CHINA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We are not in a trade war with China, that war was lost many years ago by the foolish, or incompetent, people who represented the U.S. Now we have a Trade Deficit of $500 Billion a year, with Intellectual Property Theft of another $300 Billion. We cannot let this continue!” -Donald […]
Category: A- Trump As President
4/4/2018
BORDER/CANADA/DEMS/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Our Border Laws are very weak while those of Mexico & Canada are very strong. Congress must change these Obama era, and other, laws NOW! The Democrats stand in our way – they want people to pour into our country unchecked….CRIME! We will be taking strong action today.” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April […]
4/4/2018
CABINET/GOP/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump may be relishing the chance to shake up his administration. But the Senate is threatening to upend his plans. After using Twitter to abruptly oust his secretaries of state and veterans affairs and promote his CIA chief, the president is counting on the Senate GOP’s slim majority to […]
4/4/2018
MEXICO/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump, unable to get the U.S. Congress or Mexico to fully fund his border wall, will post National Guard troops along the Mexican frontier, officials said on Wednesday [4-4-18], in a move that was likely to escalate tensions with a key U.S. ally. The Trump administration was working with the […]
4/4/2018
CHINA/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TWITTER: “U.S. President Donald Trump denied on Wednesday [4-4-18] that the United States was in a trade war with China, hours after Beijing slapped tariffs on a list of U.S. imports in retaliation for similar duties levied by the White House one day earlier. ‘We are not in a trade war with […]
4/4/2018
CONGRESS/DEMS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Before last month’s special congressional election in Pennsylvania, U.S. President Donald Trump, who ridiculed his rivals in the 2016 election as ‘Liddle Marco,’ ‘Lyin’ Ted,’ and ‘Crooked Hillary,’ tried it again, tagging Democratic candidate Conor Lamb as ‘Lamb the Sham.’ This time, the tactic failed. But it illustrated a penchant for often […]
4/4/2018
CHINA/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Wednesday [4-4-18] insisted the United States is ‘not in a trade war with China,’ even as the Chinese government moved to impose new tariffs on imports of U.S. soybeans, cars, aircraft and chemicals in retaliation for tariffs Trump slapped on China in late March. As worries grew […]
4/4/2018
CONGRESS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TWITTER: “Illegal immigration, the border wall, Democrats, ‘fake news’ and even ‘Cheatin’ Obama.’ These are the base-rallying call signs President Donald Trump has deployed on Twitter in the last week, just as he is facing a rare onslaught of criticism from pockets of his right-wing base over a $1.3 trillion spending measure he […]
4/3/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The office of special counsel Robert Mueller appears to be trying to entice President Donald Trump into an interview by assuring him last month that he is not a ‘target’ of its investigation and is only a ‘subject’ of the probe, at least for now, a source familiar with the discussions […]
4/3/2018
FOREIGN AFFAIRS/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump has been commander in chief for 14 months, but to an uncanny degree, he still sounds like the armchair statesman who ran for the White House in 2016. ‘I want to get out,’ Mr. Trump said of the United States’ military engagement in Syria, at a news conference on […]
4/3/2018
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Special counsel Robert Mueller’s office netted its first prison sentence on Tuesday [4-3-18] and disclosed a memo showing it had been explicitly authorized to look beyond the presidential election, bringing into sharper focus its wide-ranging probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 election. A lawyer who admitted to lying to […]
4/3/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House said Tuesday [4-3-18] night that President Trump planned to deploy the National Guard to the southern border to confront what it called a growing threat of illegal immigrants, drugs and crime from Central America after the president for the third consecutive day warned about the looming dangers of unchecked […]
4/3/2018
BUSINESS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TWITTER: “Amazon, you’re not alone. President Trump once accused Verizon of making ‘a STUPID deal’ for AOL. He ridiculed Coca-Cola as ‘garbage’ — but said he would keep drinking it. He called both H&R Block and Nordstrom ‘terrible.’ He said Sony had ‘really stupid leadership’ and described executives at S&P Global, a financial […]
4/3/2018
CALIFORNIA/GUNS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Was just briefed on the shooting at YouTube’s HQ in San Bruno, California. Our thoughts and prayers are with everybody involved. Thank you to our phenomenal Law Enforcement Officers and First Responders that are currently on the scene.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 3, 2018 4:49pm […]
4/3/2018
