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Donald Trump, the human ruler, as in measuring stick, is at it again, this time grading his performance as president. Appearing on Fox News recently, the president gave himself an A-plus for effort, an A for accomplishment, and a C for communication.
One of the reasons I thought the Democratic Party was about to turn the page on the acrimony of the presidential primaries was because the two leading candidates to run the Democratic National Committee were speaking the same language. Not only that, the campaign waged by former labor secretary Tom Perez and Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., was devoid of vitriol and personal attacks.
Even after more than two years since John Mellencamp and Meg Ryan broke up, it seems all is not well between the exes. "My manager went in and was talking to the record company, and the president of the record company - who I won't mention his name, but you could probably figure it out - said, 'I don't know why Mellencamp insists on having these [n--s] singing with him", Mellencamp told Howard Stern on SiriusXM this morning.
Actor Alec Baldwin is taking his "Saturday Night Live" impersonation of U.S. President Donald Trump from the screen to the pages of a satirical White House memoir due for release later this year, Penguin Press said on Wednesday. The co-authored parody political narrative "You Can't Spell America Without Me: The Really Tremendous Inside Story of My Fantastic First Year As President," by Baldwin and real-life novelist and radio host Kurt Andersen, is set to hit bookstores on Nov. 7, the publisher said.
Nations pledged tens of millions of dollars for family planning programs Thursday at an international conference in Brussels to make up for the gap left by President Donald Trump's ban on U.S. funding to groups linked to abortion. Some 50 governments attended the hastily convened one-day conference.
In this time of tumult when critics of Donald Trump are in the street, there is a notion out there that needs to be shot down, and it is coming from Democrats. Many of them seem to believe that elected officials are supposed to represent the views of the public.
Just five weeks into Donald Trump's presidency, Republican Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham have already proven to be major headaches for the new President. While many of their Republican colleagues in Congress have worked to make inroads with the new administration, hoping to capitalize on GOP control over two branches of government, the two senators have repeatedly broken with the White House.
But in a town hall hosted by CNN Wednesday night, they also warned Trump against overselling the success of the raid in which Navy SEAL William "Ryan" Owens was killed. "I think he laid out a positive agenda, and frankly I think it was different from his inaugural address.
Yesterday President Trump invited a bunch of network anchors to lunch and told them he was open to a comprehensive immigration bill that included a path to legal status - but not citizenship - for undocumented immigrants. The anchors were permitted only to source this to a "senior administration official," and they did.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, left, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions arrive for President Donald Trump's speech on Feb. 28, 2017. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, left, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions arrive for President Donald Trump's speech on Feb. 28, 2017.
US President Donald J. Trump delivers his first address to a joint session of Congress from the floor of the House of Representatives in Washington, DC, USA, 28 February 2017. / AFP / EPA POOL / JIM LO SCALZO US President Donald J. Trump delivers his first address to a joint session of Congress from the floor of the House of Representatives in Washington, DC, USA, 28 February 2017.
Carryn Owens, widow of widow of Chief Special Warfare Operator William "Ryan" Owens, is applauded on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, as she was acknowledged by President Donald Trump during his address to a joint session of Congress. An emotional Carryn Owens, widow of widow of Chief Special Warfare Operator William "Ryan" Owens, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, as she was acknowledged by President Donald Trump during his address to a joint session of Congress.
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's new executive order on immigration will not include a blanket ban on citizens from Iraq, among a host of other revisions meant to allay legal and diplomatic concerns, people familiar with the matter said. The White House late Tuesday scrapped plans for Trump to sign a revised travel ban Wednesday afternoon, a person familiar with the matter said, marking the third time the administration has put off the matter since the president said that dangerous people might enter the country without a prohibition in place.
President Donald Trump's first major address to the Congress and the nation was seen by an estimated 47.4 million people. The Nielsen company said Wednesday that Trump's audience couldn't quite match the first such speech by predecessor Barack Obama, who drew an audience of 52.4 million in 2009.
Rosie O'Donnell speaks at a rally calling for resistance to President Donald Trump, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, in Lafayette Park in front of the White House in Washington, prior the president's address to a joint session of Congress. President Donald Trump, flanked by Vice President Mike Pence and House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis.
Ex-presidents tend to recede from public view, particularly when they leave office - as George W. Bush did - with a Gallup approval rating hovering around 30%. But Bush is returning to the national stage this week in the role of an elder statesman.
In his address to a joint session of Congress, President Donald Trump revived a theme he had unveiled less than two weeks earlier, when he said at a marathon press conference that he'd inherited "a mess" from his predecessor, Barack Obama. Speaking in the House chamber on Feb. 28, Trump offered a series of statistics that collectively painted a dire picture of the U.S. economy.
The National Security Agency risks a brain-drain of hackers and cyber spies due to a tumultuous reorganization and worries about the acrimonious relationship between the intelligence community and President Donald Trump, according to current and former NSA officials and cybersecurity industry sources. Half-a-dozen cybersecurity executives told Reuters they had witnessed a marked increase in the number of U.S. intelligence officers and government contractors seeking employment in the private sector since Trump took office on January 20. One of the executives, who would speak only on condition of anonymity, said he was stunned by the calibre of the would-be recruits.
In case there's some way you missed it, POTUS' counselor was photographed kneeling on the Oval Office couch , with her high heels digging into the cushions, as she tried to get "a certain angle" for a photo of Donald Trump with leaders from historically black colleges and universities on Monday. After the pic went viral, the 50-year-old *tried* to defend herself while speaking with Lou Dobbs on FOX News .