CHINA/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Just spoke to President XI JINPING of China concerning the provocative actions of North Korea. Additional major sanctions will be imposed on North Korea today. This situation will be handled!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 29, 2017 09:40am […]
Category: A- Trump As President
11/29/2017
RACISM/RELIGION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump shared videos supposedly portraying Muslims committing acts of violence on Twitter early Wednesday [11-29-17] morning, images that are likely to fuel anti-Islam sentiments popular among the president’s political base in the United States and prompted the office of Britain’s prime minister to issue a statement condemning the tweets. Mr. Trump […]
11/29/2017
DRUGS/HHS/NOMINATIONS/PHARMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Alex Azar, a former drug industry executive who Republicans have nominated to run the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, on Wednesday [11-29-17] promised to lower drug prices that he said are too high, saying he would look at abuse of patent laws that delays generic competition. Azar, who worked at […]
11/29/2017
ECONOMY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “.@foxandfriends, we are in record territory in all things having to do with our economy! https://t.co/VB0Ao3s18d” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 29, 2017 06:32am […]
11/28/2017
BANKING/FEDERAL RESERVE/NOMINATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Jerome H. Powell, nominated by President Trump to lead the Federal Reserve, presented himself as a pragmatic moderate who would largely continue the Fed’s current policies at a confirmation hearing before the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday [11-28-17]. Mr. Powell, a Fed governor since 2012, defended the Fed’s approach to financial […]
11/28/2017
POLITICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Remarks from the Roosevelt Room with @SenateMajLdr Mitch McConnell, @SpeakerRyan and Secretary of Defense, General James Mattis. https://t.co/lZMqK5jBvh” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 28, 2017 05:12pm […]
11/28/2017
CLIMATE CHANGE/EPA/SCOTT PRUITT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In less than a year since taking the helm of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt has repealed the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan and Waters of the United States rule, encouraged President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement and removed scientists dependent on EPA funding from serving […]
11/28/2017
CHINA/COMMERCE/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WILBUR ROSS: “The Trump administration took new action Tuesday [11-28-17] in its emerging strategy to ramp up trade pressure on Beijing, dusting off a little-used authority to combat imports of inexpensive Chinese aluminum. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross told American industry executives that his department would ‘self-initiate’ an investigation into whether their Chinese […]
11/28/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: ” ‘Statement from President Donald J. Trump on #GivingTuesday’ https://t.co/NrfnmixAwR” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 28, 2017 11:27am […]
11/28/2017
DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Congressional Democratic leaders pulled out of a planned meeting with President Donald Trump set for Tuesday [11-28-17] afternoon after the president suggested in a tweet that he didn’t see a deal emerging over how to keep the government funded. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer […]
11/28/2017
POLITICAL FIGURES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Meeting with ‘Chuck and Nancy’ today about keeping government open and working. Problem is they want illegal immigrants flooding into our Country unchecked, are weak on Crime and want to substantially RAISE Taxes. I don’t see a deal!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 28, 2017 09:17am […]
11/28/2017
CONSUMER PROTECTION/LEGAL/NOMINATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration urged a federal judge to reject an Obama-era official’s attempt to assert command over the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, arguing in a court filing it had properly installed its own official to run the agency. In an overnight filing Monday [11-27-17], the Justice Department said the CFPB’s deputy […]
11/28/2017
PROTESTS/SPORTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “At least 24 players kneeling this weekend at NFL stadiums that are now having a very hard time filling up. The American public is fed up with the disrespect the NFL is paying to our Country, our Flag and our National Anthem. Weak and out of control!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 28, […]
11/27/2017
BUSINESS/CONSUMER PROTECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A decade after the financial crisis, the federal government is easing up its policing of Wall Street and the banking industry, even without actually repealing broad swaths of regulation. The public battle over who will serve as the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — with the White House […]
11/27/2017