IRAN/NATIONAL SECURITY/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Anticipating an unpredictable president’s next moves, U.S. officials have started actively planning for the likelihood that Donald Trump will announce next month that the U.S. is withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal. But no one knows exactly what would happen next or how Iran would respond. Still, with less than […]
4/3/2018
EPA/SCOTT PRUITT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump and his chief of staff may be telling Scott Pruitt they have his back, but other White House officials are making it clear that the EPA leader’s future in the administration is still very much in doubt. It was a familiar mixed message for anyone following the daily […]
4/3/2018
RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Tuesday [4-3-18] said he might get along quite well with Russian President Vladimir Putin — or that he might not. ‘I think I could have a very good relationship with President Putin,’ Trump said. ‘There is also a great possibility that that won’t happen. Who knows, OK?’ Speaking […]
4/3/2018
BORDER/ TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “WE WILL PROTECT OUR SOUTHERN BORDER!” https://t.co/Z7fqQKcnez -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 3, 2018 2:59pm […]
4/3/2018
BUSINESS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Judging from his tweets, President Donald Trump appears to have the knives out for Amazon.com Inc. But inside the White House, there are no active discussions about turning the power of the administration against the company, according to five people familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity. None of […]
4/3/2018
CHINA/DRUGS/FDA/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration’s proposed tariffs on thousands of Chinese-manufactured products would target dozens of key products used by drugmakers, as well as medical devices including pacemakers and artificial joints. The 25 percent tariff would be placed on raw ingredients for drugs such as insulin used by diabetics, the anti-allergic-reaction drug epinephrine, as […]
4/3/2018
BUDGET/DEMS/GOP/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As Republicans run into a buzz saw of conservative criticism over a deficit-expanding new budget, GOP leaders and the White House are looking for ways to undo the damage by allowing President Donald Trump to rescind some of the spending he signed into law just 10 days ago. Rolling back the funds […]
4/3/2018
FOREIGN DIGNITARIES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Today, it was my honor to welcome Estonia President @KerstiKaljulaid, Lithuania President @Grybauskaite_LT, and Latvia President @Vejonis to the @WhiteHouse. Congratulations on your 100th anniversaries of independence! #BalticSummit:” https://t.co/XAchZ3zUSe https://t.co/RRftyTGEvb -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 3, 2018 2:15pm […]
4/3/2018
RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Is this America’s new face to the world? Ninety-one proud new White House interns face the camera, with their beaming new boss, President Donald Trump, in the center. These shining faces, shown in a photo the White House released Friday of the 2018 Spring cohort, are very much ‘his’ interns: Startlingly, it […]
4/3/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/NAFTA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Tuesday [4-3-18] warned that the North American Free Trade Agreement was ‘in play’ and threatened to end aid to Honduras and other Central American countries if an organized protest march of 1,000 asylum seekers traveling through Mexico reaches the U.S. border…Mr. Trump’s threats on Nafta come as American, […]
4/3/2018
BORDER/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump on Tuesday [4-3-18] said he planned to use U.S. military forces to protect the nation’s southern border with Mexico until there is a border wall and ‘proper security.”We are going to be doing things militarily,’ Trump told reporters at the White House, adding that he had discussed the idea […]
4/3/2018
DEMS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/MEDIA/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump spent a second day Tuesday [4-3-18] attacking CNN and other mainstream media outlets while defending Sinclair Broadcast Group, the local-news giant whose anchors were required to deliver an on-air monologue denouncing ‘the troubling trend of irresponsible, one-sided news stories plaguing our country.’ Trump spread around his anger on […]
4/3/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Mexico has firmly rejected US President Donald Trump’s accusations of lax efforts to stop illegal migration over the Mexican-US border, saying in a statement Monday [4-2-18] that it does not promote such activity under any circumstances. Mexico’s foreign ministry issued the statement after Trump spent Sunday [4-1-18] and Monday tweeting against Mexico’s […]
4/3/2018
BUSINESS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I am right about Amazon costing the United States Post Office massive amounts of money for being their Delivery Boy. Amazon should pay these costs (plus) and not have them bourne by the American Taxpayer. Many billions of dollars. P.O. leaders don’t have a clue (or do they?)!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April […]
4/3/2018
BUSINESS/CHINA/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The so-called ‘Trump rally’ has morphed into a presidential plunge. The total paper gain of U.S. stocks since Election Day has been sliced from $8.7 trillion at the market’s Jan. 26 all-time high to $5.7 trillion after Tuesday’s rebound on Wall Street, according to Wilshire Associates. In a span of nine weeks, […]
