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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.
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.
Just when you thought Eclipse Twitter - of which the only good part was that picture of Trump appearing to stare directly into the sun without protective glasses - was through, Donald Trump gave it a second life. Earlier on Thursday, the president retweeted an eclipse meme starring ... himself.
One of the unnoticed ways in which American politics has changed under Donald Trump is the quiet disappearance of the budget deficit as a fixation of the news media and the business and political elite. During Barack Obama's two terms in office, terror about deficits positively consumed the discourse.
President Donald Trump was very busy tweeting on Thursday, as he lashed out at former President Barack Obama, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and even the leaders of his own party . In Clapper's case, the president took issue with his recent decision to publicly question Trump's mental fitness to be in the Oval Office.
'Particularly troubling to me is how your response to Charlottesville is consistent with a broader pattern of behavior that enables sexism and racism, and disregards the welfare of all Americans,' Daniel Kammen wrote as he quit the post President Donald Trump walks from Marine One across the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2017, as he returns from Reno, Nev. Daniel Kammen, a renewable energy expert appointed last year as a science envoy to the State Department, resigned Wednesday, citing President Donald Trump's response to the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, as the final straw that led to his departure.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he and President Donald Trump are in regular contact about "shared goals" and working together to advance them. He says people suggesting otherwise are "clearly not part of the conversation."
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani recently made the bold threat that Iran could restart its nuclear program in a matter of "hours" if it chose to. The remarks are the latest iteration of the Iranian regime's good cop, bad cop routine.
A federal judge who has compared Texas' voter ID requirements to a "poll tax" on minorities once again blocked the law Wednesday, rejecting a weakened version backed by the Trump administration and dealing Texas Republicans another court defeat over voting rights. U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos rejected changes signed by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott this summer as not only lacking but also potentially chilling to voters because of new criminal penalties.
It will be interesting to see if Trump supporters who thought Barack Obama's involvement with Jeremiah White was a huge red flag-and make no mistake, it was-will show any concern over s tatements made by President Trump's own spiritual adviser , prosperity gospel preacher and televangelist Paula White. She made some pretty wild claims on convicted fraudster and former pervert Jim Bakker's show.
As a lifelong newspaperman, I find the debate over what is or is not "truth" and what may or may not be "fake news" both frustrating and fascinating. Gave it even more thought Tuesday after a discussion on Facebook that started when I posted a link to last Sunday's lead editorial in the New York Times, headlined " The Failing Trump Presidency ."
On Aug. 23, 1927, amid worldwide protests, Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in Boston for the murders of two men during a 1920 robbery. In 1775, Britain's King George III proclaimed the American colonies to be in a state of "open and avowed rebellion."
President Donald Trump speaks at Fort Myer in Arlington, Va. during a Presidential Address to the Nation about his Afghanistan strategy on Aug. 21. President Donald Trump speaks at Fort Myer in Arlington, Va.
In last night's speech on Afghanistan, President Trump said: "No one denies that we have inherited a challenging and troubling situation in Afghanistan and South Asia, but we do not have the luxury of going back in time and making different or better decisions. When I became President, I was given a bad and very complex hand, but I fully knew what I was getting into: big and intricate problems."
Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events In the days since white nationalists marched in Charlottesville and President Trump asserted that some "very fine people" walked shoulder-to-shoulder with them, corporate CEOs have issued statements of protest and bolted from White House panels. Artists fled the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, and three of the five Kennedy Center Honors recipients said they might skip the traditional White House pre-gala reception, prompting the president and first lady to cancel it.
Lawyers for a Mexican man who was shielded from being deported will try to persuade a judge who has been a target of President Donald Trump's scorn that the administration wrongly expelled their client from the United States. Juan Manuel Montes, 23, is the first known recipient of the five-year-old Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program to be deported under Trump, according to supporters.
The Arlington House, the Robert E. Lee Memorial, has been a part of the National Park Service as a national monument since 1955, when Congress designated it.
President Donald Trump committed U.S. troops to an open-ended war in Afghanistan, a decision the Afghan government welcomed on Tuesday but which Taliban insurgents warned would make the country a "graveyard for the American empire." Trump offered few specifics in a speech on Monday but promised a stepped-up military campaign against the Taliban who have gained ground against U.S.-backed Afghan government forces.
"Do people in this room like Sheriff Joe? . . . I'll make a prediction: I think he's going to be just fine, OK?" "He has done a lot in the fight against illegal immigration.