TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @realDonaldTrump: #SOTU https://t.co/kL6SoClx4K” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, February 6, 2019 05:14 pm […]
2/6/2019
CONGRESS/FOREIGN POLICY/SAUDI ARABIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Congress inched closer to a major foreign-policy rebuke of President Donald Trump on Wednesday [2-6-19] when the House Foreign Affairs Committee advanced a bill to cut off U.S. support for the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen’s bloody civil war. In a party-line vote, the panel’s Democrats sent a War Powers […]
2/6/2019
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP TAXES: “House Democratic leaders aren’t in a rush to demand President Donald Trump’s tax returns, despite pressure from more progressive members of the caucus…Trump himself escalated the debate over the Democrats’ efforts in his State of the Union address, just ahead of a Thursday hearing at a Ways and Means […]
2/6/2019
BORDER/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump kept a relatively low profile the day after his State of the Union address, staying silent on Twitter and remaining in Washington on a day when many past presidents have hit the road to amplify their annual speeches. But White House officials and close advisers say that Trump is […]
2/6/2019
JAMES MATTIS/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former Secretary of Defense James Mattis was right to disagree with President Donald Trump over his plan to withdraw US troops from Syria, a top civilian official at the Pentagon told congressional lawmakers on Wednesday [2-6-19]. Appearing before the House Armed Services Committee for a hearing on the Pentagon’s counter terrorism […]
2/6/2019
MILITARY/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/SUMMIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VIETNAM: “President Donald Trump will meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Vietnam on Feb. 27 and 28, the latest sign of thawing tensions between two leaders who had publicly traded insults and threats of military confrontation. Trump announced the meeting Tuesday [2-5-19] night during the State of the Union […]
2/6/2019
IRAQ/ISIS/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said Wednesday [2-6-19] that officials would announce next week that ‘100 percent’ of the ISIS caliphate had been liberated..ISIS currently holds only about 1 percent of land in Iraq and Syria, the global coalition to counter ISIS announced late last year. However, the caliphate continues to hold territory in […]
2/8/2019
CONGRESS/DEMS/LEGISLATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “After Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast in 2005, President George W. Bush declared a national emergency to do something Republicans had long wanted to do anyway: He suspended prevailing wage laws on federal contracts to rebuild the region. Labor unions protested. Democrats signed on to a bill to rewrite the law. […]
2/6/2019
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “https://t.co/tUDYZrc6w0“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, February 6, 2019 12:34 pm […]
2/6/2019
DEMS/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump urged bipartisanship during his State of the Union address Tuesday [2-5-19]. Then he promptly called for Democrats to help him build a border wall, enact a new abortion ban and preemptively end the House’s investigations. Needless to say, it did not go over well. ‘WTF,’ said Sen. Mazie Hirono […]
2/6/2019
CONGRESS/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “You might say that Donald Trump’s presidency seems to be heading toward a wall. Trump strode down the center aisle of the House of Representatives chamber Tuesday [2-5-19] night just as he did at last year’s State of the Union. Once again, he stuck to a script – an evening for Teleprompter […]
2/6/2019
CONGRESS/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Congressional Democrats accused President Donald Trump of using Nixonian intimidation tactics during his State of the Union address when he denounced ‘ridiculous partisan investigations,’ vowing to press on with their probes into the president’s administration, campaign and personal finances…Connolly’s disgust — accentuated by his head-shaking as he left the chamber — came […]
2/6/2019
BORDER/CONGRESS/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump will return to the U.S.-Mexico border next week amid ongoing negotiations to avoid another government shutdown and as the White House lays the groundwork for declaring a national emergency to build a border wall. A day after a State of the Union address in which Trump discussed the need […]
2/6/2019
CHUCK SCHUMER/CONGRESS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Wednesday [2-6-19] that President Donald Trump’s oblique denunciation of probes into his administration was a signal that he is ‘scared’ of such inquiries and ‘has something to hide.’ Delivering his State of the Union address Tuesday night, the president touted his administration’s claimed […]
2/6/2019
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, as it unfolded, was a dizzying and even disorienting experience, a cascade of rhetorical passages that seemed to contradict each other every few moments. Appeals for unity and bipartisanship jostled with ideological and cultural scab-picking. Theatrics used by all modern presidents to swell the […]