4/3/2018
CENSUS/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A group of U.S. states and cities sued the Trump administration to stop it from asking people filling out 2020 census forms whether they are citizens.The lawsuit by 17 states, Washington D.C. and six cities challenged what they called last week’s ‘unconstitutional and arbitrary’ decision by the U.S. Department of Commerce, which […]
4/3/2018
CHINA/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The warning from China’s ambassador to the United States, Cui Tiankai, came after Beijing slapped tariffs on $3 billion worth of US exports including fruit, pork and steel pipes. Those measures were in response to President Donald Trump’s tariffs on steel and aluminum from China and other countries. But Trump has […]
4/3/2018
MEDIA/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Thank you to Rasmussen for the honest polling. Just hit 50%, which is higher than Cheatin’ Obama at the same time in his Administration.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 3, 2018 6:08am […]
4/3/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Check out the fact that you can’t get a job at ratings challenged @CNN unless you state that you are totally anti-Trump? Little Jeff Zuker, whose job is in jeopardy, is not having much fun lately. They should clean up and strengthen CNN and get back to honest reporting!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
4/3/2018
BORDER/MEXICO/NAFTA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The big Caravan of People from Honduras, now coming across Mexico and heading to our ‘Weak Laws’ Border, had better be stopped before it gets there. Cash cow NAFTA is in play, as is foreign aid to Honduras and the countries that allow this to happen. Congress MUST ACT NOW!” -Donald Trump, […]
4/3/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Fake News Networks, those that knowingly have a sick and biased AGENDA, are worried about the competition and quality of Sinclair Broadcast. The ‘Fakers’ at CNN, NBC, ABC & CBS have done so much dishonest reporting that they should only be allowed to get awards for fiction!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April […]
4/3/2018
2016 ELECTION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Robert Mueller, the U.S. Justice Department’s special counsel, is specifically authorized to investigate allegations that Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, colluded with Russia to interfere with the 2016 presidential election, a court filing showed late on Monday [4-2-18]. The court documents also show that Mueller […]
4/2/2018
JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Department of Justice has announced it will evaluate immigration judges on how many cases they close and how fast they hear cases, a move that judges and advocates criticize as potentially jeopardizing the courts’ fairness and perhaps leading to far more deportations. The policy has been in the works […]
4/2/2018
FOREIGN POLICY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP POSITION CHANGES: “President Donald Trump is facing cresting challenges at home and overseas by rejecting traditional West Wing structures and defying an orthodox policy process while stacking his administration with subordinates who share his combative reflexes. A month of turmoil, staff purges and sharp policy shifts by a President determined more […]
4/2/2018
IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “When President Trump began railing against the current state of American immigration measures over the weekend, it was hard to tell where his thoughts ended and Brandon Judd’s began. Mr. Judd is the president of the National Border Patrol Council, a frequent guest on Fox News and a reliably vocal supporter […]
4/2/2018
CALIFORNIA/JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration took aim on Monday [4-2-18] at a land use law passed by California lawmakers last year, the latest salvo in a battle between the two governments that prompted Attorney General Jeff Sessions to complain that the state’s leaders were acting as if they were ‘above the law.’ […]
4/2/2018
LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Trump and a company affiliated with him filed court papers on Monday [4-2-18] seeking to force the pornographic film actress Stephanie Clifford to raise her disputes through private arbitration, not lawsuits. Ms. Clifford, whose stage name is Stormy Daniels, was paid $130,000 to keep quiet about her claims of an affair […]
4/2/2018
ECONOMY/STEVE MNUCHIN/TREASURY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump on Monday [4-2-18] will tap Justin Muzinich, a top aide to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, as the Treasury Department’s deputy secretary, a powerful role that includes overseeing a broad portfolio of policy matters like taxes, financial regulation, trade and economic sanctions. The nomination fills a void in the […]
4/2/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump has begun a new push for legislation to crack down on illegal immigration and make it more difficult to obtain refuge in the United States, White House officials said Monday [4-2-18], arguing that lax laws have drawn a flood of migrants to the country’s borders. The proposals include toughening laws […]
