Day: January 21, 2017

Thousands gather at anti-Trump march on Boston Common

Thousands of people converged on Boston Common on Saturday to march in protest of Republican President Donald Trump and stand in solidarity with society’s most vulnerable people. The Boston Women’s March for America was part of a nationwide series of post-inauguration marches and rallies.

Thousands of Jewish protesters join Womena s March targeting Trumpa s policies and rhetoric

Thousands of Jews joined an estimated hundreds of thousands of protesters in the Women’s March on Washington protesting newly installed President Donald Trump’s policies and rhetoric. The march Saturday, focusing on anticipated rollbacks in abortion rights under the new president and broader issues like discrimination against minorities and preserving former President Barack Obama’s health care reforms, included among its hundreds of official partners a number of Jewish groups.

Obama CIA director slams Trump’s ‘self-aggrandizement’

Former CIA Director John Brennan criticized President Trump ‘s decision Saturday to address agency officials while standing in front of a wall memorializing fallen agents, arguing Trump “should be ashamed of himself” for choosing that location for a speech that included jokes about the media and about agents’ support for his campaign. “Former CIA Director Brennan is deeply saddened and angered at Donald Trump ‘s despicable display of self-aggrandizement in front of CIA’s Memorial Wall of Agency heroes,” the former Obama official said in a statement circulated to reporters.

Tom Cotton defends Trump’s CIA speech

Sen. Tom Cotton on Saturday defended President Trump against criticism that the campaign-style speech he delivered at CIA headquarters was inappropriate. The Arkansas Republican, who serves on the Senate Intelligence Committee, dismissed critics who questioned whether the CIA, and an audience of agency professionals, was a proper setting for Trump to boast about his campaign victory, crowd sizes and the sales of magazines with his image on the cover, are missing the bond the president has developed with national security professionals.

Trump’s Inaugural TV Ratings Fall Short of Obama’s in 2009

Nearly 31 million people watched President Donald Trump’s inauguration, falling short of the audience that tuned in for Barack Obama eight years ago, according to Nielsen. Fox News topped all broadcast and cable networks with 8.4 million viewers for its coverage from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. It’s a sign that a Trump presidency may bode well for the channel, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox Inc. CNN averaged 2.5 million viewers, and MSNBC had 1.35 million viewers during the same eight-hour period.

Trump praises the CIA, bristles over inaugural crowd counts

President Donald Trump moved to repair his tumultuous relationship with America’s spy agencies on his first full day in office, but his bridge-building visit to CIA headquarters Saturday quickly morphed into a platform for the new commander in chief to complain about media coverage of his inauguration, misstating the size of his crowd. Standing in front of a memorial for fallen CIA agents, Trump assured intelligence officials, “I am so behind you.”

On first day in the White House bubble, no mention of protesters outside

Thousands of marchers, men and women, participate Jan. 21 in the Women’s March on Washington. And, if one craned their neck over a shrub or two, the protest signs, in pink and yellow and white, could be seen barely a block away from the West Wing driveway – bobbing along with a slow-moving mass of human bodies, encircling 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue as close as they could get.

Millions Turn Out for Women’s Marches Worldwide

Millions of protesters around the world marched today in support of women’s rights, LGBT rights, health care, and more, and against Donald Trump’s agenda. Crowds for the Women’s March on Washington, D.C., and its sister marches throughout the U.S. and overseas were larger than expected.

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“That’s what you guys should be writing and covering,” new White House press secretary Sean Spicer angrily lectured reporters on Saturday during his first remarks from the podium of the press briefing room. He was referring to the delay in Senate confirmation for President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the CIA, Congressman Mike Pompeo, but the comment came after a long digression about how many people had shown up to watch Trump be sworn in as president.

Trump can’t stop copying Obama

US President Donald Trump and his wife Melania performed the first dance as 45th president of the United States to Frank Sinatra’s ‘My Way’, at the Liberty inaugural ball, in Washington D.C, Friday. Trump thanked his supporters, promising that they will “see things happening over the next few weeks.”

