The saga of the on again, off again, on again, Trump meeting with The New York Times took a compelling turn as the Times reported that Trump initially canceled the meeting after his Chief of Staff Reince Priebus lied to him because he feared that Trump was in way over his head.
Donald Trump’s foundation appears to have done the very thing Trump accused Hillary Clinton of being corrupt over. With the same person. And he did it while running for president.
What the President-elect first signaled during his 60 Minutes interview has become a reality as the incoming Trump administration has broken their promise to Republicans to investigate Hillary Clinton.
“For the first time in history, we elected a president whose only experience is rooted in those businesses we don’t really know anything about.”
“Donald Trump promised to change Washington’s culture of self-dealing, and if he wants to succeed he’s going to have to make a sacrifice and lead by example.”
“Great meetings will take place today at Trump Tower concerning the formation of the people who will run our government for the next 8 years”
“The American citizen and pensioner Friedrich Trump, currently residing in Kallstadt, is hereby informed that he is to depart the state of Bavaria, or face deportationâ€
“The Holocaust did not begin with killing; it began with words. The Museum calls on all American citizens…to confront racist thinking and divisive hateful speech.”
This is what America has gotten itself into. It is being reported that President-elect Trump raged at NBC News because they showed photographs of his multiple chins during their campaign coverage.
Instead of accepting the wishes of North Carolina voters, McCrory is shamefully trying to discredit and ignore them.
There are some things that just aren’t up for debate. This is one of them.
This is Donald Trump’s America now – and he must own it.
Instead of leaving his safe space, Trump remained in post-election hiding to make his first major, post-election remarks.
The members of the networks expected to negotiate presidential press access during their meeting with the President-elect. What they got was a Trump-style temper tantrum where his disrespect for the free press was on full display.
In a savvy political move, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) outsmarted President-elect by reintroducing his own $1 trillion infrastructure spending bill, which offers Democrats an alternative to the Trump plan that Sanders labeled a “scam.”
Donald Trump’s team is claiming that he is too busy to hold a press conference and answer questions from journalists.
The New York Times’ Jeremy Peters asked President-elect Donald Trump’s Senior Adviser Kellyanne Conway if Trump was breaking any laws, and she accused him of being “negative.”
Television network bosses fueled the public’s distrust of their reporting by going to Trump Tower and holding a secret off the record meeting with President-elect.
The question now is who will save us from the potential sell-off of America to foreign interests? Congressional Republicans will, if they have any integrity at all.
A report out of Argentina states that when Argentine President Mauricio Macri called to congratulate the President-elect on his win, Trump responded by asking for help on permitting issues for one of his buildings in Argentina.
Once he leaves office, Barack Obama will be the one Democrat capable of leading the party, and during his press conference in Peru, the President strongly suggested that he is not about to go quietly into retirement and allow his legacy to be dismantled by Trump and the GOP.
It isn’t just the popular vote that Donald Trump lost. According to a new Pew Research Poll, the American people preferred Hillary Clinton’s campaign to Donald Trump’s. Republicans have a big problem because most Americans prefer the candidate who won’t be president by multiple measurements.
“We’re about to enter, or may already have entered, an era of corrupt governance unprecedented in U.S. history.”
The news media really has a very simple job; report the truth even if it is reporting the truth that a presidential candidate is a liar.
“An MP has highlighted the growth in far-right extremism in the UK, saying young neo-Nazis are becoming a bigger problem than Islamist extremists.”
“Equal time? Election is over. There is no more equal time. Now u try 2 b Pres + ppl respond. That’s pretty much it.”
According to the 2016 National Popular Vote Tracker, Hillary Clinton’s popular vote lead over Donald Trump has now surged past 1.7 million votes.
These Trump appointments of extreme racists and religious bigots do not bode well for any Americans who are not white and not Christian.
During an interview on Fox News’s Media Buzz program, Megyn Kelly accused several members of the media of coordinating “hits” on Trump with his campaign, while secretly being in the bag for the Republican nominee.
The press continues to disappoint the American people by refusing to hold Trump accountable and ask him serious questions.
Those Americans who are arguing that Donald Trump is not their president got new ammo for their argument from the latest vote count data that shows Hillary Clinton leading Donald Trump by more than 1.5 million votes.
Senate Democratic Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) shifted away from the overly positive talk of working with Donald Trump by promising to fight Trump tooth and nail during an interview on ABC’s This Week.
Mike Pence squashed President-Elect Trump’s outrage at the cast of Hamilton by telling Fox News Sunday that he wasn’t offended by the cast’s post-performance comments to him.
Chuck Todd had a chance to challenge incoming Trump chief of staff Reince Priebus on a contradictory answer about a potential Muslim registry, but instead the Meet The Press moderator bowed down to the new administration, and gave Trump a free pass.
