BORDER/GOVERNMENT/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WALL: “Conservatives had a quick message for President Donald Trump after he announced a deal to end the government shutdown without funds for his border wall: You caved!…’Nancy Pelosi is alpha,’ tweeted conservative film maker Mike Cernovich. And right wing commentator Michael Malice opined: ‘Apparently a wall isn’t as good as […]
Category: A- Trump People
1/25/2019
DEMS/ELECTION/FLORIDA/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The nation’s biggest swing state looks even more like Trump Country heading into 2020. Newly released Florida voter data suggest President Donald Trump will begin his reelection campaign as the favorite in a state that offers a windfall of 29 electoral votes. The driving force: white voters who broke Republican and […]
1/24/2019
JOBS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “’This is everything FDR dreamed about, the New Deal to put America back to work. Think of LBJ, he gave people food stamps & welfare. Donald Trump’s giving them a job. He’s got a lot of good things to talk about. News stories do not accurately cover him, should correct.’ @DougWead” -Donald Trump, […]
1/24/2019
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Republican Party officials are delivering an unmistakable message as the 2020 campaign season begins: The GOP is the party of Trump. The Republican National Committee is poised to express its ‘undivided support for President Donald J. Trump and his effective Presidency’ as the committee’s members conclude their annual winter meeting here […]
1/24/2019
GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WILBER ROSS: “One White House aide mused that the shutdown was like a paid vacation for some furloughed workers. President Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law said employees’ ‘little bit of pain’ was worth it for the good of the country. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross questioned why cash-poor workers were using food banks instead of […]
1/24/2019
GUNS/MICHAEL COHEN/POLICE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump, his eldest son, and his former lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, were among a roster of rich and powerful people who received gun licenses from the New York Police Department in return for special favors, a former lieutenant has claimed in court papers. The former lieutenant, Paul Dean, said the men […]
1/24/2019
GOP/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “For the first two years of his presidency, it seemed like Donald Trump could, as he famously put it during his campaign, shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose his voters. Republican majorities in the House and the Senate negotiated his agenda on Capitol Hill. The majority leader, Mitch McConnell, […]
1/23/2019
MIKE POMPEO/TRUMP PEOPLE/VENEZUELA: “President Donald Trump on Wednesday [1-23-19] formally recognized Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó as the legitimate ‘interim president’ of the strife-ridden country, while U.S. officials urged the regime led by Nicolas Maduro to peacefully give up power. A senior Trump administration official warned that ‘all options are on the table’ when it […]
1/23/2019
GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Republican Party’s governing body is set to offer its ‘undivided support’ for Donald Trump and his ‘effective presidency,’ lending its backing to the president and his re-election campaign. The Republican National Committee’s resolutions committee unanimously approved the measure Wednesday [1-23-19] at a winter meeting in New Mexico, clearing the way […]
1/22/2019
BORDER/GOVERNMENT/MITCH MCCONNELL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “At sunrise, there it was: a red-tailed hawk, its gyre widening over the United States Capitol building in the Creamsicle-colored light, like the world’s least subtle literary reference. It was still there by midafternoon, drifting on the thermals over the mostly depopulated National Mall, wheeling occasionally past the window in […]
1/22/2019
RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump woke up thinking about Covington Catholic. In a tweet Tuesday [1-22-19] morning, Trump again expressed support for the all-boys Catholic school in Kentucky after outrage over a viral video from the weekend of a standoff with a Native American activist exploded. More videos emerged Sunday [1-20-19], a day […]
1/22/2019
CONGRESS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Shahira Knight, the president’s legislative affairs director and a central figure in the White House’s shutdown negotiations with Congress, is planning to leave the White House in the coming months, according to four sources familiar with her plans. Knight’s talk of exiting a job she took less than seven months ago […]
1/22/2019
MEDIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The reason Sarah Sanders does not go to the ‘podium’ much anymore is that the press covers her so rudely & inaccurately, in particular certain members of the press. I told her not to bother, the word gets out anyway! Most will never cover us fairly & hence, the term, Fake News!” -Donald […]
1/22/2019