CONSUMER PROTECTION/LEGAL/NOMINATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “On Monday [11-27-17], Mick Mulvaney, the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, brought in doughnuts. Around the same time, Leandra English, the agency’s other acting director, sent an all-staff email thanking employees for their service. Awkward. And so it goes in a capital city defined by its dysfunction, at […]
11/27/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump took a moment Monday [11-27-17] to cite his Indian nickname for a political nemesis during a White House event honoring a group of Native American men for service during World War II. Speaking in the Oval Office and standing beside the three veterans, Mr. Trump said: ‘You were here […]
11/27/2017
TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Tax Cut Bill is coming along very well, great support. With just a few changes, some mathematical, the middle class and job producers can get even more in actual dollars and savings and the pass through provision becomes simpler and really works well!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 27, 2017 09:24am […]
11/27/2017
GOP/POLITICAL FIGURES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump will not campaign for Roy Moore, the Alabama Republican Senate candidate who is facing allegations of sexual misconduct, a White House official said on Monday [11-27-17]. Republican lawmakers have distanced themselves from Moore and called for him to step down, but he has defied those entreaties and […]
11/27/2017
GOP/POLITICAL FIGURES/TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Republican Senator Rand Paul, a fiscal hawk who has sometimes opposed his party’s spending plans, said on Monday [11-27-17] he planned to vote for the U.S. Senate tax bill and urged his colleagues to do the same. Paul, writing in a Fox News online opinion piece, said that while the bill […]
11/27/2017
CONSUMER PROTECTION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The fight for control of the U.S. consumer watchdog agency intensified on Monday [11-27-17] as Mick Mulvaney, President Donald Trump’s pick to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), imposed a hiring freeze and halted any new regulations. In a partisan showdown over the CFPB, which was created to crack down […]
11/27/2017
BANKING/FEDERAL RESERVE/NOMINATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Federal Reserve governor Jerome Powell heads to Capitol Hill on Tuesday [11-28-17] for what could be one of the least contentious confirmation hearings for a Fed chair nominee since the financial crisis. The Senate Banking Committee is considering Mr. Powell’s nomination to succeed Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen when her term as […]
11/26/2017
CONSUMER PROTECTION/LEGAL/NOMINATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The battle over who will lead the federal government’s top consumer financial watchdog agency is now headed to court. The extraordinary fight, which intensified on Sunday [11-26-17] night, adds to the uncertainty over the fate of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a regulator created in the aftermath of the global financial […]
11/26/2017
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Since the first day I took office, all you hear is the phony Democrat excuse for losing the election, Russia, Russia,Russia. Despite this I have the economy booming and have possibly done more than any 10 month President. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 26, 2017 04:29pm […]
11/26/2017
CONSUMER PROTECTION/MICK MULVANEY/NOMINATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “An Obama-era official at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau sued the Trump administration on Sunday [11-26-17] night to block budget director Mick Mulvaney from taking control of the agency. Leandra English, a career staffer appointed Friday to lead the CFPB by former director Richard Cordray, filed the lawsuit in federal […]
11/26/2017
POLITICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I endorsed Luther Strange in the Alabama Primary. He shot way up in the polls but it wasn’t enough. Can’t let Schumer/Pelosi win this race. Liberal Jones would be BAD!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 26, 2017 09:33am […]
11/26/2017
POLITICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The last thing we need in Alabama and the U.S. Senate is a Schumer/Pelosi puppet who is WEAK on Crime, WEAK on the Border, Bad for our Military and our great Vets, Bad for our 2nd Amendment, AND WANTS TO RAISES TAXES TO THE SKY. Jones would be a disaster!” -Donald Trump, […]
11/25/2017
CONSUMER PROTECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, or CFPB, has been a total disaster as run by the previous Administrations pick. Financial Institutions have been devastated and unable to properly serve the public. We will bring it back to life!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 25, 2017 04:48pm […]
11/25/2017
JOBS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Happy #SmallBusinessSaturday! A great day to support your community and America’s JOB creators by shopping locally at a #SmallBiz. #ShopSmall https://t.co/pBQaBHvl7k” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 25, 2017 02:40pm […]
11/24/2017