Donald Trump isn’t the only person in the Trump family who doesn’t seem to keen on the actual work of the office he ran for. Future First Lady Melania Trump is also going to be a part-time First Lady, according to a report in the New York Post.
“I am ordering the State Police to put together a special unit to address the explosion of hate crimes in our state,” Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Sunday morning, while speaking at Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem.
On Fox News Sunday, Laura Ingraham confirmed that she is being considered as Trump White House Press Secretary.
Concerns over President-elect Trump’s potential free speech suppression should only grow after the President-Elect criticized a Saturday Night Live sketch and asked for “equal time” to respond to satire.
With each announcement the shock and trauma of what’s happening to this country, the civil rights of its citizens, and future of the free press is felt all over again.
Documents obtained through a Freedom Of Information Act request reveal that the conflicts on interest run deep as President-Elect Donald Trump has been using government contracts to enrich the very children that he now wants national security clearance for.
Is there a minimum wage of whiteness? When will those whites, of all classes…cease to feel a benefit of racism and see a benefit in solidarity?
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has often boasted about the strict confidentiality pledges he exacts from his employees. Now a legal challenge to one of those agreements is pending before a U.S. agency over which he will soon have influence, potentially posing an early test of concerns about conflicts of interest between Trump’s public role and his business empire.
Trump advisor completely dismisses “the well-established existence of endocrine-disrupting chemicals as a myth conjured by anti-chemical activists.”
Democratic attorneys general in at least five U.S. states have vowed to fight President-elect Donald Trump in the courts if he rolls back Obama-era regulations or adopts policies they view as infringing upon civil liberties.
Chinese state media warned U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday against flip-flopping on trade deals in Asia, as Asia-Pacific leaders gathered for a summit amid fears that growing protectionism will stunt global economic growth.
“The irony of the #BoycottHamilton movement is that it’s mostly folks who already boycott both hip-hop and knowledge of history.”
“Our goal is to connect people with the stories they find most meaningful, and we know people want accurate information.”
“Russia has perfected political warfare using cyber assets and apparently decided to apply these tactics so American democracy itself was hacked.”
Donald Trump’s infrastructure plan that some Democrats said that they might be able to support is not an infrastructure bill at all. Trump’s plan is not to spend government money on job-creating projects but to give tax cuts to contractors and the construction sector.
Journalists are expressing concern that President-elect Donald Trump’s tweets attacking the cast of Hamilton are a signal of how the next president intends to suppress free speech.
There is a Trump resistance movement building among Obama loyalists, and President Obama himself will be joining the organized push back against Trump after Inauguration Day.
In response to Donald Trump’s attack and false claim that the cast of Hamilton was rude to VP-elect Mike Pence, cast member Brandon Victor Dixon responded directly to the president-elect that conversation is not harassment.
Donald Trump used his power as President-elect to attack the cast of Hamilton and place a chilling effect on free speech by falsely claiming that the stars of the musical were rude to Vice President-elect Mike Pence.
“It’s like cancer…So it’s like cancer. And it’s a like a malignant cancer, though, in this case. It has metastasized.”
As the media looks at the scourge of Fake News, Fox “News” pretends it does not traffic in mendacity and blames Macedonian teens instead.
NSA Director Admiral Michael Rogers said that Wikileaks “was a conscious effort by a nation-state to attempt to achieve a specific effect.”
Civil rights attorney Lisa Bloom is offering to represent any electoral college elector for free if they defy their state and get into legal trouble by voting against Donald Trump.
A new Gallup poll found that Americans have a more favorable view of Democrats than they do of Republicans after Donald Trump won the White House.
“We still have a long way to go to ensure that every American can live free from the fear of violence or harassment based what they look like, how they worship, or whom they love.”
While the news that Trump settled the Trump University fraud cases is great for the thousands of people he defrauded, the fact that the next President Of The United States had to spend millions to avoid a fraud trial speaks volumes about his lack of ethics.
Less than a day after being chosen, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to be his national security adviser has been reported for a potential violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) laid down the law Friday in reaction to President-elect Donald Trump’s potential nomination of Senator Jeff Sessions for Attorney General, saying 30 years ago he was rejected for a federal judgeship because “there can be no compromise with racism; no negotiation with hate.”
Much is being made about “fake news,” but the biggest purveyor of fake news in the United States has been President-elect Donald Trump and his Twitter account.
Sen. Corey Booker (D-NJ) pointed to an alarming trend in President-elect Trump’s staff picks. Booker said that Trump is staff his administration with people who degrade and demean Americans, promote dangerous fringe ideologies, and threaten Americans’ rights.
David Duke said, “Bravo President Trump! Some great first steps. We’re on the way, folks, to taking America back.”
Donald Trump tried to take credit for keeping a Kentucky Ford plant in the US that was never going to leave. A union contract was the real reason why the plant was always going to stay in the United States.
