CNN’s Brooke Baldwin took a courageous plunge of listing chaotic Trump moments over the last four weeks in office. It took her three minutes and she had to pause for water while trying to read through the bullet points.
In few countries was public opinion so shocked by last weekend’s events in Charlottesville, Virginia, as in Germany, where the sight of skinheads marching by torchlight and chanting anti-Jewish slogans had historical resonance.
Charlottesville’s mayor called on Friday for a special session of Virginia’s legislature to let localities determine the fate of Confederate monuments like the statue at the center of a far-right rally that turned deadly there last weekend.
A White House source told CNN that one of the big reasons why Bannon was essentially “pushed out” is President Trump doesn’t like other people inside the White House stealing the limelight.
Conservatives wasted no time turning on Trump after he fired Steve Bannon, with some going as far as promising a revolution against their own president.
Steve Bannon will return to Breitbart after leaving the White House and a Bannon friend says Breitbart is ramping up for a war against Trump, NBC News/MSNBC contributor Gabe Sherman reported.
The White House released a two sentence statement confirming that Steve Bannon is out, and today is his last day at the White House.
Donald Trump is looking for a way out of the political inferno that he has caused by supporting and encouraging racists, so he has decided to fire Steve Bannon.
Wall Street recouped losses in early afternoon trading on Friday following a New York Times report that President Donald Trump has decided to remove chief strategist Steve Bannon.
It is being reported that White House Chief of Staff John Kelly is nearly the end of his review of Trump’s chief strategist Steve Bannon, and it is expected that Bannon could be fired from the White House as soon as today.
Actor Kal Penn and other members of the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities have resigned after Trump elevated racists and white supremacists. Here is the stinging letter of resignation from 14 members of the Committee: According to the Committee’s website, “Created in 1982 under President Reagan, the President’s Committee on the Arts and…
The President’s mental instability is showing itself more regularly, as Trump warned America that Homeland Security and law enforcement on the lookout for terrorists entering the US from Mexico and Canada.
Susan Bro, the mother of the woman murdered in the white supremacist terror attack in Charlottesville, says she has not and will not speak to Donald Trump after he equated her daughter to white supremacists. Video of Bro on ABC’s Good Morning America: "Have you talked to [Pres. Trump] directly yet?" – @RobinRoberts "I have…
Since the attack, Susan Bro has spoken out loudly against the hatred put on display in Charlottesville and criticized Trump’s despicable response.
U.S. President Donald Trump has abandoned plans to create an infrastructure advisory council, the White House said on Thursday, the day after two other advisory groups were dismantled over the furor caused by Trump’s remarks on white supremacists.
The end may very well be near for Donald Trump’s presidency.Â
Nobody wants to be seen within the same zip code as this president, particularly after he spent the past week defending white supremacists and Nazis.
“This guy’s going to get us all killed. There’s nobody in charge. This man (Trump) has the nuclear codes,” Moore, 63, told Reuters Television in an interview on Thursday.
Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe urged the Trump administration to exclude his state from a federal offshore oil and gas drilling plan, citing concerns about revenue sharing and environmental issues, in a letter that his office revealed on Thursday.
The head of the Palm Beach Chamber Of Commerce is urging charities to not hold events at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago private club in the wake of the President’s support of white supremacists after Charlottesville violence.
Nancy Pelosi on Thursday joined calls for the immediate removal of Confederate statues from the U.S. Capitol, shortly after President Donald Trump expressed regret over statues and monuments being removed in some cities.
MSNBC’s Katy Tur destroyed Donald Trump for tweeting an Internet hoax about killing Muslims with pig’s blood after the Barcelona terrorist attack.
“He is uniquely incapable of political leadership. If we get tax reform done, it won’t be with his help. It’ll be in spite of him and his vortex of incompetence and destruction,†a Republican aide said of President Trump.