DONALD ON DONALD/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Time Magazine called to say that I was PROBABLY going to be named ‘Man (Person) of the Year,’ like last year, but I would have to agree to an interview and a major photo shoot. I said probably is no good and took a pass. Thanks anyway!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
11/24/2017
GOP/TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump will meet with Senate Republicans at their weekly closed-doors lunch on Tuesday [11-21-17], a top GOP lawmaker said Friday, as the party prepares to vote next week on legislation overhauling the tax code. The Senate Budget Committee is expected to merge key pieces of the legislation on Tuesday, ahead […]
11/24/2017
TERRORISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Will be calling the President of Egypt in a short while to discuss the tragic terrorist attack, with so much loss of life. We have to get TOUGHER AND SMARTER than ever before, and we will. Need the WALL, need the BAN! God bless the people of Egypt.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. […]
11/24/2017
TERRORISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Horrible and cowardly terrorist attack on innocent and defenseless worshipers in Egypt. The world cannot tolerate terrorism, we must defeat them militarily and discredit the extremist ideology that forms the basis of their existence!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 24, 2017 10:27am […]
11/24/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “After Turkey call I will be heading over to Trump National Golf Club, Jupiter, to play golf (quickly) with Tiger Woods and Dustin Johnson. Then back to Mar-a-Lago for talks on bringing even more jobs and companies back to the USA!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 24, 2017 07:10am […]
11/24/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Will be speaking to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey this morning about bringing peace to the mess that I inherited in the Middle East. I will get it all done, but what a mistake, in lives and dollars (6 trillion), to be there in the first place!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
11/24/2017
PROTESTS/SPORTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Can you believe that the disrespect for our Country, our Flag, our Anthem continues without penalty to the players. The Commissioner has lost control of the hemorrhaging league. Players are the boss! https://t.co/udXP5MR8BC” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 24, 2017 06:48am […]
11/23/2017
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Two great people! https://t.co/5cVnMhnmuH” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 23, 2017 11:54pm […]
11/23/2017
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A great guy (with great ratings)! https://t.co/S0S6xqrjSC” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 23, 2017 11:42pm […]
11/23/2017
DEMS/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “ObamaCare premiums are going up, up, up, just as I have been predicting for two years. ObamaCare is OWNED by the Democrats, and it is a disaster. But do not worry. Even though the Dems want to Obstruct, we will Repeal & Replace right after Tax Cuts!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 23, […]
11/23/2017
MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “My great honor to join our incredible men and women of the @USCG, at the Lake Worth Inlet Station, in Riviera Beach, Florida today! #HappyThanksgiving https://t.co/C35HR9opbP” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 23, 2017 05:54pm […]
11/23/2017
HOLIDAY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “HAPPY THANKSGIVING! https://t.co/nQhi7XopMW” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 23, 2017 10:35am […]
11/23/2017
HOLIDAY/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Will be doing a live Thanksgiving Video Teleconference with Members of the Military at 9:00 A.M. Afghanistan, Iraq, USS Monterey, Turkey & Bahrain. Then going to Coast Guard Quarters, Florida.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 23, 2017 08:43am […]
11/23/2017
HOLIDAY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “HAPPY THANKSGIVING, your Country is starting to do really well. Jobs coming back, highest Stock Market EVER, Military getting really strong, we will build the WALL, V.A. taking care of our Vets, great Supreme Court Justice, RECORD CUT IN REGS, lowest unemployment in 17 years….!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 23, 2017 06:28am […]
11/23/2017
ECONOMY/TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Taxes are going up around the world, but the U.S. is already bucking that trend. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development on Thursday [11-23-17] said the share of economic output taken by governments in developed economies as taxes has risen to its highest level since records began 50 years ago. But […]
11/22/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TAXES: “….And it will get even better with Tax Cuts! https://t.co/75wozGJQoP” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 22, 2017 09:06pm […]
11/22/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “President Trump is spending this Thanksgiving weekend at Mar-a-Lago. It’s his first trip back since April, when his private club closed for the season. Since his inauguration 10 months ago, the president has visited at least one of his properties on 34 out of his 45 weekends in office (including this […]
