DOW/ECONOMY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It was supposed to be a chance for President Donald Trump to sell the economic benefits of Republicans’ overhaul of the country’s tax code to the voters who will help decide this fall whether the GOP keeps its majority in Congress. But it became clear to White House aides during Trump’s speech […]
Category: A- Trump As President
2/5/2018
GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Monday [2-5-18] attacked Democratic leaders as unpatriotic and urged Republicans not to be ‘complacent’ when it is time to vote, laying out what appeared to be an opening argument for the midterm elections. Mr. Trump, appearing at a business in Ohio, a perennial battleground state, cast Democratic lawmakers […]
2/5/2018
DOW/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “For a connoisseur of cable news like Donald Trump, it was not a pretty picture. As the President touted his economic agenda in Ohio on Monday [2-5-18], his face stared out of millions of television screens next to blaring red graphics and yellow numbers whirling like the reels on a slot machine, […]
2/5/2018
DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump mocked Democrats Monday [2-5-18] for their stony reactions during his State of the Union speech last week, saying that it was even ‘treasonous.’… ‘Can we call that treason? Why not,’ he added. He made the remarks during a speech at a manufacturing plant in Cincinnati, Ohio… Trump’s comments came […]
2/5/2018
BUSINESS/TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Thanks to the historic TAX CUTS that I signed into law, your paychecks are going way UP, your taxes are going way DOWN, and America is once again OPEN FOR BUSINESS! https://t.co/GISFbDDGXX” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 5, 2018 03:42pm […]
2/5/2018
BORDER/BUDGET/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP POSITION CHANGES/WALL: “President Donald Trump on Monday [2-5-18] again insisted on funding for his promised border wall, making clear the high hurdle faced by a bipartisan pair of senators who are backing an immigration plan that leaves out wall funding and other Trump demands. The senators are hoping that their legislation, being […]
2/5/2018
IMMIGRATION/POLITICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House is dismissing an immigration deal brokered by a bipartisan group of lawmakers as a non-starter just hours before it is expected to be formally introduced in the Senate. Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain and Delaware Democratic Sen. Chris Coons are slated to introduce a bill Monday [2-5-18] that would […]
2/5/2018
FOREIGN POLICY/HEALTHCARE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UK: “Donald Trump’s habit of testing the US relationship with Britain took a new turn Monday [2-5-18] when he attacked the UK’s National Health Service, claiming it is ‘going broke and not working.’ The US President hit out on Twitter minutes after a segment aired on Fox News that highlighted winter strains […]
2/5/2018
SPORTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Several Philadelphia Eagles players will skip out on any White House celebration this year following their first-ever Super Bowl win Sunday [2-4-18]. Wide receiver Torrey Smith, defensive end Chris Long and safety Malcolm Jenkins have all said they will not attend if the traditional presidential invitation is extended… Last year, several Patriots […]
2/5/2018
POLITICAL FIGURES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Little Adam Schiff, who is desperate to run for higher office, is one of the biggest liars and leakers in Washington, right up there with Comey, Warner, Brennan and Clapper! Adam leaves closed committee hearings to illegally leak confidential information. Must be stopped!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 5, 2018 07:39am […]
2/5/2018
DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Two U.S. senators unveiled a bipartisan compromise on immigration on Monday [2-5-18] that would protect young ‘Dreamer’ immigrants who were brought to the United States illegally as children and would also boost security on the Mexican border. But President Donald Trump appeared to dismiss the plan immediately, saying any deal should provide […]
2/5/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Thank you to @foxandfriends for exposing the truth. Perhaps that’s why your ratings are soooo much better than your untruthful competition!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 5, 2018 07:17am […]
2/5/2018
FOREIGN POLICY/NATIONAL SECURITY/NUCLEAR/STATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The U.S. has met the limits on the number of deployed nuclear warheads it is allowed under a 2010 treaty with Russia, the State Department said Monday, and expects to find Moscow in compliance with its obligations as well. The State Department said the U.S. has fulfilled its commitments under […]
2/5/2018
DEFENSE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “One of the Pentagon’s largest agencies can’t account for hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of spending, a leading accounting firm says in an internal audit obtained by POLITICO that arrives just as President Donald Trump is proposing a boost in the military budget. Ernst & Young found that the Defense Logistics […]
2/4/2018