2/6/2019
BORDER/DEMS/DHS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump wants $5.7 billion for border security. Trump has made it clear that the centerpiece of this funding would be for ‘the wall.’ Homeland Security officials have been more specific on how they would use the money: to replace 115 miles of border fence and build an additional 100 miles […]
2/6/2019
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump’s State of the Union speech hit hard on a topic that has dominated his term in office: defending the border with Mexico against what he described as migrants in ‘large organized caravans.’ He also suggested that the Mexican authorities were encouraging the migrants to cross the border illegally. ‘We have […]
2/6/2019
DEMS/NANCY PELOSI/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The House Intelligence Committee on Wednesday [2-6-19] began a broad inquiry into whether Russia and other foreign powers may be exercising influence over President Trump, acting only hours after a defiant Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared that the House would not be cowed by the president’s ‘all-out threat’ to drop its investigations […]
2/6/2019
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In 2011, Donald J. Trump, host of ‘The Celebrity Apprentice,’ was the star of a Comedy Central roast, a familiar ritual for showbiz personae. The guest of honor sits stage center and gets insulted, then everyone laughs it off as all in good fun. The State of the Union address, under President […]
2/6/2019
CONGRESS/NAFTA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump lauded his new trade agreement with Canada and Mexico in his State of the Union address on Tuesday [2-5-19] and urged Congress to pass the revised pact. The deal, he argued, will help American farmers and workers and ensure ‘that more cars are proudly stamped with the four beautiful […]
2/6/2019
NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/SUMMIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A senior American negotiator arrived in North Korea on Wednesday [2-5-19] to sort out crucial details for a nuclear summit meeting in Vietnam between President Trump and the North’s leader, Kim Jong-un, with only three weeks to go before the talks take place. Stephen Biegun, the Trump administration’s special representative for […]
2/5/2019
BORDER/TEXAS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “As the federal government prepares to begin construction of barriers and fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border, activists in the Rio Grande Valley are joining forces to oppose the projects. The groups that gathered over the weekend in Mission include the No Border Wall coalition and the Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe of Texas. Construction equipment […]
2/5/2019
CONGRESS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “As President Donald Trump highlighted the number of women who now have jobs thanks to his administration, the record number of Democratic women elected to Congress last year rose to their feet and cheered. The moment during Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday night allowed for a rare bipartisan moment, […]
2/5/2019
NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/SUMMIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Tuesday [2-5-19] night revealed that he plans to meet North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un for a two-day summit in Vietnam on Feb. 27 and 28, as he also boasted about averting a deadly standoff with the rogue nation…The statement confirmed POLITICO’s report earlier on Tuesday that […]
2/5/2019
MELANIA: “For the second year in a row, first lady Melania Trump departed the White House solo, 40 minutes ahead of her husband for his State of the Union address. ‘Mrs. Trump knows this is an important night, and wants to ensure the experience of her guests is special, and that they feel comfortable,’ the […]
2/5/2019
DEMS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Tuesday [2-5-19] denounced ‘ridiculous partisan’ investigations during his State of the Union address, adding that there cannot be peace as long as there is ‘war and investigation’…Trump did not specify which investigations he was referring to, but he has often attacked special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation […]
2/5/2019
SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “They have called it a ‘childish spectacle,’ a ‘political pep rally’ at which they feel ‘very awkward’ and ‘very uncomfortable.’ One of them fell asleep because she ‘wasn’t 100 percent sober.’ Among the issues that deeply divide the Supreme Court – and there are many – one of the most personal […]
2/5/2019
CONGRESS/DEMS/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump appeared before a divided Congress for the first time on Tuesday [2-5-19] to appeal to lawmakers’ sense of unity at a moment of deepening partisan spite. His calls for conciliation were met with mostly stone-faced silence from Democrats, who bitterly oppose his agenda and accuse him of hastening […]
2/5/2019
STATE OF THE UNION: “We passed a massive tax cut for working families and doubled the child tax credit. We virtually ended the estate, or death, tax on small businesses, ranches, and family farms. We eliminated the very unpopular Obamacare individual mandate penalty — and to give critically ill patients access to life-saving cures, we […]