11/22/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Here is a look, by the numbers, at all the known contacts between Trump associates and Russians. From meetings to emails, to text messages and Skype sessions, these lists have been growing throughout the year as more details drip out in the investigations into Russian meddling in the 2016 US […]
11/22/2017
FCC/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/NET NEUTRALITY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Over just two days this week, the Trump administration has both sued AT&T Inc. to block its planned takeover of Time Warner Inc. and proposed allowing internet-service providers—like AT&T—to form closer alliances with content companies, like Time Warner. The two government moves seem to go in opposite directions, on the […]
11/22/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/LEGAL/STATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VENEZUELA: “Four of the six Citgo Petroleum Corp. executives arrested here Tuesday [11-21-17] for alleged corruption are U.S. citizens, a company official said Wednesday. Venezuela’s military intelligence agency on Tuesday arrested six top executives of the U.S. subsidiary of state-oil company Petróleos de Venezuela SA, as part of what authorities are calling […]
11/22/2017
DOW/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Will be having meetings and working the phones from the Winter White House in Florida (Mar-a-Lago). Stock Market hit new Record High yesterday – $5.5 trillion gain since E. Many companies coming back to the U.S. Military building up and getting very strong.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 22, 2017 06:51am […]
11/22/2017
PROTESTS/SPORTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The NFL is now thinking about a new idea – keeping teams in the Locker Room during the National Anthem next season. That’s almost as bad as kneeling! When will the highly paid Commissioner finally get tough and smart? This issue is killing your league!…..” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 22, 2017 05:48am […]
11/22/2017
CHINA/CRIME/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It wasn’t the White House, it wasn’t the State Department, it wasn’t father LaVar’s so-called people on the ground in China that got his son out of a long term prison sentence – IT WAS ME. Too bad! LaVar is just a poor man’s version of Don King, but without the hair. […]
11/21/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump will soon have to decide whether to impose the types of tariffs on imported products that he has long championed after a federal body again recommended stiff levies, this time on foreign-made washing machines. The United States International Trade Commission, a quasi-judicial body that rules on trade cases, […]
11/21/2017
LEGAL/LGBTQ/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A second federal judge blocked the Trump administration’s proposed ban on transgender troops Tuesday [11-21-17], saying President Trump’s announcement of the ban in a series of tweets this summer was ‘capricious, arbitrary, and unqualified.’ In a preliminary injunction, Judge Marvin J. Garbis of the Federal District Court for Maryland halted a policy […]
11/21/2017
CRIME/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/POLICE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Six years ago, a police officer in this city in eastern Washington was convicted of beating a disabled man to death and trying to cover it up. After other alarming episodes involving Spokane officers came to light, the city asked federal officials to suggest changes to the police department as part […]
11/21/2017
GOP/LEGAL/POLITICAL FIGURES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Trump broke with leading Republicans on Tuesday [11-21-17] and voiced support for Roy S. Moore, the Republican Senate candidate in Alabama who has been accused of sexual misconduct with teenagers and has seen his campaign’s prospects imperiled. In his first extensive remarks on the accusations that date back decades, the […]
11/21/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/PALESTINE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Palestinian leadership has frozen communications with the Trump administration following the White House’s threat to close the office of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in Washington. Ashraf Khatib, a spokesman for the PLO Negotiations Affairs Department, confirmed the move to CNN on Tuesday [11-21-17]. The decision comes after the Trump […]
11/21/2017
NAFTA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The fifth round of talks among the United States, Mexico and Canada over the North American Free Trade Agreement drew to a close on Tuesday with negotiators still at odds. Over a week of meetings in Mexico City, officials hammered out more technical details of the trade agreement, but barely broached […]
11/21/2017
HOLIDAY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Today, we continued a wonderful American Tradition at the White House. Drumstick and Wishbone will live out their days in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains at Gobbler’s Rest… https://t.co/fsS8B8f5UR” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 21, 2017 05:49pm […]