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump on Tuesday [1-22-19] said he told White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders ‘not to bother’ with press briefings anymore, and tried to blame the media for the increasingly rare events…Under the Trump administration, formal press briefings have become a rare occurrence, and are often marked with contentious […]
1/20/2019
RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “After Russian forces seized three Ukrainian ships in November and threatened to turn the Sea of Azov into a Russian lake, Trump administration officials outlined possible responses like imposing additional sanctions, sending ships to make port calls or deploying monitors. Two months later, President Trump has not taken significant action despite […]
1/20/2019
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Thanks James! https://t.co/iTdCEEiiRv” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 20, 2019 7:48 pm […]
1/20/2019
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “RT @GOPChairwoman: So many accomplishments from @realDonaldTrump and his administration over the past two years! https://t.co/GL1QplJhoI“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 20, 2019 7:40 pm […]
1/20/2019
BUDGET/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “RT @BudgetGOP: TODAY – @SenatorEnzi Welcomed new @BudgetGOP members @SenatorBraun, @SenRickScott and @SenKevinCramer https://t.co/yL31HsHXm…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 20, 2019 7:39 pm […]
1/20/2019
DEMS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “RT @JimInhofe: It is true and I’m glad to stand with you on this @realDonaldTrump. The Democrats need to come to the table so we can secure…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 20, 2019 7:33 pm […]
1/20/2019
DEMS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “RT @RepMarkMeadows: This is the latest and most significant step yet of POTUS showing his willingness to negotiate and compromise with Demo…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 20, 2019 6:42 pm […]
1/20/2019
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “RT @SenatorWicker: I support President @realDonaldTrump’s plan. I will absolutely vote for this proposal when @senatemajldr brings up the b…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 20, 2019 3:31 pm […]
1/20/2019
TRUMP PEOPLE: “RT @LindseyGrahamSC: A fantastic proposal Mr. President! Let’s get it done! https://t.co/m8bzYGRLTw“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 20, 2019 3:31 pm […]
1/20/2019
DEMS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “RT @marklevinshow: I strongly support President Trump’s immigration proposal today. Pelosi & Schumer rejected it even before the president…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 20, 2019 3:22 pm […]
1/20/2019
TRUMP PEOPLE: “RT @GOPChairwoman: Spot on. https://t.co/DnD5JlkdFb“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 20, 2019 3:20 pm […]
1/20/2019
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “When Mark Meadows didn’t get President Donald Trump’s chief of staff gig, he wasn’t losing out on much. Just 10 days later, the powerful conservative lawmaker managed to engineer what has become the longest-running government shutdown ever — persuading Trump to pull the trigger right as the partial closure was on […]
1/19/2019
IMMIGRATION/STEVE KING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WALL: “Immigration hard-liners on Saturday [1-19-19] afternoon blasted President Donald Trump’s proposed deal to end the government shutdown, attacking his offer of temporary protection for some undocumented immigrants in exchange for border wall funding. Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) tweeted: ‘A Big Beautiful Concrete Border Wall will be a monument to the […]
1/18/2019
BORDER/CHUCK SCHUMER/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WALL: “President Donald Trump’s campaign is raising money to send bricks to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer over the ongoing dispute to fund a wall along the southern border that led to the partial government shutdown…The border wall is at the heart of what led […]
1/17/2019
JOBS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Thank you to Amy Kremer, Women for Trump Co-Founder, for doing such a great interview with Martha MacCallum…and by the way, women have the lowest unemployment numbers in many decades – at the highest pay ever. Proud of that!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 17, 2019 8:36 pm […]
1/17/2019
2016 ELECTION/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “In a stunning interview on CNN Wednesday [1-16-19] evening, President Donald Trump’s attorney, Rudy Giuliani, said there may have been ‘collusion’ between members of the Trump campaign and Russia – but the president wasn’t involved. ‘I never said there was no collusion between the campaign. Or between people in […]
1/17/2019
GARY COHN/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WALL: “Gary Cohn, the former Goldman Sachs executive and ex-top economic adviser to President Donald Trump, denounced the partial government shutdown as ‘completely wrong’ in an interview published by the Boston Globe on Thursday [1-17-19]. The shutdown, which entered its 27th day Thursday and is the longest in history, shows no […]
1/17/2019