2/5/2019
POLITICS/STATE OF THE UNION: “We can make our communities safer, our families stronger, our culture richer, our faith deeper, and our middle class bigger and more prosperous than ever before. But we must reject the politics of revenge, resistance, and retribution — and embrace the boundless potential of cooperation, compromise, and the common good. Together, […]
2/5/2019
POLITICS/STATE OF THE UNION: “There is a new opportunity in American politics, if only we have the courage to seize it. Victory is not winning for our party. Victory is winning for our country.” -Donald Trump, “President Donald J. Trump’s State of the Union Address,” whitehouse.gov, Feb. 5, 2019 […]
2/5/2019
NORTH KOREA/SUMMIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is expected to announce during Tuesday’s [2-5-19] State of the Union address that his second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will take place in Vietnam on February 27 and 28, according to a source familiar with the summit’s planning and Trump’s planned remarks. The city […]
2/1/2019
DEMS/ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Fresh off his 2018 re-election in deep blue Maryland, Republican Gov. Larry Hogan says he is leaving the door open to challenging President Donald Trump in a Republican primary…Asked if he’s thinking about running, Hogan replied, ‘I would say I’m listening. I’m not sure how much thinking we’re doing, but I haven’t […]
2/5/2019
MILITARY/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UN: “North Korea is moving its nuclear and ballistic weapons to hide them from potential US military strikes, according to a UN Security Council diplomat citing a confidential UN report. The North Korean nuclear and missile program remains intact and shows no change in North Korea’s behavior, says the bi-annual report, even […]
2/5/2019
BORDER/CHILDREN/HHS/HOUSE OF REPS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A House panel is requesting additional documents from the Department of Health and Human Services related to the administration’s ‘zero tolerance’ immigration policy that led to the separation of families apprehended along the southern border, after an earlier request went unfulfilled…The House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversight and […]
2/5/2019
BORDER/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Poll after poll shows that most Americans don’t believe illegal border crossings are the country’s most pressing problem. Far from it. But ‘the wall’ is the subject of constant coverage and advocacy by right-wing media outlets. That’s what President Trump is hearing and seeing all the time. And that’s what’s informing his […]
2/5/2019
BORDER/ENVIRONMENT/TEXAS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “As President Donald Trump prepares to sell Congress on the border wall at Tuesday’s [2-5-19] State of the Union, a butterfly conservation group is putting itself in the way of construction set to begin in Texas. Equipment for the construction of the first new miles of southern border wall approved since Trump […]
2/5/2019
CONGRESS/DEMS/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump came to the House chamber on Tuesday [2-5-19] night pushing a message of unity, but the deep divisions that have ripped this city apart over the last two years were on vivid display throughout the night. The Democrats in the audience — many of whom wore white, the […]
2/5/2019
DEMS/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “When President Donald Trump climbs the rostrum to deliver his second State of the Union address, he’ll share the stage with the Democrat who has become his most vexing political rival: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. White House aides say Trump intends to deliver a speech focused on bipartisanship. But sitting just […]
2/5/2019
GOP/LEGISLATION/MIDDLE EAST/SENATE/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Republican-led Senate approved legislation Tuesday [2-5-19] that sharply criticizes President Donald Trump’s planned withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria and Afghanistan. The bill also includes a controversial provision that would allow local governments to penalize businesses or individuals engaged in anti-Israel boycotts. Supporters of the boycott provision said it’s needed […]
2/5/2019
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Looking forward to tonight! #SOTU https://t.co/lGKkZeaxUZ“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, February 5, 2019 4:41 pm […]
2/5/2019
ELECTION/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump delivers his second State of the Union address on Tuesday [2-5-19] night at a moment of major political peril. A POLITICO/Morning Consult poll conducted in the run-up to the speech shows a majority of voters, 52 percent, say they would definitely vote for someone other than Trump if the […]
2/5/2019
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump hinted last week that one theme of his State of the Union address on Tuesday [2-5-19] will be unity. The current state of his presidency: turbulence and uncertainty. Trump will deliver his call for harmony in a new era of divided government and at a time when he has […]
2/5/2019
DEMS/TREASURY/TRUMP TAXES: “The new House Democratic majority is widely expected to test one of Donald Trump’s ultimate red lines by demanding the president’s personal tax returns — and the Trump administration has been gearing up for months to fight back hard. Trump’s Treasury Department is readying plans to drag the expected Democratic request for Trump’s […]