11/21/2017
HOLIDAY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY/MELANIA: “President Donald J. Trump and @FLOTUS Melania Participate in the Pardoning of the National Thanksgiving Turkey at the White House. https://t.co/Zauqz4jfWv” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 21, 2017 01:25pm […]
11/21/2017
TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch prides himself on a history of bipartisan legislating, but in the push for a U.S. tax overhaul, it has been anything but that. In a heated exchange last week, Mr. Hatch, a Utah Republican, shouted at Sen. Sherrod Brown after the Ohio Democrat argued the plan was aimed […]
11/21/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “President Donald Trump returns to his private Palm Beach club Tuesday [11-21-17] for the first time since April, and several of his dues-paying members said they plan on making a beeline there in hopes of catching a glimpse of the president or even chatting him up over the holiday weekend, including […]
11/21/2017
NOMINATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration is leaning toward naming Thomas Brunell, a Texas professor with no government experience, to the top operational job at the U.S. Census Bureau, according to two people who have been briefed on the bureau’s plans. Brunell, a political science professor, has testified more than half a dozen times on […]
11/21/2017
IMMIGRATION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/SUPREME COURT/TRAVEL BAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court on Monday [11-20-17] to fully reinstate its travel restrictions on residents of six Muslim-majority countries, the latest move in a legal battle over entry to the U.S. that has raged since the Trump administration’s first days… U.S. Solicitor General Noel Francisco, the […]
11/20/2017
DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration is ending a humanitarian program that has allowed some 59,000 Haitians to live and work in the United States since an earthquake ravaged their country in 2010, Homeland Security officials said on Monday. Haitians with what is known as Temporary Protected Status will be expected to leave the United […]
11/20/2017
NATIONAL SECURITY/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump on Monday [11-20-17] officially designated North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism, returning the rogue nation to a list from which it had been removed during the George W. Bush administration. North Korea had been removed from the list under the George W. Bush administration in an […]
11/20/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VOTER FRAUD: “A commission that President Donald Trump tasked with investigating his own unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud won’t meet again this year, according to court records, fueling more questions about the panel’s future and its viability. In an order Monday [11-20-17], U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said a Justice Department attorney […]
11/20/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “President Trump’s charitable foundation increased its fund-raising and giving during his campaign last year, even as it became the subject of criticism that prompted a decision to dissolve it, according to paperwork submitted this month to the I.R.S. The Donald J. Trump Foundation raised $2.9 million in 2016 — almost as […]
11/19/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Big-game trophy decision will be announced next week but will be very hard pressed to change my mind that this horror show in any way helps conservation of Elephants or any other animal.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 19, 2017 06:57pm […]
11/20/2017
TREASURY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration on Monday [11-20-17] imposed sanctions on what the Treasury Department describes as a ‘large-scale’ Iranian counterfeiting ring that it says is run by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and potentially worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The action against the network affiliated with the IRGC, an elite military wing […]
11/20/2017
GOP/NOMINATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Republican head of the Senate Judiciary Committee has curtailed one of the last legislative limits on a president’s power to shape the federal courts, giving Donald Trump more freedom than any U.S. president in modern times to install his judges of choice, legal experts said. Last week, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., […]
11/20/2017
KEYSTONE/PIPELINES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Nebraska officials on Monday [11-20-17] are set to decide whether to green-light the Keystone XL pipeline, the last major regulatory approval standing in the way of the long-delayed project. TransCanada Corp. first proposed Keystone XL, which would extend the company’s existing Keystone pipeline to carry oil 1,700 miles from Alberta to Steele […]
11/20/2017
JOBS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Under President Trump unemployment rate will drop below 4%. Analysts predict economic boom for 2018! @foxandfriends and @Varneyco” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 20, 2017 06:55am […]
11/19/2017