BORDER/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WALL: “Along the 2,000-mile border with Mexico, which sprawls across four states and nine House districts, a single seat is held by a Republican: Representative Will Hurd of Texas. And Mr. Hurd, a former undercover C.I.A. officer who barely won re-election in Texas’ 23rd District, the largest of the nine, […]
1/17/2019
PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump’s personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani backtracked on Thursday [1-17-19] from a surprising assertion he had made a night earlier that left open the possibility that Trump campaign aides might have coordinated with Russia in its election interference in 2016…Mr. Giuliani was seeking to clarify an interview […]
1/17/2019
CENSUS/CITIZENSHIP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “On Tuesday [1-15-19], Judge Jesse Furman ruled against the Trump administration and secretary of commerce Wilbur Ross’s decision to add a question about citizenship to the 2020 US census questionnaire. (In the interests of transparency, Judge Furman and I were colleagues in the US Attorney’s Office in Manhattan during his time […]
1/16/2019
FBI/FOREIGN POLICY/GOP/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Sen. James Risch, the new chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, says he has disagreed with President Donald Trump on ‘many, many occasions.’ But in an exclusive interview with USA TODAY, Risch defended the president’s controversial approach to North Korea and Syria. He downplayed reports that Trump wants to withdraw […]
1/16/2019
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Rudy Giuliani said Wednesday [1-16-19] that he never denied President Donald Trump’s campaign colluded with the Russian government during the 2016 campaign, only that the President himself was not involved in collusion. In an interview with CNN’s Chris Cuomo on ‘Cuomo Prime Time,’ Giuliani, a former New York mayor […]
1/16/2019
CHRIS CHRISTIE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WHITE HOUSE STAFF: “Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie sees the Trump White House as a rogues’ gallery of flawed people sidetracking the work of the U.S. president, according to excerpts of his forthcoming memoir posted on the news site Axios on Wednesday [1-16-19]. President Donald Trump employs a ‘revolving door […]
1/16/2019
GOP/RACISM/STEVE KING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “After years of turning a blind eye to Representative Steve King’s inflammatory statements and racist behavior, Republicans decided this week they had enough after Mr. King asked The New York Times when phrases like white supremacy and white nationalism had become offensive. But even as they piled on their condemnation, […]
1/15/2019
PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman, was working through mystery intermediaries in January 2017 to get people appointed in President Donald Trump’s new administration, according to a court filing released Tuesday [1-15-19]. Manafort described the hiring effort to Rick Gates, his longtime deputy, who in turn revealed the […]
1/15/2019
JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/NOMINATIONS/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The president’s pick to replace Jeff Sessions at the helm of the Justice Department has known and admired the president’s bête noire, Robert Mueller, for 30 years — and somehow President Donald Trump seems fine with that. The relationship, which Barr described in public Tuesday [1-15-19] during his […]
1/15/2019
ELIZABETH WARREN/MITCH MCCONNELL/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Mitch McConnell harshly condemned Rep. Steve King this week for his racist comments. But he has no plans to extend that condemnation to any of President Donald Trump’s controversial remarks.The Senate majority leader said Monday that King ‘should find another line of work’ after the Republican lawmaker from Iowa […]
1/15/2019
BORDER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “RT @TomFitton: For the first time in a generation, we have a president who is beginning to tell the truth about the crisis on the border. @…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 15, 2019 8:17 am […]
1/15/2019
RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “RT @TomFitton: We must stand with the rule of law against the coup targeting @RealDonaldTrump. https://t.co/wmox2XM7x8 https://t.co/8NY79Hv…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 15, 2019 8:17 am […]
1/15/2019
ECONOMY/MIKE POMPEO/STEVE MNUCHIN/SUMMIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will lead the American delegation to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, next week, filling in for President Donald Trump, two senior administration officials said. Trump, who attended last year’s Davos event, had planned to go again […]
1/15/2019
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Rick Gates, a former senior campaign aide to President Donald Trump, will have to wait at least another two months for his sentencing date in the Russia investigation, prosecutors said Tuesday [1-15-19]. In a new court filing, special counsel Robert Mueller’s team said they’re not ready for Gates’ sentencing […]
1/14/2019
CRIME/IMMIGRATION/MEDIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “RT @DonaldJTrumpJr: Silence of the Moms: Media Refuse to Discuss Angel Families https://t.co/AoVIquJge2 via @BreitbartNews” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 14, 2019 3:37 pm […]
