WATCH: Behind-the-scenes video of Trump’s Phoenix rally shows pitifully sparse attendance. James Clapper's Fear of Trump's Recklessness Should Set off Alarm Bells. When did you first feel the fear?
Was it way back after his golden escalator ride, when Mexicans, at the group level, were deemed rapists and criminals? Was it when already-vetted refugees were getting off their planes on American soil and being detained at the border? Was it after he casually said he wanted an arms race? Was it after the Charlottesville press conference? Or was it last night, after yet another off-the-rails rally for the purpose of, what, exactly? Advertisement - Continue Reading Below Tens of millions of Americans have come to fear the stability of their Commander-in-Chief in a way that seems legitimately unprecedented.
John Kelly Hoses Layer Of Crumbs Off President Before Speech On Troop Deployment. White House aides can’t stop talking about President Trump like he’s a toddler. By Daniel W.
Drezner By Daniel W. Drezner. Der Spiegel's New Magazine Cover: The True Face Of Donald Trump. Trump doesn’t seem to like being president. So why not quit? Evidence is piling up that Donald Trump does not really want to be president of the United States.
He certainly doesn’t look happy in the job. In his previous life, Trump met whomever he wanted to meet and said whatever he wanted to say. But like all presidents, he finds himself ever more isolated, and his displeasure shows on his face. The loneliness of the job — which so many of his predecessors have ruefully reported — is wearing on him. How petty is Trump? His admin ripped out an Obama-era bikeshare station at the White House. Trump regime killed funds dedicated to fighting Nazis, denies there's an issue.
The grant to Life After Hate was one of 31 awarded under the Obama administration to combat violent extremism, and it was the only one focused exclusively on the rehabilitation of former neo-Nazis and other white supremacist group members.
A second grant that was cancelled addressed both white supremacists and Muslim radicals. By cancelling both, Trump’s incoming team removed all support for fighting extremist white nationalists. Trump has put all the money into fighting the people he considers evil, which is ignoring the people who pose a genuine danger. Organizations that received funding from the Trump administration, including several large law enforcement agencies, work almost exclusively on programs to deal with terrorist threats from Islamic extremists, even as research shows that white supremacist groups have been linked to most domestic terrorist attacks in recent years. Last week, Mr. Economist. Economist magazine eviscerates ‘boorish, inept and unfit for office’ Trump with KKK cover. Accompanying a scathing editorial calling President Donald Trump, “politically inept, morally barren and temperamentally unfit for office,” The Economist featured a cover of the president yelling though a megaphone shaped like a KKK hood.
According to the normally conservative Economist, the president’s response to the violence in Charlottesville shows, “Donald Trump has no grasp of what it means to be president.” “Defenders of President Donald Trump offer two arguments in his favour—that he is a businessman who will curb the excesses of the state; and that he will help America stand tall again by demolishing the politically correct taboos of left-leaning, establishment elites. From the start, these arguments looked like wishful thinking. After Mr Trump’s press conference in New York on August 15th they lie in ruins,” the editorial begins. Trump: ‘There Is Hatred On Both Sides Of My Heart’ Trump Warns Removing Confederate Statues Could Be Slippery Slope To Eliminating Racism Entirely. Congressional Democrats may form expert panel on Trump's mental health. Hree congressional Democrats have asked a psychiatrist at Yale School of Medicine to consult with them about forming an expert panel to offer the legislators advice on assessing President Trump’s mental health.
Yale’s Dr. Bandy Lee told STAT that over the last few weeks members of Congress or their staff have asked her to discuss how members might convene psychiatrists, psychologists, and other mental health professionals “to review the president’s mental health, and review it on a periodic basis.” The closed meeting is expected to take place in September, she said.
The request came from three current congressmen and one former member, she said. She declined to name them, saying they told her they did not wish to be publicly identified yet. Trump Was Warned By FBI And DHS About Alt-Right Terrorists Months Before Virginia Attack. <a class="icopyright-article-tools-noscript" href=" target="_blank" title="Main menu of all reuse options"><img height="25" width="27" border="0" align="bottom" alt="[Reuse options]" src=" Click here for reuse options!