CHINA/CRIME/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump on Sunday [11-19-17] said he should have left three college basketball players in a Chinese jail, after the father of one of the players minimized the U.S. president’s role in securing their release… Later on Sunday, Mr. Trump tweeted that he ‘should have gotten his son out during my next […]
11/19/2017
CHINA/CRIME/SPORTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Shoplifting is a very big deal in China, as it should be (5-10 years in jail), but not to father LaVar. Should have gotten his son out during my next trip to China instead. China told them why they were released. Very ungrateful!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 19, 2017 06:36pm […]
11/19/2017
GOP/POLITICAL FIGURES/TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Sen. Jeff Flake(y), who is unelectable in the Great State of Arizona (quit race, anemic polls) was caught (purposely) on ‘mike’ saying bad things about your favorite President. He’ll be a NO on tax cuts because his political career anyway is ‘toast.’ “ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 19, 2017 06:22pm […]
11/19/2017
CHINA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A month before President Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing, Chinese officials presented an offer they thought Washington couldn’t refuse. China proposed that during the trip, Mr. Trump and his counterpart, Xi Jinping, unveil a plan to widen foreign firms’ access to China’s vast financial industry, according to people with knowledge of […]
11/19/2017
IMMIGRATION/JOBS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration is adding hurdles and increasing scrutiny in the employment-visa application process, making it harder for businesses to hire foreign workers, and companies and immigration attorneys are bracing for more changes soon. President Donald Trump has long campaigned against illegal immigration, but he also backs reductions to legal immigration, arguing […]
11/18/2017
CHINA/CRIME/SPORTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Now that the three basketball players are out of China and saved from years in jail, LaVar Ball, the father of LiAngelo, is unaccepting of what I did for his son and that shoplifting is no big deal. I should have left them in jail!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 19, 2017 12:42pm […]
11/18/2017
MILITARY/NATIONAL SECURITY/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The top U.S. nuclear commander said on Saturday [11-19-17] that he would resist President Donald Trump if he ordered an ‘illegal’ launch of nuclear weapons. Air Force General John Hyten, commander of the U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM), told an audience at the Halifax International Security Forum in Nova Scotia, Canada that […]
11/17/2017
INTERIOR/RYAN ZINKE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump on Friday [11-17-17] reversed the government’s decision to start allowing hunters to import trophies of elephants that were killed in two African countries, pending a further review. His evening Twitter message reversed a decision by his own administration over Zimbabwe that was announced this week and promoted as recently […]
11/17/2017
RYAN ZINKE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Put big game trophy decision on hold until such time as I review all conservation facts. Under study for years. Will update soon with Secretary Zinke. Thank you!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 17, 2017 07:47pm […]
11/17/2017
NOMINATIONS/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In a move certain to please conservatives, President Donald Trump on Friday [11-17-17] added five names to his list of candidates for a prospective U.S. Supreme Court vacancy as he presses ahead with a campaign to move the federal judiciary to the right. Two of them are appellate judges who were […]
11/17/2017
DEMS/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump felt compelled to tweet out his thoughts on allegations of sexual misconduct against Sen. Al Franken because they represented a ‘brand new news story,’ counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway said Friday, explaining away the difference between the president’s Franken tweets and his relatively couched comments on allegations against […]
11/16/2017
POLITICAL FIGURES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Trump lashed out at Senator Al Franken, Democrat of Minnesota, in two suggestive Twitter posts late Thursday [11-16-17] night after the senator was accused by a Los Angeles radio newscaster of kissing and groping her more than a decade ago. Leeann Tweeden, the newscaster, made the allegations earlier Thursday about […]
11/16/2017
STATE/SUDAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A month after the Trump administration formally lifted decades-old sanctions against Sudan, a top official said on Thursday [11-16-17] that the United States would consider removing Sudan from its list of state sponsors of terrorism, a designation that has been in place since 1993. The step, which is contingent on further cooperation […]
11/16/2017
