Fox News’ Chris Wallace: Mueller’s Russia Investigation Did Not Start With Steele Dossier on Trump. Motherjones. Impeach Trump Now. On January 20, 2017, Donald Trump stood on the steps of the Capitol, raised his right hand, and solemnly swore to faithfully execute the office of president of the United States and, to the best of his ability, to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.
He has not kept that promise. To hear more feature stories, see our full list or get the Audm iPhone app. Trump’s Boy Scout Jamboree Speech Turns Political. Editor's Note: This article is one of 50 in a series about Trump's first two years as president.
On July 24, 2017, President Donald Trump looked out at a crowd of tens of thousands of Boy Scouts, gathered for their quadrennial jamboree, and told them how glad he was to leave the partisan warfare of Washington behind. “Who the hell wants to speak about politics when I’m in front of the Boy Scouts? Right?” Wrong. In Trump’s America, Bullying Is the New Norm. Editor's Note: This article is one of 50 in a series about Trump's first two years as president.
Donald Trump wants everyone to know that he’s a tough guy. In 2017, the congressional candidate Greg Gianforte “body-slammed” the Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs after Jacobs tried to ask him questions about health-care policy. It was a cowardly, criminal act. Not long after, Trump praised him. Donald Trump’s 50 Most Unthinkable Moments. In an October 2016 editorial, The Atlantic wrote of Donald Trump: “He is a demagogue, a xenophobe, a sexist, a know-nothing, and a liar.”
We argued that Trump “expresses admiration for authoritarian rulers, and evinces authoritarian tendencies himself.” Trump, we also noted, “is easily goaded, a poor quality for someone seeking control of America’s nuclear arsenal. The Death Cult of Trumpism. Why now?
In trying to make sense of Trump’s effective use of racism to win the presidency, many have pointed to a long tradition of dog-whistling, reaching back decades. Trump is the nationalization of Nixon’s Southern strategy, the shadow cast forward by Reagan’s welfare queens and George H.W. Bush’s Willie Horton. Mattis Proved You Can't Serve Both Trump and America. Read: James Mattis’s letter of resignation Mattis was also the man who said, “Engage your brain before you engage your weapon,” the commander who praised the quick-thinking Marine squad leader who was smart enough to take a knee when he saw a Shia funeral procession filled with armed men walk by in the newly liberated streets of Nasiriyah, in southern Iraq.
And above all, he was the division commander who, when his tour was over, got in a car and crossed the country visiting families of his fallen Marines. To see him explaining to his security detail and his driver the political importance of driving into downtown Ramadi to hobnob with the potentially hostile sheikhs was to see leadership of a subtle kind. Those young Marines were ready to follow him anywhere. Literally, anywhere. The Pittsburgh Massacre Wasn’t Trump’s Fault, but He’s Not Helping. The president’s inability to act, well, presidential is problematic enough.
The debate over whether or not President Trump encouraged the man who set out to slaughter Jews at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh really isn’t a debate at all. It’s a shouting match. Pittsburgh Shooter & Pro-Trump Bomber: Different Kinds of Radicals. It’s vital that we treat different attacks differently.
Last week a bona fide Trump superfan launched a campaign of terror against the people and entities that Trump repeatedly attacks, often with rhetoric that is absurdly over the top. Also last week, a man who hates Trump launched a dreadful attack against a synagogue, killing eleven Jewish Americans in the worst anti-Semitic attack in American history.
It so happens that Trump’s daughter, son-in-law, and three of his grandchildren are Jewish, and that he’s been a stalwart supporter of the nation of Israel. Yet, despite these dramatic differences, several members of the media put blame on Trump for both attacks. This is a mistake. Thread by @brianklaas: "1. There have always been violent extremists. But when attacks happened under Reagan or Clinton or Bush or Obama, you couldn’t point to insa. Trump's Caravan Hysteria Sparked a Massacre. Nevertheless, some took the claims of the president and his allies seriously.
On Saturday morning, Shabbat morning, a gunman walked into the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh and killed 11 people. The massacre capped off a week of terrorism, in which one man mailed bombs to nearly a dozen Trump critics and another killed two black people in a grocery store after failing to force his way into a black church. Before committing the Tree of Life massacre, the shooter, who blamed Jews for the caravan of “invaders” and who raged about it on social media, made it clear that he was furious at HIAS, founded as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, a Jewish group that helps resettle refugees in the United States. He shared posts on Gab, a social-media site popular with the alt-right, expressing alarm at the sight of “massive human caravans of young men from Honduras and El Salvador invading America thru our unsecured southern border.” Slate’s Use of Your Data. Trump's Comments on the Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting.
Trump, however, has struggled in such moments.
Though he typically thrives on attention, he seems uncomfortable when he can’t control the news, as in this case. Beyond that, he is not deft in expressing empathy and consolation. After Hurricane Harvey hit, he seemed more interested in the size of the storm than the travails of its victims. His response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico was even more widely panned.
