2018
ELECTION/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Congratulations to Corey Stewart for his great victory for Senator from Virginia. Now he runs against a total stiff, Tim Kaine, who is weak on crime and borders, and wants to raise your taxes through the roof. Don’t underestimate Corey, a major chance of winning!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 13, 2018 4:55 […]
6/13/2018
CELEBS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “…realize the economy is the best it’s ever been with employment being at an all time high, and many companies pouring back into our country. Wake up Punchy!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 13, 2018 4:40 am […]
6/13/2018
CELEBS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Robert De Niro, a very Low IQ individual, has received too many shots to the head by real boxers in movies. I watched him last night and truly believe he may be ‘punch-drunk.’ I guess he doesn’t…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 13, 2018 4:40 am […]
6/13/2018
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “My political representatives didn’t want me to get involved in the Mark Sanford primary thinking that Sanford would easily win – but with a few hours left I felt that Katie was such a good candidate, and Sanford was so bad, I had to give it a shot. Congrats to Katie Arrington!” […]
6/12/2018
LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Special counsel Robert Mueller’s office is asking federal Judge Dabney Friedrich for an order that would lock down documents shared with the Russian company Concord Management and Consulting, because of the potential for the information to be shared with foreign nationals and intelligence officials still working to sow discord in the […]
6/12/2018
CANADA/G7/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said Canadians would pay a price for countering the U.S. on trade, while his aides sought to tamp down tensions between the two allies following a dust-up with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over the weekend. U.S. administration officials have been hammering the Canadian leader for declaring Saturday […]
6/12/2018
MILITARY/NORTH KOREA/SOUTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “For South Koreans who have long felt threatened by nuclear war, seeing President Trump and North Korea’s leader shake hands and sign an agreement on improving ties brought relief, if not closure, to the decades-old standoff. But the optimism was quickly tempered by a shocker. Hours after the summit meeting […]
6/12/2018
NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Midway through the press conference after his summit meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, President Donald Trump offered his basic argument for why this effort at diplomacy with Pyongyang will succeed where so many others have failed: ‘This is a much different time, and this is a much different […]
6/12/2018
NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Lawmakers from both parties, deeply mistrustful of a leader who has brutalized his own country, greeted a joint agreement between the United States and North Korea coolly on Tuesday [6-12-18], with top Republicans warning President Trump that any final accord on Kim Jong-un’s nuclear program should be submitted to the Senate […]
6/12/2018
DEMS/ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Five states hold primaries Tuesday [6-12-18] —Maine, Nevada, North Dakota, South Carolina and Virginia. Democrats will decide on their candidates for a handful of House seats they hope to win in November, while Republicans will determine the political cost of speaking out against President Donald Trump…When will Maine know who won its […]
6/12/2018
CONGRESS/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “While President Donald Trump was busy rhetorically destroying America’s neighbor to the north and disrupting the broader G7 conference over the weekend, you could have heard a pin drop among congressional Republicans. And while the President was in Singapore meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un — a meeting that Republicans […]
6/12/2018
NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Here is the video, “A Story of Opportunity” that I shared with Kim Jong-un at the #SingaporeSummit ➡https://t.co/43oOci4jvo https://t.co/xBKFkDLtj7“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 12, 2018 4:23 pm […]
6/12/2018
CELEBS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump on Tuesday [6-12-18] hit back at Robert De Niro, calling him a ‘very low IQ individual,’ after the Oscar-winning actor’s expletive-laden attack on the American president on live television. Two days after De Niro’s outburst on the stage of the Tony Awards ceremony in New York, Trump said he had […]
6/12/2018
CELEBS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “…realize the economy is the best it’s ever been with employment being at an all time high, and many companies pouring back into our country. Wake up Punchy!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 12, 2018 3:53 pm […]
6/12/2018
CELEBS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Robert De Niro, a very Low IQ individual, has received to many shots to the head by real boxers in movies. I watched him last night and truly believe he may be ‘punch-drunk.’ I guess he doesn’t…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 12, 2018 3:53 pm […]
6/12/2018
NORTH KOREA/SINGAPORE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Heading back home from Singapore after a truly amazing visit. Great progress was made on the denuclearization of North Korea. Hostages are back home, will be getting the remains of our great heroes back to their families, no missiles shot, no research happening, sites closing…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 12, 2018 […]
6/12/2018
NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “…Got along great with Kim Jong-un who wants to see wonderful things for his country. As I said earlier today: Anyone can make war, but only the most courageous can make peace! #SingaporeSummit” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 12, 2018 3:40 pm […]
6/12/2018
ASIA/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un declared the ‘opening up of a new future’ for their countries after talks on Tuesday [6-12-18]. But their agreement also raised new and complex questions for Washington’s regional allies, chiefly Japan and South Korea. In a joint statement, Mr. Trump ‘committed […]
6/12/2018
ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Mark Sanford has been very unhelpful to me in my campaign to MAGA. He is MIA and nothing but trouble. He is better off in Argentina. I fully endorse Katie Arrington for Congress in SC, a state I love. She is tough on crime and will continue our fight to lower taxes. […]
6/12/2018
MILITARY/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/SOUTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump won few specific new commitments from Kim Jong Un to surrender his nuclear weapons after a day of talks, but kick-started a new phase of personal diplomacy aimed at pushing the North Korean leader toward a rapid and verifiable disarmament. In a two-page document signed by both […]
6/12/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “https://t.co/tJG3KIn2q0“ – Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 12, 2018 3:02 am […]
6/12/2018
ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I strongly endorse Adam Laxalt for Governor of Nevada. Adam is smart, works hard, and knows how to win. He will be a great Governor. Also, will fight hard to lower your taxes and is tough on crime!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 12, 2018 2:30 pm […]
6/12/2018
LAWSUIT/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A Russian oligarch on Monday [6-11-18] got a court to delay his fraud lawsuit against U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort, citing the need to deal more pressing legal matters such as U.S. sanctions on his businesses and criminal trials facing Manafort. Justice O. Peter Sherwood of New […]
6/12/2018
ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @realDonaldTrump: Henry McMaster loves the people of South Carolina and was with me from the beginning. He is strong on Crime and Border…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 12, 2018 1:55 pm […]
6/12/2018
HUMAN RIGHTS/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump praised North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un — a man who leads a government that outside observers say brutalizes and starves its own citizens — as someone who ‘loves his people.’ Speaking with Voice of America’s Greta Van Susteren following his historic summit in Singapore on Tuesday […]
6/12/2018
DEMS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Democratic candidates in the suburban enclaves of northern Virginia are hoping President Donald Trump’s unpopularity among the federal government workers who live here will deliver them a key House race. Unlike other congressional districts, where the day-to-day machinations of Trump’s administration feel a world away, the people here in Virginia’s 10th District […]
6/12/2018
MILITARY/NORTH KOREA/SOUTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump made a stunning concession to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Tuesday [6-12-18] about halting military exercises, pulling a surprise at a summit that baffled allies, military officials and lawmakers from his own Republican Party. At a news conference after the historic meeting with Kim […]
6/11/2018
BUSINESS/CHINA/TECHNOLOGY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Senate is on the verge of directly undercutting a key piece of President Donald Trump’s trade negotiations with China, as a bipartisan group of lawmakers successfully pushed for the inclusion of a bill to undo a deal to save Chinese telecom ZTE. Lawmakers are on track to attach an amendment to […]
6/11/2018
SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Just won big Supreme Court decision on Voting! Great News!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 11, 2018 7:03 pm […]
6/11/2018
CANADA/G7/MIKE POMPEO/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Secretary of State Mike Pompeo played down the rift between the U.S. and its allies after President Donald Trump split from the other six leaders at Group of Seven summit in Canada amid tensions over U.S. trade demands… Mr. Pompeo praised the G-7 nations for their help getting North Korea […]
6/11/2018
GANGS/IMMIGRATION/JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration Monday [6-11-18] overturned asylum protections for domestic violence and gang violence victims in a ruling that could potentially prevent tens of thousands of immigrants from getting protection in the US. Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ decision sets a high bar for victims of crime to qualify for asylum […]
6/11/2018
COURTS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A federal judge on Monday [6-11-18] sharply criticized the Justice Department’s argument that President Trump’s financial interest in his company’s hotel in downtown Washington is constitutional, a fresh sign that the judge may soon rule against the president in a historic case that could head to the Supreme Court. The plaintiffs […]
6/11/2018
NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump has imagined himself at the center of high-stakes nuclear negotiations since at least the mid-1980s, when he tried, unsuccessfully, to persuade the Reagan administration that it needed a New York real estate deal maker to lead arms-control talks with the Soviet Union. When, in 1989, he ran into the […]
6/11/2018
NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The fact that I am having a meeting is a major loss for the U.S., say the haters & losers. We have our hostages, testing, research and all missle launches have stoped, and these pundits, who have called me wrong from the beginning, have nothing else they can say! We will […]
6/11/2018
ECONOMY/MINORITIES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Stock Market up almost 40% since the Election, with 7 Trillion Dollars of U.S. value built throughout the economy. Lowest unemployment rate in many decades, with Black & Hispanic unemployment lowest in History, and Female unemployment lowest in 21 years. Highest confidence ever!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 11, 2018 4:52 pm […]
6/11/2018
NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Meetings between staffs and representatives are going well and quickly….but in the end, that doesn’t matter. We will all know soon whether or not a real deal, unlike those of the past, can happen!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 11, 2018 4:27 pm […]
6/11/2018
G7/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Everyone, by now, has seen this photo from the weekend — picturing President Donald Trump surrounded by the leaders of other G7 countries. And literally everyone knows the whole ‘a picture is worth 1,000 words’ cliche. What’s fascinating to me about the photo above is that it speaks volumes — not necessarily […]