BUDGET/IMMIGRATION/POLITICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Congress is expected this week to pass yet another short-term spending bill to avoid a government shutdown, prompting a bipartisan pair of senators to introduce a narrow bill on immigration aimed at ending the impasse that has hindered a two-year budget deal. The government’s current funding expires at 12:01 a.m. Friday [2-9-18]. […]
2/4/2018
DEMS/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/INTELLIGENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The House Intelligence Committee on Monday [2-5-18] is expected to consider whether to release a Democratic rebuttal to a GOP-authored document about surveillance of a onetime Trump campaign adviser, according to people familiar with the matter. The four-page Republican document, released Friday, alleged political bias by federal law-enforcement officials in […]
2/4/2018
EPA/NOMINATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “One of President Donald Trump’s top environmental nominees is withdrawing after a year of criticism for being skeptical about climate change and for calling global warming a ‘kind of paganism.’ Kathleen Hartnett White, Mr. Trump’s choice to head the White House Council on Environmental Quality, asked to withdraw this weekend. She cited […]
2/4/2018
CRISIS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “My thoughts and prayers are with all of the victims involved in this mornings train collision in South Carolina. Thank you to our incredible First Responders for the work they’ve done!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 4, 2018 11:58am […]
2/4/2018
MILITARY/NATIONAL SECURITY/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Pentagon put potential adversaries on notice that the U.S. might respond with nuclear weapons if it is the target of a major nonnuclear attack. The warning, which is contained in a new plan called the Nuclear Posture Review, doesn’t specifically detail the circumstances that might lead the U.S. to retaliate […]
2/4/2018
HEALTHCARE/OBAMCARE(ACA)/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “At least nine states are considering their own versions of a requirement that residents must have health insurance, a move that could accelerate a divide between Democratic states trying to shore up the Affordable Care Act and Republican states intent on tearing it down. Congressional Republicans in December repealed the so-called individual […]
2/3/2018
HOUSE OF REPS/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump said on Saturday [2-3-18] that a partisan memo released by House Republicans ‘totally vindicates’ him in the investigation into Russian election interference, complaining that the ‘witch hunt’ would go ‘on and on’ even though there had been no collusion or obstruction of justice. Mr. Trump, who is in […]
2/3/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: ” ‘The four page memo released Friday reports the disturbing fact about how the FBI and FISA appear to have been used to influence the 2016 election and its aftermath….The FBI failed to inform the FISA court that the Clinton campaign had funded the dossier….the FBI became… a tool of anti-Trump […]
2/3/2018
JOBS/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Great jobs numbers and finally, after many years, rising wages- and nobody even talks about them. Only Russia, Russia, Russia, despite the fact that, after a year of looking, there is No Collusion!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 3, 2018 07:26pm […]
2/3/2018
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “This memo totally vindicates ‘Trump’ in probe. But the Russian Witch Hunt goes on and on. Their was no Collusion and there was no Obstruction (the word now used because, after one year of looking endlessly and finding NOTHING, collusion is dead). This is an American disgrace!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. […]
2/2/2018
DEMS/FBI/GOP/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Top officials and investigators at the F.B.I. and Justice Department have ‘politicized the sacred investigative process,’ President Trump said on Friday [2-2-18], hours before the White House is expected to clear the way for Congress to release a controversial memo that is said to describe a bias among senior law enforcement […]
2/2/2018
BORDER/DHS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Today, it was my honor to join the great men and women of @DHSgov, @CustomsBorder, @ICEgov and @USCIS at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection National Targeting Center in Sterling, Virginia. Fact sheet: https://t.co/Q027Wgdzdo https://t.co/NecuA0y1Sk” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 2, 2018 05:26pm […]
2/2/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: ” ‘Trump the orator outlines the greatness of America to Democrats’ disgust’ https://t.co/XpirrtTY6V” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 2, 2018 01:07pm […]
2/2/2018
FOREIGN POLICY/MILITARY/STATE/SUDAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The U.S. imposed an arms embargo on South Sudan Friday [2-3-18], in a sign of Washington’s mounting frustration with continued violence in the country. The move is more symbolic than practical, as the U.S. government doesn’t sell arms or provide defense services to South Sudan, and there is virtually no military […]
2/2/2018
FBI/GOP/INTELLIGENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump accused senior officials and investigators at the Federal Bureau of Investigation of being biased against Republicans and favoring Democrats, as the White House is expected approve the release of a classified memo that Republicans allege shows improper surveillance of one of the president’s former campaign aides… A White House […]