The President Of The United States responded to the terrorist attack in Barcelona by tweeting a bigoted and debunked Internet hoax about Gen. Pershing stopping Muslim terrorism by dipping bullets in pig’s blood. Trump tweeted: Study what General Pershing of the United States did to terrorists when caught. There was no more Radical Islamic Terror…
Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) is openly questioning Trump’s mental stability, competence, and character, as Republicans are starting to come forward with serious criticisms of their own president. Video: Sen. Corker said: Corker’s comments are a continuation of a trend. Republican members of Congress don’t respect Trump, and they aren’t afraid of him. As Trump attacks…
U.S stocks hit session lows in early afternoon trading on Thursday as investors worried about President Donald Trump’s ability to pursue his pro-growth policies.
Trump White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon admitted that Trump was bluffing on North Korea. The White House doesn’t have a military strategy for North Korea, and that the North Koreans called Trump’s bluff.
A van crashed into dozens of people in the center of Barcelona on Thursday and Spanish media said at least two people were killed.
We welcome Republicans who have joined us in taking a stand, but it would be enabling to fail to mention how they got here. Trump’s racism didn’t just happen to the Republican Party. They grew this the hard way and the only way to root it out is to face this fact.
The decision to disband was agreed and Schwarzman called the White House to inform the president, the source said. Shortly after, Trump tweeted that he was disbanding the two groups.
A new CBS News Poll has found that more than two-thirds of Republicans support Trump’s Charlottesville response where he defended white supremacists and Nazis.
Even Trump’s own White House advisers are admitting that congressional Republicans don’t fear or respect their own president.
Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) the Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, has announced that he will introduce articles of impeachment against Trump after the President’s comments on the violence in Charlottesville.
Donald Trump defended Confederate statues and monuments on Thursday morning, as this president made it clear exactly where he stands on race in America.
Donald Trump on Thursday fired back at a growing number of fellow Republicans who denounced his response to the Charlottesville, Virginia violence, further fueling the latest controversy to engulf his seven-month-old presidency.
The Trump administration will make cost-sharing payments to insurance companies under Obamacare for the month of August, a White House spokesman said on Wednesday.
“In terms of people actually working in the administration, apparently everybody is fine, nobody is leaving, they’re all okay with it.”
The wave of internet crackdowns against white nationalists and neo-Nazis reflected a rapidly changing mindset among Silicon Valley firms on how far they are willing to go to police hate speech.
Within the span of about a week, the President of the United States will have endorsed white supremacists and announced that he’s pardoning a man who racially profiled Latinos.Â
Annual employee surveys released by the FBI on Wednesday show former Director James Comey was highly regarded, contradicting President Donald Trump’s claim when he fired Comey this year that he had lost the confidence of the agency’s workers.
“If allowed to continue along this senseless path, Mr. Trump will do lasting harm to American society and to our standing in the world.”
The editor of the New York Times editorial board on Wednesday took the witness stand in a lawsuit filed by former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, who claims that a June editorial in the paper defamed her by linking her to a 2011 mass shooting.
“The president needs to be crystal clear that hatred has no place in our society, but he is currently failing at it.”
The U.S. House Homeland Security Committee will hold a hearing next month about threats from extremist groups, including domestic terrorism, following a violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last weekend.
The men in charge of all the branches of the US military have denounced racism and broken with President Trump’s encouragement of racists.
Fox News’s Sheppard Smith announced during his program that they couldn’t find a single to Republican who would come on his show and defend Donald Trump’s comments about white supremacists and Nazis being good people. Max Tani of Business Insider tweeted: Shep says he couldn't find any Republicans to come on to defend Trump today:…
Twitter Inc on Wednesday suspended accounts linked to the neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer, keeping up pressure from Silicon Valley on white supremacists after weekend violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.
By Gina Cherelus (Reuters) – Baltimore removed four monuments to the pro-slavery Civil War Confederacy before dawn on Wednesday, working quickly so the city could avoid protests like the one organized by white nationalists that turned deadly in Charlottesville, Virginia. The statues, including one of General Robert E. Lee and another of General Thomas “Stonewall”…
A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday reversed a ruling that prevented Arkansas from cutting off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood following the release of controversial videos secretly recorded by an anti-abortion group.
It wasn’t Donald Trump who shut down the presidential councils, but CEOs who shut Trump after they decided in a conference call to collectively resign.
The right-wing activist retweeted by President Donald Trump is a Navy intelligence officer named John Michael Posobiec III, whose security clearance is currently suspended, according to NBC News.