4/2/2018
LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “When Donald J. Trump was running for president, he promised to ‘open up our libel laws.’ No one quite knew what he meant. Last month, Mr. Trump started to make good on his campaign pledge. But he did so inadvertently — as a libel defendant on the losing side of a decision […]
4/2/2018
CONGRESS/DEMS/DREAMERS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump declared on Monday [4-2-18] that a plan to protect young immigrants from deportation is ‘dead’ and repeated his calls for Mexico to enforce border security laws and prevent immigrants from coming to the United States illegally…. The president on Monday blamed Democrats for weak immigration policy and called on Congress […]
4/2/2018
LEGAL/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A lawyer for President Donald Trump has begun the process of appealing last month’s decision by a New York judge to allow a defamation case brought by former ‘Apprentice’ contestant Summer Zervos to proceed. The lawyer, Marc Kasowitz, filed the notice of appeal in New York County Supreme Court on Sunday […]
4/2/2018
DEMS/ETHICS/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Congressional Democrats raised ethics questions on Monday [4-2-18] about the framework of a defense fund set up to help pay legal costs for White House, Trump campaign and transition officials caught up in investigations into Russian meddling in the election. Eighteen House Democrats claim the new defense fund appears to be structured […]
4/2/2018
BUSINESS/TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign spent more than $150,000 on purchases from Amazon, the company now facing his ire amid claims it doesn’t pay its fair share of shipping costs and taxes. A report by CBS News digging into Federal Election Commission records found that in 2015 and 2016 the campaign spent […]
4/2/2018
FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TWITTER: “President Donald Trump ended a 12-day respite from Twitter assaults about the Justice Department Monday [4-2-18], resurrecting a charge levied by Republican lawmakers that the department and FBI are dragging their feet in handing over documents related to several controversial investigations. ‘So sad that the Department of ‘Justice’ and the FBI […]
4/2/2018
CABINET/DAVID SHULKIN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VA: “Former Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin has repeatedly insisted that the White House fired him from his job at the department. The White House says Shulkin resigned. Which of those two things actually happened could have sweeping implications that could throw an agency beset with challenges even further into turmoil. When […]
4/2/2018
RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump recently raised the idea of inviting Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to the White House, the Kremlin said Monday [2-2-18], putting the relationship between the two leaders front and center amid worsening ties between their governments. The suggestion, which came in a March 20 telephone call, followed Mr. Putin’s […]
4/2/2018
CALIFORNIA/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The U.S. Justice Department sued California over a state law that aims to stop the Trump administration from selling or transferring federal lands to private corporations, hitting the state with yet another legal challenge. The lawsuit, filed in federal court on Monday [4-2-18] in Sacramento, the state capital, comes less than […]
4/2/2018
ECONOMY/MANUFACTURING/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Manufacturing activity fell slightly in March, the Institute for Supply Management said Monday [4-2-18]. New orders and production dropped a notch, but the industry still grew for the 19th straight month. Comments published along with the ISM report show that factory owners are concerned about the tariffs, which took effect March 23. […]
4/2/2018
EGYPT/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump congratulated his Egyptian counterpart, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, on his re-election in a phone call on Monday [4-2-18] and reaffirmed the U.S. strategic partnership with Egypt, the White House said.Sisi, who had no real opposition, was elected with 97 percent of the vote, official returns showed. The White House […]
4/2/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Monday [4-2-18] morning defended Sinclair Broadcasting after the company came under fire for requiring local news anchors to read promotional material alleging bias from other media organizations. ‘So funny to watch Fake News Networks, among the most dishonest groups of people I have ever dealt with, criticize Sinclair […]
4/2/2018
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “John Tompkins had voted for Barack Obama, but in 2016 he eagerly backed Donald Trump. ‘Trump is on the right track,’ said the 83-year-old Air Force veteran. ‘He wants to get rid of the illegals.’ Mr. Tompkins’ friends, gathered for morning coffee at the Hy-Vee Grille, said they had made the same […]
4/2/2018
BORDER/DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump declared as ‘dead’ on Monday [4-2-18] a program that protects immigrants brought to the United States illegally as children and pressed Congress to ‘immediately’ pass legislation to secure the U.S. border with Mexico.Trump, who has taken a hard line toward immigration, said in September he would terminate the Deferred […]
