Donald Trump Knows Everyone Hates Him
Chris Kleponis/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump’s reliable stream of often incoherent, racist, and press-bashing tweets took an unexpected turn Friday afternoon when the president posted something to his social media feed that was actually…funny. The rare moment arrived via a mash-up video featuring a cast of top…
Quote of the Day: Emergency? What Emergency?
Martin H. Simon/CNP via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. From President Trump on the $6 billion he’s going to take from the military to build his wall: I said, “What were you going to use it for?” And I won’t go into details, but it didn’t sound too important…
“I Didn’t Need to Do This”: Trump Uses Emergency Declaration Speech to Make Case Against Himself
Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump used the speech announcing his decision to invoke emergency powers to fund border wall construction to strengthen the legal arguments against that decision. “I didn’t need to do this,” Trump said Friday about the emergency declaration, “but I’d rather do…
Twitter Really Is the Best Way to Understand Donald Trump
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Trump is talking. That is, he’s stringing words together into vaguely sentence-like constructions. Let’s listen in via my carefully curated Twitter feed. I guarantee that this captures the spirit of Trump’s remarks better than any normal media story you’ll read: POTUS starts by describing…
Trump Plans to Steal $6 Billion From National Defense for His Wall
Olivier Douliery/Abaca/TNS via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The shutdown crisis is over: President Trump is speaking at an event in the Rose Garden, where his acting chief of staff says he will announce that he will sign spending legislation to avert a government shutdown and at the same…
Richard Burr Says There’s No Evidence of Collusion. How Would He Know?
Senate intelligence committee chairman Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) leaves a closed briefing on intelligence matters on Capitol Hill on December 4, 2018.Zach Gibson/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Senate intelligence committee chairman Richard Burr keeps saying his panel has found no evidence of collusion between President Donald Trump’s 2016…