</a> Throughout his campaign and presidency, Donald Trump has been reluctant to criticize domestic terrorism and hate groups operating within the United States. The president has focused almost solely on foreign threats but the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security reportedly informed Trump months ago about the domestic threat. In a May intelligence bulletin published by Foreign Policy magazine on Monday, DHS and the FBI pointed out that attacks by white supremacists on U.S. soil far outnumbered every other type of terrorist threat. The agencies concluded that attacks by white supremacists “likely will continue to pose a threat of lethal violence over the next year.”
Trump Trying To Figure Out How To Unsubscribe From Boring National Security Email List. WASHINGTON—Fed up with the constant notifications about threats to the United States, an exasperated President Trump was trying to figure out how to unsubscribe from the boring national security email list, sources reported Thursday.
“Every day, I get these stupid, dull emails about terrorist stuff or nuclear weapons testing, and I can’t find a way to make them stop,” said the president, adding that while he manually deletes the individual highly classified messages as he receives them, he wished there were an actual unsubscribe button so they wouldn’t “clog up [his] inbox” in the first place. “They really should be going to my spam folder, because I don’t remember giving anyone in the CIA or the Department of Homeland Security my email address. If I have to keep getting these top-secret briefings, they should at least make them fun to read. I bet nobody’s actually finished one of them in the history of this country.”
On Charlottesville Violence, Trump Calls Out White Supremacists After Criticism. President Trump walks toward the White House after stepping off of Marine One on Monday morning.
Mark Wilson/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mark Wilson/Getty Images. Why Isn't President Trump in Charlottesville? Last week, when I was browsing in the gift shop of the Nebraska state capitol, I picked up a copy of the autobiography of George W.
Norris, the Progressive titan who represented the state in Congress at the beginning of the last century. In 1910, as a young congressman, Norris organized the bipartisan revolt that brought down "Uncle Joe" Cannon, the despotic Speaker of the House from Illinois. Twenty-three years later, as a senator, Norris introduced the bill that would create the Tennessee Valley Authority, one of the New Deal's greatest triumphs. He was one of the mainsprings of the effort to investigate fully the Teapot Dome Scandal, even though it involved a number of his fellow Republicans.
In the first third of the 20th century, there is hardly a progressive policy or a good-government initiative that doesn't have his fingerprints on it somewhere. This NSC ex-staffer’s memo is crazy. Trump’s reaction is more disturbing. President Donald Trump. (Evan Vucci/Associated Press) On Thursday, Foreign Policy published a remarkable memo penned by a former staffer on President Trump’s National Security Council. The author, Rich Higgins, was forced out last month by national security adviser H.R.
McMaster for composing it. The memo contends that the president is the target of a vast conspiracy spearheaded by so-called cultural Marxists, who have allied with Islamists and captured (among other groups) the media, the deep state, academia, “global corporatists” and leaders of both parties. Someone Flipped Trump's Hair With Kim Jong Un's, And It's Absolutely Unnerving. ‘They’re looting the treasury’: CNN panel blasts Trump over plan to hand Afghanistan to DeVos’ brother. White House official offers a bumbling excuse about why Trump has yet to sign Russia sanctions bill. Last week the House and the Senate voted nearly unanimously on a bill imposing stricter sanctions on Russia for their meddling in the U.S. election.
On Friday, White House spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders confirmed Donald Trump had reviewed the text of the bill and intended to sign it. From the New York Times: The White House said on Friday night that President Trump would sign legislation imposing sweeping sanctions against Russia and curtailing his own power to lift them by himself, bowing to the near-universal bipartisan will of Congress at the risk of escalating tension with Moscow. “President Donald J. Trump read early drafts of the bill and negotiated regarding critical elements of it,” Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, said in a written statement released late in the evening. Emphasis added. The Observer view on Donald Trump’s unfitness for office. The sense of things falling apart in Washington is palpable – and a matter of growing, serious international concern. Donald Trump’s latest asinine act of gesture politics, the forced resignation of his chief of staff, Reince Priebus, has shone a spotlight on the extraordinary chaos inside the White House.