4/2/2018
CALIFORNIA/STATES RIGHTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Trump administration is all in favor of states’ rights. Except when it’s not. Attorney General Jeff Sessions brushed aside state autonomy to sue California over its so-called sanctuary policies that shield undocumented immigrants from deportation. He also unleashed federal prosecutors to go after marijuana businesses in the states that […]
4/2/2018
BORDER/DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “On Sunday [4-1-18] morning, President Donald Trump referenced an impending series of immigrant ‘caravans’ moving through Mexico to spark his call for Congress to pass strict border laws. ‘Border Patrol Agents are not allowed to properly do their job at the Border because of ridiculous liberal (Democrat) laws like Catch & Release. […]
4/1/2018
ENERGY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration’s commitment to coal is under its stiffest test yet after an Ohio energy company made a plea to favor that power source over its many rivals, including oil and natural gas, in a clash that could end with higher costs for consumers. FirstEnergy Corp.’s fleet of coal- and nuclear-power […]
4/1/2018
CHINA/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration this week will unveil a list of advanced technology Chinese imports targeted for U.S. tariffs to punish Beijing over technology transfer policies, a move expected to intensify trade tensions between the world’s two largest economies. U.S. tariffs on $50 billion to $60 billion worth of annual imports is expected […]
4/1/2018
KELLYANNE CONWAY/LEAKS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY: “The author of a new book on the current state of affairs in the White House claims that Kellyanne Conway is the ‘number one leaker’ in President Donald Trump’s White House. In a Sunday [4-1-18] interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union,” Ronald Kessler, the author of […]
4/1/2018
CHINA/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Chinese government hit back Monday [4-2-18] at President Trump’s tariffs on steel and aluminum by acting on a threat to put tariffs as high as 25 percent on imports of 128 American-made products, including pork and seamless steel pipes. The Chinese Ministry of Commerce indicated that the tariffs, which it first […]
4/1/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/NAFTA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump, blaming Democrats and the Mexican government for an increasingly ‘dangerous’ flow of illegal immigrants, unleashed a series of fiery tweets on Sunday [4-1-2018] in which he vowed ‘NO MORE DACA DEAL’ and threatened to walk away from the North American Free Trade Agreement. Minutes after wishing the nation a happy […]
4/1/2018
DEMS/GOP/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Even for Senator Jeff Flake, an Arizona Republican who has emerged as one of his party’s most fervent critics of President Trump, the warning he issued recently that firing the special counsel could lead to the president’s impeachment was extraordinary… But it is anything but clear that the long-speculated dismissal […]
4/1/2018
DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “These big flows of people are all trying to take advantage of DACA. They want in on the act!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 1, 2018 9:28am […]
4/1/2018
BORDER/MEXICO/NAFTA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Mexico is doing very little, if not NOTHING, at stopping people from flowing into Mexico through their Southern Border, and then into the U.S. They laugh at our dumb immigration laws. They must stop the big drug and people flows, or I will stop their cash cow, NAFTA. NEED WALL!” –Donald Trump, […]
4/1/2018
ECONOMY/OBAMA ADMIN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “During Barack Obama’s presidency, uncertainty about U.S. economic policy was much higher than it had been during the previous 25 years, according to calculations by a trio of academic economists. You would think uncertainty would be low now, with economic expansion advanced and secure, the global economy on a stable footing, […]
4/1/2018
BORDER/DEMS/GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Border Patrol Agents are not allowed to properly do their job at the Border because of ridiculous liberal (Democrat) laws like Catch & Release. Getting more dangerous. ‘Caravans’ coming. Republicans must go to Nuclear Option to pass tough laws NOW. NO MORE DACA DEAL!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 1, 2018 8:56am […]
4/1/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “HAPPY EASTER!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 1, 2018 7:27am […]
3/31/2018
CALIFORNIA/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Gov. Jerry Brown of California on Friday [3-30-18] pardoned five ex-convicts facing possible deportation, drawing criticism from President Trump and heightening continued tensions between Washington and California. The five immigrants were among 56 pardons and 14 commutations Mr. Brown granted on Friday — Good Friday and the start of Passover — to […]
3/31/2018
CALIFORNIA/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Governor Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown pardoned 5 criminal illegal aliens whose crimes include (1) Kidnapping and Robbery (2) Badly beating wife and threatening a crime with intent to terrorize (3) Dealing drugs. Is this really what the great people of California want? @FoxNews” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Mar. 31, 2018 7:53am […]