1/14/2019
DEMS/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump said on Monday [1-14-19] that he has rejected a proposal by Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina to temporarily reopen the government in an effort to jump-start talks with Democratic lawmakers on funding a border wall. ‘I did reject it,’ Mr. Trump said of the proposal, speaking to reporters […]
1/11/2019
BORDER/NATURAL DISASTER/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Republican Sen. Rick Scott was just sworn into office on Tuesday -1-8-19], but by Thursday [1-10-19] he was on the phone with President Donald Trump lobbying him not to use Florida disaster money for a border wall. A concerned Scott, who delayed his start in Washington to serve the final […]
1/10/2019
MIDDLE EAST/MIKE POMPEO/OBAMA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered a major speech outlining the Trump administration’s Middle East policy on Thursday [1-10-19] that took aim at two of the Trump administration’s main foes: President Barack Obama and the Iranian regime. In lengthy remarks at the American University in Cairo, the US’ top diplomat invoked […]
1/10/2019
BORDER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WALL: “South Carolina GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham issued a statement Thursday [1-10-19] calling for President Donald Trump to invoke national emergency powers to fund his border wall…The statement from the key Trump ally came shortly after Graham said efforts to forge a deal with congressional Democrats had fallen flat. GOP senators gathered […]
1/10/2019
GOP/IMMIGRATION/RACISM/TRUMP PEOPLE/WALL: “Years before President Trump forced a government shutdown over a border wall, triggering a momentous test of wills in Washington, Representative Steve King of Iowa took to the House floor to show off a model of a 12-foot border wall he had designed. And long before Mr. Trump demonized immigrants — accusing Mexico […]
1/9/2019
TRUMP PEOPLE: “RT @charliekirk11: Governor Ron DeSantis suspends the horrible Sheriff Scott Israel who is largely responsible for the errors leading up to…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 9, 2019 10:59 pm […]
1/9/2019
NATIONAL SECURITY/NATO/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump and senior defense officials met to discuss the planned Syria troop withdrawal Wednesday [1-9-19], as his national security team continued to send conflicting signals about the planned pullback that has roiled relations with NATO-ally Turkey. Even as administration officials continue to insist the US will leave Syria, […]
1/9/2019
EPA/ETHICS/NOMINATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump has formally nominated Andrew Wheeler to be EPA administrator, cementing the no-nonsense former attorney as his pick to carry out his deregulatory agenda, the White House announced today. The nomination was expected after Trump announced his intention in November. Democrats are likely to attack Wheeler for his aggressive […]
1/9/2019
ATTORNEY GENERAL/CHUCK SCHUMER/NOMINATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Wednesday [1-9-19] called on the president to withdraw William Barr’s nomination for attorney general, saying the nominee’s previous criticism of Robert Mueller’s probe disqualifies him to lead the Justice Department. In remarks on the Senate floor, Schumer (D-N.Y.) cited a memo Barr wrote […]
1/9/2019
CALIFORNIA/GOP/NATURAL DISASTERS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Latest on Trump’s comments on California wildfires (all times local): 1:20 p.m. Republican U.S. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy is defending President Donald Trump’s comments that California isn’t doing a good enough job managing its forests. McCarthy, of California, says he agrees with Trump that better forest management could […]
1/9/2019
BORDER/DEMS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WALL: “At the beginning of the government shutdown, Bill Shine was about as far away from the capital as President Trump’s most senior communications official could get. While the president was complaining about sitting alone in the White House trying to force Democrats to accept a wall on the Mexican border, Mr. […]
1/9/2019
BORDER/DEMS/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WALL: “President Donald Trump walked out of discussions to end a partial government shutdown, now in its third week, calling the talks with congressional Democrats “a total waste of time’…Trump was in a chummy mood when he entered the Situation Room, according to a source familiar with how things unfolded. The President […]
1/8/2019
SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/TURKEY: “US National Security Advisor John Bolton made ‘a serious mistake’ telling reporters that the United States would only pull out of Syria if Turkey pledged not to attack its Kurdish allies there, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Tuesday…The extraordinary public rebuke comes as the US has been sending starkly divergent […]
1/8/2019
SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/TURKEY: “National security adviser John Bolton left here in frustration Tuesday [1-8-19], with the U.S. and Turkey locked in a political standoff that threatens President Donald Trump’s plans for a troop withdrawal from Syria. Bolton left Turkey without seeing Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who then publicly called earlier comments the top […]
1/8/2019
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WALL: “President Donald Trump and his allies have launched a full-court press to convince Americans, and skeptical lawmakers, that there is a crisis on the Southern border, and the only way to fix it is to approve billions of dollars for Trump’s signature border wall. But senior Trump administration officials, including Vice […]
1/3/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Michael Pillsbury interviewed by @cvpayne: ‘They have the motive of making the President look bad – instead of President Trump being portrayed as a HERO. The first President to take China on, it’s 20 years overdue….” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 3, 2019 8:19 pm […]
1/2/2019
GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “After more than six years of less-than-heartfelt endorsements, a bitter parting of ways and a momentary rapprochement, the relationship between Mitt Romney and President Trump returned Wednesday [1-2-19] to where it began: awkward, transactional and lingering uneasily between friend and foe. One day after publishing a biting critique in The Washington […]
1/2/2019
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Donald Trump declared himself ‘the most popular president in the history of the Republican Party’ on Wednesday [1-2-19]. Yet his allies fear a primary challenge from a high-profile Republican could doom his re-election. The concern was outlined in a private email shared among Republican National Committee members hours after the GOP’s […]
1/2/2019
AFGHANISTAN/CABINET/DEFENSE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Patrick Shanahan was thrust into the spotlight during his debut as acting U.S. defense secretary on Wednesday [1-2-19], sitting next to President Donald Trump as he publicly disparaged Shanahan’s predecessor, lampooned the war in Afghanistan and called Syria a land of ‘sand’ and ‘death.’ The former deputy defense secretary officially took […]
1/1/2019
MILITARY/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “’General’ McChrystal got fired like a dog by Obama. Last assignment a total bust. Known for big, dumb mouth. Hillary lover! https://t.co/RzOkeHl3KV” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 1, 2019 10:32 am […]
12/27/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Brad Blakeman: ‘The American people understand that we have been played by foreign actors who would rather have us fight their battles for them. The President says look, this is your neighborhood, you’ve got to stand up to protect yourselves. Don’t always look to America.’” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 27, 2018 […]
12/27/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Brad Blakeman: ‘The American people understand that we have been played by foreign actors who would rather have us fight their battles for them. The Pesident says look, this is your neighborhood, you’ve got to stand up to protect yourselves. Don’t always look to America.’” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 27, 2018 […]
12/23/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “’The President has been remarkable. I do not doubt that he will thrive in this new environment, and he will be a constant reminder of what populism is.’ Thank you to Tammy Bruce and Steve Hilton. Presidential Harassment has been with me from the beginning!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 23, 2018 […]
12/23/2018
FOREIGN POLICY/IRAQ/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “’It should not be the job of America to replace regimes around the world. This is what President Trump recognized in Iraq, that it was the biggest foreign policy disaster of the last several decades, and he’s right…The generals still don’t get the mistake.’ @RandPaul” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 23, […]
12/23/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WAR: “Thanks @RandPaul ‘I am very proud of the President. This is exactly what he promised, and I think the people agree with him. We’ve been at war too long and in too many places…spent several trillion dollars on these wars everywhere. He’s different…that’s why he got elected.’” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December […]
12/23/2018
SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Senator Bob Corker just stated that, ‘I’m so priveledged to serve in the Senate for twelve years, and that’s what I told the people of our state that’s what I’d do, serve for two terms.’ But that is Not True – wanted to run but poll numbers TANKED when I wouldn’t […]
12/23/2018
DEFENSE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “I am pleased to announce that our very talented Deputy Secretary of Defense, Patrick Shanahan, will assume the title of Acting Secretary of Defense starting January 1, 2019. Patrick has a long list of accomplishments while serving as Deputy, & previously Boeing. He will be great!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 23, […]
12/21/2018
GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump faces a dangerous erosion of support among rank-and-file Republicans thanks to a series of jarring recent moves that have alienated even some close GOP allies. From his defense of Saudi Arabia’s crown prince over the murder of a dissident journalist to his abrupt decision to pull American troops […]
12/21/2018
CONGRESS/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “With Washington just hours away from a partial government shutdown, lawmakers and President Donald Trump still have not yet reached a deal to stave off a shutdown. An effort to broker an agreement that would prevent a shuttering of key federal agencies appears to be underway, however. Republican Tennessee Republican Sen. […]
12/21/2018
ISIS/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “General Anthony Tata, author, ‘Dark Winter.’ I think the President is making the exact right move in Syria. All the geniuses who are protesting the withdrawal of troops from Syria are the same geniuses who cooked the books on ISIS intelligence and gave rise to ISIS.’” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 21, […]
12/21/2018
FOREIGN POLICY/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s relationship with the Republican Party, always a marriage of convenience, is showing signs of serious strain. The president threatened his bond with virtually every GOP constituency this past week. His move to withdraw troops from Syria led to the resignation of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and left […]
12/21/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Whenever President Trump is in a tight spot, things get tricky for Fox News. The cable network’s most popular hosts have largely supported Mr. Trump and his agenda. The network’s highest-rated host, Sean Hannity, took the stage with him at a rally in Missouri last month. Mr. Trump even hired the […]
12/22/2018
MEDIA/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Brett McGurk, who I do not know, was appointed by President Obama in 2015. Was supposed to leave in February but he just resigned prior to leaving. Grandstander? The Fake News is making such a big deal about this nothing event!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 22, 2018 8:48 pm […]
12/20/2018
CONGRESS/DEMS/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WALL: “President Donald Trump reversed his position on a possible government shutdown Thursday [12-20-18] amid rising anger from his conservative base on several fronts. As Trump obsessively monitored criticism from the right casting him as an inept negotiator being rolled by Congressional Democrats, he came to second-guess his earlier decision to sign […]
12/20/2018
MILITARY/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump on Thursday ’12-20-18] responded to Sen. Lindsey Graham’s fiery rebuke of the president’s decision to pull troops out of Syria, accusing the South Carolina senator of being against saving the lives of soldiers serving overseas. The war of words between the Trump and the Republican senator happened after […]
12/20/2018
SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump slapped back at one of his biggest supporters-turned-gadfly on Thursday [12-20-18], accusing Sen. Lindsey Graham of opposing fewer military casualties by urging Trump to reconsider pulling U.S. forces out of Syria. Since word got out that Trump had made the sudden decision to begin withdrawing troops from the […]
12/20/2018
ISIS/MIDDLE EAST/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “So hard to believe that Lindsey Graham would be against saving soldier lives & billions of $$$. Why are we fighting for our enemy, Syria, by staying & killing ISIS for them, Russia, Iran & other locals? Time to focus on our Country & bring our youth back home where […]
12/20/2018
NATIONAL SECURITY/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “James Jeffrey, President Donald Trump‘s special representative for Syria engagement, probably should have seen it coming. In August 2016, the well-respected veteran diplomat signed an open letter denouncing then-presidential candidate Trump as a danger to America. ‘In our experience,’ Jeffrey and dozens of fellow ‘Never Trumpers’ wrote, ‘a president must […]
12/20/2018
DHS/JARED KUSHNER/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A federal judge is questioning the White House’s role in reviewing government documents related to a freedom-of-information lawsuit for records concerning President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner. The nonprofit watchdog organization Democracy Forward is suing agencies including US Citizenship and Immigration Services and the Department of Homeland Security […]
12/20/2018
ISIS/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “’I’m proud of the President today to hear that he is declaring victory in Syria.’ Senator Rand Paul. ‘I couldn’t agree more with the presidents decision. By definition, this is the opposite of an Obama decision. Senator Mike Lee” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 20, 2018 6:25 am […]
12/19/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL FLYNN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “It’s easy to understand why President Donald Trump is tweeting so frantically, slapping away at the shadows that encircle him ever more closely. The events of Tuesday [12-18-18] alone add even more tension to the President and the country’s ongoing drama. The day started with a flurry of presidential tweets, […]