During a short visit, Trump indulged in self-congratulation and was then photographed tossing desperately needed supplies to the displaced as though shooting a basketball. But there’s no need to look that far back to see Trump striking an off-key note during a crisis. You’re Hired! You’re Fired! Yes, the Turnover at the Top of the Trump Administration Is … “Unprecedented.” If You’re Not Scared About Fascism in the U.S., You Should Be - Video - NYTimes.com. NowThis Politics - President Trump Saying He Wouldn't Go Golfing (And then Going Golfing), A Supercut. How Will Trump's Presidency End? But to really get the feel for the Trump administration’s end, we must turn to the finest political psychologist of them all, William Shakespeare. The text is in the final act of what superstitious actors only refer to as the “Scottish play.” One of the nobles who has turned on their murderous usurper king describes Macbeth’s predicament: Those he commands move only in command, Nothing in love.
Now does he feel his title Hang loose about him, like a giant’s robe Upon a dwarfish thief. And so it will be for Trump. But in the moment of losing power, the two will be alike. And thus their courtiers abandon even monumental tyrants like Mussolini—who at least had his mistress, Claretta Petacci, with him at his ignominious end. This is going to happen to Trump at some point. The death of the GOP’s governing class. Two funerals and a bestseller capture the demise of the Republican governing class — and the GOP’s capacity for governance itself. The poignant memorials to Barbara Bush in April and John McCain in August were tinged with melancholy, the sense of values perishing with those who upheld them. Bob Woodward’s new book “Fear” confirmed the impotence of this once-proud governing elite, supplanted by an unstable and unqualified demagogue who treats them with contempt. Hillary Clinton: American Democracy Is in Crisis. It’s been nearly two years since Donald Trump won enough Electoral College votes to become president of the United States.
On the day after, in my concession speech, I said, “We owe him an open mind and the chance to lead.” I hoped that my fears for our future were overblown. They were not. In the roughly 21 months since he took the oath of office, Trump has sunk far below the already-low bar he set for himself in his ugly campaign. Exhibit A is the unspeakable cruelty that his administration has inflicted on undocumented families arriving at the border, including separating children, some as young as eight months, from their parents. Trump and his cronies do so many despicable things that it can be hard to keep track. Wittes and Rauch: Boycott the Republican Party. We don’t mean to deny credit where it is due: Some congressional Republicans pushed back. Last year, pressure from individual Republicans seemed to discourage Trump from firing Attorney General Jeff Sessions and probably prevented action against Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
Moreover, Republicans as a group have constrained Trump on occasion. Congress imposed tough sanctions on Russia over the president’s objections. The Senate Intelligence Committee conducted a serious Russia investigation under the leadership of Richard Burr. Nationalreview.
Nationalreview. Alternet. How to Lose a Trade War. Conservative Website Demolishes Trump. Stan Collender, an executive vice president in the Washington, D.C. office of Qorvis MSLGROUP, has an impressive resume when it comes to fiscal policy as it relates to government revenue, especially taxes. That knowledge was on full display on Sunday when he wrote a scathing analysis of Trump’s “budget recklessness” for Forbes last month, emphatically stating that: “Trump is the most fiscally irresponsible president in recent American history…and quite possibly of all time.”
Collender’s article was prompted by a tweet by Trump calling on the Senate to act on funding issues before Congress’ August break. “The Senate should get funding done before the August break, or NOT GO HOME,” Trump tweeted, adding: “Wall and Border Security should be included. Also waiting for approval of almost 300 nominations, worst in history.
Democrats are doing everything possible to obstruct, all they know how to do. Trump Creates His Own Crises—Including on Immigration. - The Washington Post. What’s Left of the Right? What Trump's Memorial Day Revealed. Trump May Be The Most Fiscally Reckless President In American History. Trump Only Has One Scandal. Against Normalization: The Lesson of the “Munich Post” THE TRUMP-HITLER COMPARISON. Is there any comparison? Does Donald Trump Want to Be Dictator of the United States? – Mother Jones. The Republican National Convention in July 2016Carolyn Kaster/AP Looking for news you can trust? The Republic At Risk. Does Donald Trump Want to Be Dictator of the United States? – Mother Jones.
The Republican National Convention in July 2016Carolyn Kaster/AP Looking for news you can trust? Subscribe to our free newsletters. David Frum: How Donald Trump turned the United States into a headless giant. When doing things he shouldn't, Donald Trump is a hyperactive president. He blurts high secrets to Russian visitors. Donald Trump Porn Star Payoff: Why? President Trump is a master of changing the subject. Stung by Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury, Trump held an open negotiation on immigration with congressional leaders in order to showcase his executive mettle — and then went on to provide a slow day’s worth of headlines when he voiced his contempt for tropical “s**tholes” and their would-be emigrants.
Scatapalooza was a fun news cycle, but it immediately was surpassed by pornapalooza. That yellow redoubt of anti-Trump tabloid muckraking known as the Wall Street Journal reports that Donald Trump paid Stephanie Gregory Clifford, better known by her stage name, Stormy Daniels, $130,000 in hush money to keep quiet about a sexual encounter with Trump while he was married to his third and current wife, Melania.