2/5/2019
DEMS/DRUGS/LEGISLATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump keeps telling Democrats he wants a big bipartisan drug pricing deal. But Democrats don’t believe him — and are rolling out a series of bills that would set the framework for talks far to the left, defying Trump to stand in the way. At the center of that effort […]
2/5/2019
CHUCK SCHUMER/MEDIA/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I see Schumer is already criticizing my State of the Union speech, even though he hasn’t seen it yet. He’s just upset that he didn’t win the Senate, after spending a fortune, like he thought he would. Too bad we weren’t given more credit for the Senate win by the media!” […]
2/5/2019
BORDER/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Tremendous numbers of people are coming up through Mexico in the hopes of flooding our Southern Border. We have sent additional military. We will build a Human Wall if necessary. If we had a real Wall, this would be a non-event!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, February 5, 2019 9:10 am […]
2/5/2019
TREASURY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WORLD BANK: “The World Bank may be poised for a shake-up with President Donald Trump planning to nominate David Malpass, who has been a critic of the bank, to lead the institution focused on global poverty. Malpass’ selection was confirmed by a senior administration official who spoke on condition of anonymity because the […]
2/5/2019
LAWSUIT/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A federal judge has granted adult film actress Stormy Daniels’ request to dismiss a defamation claim against U.S. President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen, while letting her pursue her lawsuit against Trump and Cohen to end a hush money settlement. In a decision made public on Tuesday [2-5-19], U.S. District […]
2/5/2019
CONGRESS/DEMS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Stacey Abrams, who nearly became both the first African-American and first woman to be governor of Georgia, will deliver the Democrats’ response to the State of the Union address on Tuesday [2-5-19], test-driving the party’s 2020 challenge to President Donald Trump. After losing a Southern state that Trump won in 2016 by […]
2/5/2019
LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “A federal subpoena seeking documents from Donald Trump’s inaugural committee is part of ‘a hysteria’ over the fact that he’s president, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said on Tuesday [2-5-19]. Federal prosecutors in New York issued the wide-ranging subpoena Monday [2-4-19], furthering a federal inquiry into a fund that has […]
2/5/2019
BORDER/DEMS/GOP/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Senate’s top Republican on Tuesday [2-5-19] pushed congressional bargainers to reach a border security deal without first getting President Donald Trump’s approval, a month after the impulsive president scuttled an apparent bipartisan deal and triggered a historically long federal shutdown. Capitol Hill talks to resolve an impasse over Trump’s demands for […]
2/5/2019
CONGRESS/INFRASTRUCTURE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump will ask Congress in his State of the Union address on Tuesday [2-5-19] to pass legislation to boost the nation’s aging infrastructure, but will not explain how to pay for it, administration officials said. Trump is likely to set a benchmark of investing at least $1 trillion to build […]
2/5/2019
BORDER/ELECTION/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump told Americans in his State of the Union address on Tuesday [2-5-19] that illegal immigration was an urgent national crisis and he vowed to build a border wall as he sought funding for a project rejected by Democrats…Trump used part of his speech to offer a spirit of compromise, […]
2/5/2019
CONGRESS/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump delivered a message of bipartisan unity on Tuesday [2-5-19] night in his first address to Congress in the new era of divided government, but any hope of enduring harmony was dispelled long before he arrived at the Capitol. Mr. Trump, who has warred with Democrats for weeks over his plan […]
2/5/2019
HIV-AIDS/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS: “A VISION FOR THE FUTURE: President Donald J. Trump wants to work with Congress to defeat the HIV epidemic in America, find new treatments for childhood cancer, and protect patients with pre-existing conditions… It is important that Congress continues to find ways to ensure that patients with pre-existing conditions are protected.” -White House, […]
2/4/2019
2016 ELECTION/LGEAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee confirmed Monday [2-4-19] that it had received a subpoena from federal prosecutors in New York as part of an investigation into the group’s fundraising activities. ‘While we are still reviewing the subpoena, it is our intention to cooperate with the inquiry,’ the committee said in […]
2/4/2019
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Federal prosecutors issued a subpoena on Monday [2-4-19] to President Donald Trump’s inauguration committee in another sign of the broadening swath of investigations circling around events tied to the 2016 presidential election and its aftermath. A spokesman for the inauguration confirmed news of the subpoena from the Southern District of New […]