3/31/2018
BUSINESS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “…does not include the Fake Washington Post, which is used as a ‘lobbyist’ and should so REGISTER. If the P.O. ‘increased its parcel rates, Amazon’s shipping costs would rise by $2.6 Billion.’ This Post Office scam must stop. Amazon must pay real costs (and taxes) now!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Mar. 31, 2018, […]
3/31/2018
BUSINESS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “While we are on the subject, it is reported that the U.S. Post Office will lose $1.50 on average for each package it delivers for Amazon. That amounts to Billions of Dollars. The Failing N.Y. Times reports that “the size of the company’s lobbying staff has ballooned,” and that…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
3/30/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/NATIONAL SECURITY/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Before taking his new job as White House national security adviser in 10 days, John Bolton will have to wind down his multimillion-dollar political operation that is already in the thick of the 2018 election, according to the White House and an independent federal watchdog agency. Under the […]
3/30/2018
2016 ELECTION/BUSINESS/ECONOMY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Two days after Donald J. Trump won the 2016 election, executives at Google consoled their employees in an all-staff meeting broadcast around the world…Sixteen months later, Google’s parent company, Alphabet, has most likely saved billions of dollars in taxes on its overseas cash under a new tax law signed by Mr. […]
3/30/2018
DEMS/ELECTION/HOUSE OF REPS/PENNSYLVANIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “One thing has become clear about the midterm elections, which will determine the political script for the rest of President Trump’s term: Pennsylvania is where much of the action will be. Democrats eager to take control of the House of Representatives see rich opportunities in Pennsylvania to pry seats from […]
3/30/2018
CONGRESS/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump insisted he will never again sign a huge catchall spending measure of the sort he just grudgingly approved to fund the government. But he will probably have little choice if he wants to keep the government open in the future. The steady deterioration of the congressional appropriations process makes it […]
3/30/2018
DAVID SHULKIN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/VA: “Former Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin isn’t going anywhere. In the hours since President Donald Trump fired Shulkin, announcing in a signature tweet that he planned to replace him with White House physician Ronny Jackson, the former secretary has waged a scorched earth campaign, sitting for a slew of TV […]
3/30/2018
SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump promised to build a ‘big, beautiful’ wall, but a border official’s description of the first major steps of the project framed it as more of a fixer-upper. U.S. Customs and Border Protection Acting Deputy Commissioner Ronald Vitello told reporters during a news conference Friday [3-30-18] that the administration would […]
3/30/2018
CONGRESS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration doesn’t need Congress to pass a law or make a sweeping regulation to overhaul the US immigration system — it’s already doing it through a series of small moves that add up to dramatic change. While the administration continues to pressure Congress to grant it broad new authorities, just […]
3/30/2018
https://t.co/UM3YJ6lUiD –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Mar. 30, 2018, 3:24pm […]
3/30/2019
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “An American academic who supports U.S. President Donald Trump and is a strong advocate of Britain’s exit from the European Union will testify next month before the federal grand jury considering evidence in the investigation into possible collusion between Trump’s 2016 election campaign and Russia.Theodore Malloch, the author of […]
3/30/2018
PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team last year made clear it wanted former Trump campaign deputy Rick Gates’ help, not so much against his former business partner Paul Manafort, but with its central mission: investigating the Trump campaign’s contact with the Russians. New information disclosed in court filings and to CNN […]
3/30/2018
ANDREW MCCABE/FBI/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who was fired by the Trump administration but has said he was terminated because he is a crucial witness in the Russia investigation, has raised more than $292,000 in seven hours to help cover costs defending against other ongoing government probes, the funding website showed. […]
3/30/2018
MILITANTS/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is telling advisers he wants an early exit of U.S. troops from Syria, two senior administration officials said on Friday [3-30-18], a stance that may put him at odds with many top U.S. officials.Trump is spending Easter weekend at his Palm Beach, Florida, estate. During a speech in Richfield, […]
3/30/2018