2/2/2018
LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation has gathered enough steam that some lawyers representing key Donald Trump associates are considering the possibility of a historic first: an indictment against a sitting president. While many legal experts contend that Mueller lacks the standing to bring criminal charges against Trump, at least two […]
2/1/2018
DEMS/POLITICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Democrats just aren’t calling about DACA. Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer have to get moving fast, or they’ll disappoint you again. We have a great chance to make a deal or, blame the Dems! March 5th is coming up fast.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 1, 2018 10:32pm […]
2/1/2018
CAMPAIGN/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump’s re-election campaign raised $15.2 million in the last three months of last year, and spent $1.2 million on legal fees — with much of the cash going to law firms responding to investigations of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election — according to campaign finance reports. The reports, filed […]
2/1/2018
GUANTANAMO/STATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s order to keep open the Guantanamo Bay prison camp formalized a yearlong push to halt his predecessor’s efforts to close the detention center, but raises tough questions about how to manage the costly facility and its inmates. The State Department directed diplomats at its missions around the world to […]
2/1/2018
DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP POSITION CHANGES: “President Donald Trump said Thursday [2-1-18] that he is willing to walk away from immigration negotiations if Democrats won’t agree to his terms, and many involved in the debate said the chances of a deal appear to be fading… On Capitol Hill, there was no sign of a breakthrough in […]
2/1/2018
FOREIGN POLICY/MILITARY/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration warned Syria about an increase in the use of poison gas against civilians, despite last year’s cruise-missile strike aimed at deterring the Assad regime from carrying out such attacks. U.S. officials on Thursday [2-1-18] said the Syrian military was shifting tactics to try to conceal its role in […]
2/1/2018
AUSTRALIA/FOREIGN POLICY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump will meet with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull at the White House on Feb. 23, the White House said in a statement on Thursday. ‘The president and prime minister will discuss a range of shared bilateral, regional, and global priorities, including fighting terrorism, promoting economic growth, and […]
2/1/2018
BUDGET/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “House Republicans are considering voting next week on a stopgap spending bill that would keep the government funded through late March, lawmakers and aides said Thursday [2-1-18]. The government’s current funding expires at 12:01 a.m. Feb. 9, and lawmakers have said they will need to pass another short-term spending bill […]
2/1/2018
CONSUMER PROTECTION/LEGAL/MICK MULVANEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration has revamped the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s lending-discrimination operations, an agency spokesman said Thursday, the latest step in a broad review of the bureau’s activities under its new director. The changes place the consumer-finance regulator’s Office of Fair Lending and Equal Opportunity under the direct control of […]
2/1/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “The same week President Donald Trump was sworn into office, he applied for a trademark on ‘Keep America Great’ for use on buttons, banners, clothing, advertising and more, according to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and filed the paperwork to launch a re-election campaign earlier than any other president in […]
2/1/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Breitbart News obtained an audio recording of the rest of Trump’s speech as he delighted the crowd by discussing the details of his cognitive exam at Walter Reed Military Hospital. He boasted that he got a ’30-for-30’ score… He said that in the beginning of the test, he had to identify sketches […]
2/1/2018
CIA/FBI/GOP/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former CIA Director John Brennan is calling out Republicans for ‘reckless partisan behavior’ over their handling of a secret memo about the FBI’s surveillance practices. ‘I had many fights with Congressional Dems over the years on national security matters. But I never witnessed the type of reckless partisan behavior I am […]
2/1/2018
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As the Trump administration moves to give states more flexibility in running Medicaid, advocates for the poor are keeping a close eye on Indiana to see whether such conservative ideas improve or harm care. Indiana in 2015 implemented some of the most radical changes seen to the state-federal program that covers nearly […]
2/1/2018
DONALD ON DONALD/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump incorrectly claimed Thursday [2-1-18] that the State of the Union address he delivered earlier this week was the most watched in history, even though his own 2017 address to Congress got higher television ratings… The president did not make clear the source of his statistic, although the […]