2/4/2019
IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “The Trump Organization has fired at least 18 undocumented workers over the past two months, The Washington Post reported Monday. [2-4-19] The purge of workers reported by the Post followed repeated reports about President Donald Trump’s company employing undocumented immigrants despite the President’s near-constant focus on the issue of immigration. Trump’s […]
2/4/2019
FEDERAL RESERVE/STEVE MNUCHIN/TREASURY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell sat down with President Donald Trump on Monday [2-4-19]. That marked their first meeting since the president nominated Powell to the post and follows months of strong criticism from Trump about his nominee and the Fed. The central bank said in a statement it was […]
2/4/2019
ECONOMY/FEDERAL RESERVE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump met with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell Monday evening for an informal dinner at the White House residence to discuss the health of the US economy, according to a statement from Federal Reserve. The dinner, which had not been on the President’s public schedule, comes weeks after […]
2/4/2019
MILITARY/NORTH KOREA/SOUTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The US and South Korea have reached a preliminary agreement on the cost of keeping nearly 30,000 troops in South Korea, two State Department officials said, alleviating fears among President Donald Trump’s advisers that he could move to withdraw US troops during his upcoming summit with North Korea’s leader. Under […]
2/4/2019
ECONOMY/FEDERAL RESERVE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell met for dinner with President Donald Trump on Monday [2-4-19] evening, the first time the two men have spoken since Powell was sworn in as the central bank’s chief last February. Powell, who has been the target of months of criticism from the president over […]
2/4/2019
BORDER/DEMS/GOP/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump said there is a ‘good chance’ he’ll declare a national emergency to build his proposed border wall and said he would use his State of the Union address next week to once again make a case for the barrier. ‘I think there’s a good chance we’ll have to do […]
2/4/2019
CABINET/INTERIOR/NOMINATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump announced on Twitter Monday [2-4-19] that he will nominate acting Interior Secretary David Bernhardt to the job permanently, saying he has done ‘a fantastic job from the day he arrived.’ Bernhardt has been serving temporarily since Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke departed the Trump Cabinet nearly two months ago […]
2/4/2019
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign manager Paul Manafort will be sentenced for the first time on March 13, a federal judge in Washington who approved his guilty plea said Monday [2-4-19]. The court date sets up one of the most anticipated bookends of Robert Mueller’s special counsel investigation into […]
2/4/2019
BORDER/GOP/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Many Senate Republicans are deeply opposed to President Donald Trump declaring a national emergency to build his border wall, with enough resistance that the president might ultimately be forced to veto a measure intended to block him. Interviews with a dozen GOP senators on Monday [2-4-19] revealed broad efforts to wave Trump […]
2/4/2019
INTERIOR/NOMINATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump will nominate David Bernhardt to be the new Interior secretary. The announcement in a tweet from the president Monday [2-4-19] ends a nearly two-month-long search for a permanent replacement for Ryan Zinke, who in early December announced his resignation amid multiple scandals and ethics investigations. Bernhardt, who was […]
2/4/2019
CONGRESS/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “More than a handful of those sitting in the House chamber Tuesday [2-5-19] evening to hear President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address hope to replace him in two years’ time. And these Democratic 2020 hopefuls are making statements of their own by who will be joining them for the primetime […]
2/4/2019
INTERIOR/NOMINATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “I am pleased to announce that David Bernhardt, Acting Secretary of the Interior, will be nominated as Secretary of the Interior. David has done a fantastic job from the day he arrived, and we look forward to having his nomination officially confirmed!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, February 4, 2019 3:13 pm […]
2/4/2019
OBAMA/SPORTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “New England Patriots safety Duron Harmon said he doesn’t plan to attend the White House if his Super Bowl-winning team receives an invite from President Donald Trump. Harmon was, however, receptive to the idea of meeting with President Barack Obama instead. In an interview that aired on TMZ Sports, Harmon was asked […]
2/4/2019
INTELLIGENCE/ISIS/MILITARY/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “ISIS will claim victory over the US and is likely to regain territory as a result of President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from Syria, according to a new report released Monday [2-4-19] by the Pentagon’s Inspector General…The report, the first of its kind since Trump announced plans to pull all troops […]