Three of Trump’s first five appointees have ties or views that are in line with the white supremacist movement. These appointees are likely to be staffing agencies and departments with others who share their views.
“If anyone still thinks that Donald Trump might govern with more responsibility or moderation than he campaigned, this nomination is a wakeup call.”
“Steve Bannon, Michael Flynn, and now Jeff Sessions. It is now news when Trump chooses someone for his staff who isn’t openly bigoted.”
“I told you the shit show would become so intense that the Bannon fiasco would soon seem like distant memory.”
The new media ecosystem, says Obama, “means everything is true and nothing is true,†making it “very difficult to have a common conversationâ€
“Trump supporters are sending messages threatening to send me and my ‘ilk’ to the gas chambers and ‘get ready for the trains.’â€
Sen. Reid is making the most of his remaining time in office.
President-elect Donald Trump is making up fantasy accomplishments before he reaches the White House. Trump tweeted that has successfully kept a Ford plant from going to Mexico. The problem is that the plant was never going to leave.
Trump’s choice of Flynn is unsurprising given the anti-Muslim aura that surrounded the president-elect during his campaign.
Clinton’s growing lead over Trump is giving oxygen to longshot efforts to pressure the electoral college to choose Clinton as the next president.
Senate Democrats are considering a strategy of collaboration with President-elect Trump, which if acted upon would send the Democratic base into a state of total rebellion.
It turns out that Republicans weren’t one hundred percent honest with the voters about ACA repeal. Republicans can pass a bill legislation repealing the law in 2017, but Obamacare will remain, and those who sign up will keep their insurance until at least 2018.
Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) took to the Senate floor Thursday to demand that President-elect Donald Trump do something about the astonishing and increasing “vile acts of hate and intimidation” by a minority of his supporters. Since Reid last asked Trump to step up, the hate crimes increased by 40% according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Millions of blind and visually impaired Americans will be forced to wait for video accessibility access until after Donald Trump takes office thanks to Republican FCC commissioners.
President-elect Trump’s proposed five-year lobbyist ban is a paper move that will accomplish virtually nothing. The special interests will still occupy his White House, and they will still be paid.
There is no honeymoon for Donald Trump, as Gallup has found that the president-elect is the least popular winner of a presidential election in the last 24 years.
George Takei loves this country, and sees its promise. Yet he was imprisoned in a Japanese Internment camp, the very camps cited by a Trump spokesman as precedent for a Trump policy. Takei said his father explained, “He told me that our democracy is a people’s democracy, and it can be as great as the people can be, but it is also as fallible as people are.â€
Carl Higbie, a former Navy SEAL and Trump PAC spokesperson, tried to justify President-elect Donald Trump’s Muslim registry plan by citing World War II Japanese Internment camps as precedent.
“There are certain norms about the press and the presidency that are there for a reason. And the early signs from Donald Trump are worrisome”
Trump promised his base he wouldn’t even think about or entertain any proposal to touch Medicare; now he vows “modernization” with a Paul Ryan coupon.
Context: When people attacked New Balance, the reason, ironically enough, was its opposition to the TPP, an agreement many on the left oppose
The honeymoon phase that most incoming presidents enjoy at the beginning of their tenures appears to be nonexistent for Donald Trump.
The former Secretary of State is just as upset as we are – but she also urged Americans to keep fighting.
The laziness he has displayed during the transition seems to indicate that he was never really serious about becoming president in the first place.
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) is demanding answers after President-elect Donald Trump tried to jeopardize America’s biggest secrets by taking his son in law, who lacks national security clearance, into the President’s Daily Briefing.
President-elect Donald Trump will last no more than four years in the White House, a period when corporations and Wall Street will retain the upper hand over the struggling workers who helped elect him in a populist wave, bond manager Bill Gross of Janus Capital Group Inc
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) gave President-elect Trump a small taste of what the next four years are going to be like for him by ripping Trump’s choice of Steve Bannon to be his senior White House advisor.
A truly humiliating moment for America came when the Chinese government informed US President-elect Donald Trump that they did not invent climate change as a hoax.
The Democratic Party has begun their retooling efforts by returning to their liberal grassroots, as Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has endorsed Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) to be the next DNC chair.
The Bernie Sanders political revolution is joining the Senate Democratic leadership, as Sen. Sanders was named chair of outreach. His job will be to reach out to blue-collar voters.
There are worse signs of danger than Steve Bannon’s appointment, argues conservative Never-Trumper national security expert Professor Eliot A. Cohen. The darker danger is the Republican leaders who are excusing and normalizing Bannon’s “sinister character.”
“Failing @nytimes story is so totally wrong on transition. It is going so smoothly. Also, I have spoken to many foreign leaders,” Trump whined