2/1/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Thank you for all of the nice compliments and reviews on the State of the Union speech. 45.6 million people watched, the highest number in history. @FoxNews beat every other Network, for the first time ever, with 11.7 million people tuning in. Delivered from the heart!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 1, 2018 […]
2/1/2018
FBI/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A secret Republican memo alleging FBI bias against President Donald Trump likely will be released on Thursday [2-1-18], a Trump administration official said, a move that would put the White House in direct confrontation with the top U.S. law enforcement agency. The Federal Bureau of Investigation issued a rare rebuke on Wednesday […]
2/1/2018
IMMIGRATION/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When President Donald Trump’s administration took its fight to end a controversial immigration program directly to the U.S. Supreme Court last month, skipping over a California federal appeals court in the process, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said it was a ‘rare step’ to ensure a quick and fair resolution. But the […]
2/1/2018
FBI/HOUSE OF REPS/INTELLIGENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The House intelligence committee’s top Democrat charged Republicans late Wednesday [1-31-18] with sending the White House ‘an altered version’ of a classified memo alleging misconduct by the FBI in its probe of a former campaign adviser to President Donald Trump. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) made the accusation against Republicans on […]
1/31/2018
BUDGET/ENERGY/ENERGY [ALT]/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House will ask Congress next month for a 72 percent cut to research programs on clean energy and energy efficiency in fiscal 2019, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday [1-31-18], citing draft budget documents. The Trump administration is pursuing a so-called energy dominance policy that seeks to boost production […]
1/31/2018
FOREIGN POLICY/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration extended protections for roughly 7,000 Syrian nationals in the US due to the ongoing civil war in the country, the agency announced Wednesday [1-31-18] evening. But Syrians who arrived in the US after August 2016 will not be eligible under the new policy. The protections for Syria were […]
1/31/2018
DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration said Wednesday [1-31-18] it would prioritize asylum applications from people who have most recently entered the U.S., an effort to quickly deport those without valid claims and discourage others from coming. The change turns a critical piece of immigration policy on its head by handling new asylum arrivals first, […]
1/31/2018
FBI/GOP/INTELLIGENCE/JOHN KELLY/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “FBI Director Christopher Wray sent a striking signal to the White House Wednesday [1-31-18], issuing a rare public warning that a controversial Republican memo about the FBI’s surveillance practices omits key information that could impact its veracity. The move sets up an ugly clash with the President who wants it […]
1/31/2018
FDA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump, in his State of the Union address, gave a boost to so-called Right to Try legislation that would give terminally-ill patients greater access to experimental drugs. Public-health advocates are pushing back, characterizing the Right to Try movement as a solution to a nonexistent problem. Right to Try laws, having […]
1/31/2018
IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP POSITION CHANGES: “President Donald Trump’s call for lawmakers to embrace what he termed a compromise proposal on immigration got a chilly reaction Wednesday [1-31-18] from both Democrats and Republicans, who are struggling to make progress in their negotiations. In his State of the Union speech Tuesday night, Mr. Trump highlighted the details […]
1/31/2018
NONTRUTHS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Tuesday [1-30-18] delivered his first State of the Union address, and CNN’s Reality Check Team was there to vet his claims. The team of reporters, researchers and editors across CNN listened throughout the speech and analyzed key statements, rating them either true, true but misleading, or false. […]
1/31/2018
NOMINATIONS/NONTRUTHS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Tuesday [1-30-18] delivered his first State of the Union address, and CNN’s Reality Check Team was there to vet his claims. The team of reporters, researchers and editors across CNN listened throughout the speech and analyzed key statements, rating them either true, true but misleading, or false… Most […]
1/31/2018
CRIME/NONTRUTHS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Tuesday [1-30-18] delivered his first State of the Union address, and CNN’s Reality Check Team was there to vet his claims. The team of reporters, researchers and editors across CNN listened throughout the speech and analyzed key statements, rating them either true, true but misleading, or false… MS-13 […]
1/31/2018
ENERGY/NONTRUTHS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Tuesday [1-30-18] delivered his first State of the Union address, and CNN’s Reality Check Team was there to vet his claims. The team of reporters, researchers and editors across CNN listened throughout the speech and analyzed key statements, rating them either true, true but misleading, or false. […]
