Trump setting records for low presidential approval
Donald Trump started as the most unpopular new president in the history of modern polling. After seven months, things have only gotten worse.
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Trump pardons ex-sheriff convicted of defying judgea s order
President Donald Trump spared his ally former Sheriff Joe Arpaio a possible jail sentence on Friday by pardoning his conviction, reversing what critics saw as a long-awaited comeuppance for a lawman who escaped accountability for headline-grabbing tactics during most of his 24 years as metropolitan Phoenix's top law enforcer. "Throughout his time as Sheriff, Arpaio continued his life's work of protecting the public from the scourges of crime and illegal immigration," the White House statement said.
Trump pardons former Sheriff Joe Arpaio, says he was ‘worthy candidate’
In this Jan. 26, 2016 file photo, then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is joined by Joe Arpaio, the sheriff of metro Phoenix, at a campaign event in Marshalltown, Iowa. Trump made the controversial move of pardoning Arpaio on Friday, Aug. 25, 2017.
RNC votes to condemn white supremacists over groans of some
The Republican National Committee walked the tightrope Friday in carefully but resolutely denouncing white supremacist groups without criticizing President Donald Trump, who waffled in his own statements in the wake of the deadly clash in Virginia this month. Meeting in Nashville, Tennessee, the RNC approved a raft of resolutions, including one asserting "Nazis, the KKK, white supremacists and others are repulsive, evil and have no fruitful place in the United States."
Kasich Considering Teaming Up With Democrat For 2020 Run
Former Gov. John Kasich of Ohio is open to the possibility of running with Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper for the presidency in 2020, according to a Friday report from Axios. Both Kasich and Hickenlooper have a history of speaking at conferences on their views on health care, and they plan to expand their speaking portfolios to include their views on immigration and job creation, two issues that President Donald Trump campaigned on during the course of the 2016 presidential election.
Feds on Trumpa s shutdown threat: a Ita s blackmaila
President Donald Trump's latest threat to shut the government is just the most recent indication that he is unfit and unprepared for the office. The notion that the president of the United States would purposefully imperil services to taxpayers if Congress doesn't approve $1.6 billion for his Mexico border wall would be far-fetched, if a credible person occupied the White House.
Changes coming to US protected lands, but details unknown
Tribes, ranchers and conservationists know that none of the national monuments ordered reviewed by President Donald Trump will be eliminated, but the changes in store for the sprawling land and sea areas remain a mystery after the administration kept a list of recommendations under wraps. That left people on all sides of the contentious debate clinging to only shreds of information and anxiously waiting for more details.
After Kushner snub, Trump calls Egypt’s Sissi to affirm support
US President Donald Trump has told his Egyptian counterpart Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi that he wants to strengthen ties with Cairo, Sissi's office said Friday, days after it emerged Washington had cut some aid to Egypt. Egypt had protested on Wednesday a US decision to withhold some military and financial aid over human rights concerns.
Trump’s Evil Empireby Rich Lowry For many Republicans, what matters…
The media has become for the Right what the Soviet Union was during the Cold War - a common, unifying adversary of overwhelming importance. Before the fall of the Berlin Wall, religious conservatives and libertarians could agree that, whatever their other differences, godless communism had to be resisted.
Trump is winning the statue war
Trump is winning the statue war With Democrats howling about tearing down statues and supporting violent protesters, Trump is free to run the nation. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://usat.ly/2xy8DHq Just last month, Democrats were talking about how they needed to rebrand their party around a positive message.
GOP discord might not bode well for raising debt ceiling
Fanning the flames of GOP discord, President Donald Trump is accusing Republican congressional leaders of botching efforts to avoid an unprecedented default on the national debt. "Could have been so easy-now a mess!" Trump tweeted.
Trump’s Battle to Fund His Wall Squeezed by Deadline for Debt Limit
President Donald Trump is spoiling for a fight with Congress over funding a border wall with Mexico, but he'll have a hard time waging that battle because of a looming deadline to avert a U.S. debt default. Some of the president's advisers consider a tough stand on border wall funding crucial to Trump's credibility and even political survival, two White House officials said.
GOP Plan to Kill Estate Tax Sets Up Charitable Giving Conflict
Most Republicans support killing the estate tax as part of a tax overhaul, but doing so could have dire consequences for something else conservatives cherish -- charitable giving. President Donald Trump along with top GOP lawmakers have proposed ending what they call the death tax -- a 40 percent levy that's applied to estates worth more than $5.49 million for individuals and $10.98 million for married couples.
Trump can’t stop trash-talking GOP leaders on Capitol Hill
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Trump’s Palmerstonian Policy
President Donald Trump's Afghanistan speech Monday night was disciplined, measured and sometimes verging on eloquence. It was presidential.
Miniskirt Photo Swayed Trump on Afghanistan
President Donald Trump changed his mind about sending more troops to Afghanistan after a campaign by his national security adviser H.R. McMaster which reportedly included showing the president a photograph of women in miniskirts in Kabul. The picture from 1972 was used by McMaster in an effort to demonstrate to Trump that Western culture could return to Afghanistan if he sent more troops, the Washington Post reported.
OnPolitics Today: How Russian Twitter accounts push pro-Trump propaganda
OnPolitics Today: How Russian Twitter accounts push pro-Trump propaganda Plus: Trump's total eclipse of Obama. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://usat.ly/2wCS5S8 During President Donald Trump's rally in Phoenix on Tuesday, he said he's willing to close down the government to build his proposed border barrier.
US interior chief recommends changes on some protected lands
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke announced Thursday he won't seek to rescind any national monuments carved from the wilderness and oceans by past presidents. But he said he will press for some boundary changes and left open the possibility of allowing drilling, mining or other industries on the sites.
Jeff Flake wants details of Trump’s call for border wall
Sen. Jeff Flake said Thursday he won't be able to say whether he'd vote to fund President Donald Trump's wall along the US-Mexico border until he knows whether the president wants to build a single brick-and-mortar structure or instead erect a combination of fencing and other barriers. The president threatened earlier this week at a rally in Phoenix to shut down the federal government unless the gridlocked Congress agrees to build a border wall.
Bannon’s Exit Leaves Only His Worst Ideas Behind
After Steve Bannon departed the White House on August 14, he contacted The Weekly Standard to make a bold proclamation. "The Trump presidency that we fought for, and won, is over," the administration's now-former chief strategist said.