In other words, Trump is being Trump.
In a move called a “hitch” in the Trump Russia probe, former FBI counterespionage chief Peter Strzok has left special counsel Robert Muller’s Trump Russia FBI investigative team for the Human Resources department, according to a scoop by ABC News.
A humiliated Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that he is ending his manufacturing council after CEOs fled him in the wake of his Charlottesville remarks. Trump tweeted: Rather than putting pressure on the businesspeople of the Manufacturing Council & Strategy & Policy Forum, I am ending both. Thank you all! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)…
“They tried to kill my child to shut her up. Well guess what? You just magnified her,” Heyer’s mother Susan Bro said to long and loud applause from those gathered at the city’s 1930s era Paramount Theater.
Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), senior Member of the House Judiciary Committee and former Chairman and Ranking Member of the Constitution Subcommittee, along with Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ) and Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) have filed a motion to censure and condemn President Trump for encouraging white supremacists.
Instead of attending the memorial service for Heather Heyer, Donald Trump did the bare minimum by tweeting about her once.
People carrying guns to provide security in the event of far-right protesters stand outside the memorial service for Heather Heyer in Charlottesville, Virginia
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) did what other Republicans have refused to do. He criticized the President by name and told Trump that he is dividing America and that many Republicans don’t agree with his rolling out of the welcome mat for David Duke.
A 32-year-old woman killed when a suspected white nationalist crashed his car into anti-racist demonstrators in Charlottesville was being remembered on Wednesday at a memorial service in this southern U.S. college town.
Senior German politicians on Wednesday accused U.S. President Donald Trump of trivializing violence by white supremacists in Virginia and called for a clear rejection of their ideology.
The signs are growing that Trump’s base is shrinking. The new Marist Poll finds that Republican support for Trump has dropped 12 points and strong Republican support for the President has dipped 14 points.
Ex-RNC spokesperson Doug Heye brought up a fantastic point after Trump’s press conference. There is no way that Republicans can ask for support from minorities after the President’s full throated defense of racists.
President Trump tried an obvious at distraction by attempting to take credit for North Korea not attacking the US.
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) is saying what the press won’t. Donald Trump is unfit to serve as President Of The United States.
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow cut through the White House excuses and revealed that Trump’s defense of racists, neo-Nazis, and white supremacists as an intentional political strategy.
A U.S. court struck down two Republican-drawn U.S. congressional districts in Texas on Tuesday, saying they were discriminatory and ordering a remedy ahead of elections in 2018, court papers showed.
Trump is urging Republicans in Congress to use the Steve Scalise shooting as a cover for his support of neo-Nazis and white supremacists.
Two people who say they were injured in a far-right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia sued the man charged with killing a woman by driving his car through the crowd as well as the event’s organizers on Tuesday for $3 million.
With the entire country turning against him at a rapid pace, Trump has issued talking points to his surrogates that claim he was right to defend the racists and the left is responsible for the violence in Charlottesville.
When white supremacists began rallying in downtown Charlottesville this weekend, Liz Licht kept the TV off, trying to shield her three kids from the hate spewed on the streets of this normally quiet college town.
The Commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. Robert Neller, has spoken out against Trump’s support for racists with a tweet stating that there is no place for racial hatred in the Marines.
Biographer David Maraniss has a great idea. The author is urging all five living former presidents to issue a joint statement calling on racist Donald Trump to resign.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) responded to Trump’s defense of racists by calling the President an embarrassment to America.
When Trump used his press conference to defend white supremacist and Nazi violence, a growing group of Republicans went after their own president.
What little fragments were left of the Trump presidency were set ablaze by the President as he defended racists and blamed the left for the violence in Charlottesville.
Donald Trump was asked by reporters if the Charlottesville attack was terrorism, and the President refused to call the killing of one and wounding of 19 by a white supremacist terrorism.
President Trump, who has never hesitated to offer an opinion before having the facts before, said that he needed the facts before he condemned racism. Trump went on to attack the press for not praising his statement.
Trump is described by White House officials as enraged at the press for not giving him positive coverage after the Charlottesville violence. Trump is said to be in no mood for moderation and sounds like a president who is coming apart.