1/31/2018
IMMIGRATION/NONTRUTHS/TERRORISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Tuesday [1-30-18] delivered his first State of the Union address, and CNN’s Reality Check Team was there to vet his claims. The team of reporters, researchers and editors across CNN listened throughout the speech and analyzed key statements, rating them either true, true but misleading, or false… Have […]
1/31/2018
JOBS/NONTRUTHS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Tuesday [1-30-18] delivered his first State of the Union address, and CNN’s Reality Check Team was there to vet his claims. The team of reporters, researchers and editors across CNN listened throughout the speech and analyzed key statements, rating them either true, true but misleading, or false… 2.4 […]
1/31/2018
MILITARY/NONTRUTHS/TERRORISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Tuesday [1-30-18] delivered his first State of the Union address, and CNN’s Reality Check Team was there to vet his claims. The team of reporters, researchers and editors across CNN listened throughout the speech and analyzed key statements, rating them either true, true but misleading, or false…. ISIS […]
1/31/2018
IMMIGRATION/NONTRUTHS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Tuesday [1-30-18] delivered his first State of the Union address, and CNN’s Reality Check Team was there to vet his claims. The team of reporters, researchers and editors across CNN listened throughout the speech and analyzed key statements, rating them either true, true but misleading, or false. Family-based […]
1/31/2018
JOBS/NONTRUTHS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Tuesday [1-30-18] delivered his first State of the Union address, and CNN’s Reality Check Team was there to vet his claims. The team of reporters, researchers and editors across CNN listened throughout the speech and analyzed key statements, rating them either true, true but misleading, or false… Wage […]
1/31/2018
NONTRUTHS/TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Tuesday [1-30-18] delivered his first State of the Union address, and CNN’s Reality Check Team was there to vet his claims. The team of reporters, researchers and editors across CNN listened throughout the speech and analyzed key statements, rating them either true, true but misleading, or false. Economy […]
1/31/2018
AFRICAN AMERICANS/JOBS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Tuesday [1-30-18] delivered his first State of the Union address, and CNN’s Reality Check Team was there to vet his claims. The team of reporters, researchers and editors across CNN listened throughout the speech and analyzed key statements, rating them either true, true but misleading, or false… […]
1/31/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump delivered his first State of the Union address on Tuesday [1-30-18] night, a (very) lengthy speech in which he largely revisited his accomplishments over his first year in office and offered a handful of proposals he’d like to see considered in the coming year. While it’s important not […]
1/31/2018
DONALDISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump delivered his first State of the Union address on Tuesday [1-30-18] night, a (very) lengthy speech in which he largely revisited his accomplishments over his first year in office and offered a handful of proposals he’d like to see considered in the coming year. While it’s important not to […]
1/31/2018
DONALD ON DONALD/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump delivered his first State of the Union address on Tuesday [1-30-18] night, a (very) lengthy speech in which he largely revisited his accomplishments over his first year in office and offered a handful of proposals he’d like to see considered in the coming year. While it’s important […]
1/31/2018
OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump delivered his first State of the Union address on Tuesday [1-30-18] night, a (very) lengthy speech in which he largely revisited his accomplishments over his first year in office and offered a handful of proposals he’d like to see considered in the coming year. While it’s important not to […]
1/31/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump delivered his first State of the Union address on Tuesday [1-30-18] night, a (very) lengthy speech in which he largely revisited his accomplishments over his first year in office and offered a handful of proposals he’d like to see considered in the coming year. While it’s important not to […]
1/31/2018
DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump delivered his first State of the Union address on Tuesday [1-30-18] night, a (very) lengthy speech in which he largely revisited his accomplishments over his first year in office and offered a handful of proposals he’d like to see considered in the coming year. While it’s important not to […]
1/31/2018
FOREIGN POLICY/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Russia is solidifying its footing close to U.S. shores, in the Caribbean, a region Moscow abandoned after the Cold War and has gradually returned to with investment, diplomacy and military hardware. In recent months Russia has developed a multidimensional relationship with the tiny nation of Grenada, whose name has resonated with […]
1/31/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Special Counsel Robert Mueller is seeking to interview the former spokesman of President Donald Trump’s legal team as part of an investigation into potential collusion between Russia and Trump’s campaign to sway the 2016 U.S. presidential election, according to a source with knowledge of the matter. Mark Corallo had represented […]
