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April Fools' Day has come and gone, but on the first of the month, I kept marveling at how - starting even before he ran, continuing through his campaign and certainly since Inauguration Day - Donald Trump has played us for a fool. Successfully, I might add.
This isn't a function of poll numbers, or any melodrama of the past months, but something more fundamental: No officeholder in Washington seems to understand President Donald Trump's populism or have a cogent theory of how to effect it in practice, including the president himself. House Speaker Paul Ryan isn't a populist and doesn't want to be a populist.
U.S. military commanders are stepping up their fight against Islamist extremism as President Donald Trump's administration urges them to make more battlefield decisions on their own. As the White House works on a broad strategy, America's top military commanders are implementing the vision articulated by Defense Secretary Jim Mattis: Decimate Islamic State's Middle East strongholds and ensure that the militants don't establish new beachheads in places such as Afghanistan.
Popular Vote Loser Donald Trump just released his first budget,and it is filled with debilitating cuts to social services and... Despite promising to release his tax returns in a televised debate with Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump continues to show that... Did Donald Trump really make major inroads with union households ? Sociologists Jake Rosenfeld and Patrick Denice take a look at the data and conclude that the story is more complicated than the headlines have made it out to be. In 2016 the partisan split among union households was smaller than at any time since Ronald Reagan's re-election in 1984."
Actress and producer Justine Bateman says Americans need "financial statement proof" that President Donald Trump is not beholden to any business interests or country other than the U.S. She addressed several thousand people Saturday at a Tax Day rally in downtown Los Angeles to demand that Trump release his tax returns. Trump was the first major-party nominee in four decades to not release his tax returns, saying it was because he was under audit.
In this April 12, 2017 file photo House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore. speaks at a town hall meeting in The Dalles, Ore.
In this Jan. 20, 2017 file photo, then-President-elect Donald Trump and his wife Melania walk to their vehicle after attending church service at St. John's Episcopal Church across from the White House in Washington. At Washington churches, presidents have long been seated in the pews.
Donald Trump's true believers are losing the faith. As Trump struggles to keep his campaign promises and flirts with political moderation, his most steadfast supporters -- from veteran advisers to anti-immigration activists to the volunteers who dropped their jobs to help elect him -- are increasingly dismayed by the direction of his presidency.
In this April 12, 2107 file photo, President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington. It was a flip-floppy week at the White House as President Donald Trump walked away from some promises and people, contorting reality in the process.
Senator Bob Corker, center, speaks to recent refugees from South Sudan at a registration center in Bidi Bidi, Uganda, Friday, April 14 2017. Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee, the Republican chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, strongly defended U.S. foreign assistance on Friday while visiting the world's fastest growing refugee crisis in northern Uganda, just across the border from war-torn South Sudan.
It was a flip-floppy week at the White House as President Donald Trump walked away from some promises and people, contorting reality in the process. He declared NATO no longer obsolete, even though the alliance hasn't changed much since he denigrated it in the 2016 campaign.
Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's senior adviser and son-in-law, listens during a meeting with small business leaders at the White House on Jan. 30. MUST CREDIT: Washington Post photo by Jabin Botsford Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's senior adviser and son-in-law, listens during a meeting with small business leaders at the White House on Jan. 30. MUST CREDIT: Washington Post photo by Jabin Botsford Vice President Al Gore during interview with reporters in 1997 at his White House desk using his personal computer and talking about all the 'goodies' he has on it. Vice President Al Gore during interview with reporters in 1997 at his White House desk using his personal computer and talking about all the 'goodies' he has on it.
The self-proclaimed "supernatural being" has revealed to Daily Star Online his visions and study of the Bible and prophecies has resulted in a date on which the nuclear war will fall. Clairvoyant Horacio Villegas envisioned Donald Trump becoming US president as far back as 2015, predicting he would become the "illuminati king" who will "bring the world into WW3" Chillingly he also prophesied the leader would attack Syria which later happened following a chemical attack and that it would bring Russia, North Korea and China into the conflict.
President Trump's business empire has always been a family affair and now his White House appears to be headed in the same direction. In an interview with the New York Post , Trump said: "I like Steve, but you have to remember he was not involved in my campaign until very late".
The president's recent shifts in position on big foreign policy issues have got his supporters pondering: Are the reversals worth a mere shrug of the shoulders, or are they a cause for greater concern. Where critics see a flip-flopper, many Trump voters see the kind of recalibrating that's to be expected from any new president, even more so for the first in history to land in the Oval Office without any government or military experience.
" Washington churches have long welcomed presidents to their pews. Bill and Hillary Clinton favored a Methodist church, Jimmy Carter taught Baptist Sunday school and Barack Obama visited an Episcopal church near the White House.
As President Donald Trump's administration drafts an Afghanistan policy, U.S. officials are seeking a way to reverse gains by militant groups without wading deeper into a 15-year-long war that has no end in sight. In the past month, three U.S. service members have been killed in operations against Islamic State militants near Afghanistan's porous border with Pakistan, where armed groups still find sanctuary.Officially, the U.S.-led international force in Afghanistan ceased combat operations at the end of 2014, but the conflict has proved difficult to exit without risking the overthrow of the government in Kabul.
In an interview with the New York Post 's Michael Goodwin, Donald Trump makes clear that Steve Bannon is a dead man walking: When I asked the president Tuesday afternoon if he still has confidence in Bannon, who took over the campaign in mid-August, I did not get a definitive yes. "I like Steve, but you have to remember he was not involved in my campaign until very late," Trump said.