Even normally sober, experienced Washington observers now refer to the West Wing as a viper’s nest of seething rivalry, bitter feuds, gross incompetence and an unparalleled leadership vacuum. Like some kind of Shakespearean villain-clown, Trump plays not to the gallery but to the pit. He is a Falstaff without the humour or the self-awareness, a cowardly, bullying Richard III without a clue. Late-night US satirists find in this an unending source of high comedy. Which, for the record, is almost precisely nothing. Trump Orders All Flags To Half-Staff In Honor Of American Killed On Episode Of ‘Blue Bloods’ WASHINGTON—At times struggling to hold back tears, a solemn President Donald Trump ordered all flags to half-staff Friday in honor of an American killed in the line of duty on an episode of Blue Bloods.
“Today we honor New York City police officer Vincent ‘Vinny’ Cruz, a hero who cared so deeply about the people he served that he was willing to make the ultimate sacrifice to protect them,” said the president of the brash, fast-talking cop who was partnered with lead character Jamie Reagan at the beginning of season three. “Officer Cruz attempted to apprehend a thief inside the Bitterman housing project—the same housing project he himself rose up from years ago—totally unaware that he was walking into an ambush orchestrated by Santana and his Los Lordes gang. Once the shooting stopped, it was tragically evident that Vinny was mortally wounded. I offer my heartfelt condolences to Police Commissioner Frank Reagan and the entire NYPD.” It'd Be Pretty Easy For Trump To Pardon His Family Members. He Could Even Tweet It. Internal talking points from Trump’s spy chief reveal tensions between president and the intel community.
Trump administration threatens retribution against Alaska over Murkowski health votes - Alaska Dispatch News. Inside Trump’s snap decision to ban transgender troops. After a week sparring with his attorney general and steaming over the Russia investigation consuming his agenda, President Donald Trump was closing in on an important win. House Republicans were planning to pass a spending bill stacked with his campaign promises, including money to build his border wall with Mexico.
Story Continued Below But an internal House Republican fight over transgender troops was threatening to blow up the bill. And House GOP insiders feared they might not have the votes to pass the legislation because defense hawks wanted a ban on Pentagon-funded sex reassignment operations — something GOP leaders wouldn’t give them. They turned to Trump, who didn’t hesitate. Trump’s sudden decision was, in part, a last-ditch attempt to save a House proposal full of his campaign promises that was on the verge of defeat, numerous congressional and White House sources said.
‘Mind-blowing’: Internet erupts after Trump tweets that Fox & Friends is the most powerful show on TV. Trump Administration Worried President Burning Through Minority Scapegoats At Unsustainable Rate. WASHINGTON—Citing today’s announcement that transgender individuals would be banned from serving in any capacity in the United States armed forces, numerous sources within the Trump administration expressed a deep sense of concern Wednesday that the president was burning through minority scapegoats at an unsustainable rate. The Justice Department Just Argued Against Gay Rights In A Major Federal Case. The TV That Created Donald Trump. 26 hours, 29 Trumpian false or misleading claims. The Daily 202: Trump marginalizes experts, debases expertise. Newly named White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci listens Friday to press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders speak in the briefing room. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) With Breanne Deppisch and Joanie Greve. SNL writer replies to Trump tweets as if they're personal texts and it's hysterical.
Most people who follow Trump on Twitter will either cheer him on, shout back at him, or run the other way. Trump's First 6 Months: 189 Wild Moments to Remember. Has it really only been six months? Here's Donald Trump desperately, pathetically trying to get Putin's attention at the G20 dinner. ‘Violation’: Sally Yates nails Trump for subverting ‘bedrock principle of democracy’ with attack on DOJ. GOP senator reveals truth about Trump: ‘He scares no one in the Senate — not even the pages’ 6 months of President Trump, in 7 issues. On Thursday, President Trump will have been in office for 181 days, a.k.a. 4,344 hours, a.k.a. 260,640 minutes, a.k.a. six months. My first reaction is: “Only six months?” In Interview, Trump Expresses Anger at Sessions and Comey, and Warns Mueller. Henry Rollins: The Trump Dumpster Fire Rages On, and We All Seem Content to Watch It. Thursday, July 13, 2017 at 4:30 a.m.