2/4/2019
DEMS/IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Democrats are wrestling with how aggressively they will investigate the president and whether impeachment proceedings will ultimately be warranted. Publicly, the discussion has largely centered on worries about the political implications of moving forward. Some Democrats are concerned that aggressive oversight might trigger a backlash from voters; others worry that holding President […]
2/4/2019
NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/SUMMIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The U.S. special envoy for North Korea met with South Korea’s national security adviser on Monday [2-4-19] to discuss a planned second summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Seoul’s presidential office said. Stephen Biegun explained to Chung Eui-yong Washington’s stance toward North Korea ahead of […]
2/4/2019
DEMS/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “When the conservative lawyer Neomi Rao appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee this week, she’ll be interviewing for a job on the country’s second most powerful court. But both her allies and enemies will be watching with something even bigger in mind: her viability as a future Supreme Court nominee. […]
2/4/2019
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “He likes the instant gratification of Twitter tirades to prefab statements from his press office. He prefers improvising at a political rally to earnest policy addresses. But on Monday [2-4-19], President Trump was doing a fairly unusual thing, for him: working on a draft of a speech and then practicing delivering […]
2/4/2019
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump is expected to announce in his State of the Union speech a national commitment to end transmission of the virus that causes AIDS, with a goal of stopping its spread in this country by 2030. A senior administration official with knowledge of Mr. Trump’s preparations confirmed the plan on Monday, […]
2/4/2019
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Escalating one of the investigations into President Trump’s inaugural committee, federal prosecutors ordered on Monday [2-4-19] that its officials turn over documents about donors, finances and activities, according to two people familiar with the inquiry. The subpoena seeks documents related to all of the committee’s donors and guests; any benefits […]
2/4/2019
IRAQ/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump’s unexpected announcement that he wanted American troops in Iraq to stay there to ‘watch Iran’ achieved a previously unattainable goal on Monday [2-4-19]: unity in the Iraqi political establishment. The problem for Mr. Trump was that the unity was a collective rejection of his proposal, and added momentum to proposed […]
2/4/2019
ECONOMY/FEDERAL RESERVE/STEVE MNUCHIN/TREASURY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump met Monday [2-4-19] evening with the Federal Reserve chairman, Jerome H. Powell, whom the president has repeatedly criticized as jeopardizing economic growth by raising interest rates. It was the first meeting between the two men since Mr. Powell became the Fed’s chairman last year. The Fed said in […]
2/4/2019
ECONOMY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When President Trump delivers his State of the Union address on Tuesday [2-4-19], he can quite justifiably say that the state of the economy is good. Unemployment is low, inflation is muted and growth has continued unabated for nearly 10 years. As a college professor, I’m often drawn to giving letter grades, […]
2/4/2019
GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Trump’s legislative path to a border wall has narrowed significantly on the eve of Tuesday’s [2-5-19] State of the Union speech, and his fallback plan to circumvent Congress by declaring a state of emergency could create a major division in his own party. As he prepares to make his case to […]
2/4/2019
GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Richard M. Nixon once said, ‘People react to fear, not love; they don’t teach that in Sunday [2-3-19] school, but it’s true.’ No president since has deployed fear quite like Donald J. Trump. Whether it is the prospect of a crime wave at the border with Mexico or nuclear war with North […]
2/3/2019
CRIME/GOP/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “With Caravans marching through Mexico and toward our Country, Republicans must be prepared to do whatever is necessary for STRONG Border Security. Dems do nothing. If there is no Wall, there is no Security. Human Trafficking, Drugs and Criminals of all dimensions – KEEP OUT!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, February 3, 2019 5:03 […]
2/3/2019
CRIME/GOP/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “With Caravans marching through Mexico and toward our Country, Republicans must be prepared to do whatever is necessary for STRONG Border Security. Dems do nothing. If there is no Wall, there is no Security. Human Trafficking, Drugs and Criminals of all dimensionns – KEEP OUT!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, February 3, 2019 4:59 […]
2/3/2019
