The second-ranking House Democrat charged that President Trump’s unproven accusation former President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower during the 2016 campaign shows that the president is divorced from reality. The allegations outlined in a Trump tweet on Saturday “paint a picture of someone obsessed with conspiracy theories and detached from reality,” said Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., the House Minority Whip, in a statement Sunday.
Category: Lincoln
Whose news is fake? Here’s the latest in Trump’s war with the press
Reporters stand in the press briefing room of the White House after being excluded from the meeting on Friday. That year, President Reagan missed out.
A Pleasant Day Protesting All Things Trump
It was a beautiful day in the neighborhood. That’s unusual for Presidents’ Day in Chicago, where the weather is typically a mournful dirge for Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, with blowing snow and biting wind.
In Newark, a Presidents Day rally against a president
Elston, a 45-year-old truck driver who lives in Newark, is a fan of the nation’s 45th president, Donald Trump . He had just shouted the same argument at a group of about 50 protestors staging a Presidents Day rally against the sitting president, at the seated statue Abraham Lincoln in front of the old courthouse at Springfield Avenue and Market Street.
What today’s leaders could learn from those we honor on Presidents’ Day
Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events PRESIDENTS’ DAY may seem somewhat contrived, an attempt to work a three-day weekend into the month when our two greatest national leaders were born, with the goal of making February a little more tolerable. But somewhere under the annual glut of ads for improbable bargains, there’s real meaning to the day, especially in this year of rancor, division and shameless deceit.
What today’s leaders could learn from those we honor on Presidents’ Day
Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events PRESIDENTS’ DAY may seem somewhat contrived, an attempt to work a three-day weekend into the month when our two greatest national leaders were born, with the goal of making February a little more tolerable. But somewhere under the annual glut of ads for improbable bargains, there’s real meaning to the day, especially in this year of rancor, division and shameless deceit.
You’re not going to believe where historians ranked Obama in presidents survey
Span conducted a survey of 91 presidential historians to determine the ranking of the nation’s 44 chief executives. It’s the third such survey conducted by the public affairs network, the previous two being taken in 2000 and 2009.
Thinkin’ about “Lincoln” again
Steven Spielberg’s 2012 film Lincoln seems to have dropped from our cultural consciousness. Perhaps the cognitive dissonance it induces on the left suppresses memory of it.
The Carrot, the Stick, and the Buggy Whip
As 2016 came to a close, dictionary makers Merriam-Webster posted a pathetic little tweet-a cry for help, really-that quickly went viral: “‘Fascism’ is still our #1 lookup. # of lookups = how we choose our Word of the Year.
Rep. Franks: If Trump Holds Pro-life Course, He’ll Be – An Abraham Lincoln for the Unborn’
Rep. Trent Franks told CNSNews.com at the March for Life on Friday that President Donald Trump was “knocking it out of the stadium” as far as pro-life issues go, and that he hopes Trump “keeps marching on and doing what’s right, because if he does, history will see him as kind of an Abraham Lincoln for the unborn.” “Right now the man is knocking it out of the stadium and I am so proud of him,” Franks said, adding that he prays Trump “doesn’t fall prey to the relentless attacks of the left and the pro-abortion groups.
Paul LePage: John Lewis should thank Republican presidents for ending slavery, fighting Jim Crow
Paul LePage, the Republican governor of Maine, said Tuesday that civil rights icon and Georgia Rep. John Lewis should “look at history” and say “thank you” to 19th century Republican presidents for fighting for the rights of African-Americans. LePage’s comments come after Lewis said on NBC News that Donald Trump was not a “legitimate” president.
Letters: Evaluating Obama’s legacy
Re: “How do you assess Obama’s legacy?” [Opinion, Jan. 3]: It’s become clear that President Obama is very concerned about his place in history, and his actions in office will define that legacy. His administration has given us inedible school lunches, unaffordable insurance and made police lives unimportant.
a Message to President-Elect Trump
I do not propose to attack you, nor do I propose to support everything that you say and do. In truth, I cannot say that I voted for you, because I imagined myself standing in front of the pearly gates of heaven and found myself at a loss to defend selecting either you or Mrs. Clinton for president, so I made an alternative choice.