MILITARY/NATIONAL SECURITY/NUCLEAR/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The U.S. is laying the groundwork to build a type of missile banned by a Cold War-era pact unless Russia abandons its own pursuit of the weapons, U.S. officials said. The U.S. military’s preliminary research and development, previously undisclosed, is aimed at potentially reviving an arsenal of prohibited ground-based, intermediate-range missiles […]
11/16/2017
BUDGET/CONSUMER PROTECTION/NOMINATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “White House budget director Mick Mulvaney is expected to be tapped by the White House to serve as acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau when the agency’s current head, Richard Cordray, resigns from his post later in November, according to a person familiar with the matter. The move could […]
11/16/2017
NOMINATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Senator John McCain warned President Donald Trump on Thursday [11-16-17] against nominating any more defense industry insiders to top Pentagon posts, as his committee questioned an executive from Lockheed Martin Corp about potential conflicts of interest. Concern over the close relationship between the Pentagon and arms manufacturers has existed for decades but […]
11/16/2017
SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Need all on the UN Security Council to vote to renew the Joint Investigative Mechanism for Syria to ensure that Assad Regime does not commit mass murder with chemical weapons ever again.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 16, 2017 01:13pm […]
11/16/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Conservation groups decried U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision this week to allow trophy hunters who kill elephants in two African countries to bring home the endangered animals’ tusks or other body parts as trophies. The move triggered protests from conservation groups and a frenzy on social media from opponents who posted pictures […]
11/16/2017
CHINA/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “China is sending an Envoy and Delegation to North Korea – A big move, we’ll see what happens!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 16, 2017 07:43am […]
11/16/2017
NAFTA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As officials for the U.S., Canada and Mexico convene in Mexico City this week for talks to remake the North American Free Trade Agreement, the countries’ top trade officials will stay home, leaving their working-level teams to dig into the most difficult issues. Their absence captures the difficult state of the […]
11/15/2017
DEMS/TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Why are Democrats fighting massive tax cuts for the middle class and business (jobs)? The reason: Obstruction and Delay!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 15, 2017 09:11pm […]
11/15/2017
GOP/HILLARY CLINTON/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Fox News anchor Shepard Smith discredited an unsubstantiated theory that his network and other conservative media outlets and Republican politicians have aggressively promoted as Hillary Clinton’s Uranium One ‘scandal.’ During Tuesday [11-14-17] night’s broadcast, Smith succinctly debunked Republicans’ claims that the Obama administration and the Clinton-led State Department approved a […]
11/15/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee rejected Republican efforts to discredit a raw-intelligence document compiled on Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign, saying that its allegations that Russia sought to help elect Mr. Trump ‘turned out to be true.’ In a Wall Street Journal interview Wednesday [11-15-17], Rep. Adam […]
11/15/2017
ENERGY/LOBBYING/NUCLEAR ENERGY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump plans to nominate Melissa Burnison, a nuclear energy industry lobbyist, to serve as assistant secretary in charge of congressional and intergovernmental affairs at the U.S. Energy Department, the White House said on Wednesday. Burnison is currently director of federal programs for the Nuclear Energy Institute, ‘where she plans, […]
11/15/2017
BORDER/MEXICO/PROTESTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Cards Against Humanity, an irreverent card game company known for its attention-seeking pranks, says it bought land on the U.S.-Mexico border to block President Trump from building his wall. The Chicago company said on its website that this was part of a holiday promotion, for which customers could contribute to the wall-blocking […]
11/15/2017
FAKE NEWS/FOREIGN POLICY/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It is actually hard to believe how naive (or dumb) the Failing @nytimes is when it comes to foreign policy…weak and ineffective!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 15, 2017 11:52am […]
11/15/2017
CHINA/FOREIGN POLICY/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The failing @nytimes hates the fact that I have developed a great relationship with World leaders like Xi Jinping, President of China… They should realize that these relationships are a good thing, not a bad thing. The U.S. is being respected again. Watch Trade!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 15, 2017 […]
11/15/2017
CRIME/SPORTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Do you think the three UCLA Basketball Players will say thank you President Trump? They were headed for 10 years in jail!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 15, 2017 10:11am […]