The organizer of the Charlottesville rally, the driver of the car that was used in a domestic terror attack, and leaders of the alt-right racist movement are facing a $3 million lawsuit from two people who were injured in the violence.
New U.S. sanctions on Moscow have forced Russian business chiefs to accept that Donald Trump’s rise to power is not about to produce a “Trump Bump” in foreign investment.
Trump will sign an executive order that will end the requirement that flood prone infrastructure is built with rising sea levels in mind, which means that thanks to Trump, it will infrastructure will be more dangerous to human life during floods.
Donald Trump claimed threatened the CEOs on his manufacturing council that they could be easily replaced. After Trump made his threat, a fourth CEO quit.
Negotiators from Canada, Mexico and the United States are aiming for an ambitious first round of trade talks, a senior U.S. official said on Tuesday, as the countries try to fast-track a deal to modernize the pact by early next year.
Undeterred by the violence over the planned removal of a Confederate statue in Charlottesville, Virginia, municipal leaders in cities across the United States said they would step up efforts to pull such monuments from public spaces.
Stephen Colbert perfectly put his finger on why America is so outraged by Trump’s weak response to Nazi domestic terrorism by listing everything that Trump has condemned more strongly than Nazis. Video: https://youtu.be/NQ2ljdc7DN8?t=3m17s Colbert said, “It’s not like Trump is a shrinking violet. He’s known for criticizing things. If only the President was as mad…
U.S. President Donald Trump, facing a mounting political furor and backlash from business leaders, has explicitly condemned neo-Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacists two days after a rally by hate groups in Virginia turned deadly.
The White House is trying to claim that Donald Trump inadvertently retweeted an image of a train running over a CNN reporter, but it looks suspiciously like days after Charlottesville, the President was promoting violence.
Neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer appeared to be offline on Tuesday, after its domain registration was revoked by GoDaddy and Google, which both said the site that helped organize the violent weekend rally in Virginia had violated their terms of service.
Less than a day after he called for national unity on condemning racism and bigotry, Donald Trump went birther on Obama by proclaiming that the US really is his home.
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich is the third CEO to quit Trump’s manufacturing council in less than 24 hours over the President’s weak condemnation of white supremacists and the violence in Charlottesville.
Twitter Inc, Facebook Inc, Google’s YouTube and other platforms have ramped up efforts to combat the social media efforts of Islamic militant groups, largely in response to pressure from European governments. Now they are facing similar pressures in the United States over white supremacist and neo-Nazi content.
New Yorkers went straight for Trump’s weak spot, and a blocks line of protesters greeted the President by chanting, “He’s orange. He’s gross. He lost the popular vote.”
A policy bulletin from the FBI and Department of Homeland Security warned Trump months before Charlottesville about the rising threat of white supremacist violence, and the President did nothing.
California plans to file a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice over federal restrictions on some law enforcement grants to so-called sanctuary cities, a spokesperson for California’s attorney general office said on Monday.
Under Armour’s Kevin Plank became the second CEO to leave Trump’s manufacturing council after the President did not do enough to denounce the racist attacks in Charlottesville. Under Armour tweeted a statement from CEO Kevin Plank: I love our country & company. I am stepping down from the council to focus on inspiring & uniting…
Taylor Swift won her trial against a Colorado radio personality on Monday after a jury found that the former DJ assaulted and battered the pop star by groping her bare bottom, and awarded her the symbolic $1 in damages she had sought.
Trump reacted by throwing a fit after the American people didn’t fall for his half hearted and disinterested condemnation of Nazis and the KKK.
White House officials are saying that Donald Trump won’t be going to Charlottesville because he is incapable of delivering the kind of speech the country needs, and he may only make things worse. The Daily Beast spoke to two senior Trump aides about a trip to Charlottesville: “Why the hell would we do that?†one…
Trump’s approval with whites is falling so fast that he now has the same first term approval rating white voters as former President Barack Obama. Carrie Dann of NBC News tweeted the data from Gallup: As of mid-August of 1st term: (Gallup) Obama approvalwhite: 46%nonwhite: 73% Trump approval:white: 46%nonwhite: 15% — Carrie Dann (@CarrieNBCNews) August…