BUSINESS/IMMIGRATION/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Demand for low-skilled worker visas for the summer season starting Sunday [4-1-18] is again far outstripping supply, with the Trump administration forced to choose between helping businesses seeking more visas or trying to save those jobs for American workers. Some lawmakers tried and failed this month to secure an increase in the […]
3/30/2018
GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “One Health and Human Services employee swore off online dating after potential suitors repeatedly got upset that he worked for the Trump administration. An Education Department fellow eagerly returned to teaching after listening to Betsy DeVos bash public schools. And one Environmental Protection Agency official said staffers are distraught at having to […]
3/30/2018
IMMIGRATION/STATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In a broad expansion of the information gathered from applicants for U.S. visas, the federal government is proposing to collect social media identities from nearly everyone who seeks entry into the United States, according to a State Department filing on Friday [3-30-18]. The proposal, if approved by the Office of Management and […]
2/29/2018
LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Donald Trump so far has weathered accusations and hot mic admissions of sexual assault. But even as the president denies Stormy Daniels’ account of their alleged affair more than a decade ago, calling it ‘FAKE NEWS,’ her claims have stayed in the media’s eye for weeks now. Her appearance Sunday on ’60 […]
3/29/2018
2016 ELECTION/BUSINESS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “In July, David J. Pecker, the chairman of the company that owns The National Enquirer, visited his old friend President Trump at the White House. The tabloid publisher took along a special guest, Kacy Grine, a French businessman who advises one of Saudi Arabia’s richest men and sometimes acts as […]
3/29/2018
NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/SOUTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump heralded a new trade agreement with South Korea at his first public appearance in nearly a week on Thursday [3-29-18], but then immediately suggested that he might delay finalizing it while negotiating with North Korea over its nuclear program…It was unclear what leverage Mr. Trump believed he could […]
3/29/2018
DAVID SHULKIN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VA: “President Trump’s dismissal of David J. Shulkin, the secretary of veterans affairs — and the nomination of a Navy doctor with no known policy views to take his place — has brought renewed focus to an increasingly contentious debate over whether to give veterans the option of using the benefits they […]
3/29/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Hope Hicks, the White House communications director who worked behind the scenes to direct the president through multiple professional crises — and decided to resign after she found herself exhausted by them — has left the building. Those left behind are wondering what happens now. Thursday [3-29-18] was the last day […]
3/29/2018
2016 ELECTION/GOP/JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Justice Department’s inspector general, facing increasing political pressure from Republicans in Congress and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, said on Wednesday [3-28-18] that his office would investigate the surveillance of a former Trump campaign official. The announcement came amid a stream of attacks in recent months from the White […]
3/29/2018
ARIZONA/ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “With allegations of sexual misconduct swirling around President Trump, Debbie Lesko — a Republican candidate for Congress — sat down recently and clicked on ’60 Minutes.’ There was Stephanie Clifford, the pornographic film actress known as Stormy Daniels, saying that she had hidden a sexual encounter with Mr. Trump out of […]
3/29/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump made a personal phone call on Wednesday [3-28[18] to a political supporter with a huge megaphone — Roseanne Barr. Mr. Trump called Ms. Barr to congratulate her on the revival of her comedy, “Roseanne,” and to thank her for her support. The call was confirmed by Sarah Huckabee Sanders, […]
3/29/2018
ATTORNEY GENERAL/LEGAL/OBAMA ADMIN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Eric H. Holder Jr., the United States attorney general for six years under President Barack Obama, stepped away from public service in 2015 but has since emerged as a bulwark against the Trump administration, taking a leading role in challenging the president’s policies in court and trying to chip away […]
3/29/2018
COMMERCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump escalated his attack on Amazon on Thursday [2-29-18], saying that the online behemoth does not pay enough taxes — and strongly suggesting that he may try to rein in the e-commerce business. The president’s commentary was made in a Twitter post in which he accused Amazon of putting thousands of […]
3/29/2018
DAVID SHULKIN//TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/VA: “Capitol Hill lawmakers reacted guardedly to President Donald Trump’s nomination of the White House physician to head the Department of Veterans Affairs, with key members noting that they know little about him. Dr. Ronny Jackson, a U.S. Navy rear admiral who has served as a White House physician during the […]