GOLF/SPORTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Everyone is asking how Tiger played yesterday. The answer is Great! He was long, straight & putted fantastically well. He shot a 64. Tiger is back & will be winning Majors again! Not surprisingly, Jack also played really well. His putting is amazing! Jack & Tiger like each other.” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
2/2/2019
MEDIA/SPORTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I will be interviewed Sunday morning on @FaceTheNation and prior to the Super Bowl on @CBS at 3:30 P.M. Enjoy!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, February 2, 2019 11:37 pm […]
2/2/2019
DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Ed Gillespie, who ran for Governor of the Great State of Virginia against Ralph Northam, must now be thinking Malpractice and Dereliction of Duty with regard to his Opposition Research Staff. If they find that terrible picture before the election, he wins by 20 points!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, February 2, 2019 8:01 […]
2/2/2019
DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Democrat Governor Ralph Northam of Virginia just stated, ‘I believe that I am not either of the people in that photo.’ This was 24 hours after apologizing for appearing in the picture and after making the most horrible statement on ‘super’ late term abortion. Unforgivable!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, February 2, 2019 7:39 […]
2/2/2019
GOLF/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus have played many rounds of golf together. On Saturday [2-2-19], the two were joined by No. 45 … or by President Trump. The three played together Saturday at Trump National Jupiter in Florida, according to the White House press pool. Trump himself tweeted out a photo confirming […]
2/2/2019
GOLF/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Great morning at Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter, Florida with @JackNicklaus and @TigerWoods! https://t.co/mdPN4yvS8e“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, February 2, 2019 1:10 pm […]
2/5/2019
HOLIDAY/MELANIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Melania and I send our greetings to those celebrating the Lunar New Year. Today, people across the United States and around the world mark the beginning of the Lunar New Year with spectacular fireworks displays, joyful festivals, and family gatherings…https://t.co/yM6qZng5m0“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, February 5, 2019 12:08 pm […]
2/1/2019
DEMS/ELECTION/ELIZABETH WARREN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “On the day Sen. Cory Booker declared he was running in 2020, President Donald Trump said the New Jersey Democrat has ‘no chance’ of taking the White House. ‘I say no chance,’ Trump said of Booker’s shot at the presidency in an interview with CBS News ‘Face the Nation’ host Margaret […]
2/1/2019
BORDER/CHILDREN/HHS/LAWSUIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration defended its efforts to identify and reunify migrant children who had been separated from their undocumented parents along the US-Mexico border in a response to a court order filed Friday [2-1-19]. US District Judge Dana Sabraw had ordered the administration to respond to a Health and Human Services Department […]
2/1/2019
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “In 1993, Donald Trump took on the political establishment of Palm Beach, Florida, and took from that experience a blueprint for the future. This formative political campaign started with a business proposition. The town council of Palm Beach had recently turned down Trump’s plan to build eight homes that he planned […]
2/1/2019
BORDER/CONGRESS/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Under pressure from fellow Republicans to reset his contentious presidency, Donald Trump plans to offer Democrats a choice in his State of the Union speech on Tuesday [2-5-19]: Work together to make progress, or fight each other and get nothing done. He signaled on Friday that the address, an annual rite of […]
2/1/2019
FOREIGN POLICY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “For all of President Donald Trump’s talk about ‘America first,’ the next two years of his presidency could shine a sharp spotlight on America abroad. His State of the Union address next week will be dissected for clues on how he’ll deal with a full plate of foreign policy challenges. His […]
2/1/2019
FLORIDA/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “With the government open again, President Donald Trump at last headed Friday [2-1-19] for a weekend at his happy place: his Mar-a-Lago private club on Florida’s southeastern coast. Trump typically spends many winter weekends at the Palm Beach estate, golfing at another nearby private club he owns and dining on an outdoor […]
2/1/2019
FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump’s assertion that a senior law enforcement official privately gave assurances that he is not under scrutiny in the investigations shadowing him partly served as a defense strategy but also raised new questions about how the Justice Department is conducting the inquiries. Mr. Trump said in an interview […]
2/1/2019
IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “President Trump’s family business has employed undocumented workers more broadly than it was previously believed, with multiple workers losing their jobs last month at a Trump golf club in southern New Jersey. The club in Pine Hill, N.J., known as the Trump National Golf Club Philadelphia, was the third Trump property […]