12/19/2018
RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “RT @GovMikeHuckabee: It took a British court to reveal it, but more shocking evidence of the REAL ‘Russian collusion’ and it wasn’t about @…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 19, 2018 10:30 pm […]
12/18/2018
CRIME/LEGISLATION/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Senate on Tuesday [12-18-18] night overwhelmingly passed the biggest overhaul to the criminal justice system in decades, giving a win to President Donald Trump and a bipartisan group of advocates and lawmakers. Tuesday’s vote caps more than a year of negotiations to create more rehabilitation programs and ease mandatory minimum […]
12/18/2018
BRETT KAVANAUGH/COURTS/LEGAL/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A US judicial council on Tuesday [12-18-18] dismissed 83 complaints that had been lodged against new Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, arising largely from statements he made during his contentious September confirmation hearings. In a 10-page order, the judicial council of a Denver-based US appeals court said the complaints — the first […]
12/18/2018
ECONOMY/FOREIGN DIGNITARIES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump will travel to Davos, Switzerland, next month for a second straight appearance at the World Economic Forum – the annual gathering of financial, political and entertainment elites who are often in opposition to Trump policies…From the singer Bono to former presidents like Bill Clinton, Davos has tended […]
12/18/2018
ECONOMY/FOREIGN DIGNITARIES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump will be attending the World Economic Forum next month in Davos, Switzerland. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters on Tuesday that Trump will be at the event, which will take place next month. The annual Davos event courts high-profile businesspeople and political figures, plus […]
12/18/2018
DEMS/HILLARY CLINTON/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “….WILL NEVER BE PROVEN AND ARE LIKELY FALSE.’ Thank you to Michael Isikoff, Yahoo, for honesty. What this means is that the FISA WARRANTS and the whole Russian Witch Hunt is a Fraud and a Hoax which should be ended immediately. Also, it was paid for by Crooked Hillary […]
12/17/2018
MIKE PENCE/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump will order in the coming days the establishment of a new military space command, a move that comes as Vice President Mike Pence plans two high-profile visits related to the US space program, three US officials tell CNN. Pence will visit Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral […]
12/17/2018
BETSY DEVOS/EDUCATION/GUNS/MINORITIES/OBAMA ADMIN/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Trump administration is planning to roll back Obama-era policies aimed at ensuring that minority children are not unfairly disciplined, arguing that the efforts have eased up on punishment and contributed to rising violence in the nation’s schools, according to documents obtained by The New York Times. The decision culminates a […]
12/16/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “’It looks here as though General Flynn’s defenses are incidental to something larger which is for the prosecution to figure out if it can find a path to Donald Trump without quite knowing what that crime might be. It stops looking like prosecution and more looking like……” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December […]
12/16/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Required television watching is last weeks @marthamaccallum interview with the wonderful wife of Rod Blagojevich and the @trish_regan interview with a Jerome Corsi. If that doesn’t tell you something about what has been going on in our Country, nothing will. Very sad!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 16, 2018 3:29 pm […]
12/16/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Required television watching is last weeks @marthamaccallum interview with the wonderful wife of @RodBlagojevich and the @trishregan interview with a Jerome Corsi. If that doesn’t tell you something about what has been going on in our Country, nothing will. Very sad!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 16, 2018 3:21 pm […]
12/15/2018
INTERIOR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “…….The Trump Administration will be announcing the new Secretary of the Interior next week.” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 15, 2018 9:18 am […]
12/15/2018
INTERIOR/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Secretary of the Interior @RyanZinke will be leaving the Administration at the end of the year after having served for a period of almost two years. Ryan has accomplished much during his tenure and I want to thank him for his service to our Nation…….” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 15, 2018 9:14 am […]
12/14/2018
JOHN KELLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WHITE HOUSE STAFF: “I am pleased to announce that Mick Mulvaney, Director of the Office of Management & Budget, will be named Acting White House Chief of Staff, replacing General John Kelly, who has served our Country with distinction. Mick has done an outstanding job while in the Administration….” -Donald Trump, […]