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On the third day of the Trump presidency, Kellyanne Conway delivered a not-so-veiled threat to "Meet the Press" host Chuck Todd about the nature and tone of the new administration's future rapport with the media. "If we're going to keep referring to the press secretary in those types of terms, I think we're going to have to rethink our relationship here," Conway said.
Rankism is the degradation of those with less power or lower rank. It's somebodies using the power of their rank to humiliate or disadvantage those they see as nobodies.
Really? Looking at Trump's nominations and appointments-the clearest indication during the transition period of how a president-elect actually intends to govern-it's hard to discern any signs of populism whatsoever: Landler also wrote that "Mr. Trump is as close to an independent as has ever served in modern times," as "he ran against the Republican establishment as much as he ran against Hillary Clinton." One suspects that the most independent president of modern times wouldn't pick the head of one of the two major parties to be his White House chief of staff, as Trump did with Reince Priebus.
I was busy all day long and raced to get my computer and everything set up so I could relax and, for the first time since election day, check cable news, and shit is blowing up because of these protests. Amazing.
It was obvious that Donald Trump was going to do something provocative just after being sworn in as president, but didn't you think his provocation would be a bit less ... verbal? Here's a guy who could have whomped us with a couple dozen executive orders, all of which would have the force of law, but instead his big provocation was this: As Donald Trump was sworn in Friday, the White House website got a major makeover. One of the casualties in the reset: any mention of the need to fight climate change.
President Donald Trump, first lady Melania Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and Karen Pence attend the National Prayer Service at the National Cathedral on Saturday. Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images hide caption President Donald Trump, first lady Melania Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and Karen Pence attend the National Prayer Service at the National Cathedral on Saturday.
The one best wish I think I have for the country as a new administration comes to office is that there is a revival of respect. It can be depressing, especially on these days that celebrate a peaceful and democratic transfer of power, to recount the many times this year political rhetoric got coarse, boorish, and even cruel.
President Donald Trump used his inaugural address to call for the "civilized world" to unite "against radical Islamic terrorism, which we will eradicate completely from the face of the Earth." It received one of the most enthusiastic responses from the crowd in attendance at the National Mall.
Resistance in action: Demonstrators protest outside the Trump International Hotel during a march in downtown Washington this week. In response to the collective feelings of dread at the dawn of Donald Trump's presidency, a new and determined mass movement seems to have formed.
Demonstrators gather at the Utah State Capitol building to protest the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States in Salt Lake City, November 12, 2016. Donald Trump is assuming the presidency without a mandate from the people-and this fact drives him crazy.
Just hours after Donald Trump was inaugurated as President of the United States, his new government moved quickly to obstruct all efforts by the federal government to provide protections to American children, communities and workers. Trump's White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus sent out a memo ordering all agencies to "send no regulation to the Office of the Federal Register," and "with respect to regulations that have been sent to the OFR but not published in the Federal Register, immediately withdraw them from the OFR" .
Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to fill the nation's capital for the inauguration of Donald Trump, and while the majority of those expected in Washington on Friday will be there to celebrate, some protesters say their plan is to do their best to disrupt the day. A coalition calling itself DisruptJ20, after the date of the inauguration, says people participating in its actions will attempt to shut down or cause delays at security checkpoints going in to the inauguration ceremony.
Donald Trump has won the presidency after narrowly carrying a few states to put him above 270 electoral votes.But according... Send a letter to U.S. Senators: Block Jeff Sessions' appointment as Attorney General. **NOTE: THE FORM LETTER IS BLANK.
Antonia Juhasz is an energy analyst, author, and investigative reporter. She recently wrote a profile of Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of State Rex Tillerson for In These Times magazine.
My to-do list today included tracking down eighteenth-century primary sources in French for some of my ambitious Francophone students. So, obviously, I decided to see what if anything French press had on Martin Luther King .
It began when Rep. John Lewis announced that he would not attend the inaugural of Donald J. Trump because he did not consider him a legitimate president. Lewis, sometimes called "the conscience of Congress," emerged to prominence as a very young man in 1963-66 as Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee - of which he had been one of the founders.
It began when Rep. John Lewis announced that he would not attend the inaugural of Donald J. Trump because he did not consider him a legitimate president. Lewis, sometimes called "the conscience of Congress," emerged to prominence as a very young man in 1963-66 as Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee - of which he had been one of the founders.
"There is no simple lesson for us from the past, but one that seems to be speaking to us is that progress of any sort requires a broad coalition of various oppressed constituencies and their representations in the political center and left." On November 8 the rise of a right-wing nationalist regime in the United States became a realistic possibility, if not now then in the coming years.
Congressman John Lewis should spend more time on fixing and helping his district, which is in horrible shape and falling apart rather than falsely complaining about the election results. All talk, talk, talk - no action or results.