1/31/2018
NONTRUTHS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump’s first State of the Union address was billed as a bid for unity, a call for all to rise above party and faction in pursuit of national ideas and ideals. In fact, scattered throughout the 80-minute speech were several moments that might qualify as outreach. But if you blinked, you […]
1/31/2018
AFGHANISTAN/FOREIGN POLICY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “US President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union touched on a number of international issues, including North Korea and the battle to defeat ISIS, but he didn’t offer any specifics and barely mentioned Russia or China… Here’s what he did include: Afghanistan Amid a deteriorating security situation on the ground, […]
1/31/2018
FOREIGN POLICY/ISRAEL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “US President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union touched on a number of international issues, including North Korea and the battle to defeat ISIS, but he didn’t offer any specifics and barely mentioned Russia or China… Here’s what he did include: Israel One of the Trump administration’s staunchest international allies, […]
1/31/2018
FOREIGN POLICY/IRAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “US President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union touched on a number of international issues, including North Korea and the battle to defeat ISIS, but he didn’t offer any specifics and barely mentioned Russia or China… Here’s what he did include: Iran Trump has persistently criticized the multilateral Iranian nuclear […]
1/31/2018
GUANTANAMO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “US President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union touched on a number of international issues, including North Korea and the battle to defeat ISIS, but he didn’t offer any specifics and barely mentioned Russia or China… Here’s what he did include: Guantanamo Trump signed a new executive order Tuesday to keep […]
1/31/2018
FOREIGN POLICY/TERRORISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “US President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union touched on a number of international issues, including North Korea and the battle to defeat ISIS, but he didn’t offer any specifics and barely mentioned Russia or China… Here’s what he did include: ISIS One of Trump’s major foreign policy successes, he […]
1/31/2018
FOREIGN POLICY/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “US President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union touched on a number of international issues, including North Korea and the battle to defeat ISIS, but he didn’t offer any specifics and barely mentioned Russia or China… Here’s what he did include: North Korea The threat posed by North Korea’s […]
1/30/2018
NONTRUTHS/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The president drew on the stories of two victims of North Korean cruelty: an American college student, Otto F. Warmbier, who fell into an irreversible coma while in detention in Pyongyang, the capital, and later died; and a North Korean man who lost his leg while searching for food for his […]
1/30/2018
AMBASSADOR/NOMINATIONS/SOUTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP POSITION CHANGES: “The Trump administration is searching for a new candidate to be the ambassador to South Korea, after U.S. officials said Tuesday [1-30-18] that its previous pick, Victor Cha, is no longer under consideration. The Trump administration notified the South Korean government in December that Mr. Cha would be its […]
1/30/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Join me live for the #SOTU https://t.co/0SLktWxfHi” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Jan. 30, 2018 09:00pm […]
1/30/2018
DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A Brooklyn federal judge criticized President Donald Trump’s comments about Latino immigrants as ‘vicious’ and ‘extremely volatile’ during court arguments Tuesday over whether to stop the Trump administration from rescinding protections for undocumented immigrants who entered the U.S. as children… The plaintiffs who sued the Trump administration, including 16 states, have argued […]
1/30/2018
EPA/SCOTT PRUITT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt said Tuesday [1-30-18] that he has no recollection of stinging remarks he made back in 2016 when he argued that Donald Trump would use executive power ‘in a way that is truly unconstitutional’ and would be ‘more abusive’ to the Constitution than President Barack Obama. […]
1/30/2018
RUSSIA/STEVE MNUCHIN/TREASURY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told lawmakers that the Trump administration plans to levy new Russia sanctions based on a list of oligarchs and senior government officials published late Monday [1-29-18]. Mr. Mnuchin’s comments on Tuesday come as some lawmakers criticized the administration for failing to issue new sanctions under a […]
1/30/2018
CAMPAIGN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s campaign website is offering this chance for a few seconds of fame to supporters who donate to his re-election effort. It can happen for as little as $1. The campaign’s original pitch was $35, but a subsequent email from the Trump campaign provided a link for donors to contribute […]
1/30/2018
