Gabriel Sherman at Vanity Fair has heard reports of Trump venting “I hate everyone in the White House!”: In recent days, I spoke with a half dozen prominent Republicans and Trump advisers, and they all describe a White House in crisis as advisers struggle to contain a president who seems to be increasingly unfocused and consumed by dark moods. Trump’s ire is being … Read More
Eminem Raps Against Trump
I’m not a fan of hiphop, and certainly not a fan of Eminiem, who once rapped IN SUPPORT of Donald Trump. But he lays it out here.
The Trump Administration Guts Clean Air
On Monday, as had been expected, Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, said at an event in Kentucky that he would formally move to repeal what the E.P.A.’s Web site referred to as “the so-called ‘Clean Power Plan.’ ” That plan had been central to the United States’ commitment, under Paris, to reduce power-plant emissions by an estimated thirty … Read More
Trump’s Bizarre Puerto Rico Visit On Tuesday
He accused Puerto Ricans of throwing the federal budget “out of whack.” He suggested Puerto Rico had not experienced a “real catastrophe” like Hurricane Katrina, since a mere “16 people” had been confirmed dead. He told a family of hurricane victims to “have a good time.” He tossed paper towels to another group of victims, in a church, as if … Read More
More Trump Administration Dysfunction
Oh no. What’s stuck in his craw now? This: WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was on the verge of resigning this past summer amid mounting policy disputes and clashes with the White House, according to multiple senior administration officials who were aware of the situation at the time. The tensions came to a head around the time President … Read More
Trump’s Disastrous Trip To Puerto Rico Not Much Better Than Maria
This man cannot do public service without sounding tone-deaf. For Trump, it’s about optics, and how good HE looks. “Every death is a horror, but if you look at a real catastrophe like Katrina, and you look at the tremendous hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people that died, and you look at what happened here and what is your … Read More
Breaking: More Trump-Russia Contacts
WaPo: Associates of President Trump and his company have turned over documents to federal investigators that reveal two previously unreported contacts from Russia during the 2016 campaign, according to people familiar with the matter. In one case, Trump’s personal attorney and a business associate exchanged emails weeks before the Republican National Convention about traveling to an economic conference in Russia … Read More
Price Resigns
And another Trump crook fades into the night. This…. Question: Is he still intending to pay back what he owes the taxpayers?
A Scandal Too On-The-Nose
It’s hard to keep track of all the scandals plaguing the Trump Administration, any one of which would be a HUGE scandal in any other previous administration. Right now, there is a lot of focus on HHS Secretary Tom Price, who has been using private jets and military aircraft to get from place to place — at taxpayer expense. Price … Read More
New PPP Poll Shows Republicans Are In Trouble
There is so much poll-y goodness in the new and deep PPP poll. But I’ll just print the PPP summary and docdump the full results. One thing buried deep in the poll — 76% of Trump voters think he should remain in office even if it is proven that he colluded with Russia! 2018 Shaping Up Big For Democrats Democrats … Read More
Trump’s Tax Plan Is A Gift For The Wealthy
Overhauling the tax code is a task Republicans in Congress have been attempting to accomplish for 30 years. On Wednesday, President Donald Trump unveiled his administration’s tax plan, called the “Unified Framework For Fixing Our Broken Tax Code.” The plan is reported to cost an upwards of $5 trillion dollars and has been described by his officials as “completely designed with the middle class … Read More
Twitter Taunts Bring U.S. To the Brink of War With North Korea
#BREAKING North Korea foreign minister says Trump has declared war on his country — AFP news agency (@AFP) September 25, 2017
Why Is Trump Tweeting About The NFL?
Thursday night in Alabama, at a rally, Trump went off on a tangent about the NFL and its bad ratings and how players who refused to stand for the national anthem (i.e., Colin Kaepernick) should be fired by the owners. This got cheers from the Alabamians, because they are Alabamians. And it made headlines on Friday (since he never says … Read More
The Insane Trump News Cycle To Date
The Google News Lab looked at the search trends for stories about 40 of the biggest news events of Trump’s presidency from Jan. 20 until Sept. 1. It’s a four-alarm fire fired by another four-alarm fire (via Axios):
Not A Hoax
That’s an odd assertion for Trump to make. Sure, he can make the argument that there was no collusion, but to say that Russia never bought ads on Facebook? How would TRUMP know that’s not true? Mueller isn’t saying it… Facebook itself is: Under growing pressure from Congress and the public to reveal more about the spread of covert Russian … Read More