Almost any situation, when endured for long enough, goes from how it is now, to just how it is. What came before becomes harder and harder to remember. Our species adapts quickly. We have no choice. Trump and Presidential Pardons: What You Need to Know - Rolling Stone. After The New York Times told Donald Trump Jr. Tuesday morning that it was going to publish emails indicating he was excited by the possibility of Russian operatives having dirt on Hillary Clinton, Trump Jr. preempted the paper by tweeting out the emails himself.
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Trump is struggling to stay calm on Russia, one morning call at a time. Trump doesn’t want to be president — he wants to be the White House comms director: columnist. Tech Leaders Met With Trump, And The Looks On Their Faces Said It All. EPA Unveils Plan To Improve Conditions For Nation’s Sludge. Untitled. Secret Service costs for Trump family protection continue to mount. Trump Asks Entire Senate To Clear Out Of Chamber So He Can Speak To Comey Alone. Another day, another brewing Trump scandal. ‘It’s a shock-creation machine’: Activist Naomi Klein dispels theory Trump is just a ‘bumbling idiot’ Trump Administration Quietly Rolls Back Civil Rights Efforts Across Federal Government. The Madness of King Donald. Trump BLOCKS Stephen King After Writer Delivers This Particularly Brutal Mockery On Twitter.
Coats and Rogers refuse to say if Trump asked them to sway Russia probe. Trump administration suppresses CIA torture report - NationofChange. Historian Timothy Snyder: “It’s pretty much inevitable” that Trump will try to stage a coup and overthrow democracy. Little big man. WH Aides: Trump Decided To Break Paris Deal After French President’s Handshake Embarrassed Him. Inside Trump’s anger and impatience — and his sudden decision to fire Comey. Donald Trump’s Base Is Shrinking. Trump’s Bizarre Behavior At G7 Leaves The World Questioning His Health (VIDEO) President Trump Has Enacted The ‘Theseus Protocol’: What Does That Mean For America? Executive Orders. The enormity of Trump’s scam is coming into view. Our Embarrassment in Chief’s International Trip Is No Laughing Matter. What Is Trump Hiding? The Election Of Donald Trump: A Candidate Who United Every American Intolerance. What Can Americans Expect Under A Trump Presidency?
Can Trump Follow Through On His Campaign Promises? Trump To Use Twitter For Major Policy Announcements. Trump Gives Intelligence Agencies Their Daily Briefing. A Timeline Of Trump’s Relationship With The Press. What Compromising Information Does Russia Have On Donald Trump? Nation Elects First Black-Hearted President. Why Trump Is Mentally Unfit to Be President: Pathology of Narcissism - Rolling Stone. Effects of age and dementia on temporal cycles in spontaneous speech fluency. Budget Slashes Programs for Poor, While Largely Sparing Older People.
The Trump Documents. The Daily 202: Trump hypocrisy continues at home and abroad. What made Trump can/will break Trump. 100 days of Trump claims - Washington Post. Untitled. Trump Russia Leak May Have Been Legal – But It Was a Disgrace - Rolling Stone. Erik Erikson: Trump’s Russia Leak ‘Is Actually Far Worse Than What is Being Reported’ (DETAILS) Why We’re Stuck With Trump Until He Loses Fox News. These Two Former Intelligence Chiefs Differ Sharply on Russia and Trump. NATO ‘freaking out’ as they try to figure out how to circumvent Trump’s ‘notoriously short attention span’ Escalating Tensions Lead Trump To Shake Up Inner Circle Of TV Programs. Most WTF Moments From Trump's WTF Week - Rolling Stone. Q&A: Transcript: Interview with Donald Trump.