POLITICAL FIGURES/POLITICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump will deliver his first State of the Union address on Tuesday [1-30-18] night from the US Capitol, but not all of Congress will be in attendance. Trump’s tumultuous first year in office was marked by controversy, leading several Democratic lawmakers to announce that they plan to boycott the […]
1/30/2018
CENSUS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Census Bureau has scrapped a plan to overhaul how it asks about race and Hispanic ethnicity in the 2020 Census, after the Trump administration delayed making a decision on the matter in time for the rollout. As a result, the Census will keep separate questions for race and Hispanic ethnicity instead […]
1/30/2018
FOREIGN POLICY/PALESTINE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UN: “Almost a dozen countries have agreed to advance their annual contributions to the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees to help it plug a major shortfall after a partial cut-off of U.S. funding, its chief said on Tuesday [1-31-18]. The move by the Trump administration appears linked to a United Nations vote […]
1/30/2018
CONFLICT OF INTEREST/DEMS/INFRASTRUCTURE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s critics are already lining up to undercut his infrastructure proposal — the purported bipartisan centerpiece of Tuesday’s [1-30-18] State of the Union speech — as a giveaway to his well-connected friends and a rollback of popular environmental protections. Even before the president formally calls for a deal […]
1/29/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: ” ‘American carnage’ appears to be out. Bipartisanship is in. And not everyone is happy about it. When President Trump delivers his first State of the Union address on Tuesday [1-30-18] at 9 p.m. ET, his most fervent supporters are anxious that he will squander the most high-profile moment of his presidency […]
1/29/2018
DEFENSE/RUSSIA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration announced Monday [1-29-18] that it had decided against imposing any sanctions on countries that buy Russian military equipment, saying that a new law was already deterring billions of dollars in such purchases. The law required that sanctions be imposed against large purchasers of Russian arms, but it granted […]
1/29/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY/MELANIA: “Over the past week, Melania Trump, a notoriously private first lady, made three very public decisions: She canceled a trip abroad with the president, made an impromptu visit to the Holocaust Memorial Museum and flew to Mar-a-Lago, where she spent part of her short trip relaxing at the spa… Aides to […]
1/29/2018
AMBASSADOR/FOREIGN POLICY/IRAN/NIKKI HALEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UN: “The Trump administration escalated efforts to put pressure on Iran on Monday [1-29-18], taking ambassadors from the United Nations Security Council on a field trip to inspect what American officials called remnants of Iranian missiles and other weaponry illegally supplied to Yemen rebels. The ambassadors were also White House lunch […]
1/29/2018
2016 ELECTION/GOP/INTELLIGENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A congressional panel voted on Monday [1-29-18] to make public a classified Republican-authored memo that alleges surveillance abuses against an associate of President Donald Trump dating back to the 2016 campaign. The GOP-led House Intelligence Committee invoked an obscure rule in its effort to release the memo that was drawn from […]
1/29/2018
IMMIGRATION/NATIONAL SECURITY/TRAVEL BAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration said Monday [1-29-18] it was resuming refugee admissions from 11 countries deemed national-security risks, while adding additional screening measures for them. Senior administration officials said the new vetting would include more independent interviews of refugee applicants and their families, but gave no other details. The decision comes […]
1/29/2018
NASA/NOMINATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s pick to run NASA faces what increasingly seem insurmountable obstacles to confirmation by the current Senate, according to industry officials and congressional staffers. The combination of unanimous Democratic opposition plus stiff resistance from Florida’s Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, these people said, creates the biggest roadblock for the nominee, GOP […]
1/29/2018
CANADA/MEXICO/NAFTA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Negotiations to revamp the North American Free Trade Agreement survived what was seen as the crucial sixth round, with the U.S., Canada and Mexico tackling difficult issues even as tensions flared between the U.S. and Canada over auto-industry rules… Still, Mr. Lighthizer and his Mexican and Canadian counterparts nodded to progress […]
1/29/2018
HHS/NOMINATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Congratulations to America’s new Secretary of @HHSGov, Alex Azar! https://t.co/Y9inQaCt7o” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Jan. 29, 2018 03:12pm […]
1/28/2018
HILLARY CLINTON/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Hillary Clinton made an unexpected cameo at the Grammy Awards on Sunday [1-28-18], delighting many in the audience but turning off some high-profile viewers at home. James Corden, the show’s host, introduced the bit on the premise of interviewing candidates to record the audio version of ‘Fire and Fury,’ the political […]