Trump, spokesman attack media for ‘shameful’ reporting as …

That was the direct message to the media from President Trump and his spokesman Saturday, using both CIA headquarters and the White House briefing room to underscore that there’s a new and combative sheriff in town. They accused the press of “deliberately false” reporting and intentionally trying to undermine him by lowballing the crowd at his inaugural.

Anti-Trump protesters fill streets across the globe

Hundreds of thousands of people marched through Washington, D.C., and cities across the globe on Saturday to show how upset and angry they are about the election of President Donald Trump. The Women’s March drew members of Congress, world-famous actresses and countless citizens like Joanne Gascoyne of Albany, New York, a 78-year-old retired teacher who traveled to New York City with her daughter and two granddaughters.

‘Women’s March’ Occupies Washington Day After Donald Trump’s Inauguration

Roughly half a million people of all ages, backgrounds and genders crammed into the nation’s capital a day after President Donald Trump took the oath of office-a demonstration that called itself the “Women’s March,” but protested the GOP agenda on healthcare, immigration and the rights of racial and sexual minorities. Participants packed the center of the city so densely that little actual marching occurred.

White House accuses media of playing down inauguration crowds

The White House on Saturday accused the media of framing photographs to understate the crowd that attended Donald Trump’s inauguration, a new jab in a long-running fight between the new president and the news organizations who cover him. In an unusual and fiery statement on Saturday night, White House spokesman Sean Spicer lashed out about tweeted photographs that showed large, empty spaces on the National Mall during the ceremony on Friday.

Trump inauguration draws nearly 31 mln U.S. television viewers

Nearly 31 million viewers watched live U.S. television coverage of Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration, far fewer than tuned in to Barack Obama’s first swearing-in, but otherwise the biggest such audience since Ronald Reagan entered office, ratings firm Nielsen reported on Saturday. The tally for Trump – 30.6 million viewers on 12 broadcast and cable networks that aired live coverage from about 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. EST – surpassed the TV audiences measured for his two most recent Republican predecessors – both inaugurations of George W. Bush and the one of his father, George H.W. Bush.

Factbox – Women stage marches in cities across North America

Hundreds of thousands of women, supported by a smaller number of men, gathered in dozens of cities across North America on Saturday to march in opposition to U.S. President Donald Trump the day after the maverick Republican took office. [L1N1FB0BM] Here is a look at how the crowds of protesters, many wearing the marches’ signature pink hats, shaped up in some of the largest cities in North America: Organizers of the march in the nation’s capital had told police they expected 200,000 people to attend, but reporters covering the event said it appeared bigger than that, with a dense crowd stretching for about a mile through the heart of the capital.

Trump praises CIA, bristles over crowd counts

On his first full day in office President Donald Trump on Saturday berated the media over its coverage of his inauguration, and turned a bridge-building first visit to CIA headquarters into an airing of grievances about “dishonest” journalists. But it was Trump who spread inaccuracies about the size of the crowds at his swearing in.

Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush’s health improves

Former President George H.W. Bush smiles as he listens to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speak as he met with Bush to pick up his formal endorsement in Houston in this March 29, 2012 file photo. Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush is recovering well from pneumonia but will remain in the intensive care unit at the Texas hospital where he has spent the last week, a spokesman said in a statement.

Last of Osama bin Laden’s documents released by Obama White House

The White House this week quietly released the last of the documents it obtained during the raid that killed Osama bin Laden nearly six years after the former Al Qaeda leader was killed inside his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence published declassified versions of 49 of bin Laden ‘s documents Thursday, Barack Obama ‘s last full day as president, rounding out his administration by recalling a highlight of his tenure in office.

Actress Ashley Judd became the breakout star of the Women’s…

Actress and political activist Ashley Judd brought the house down at the Women’s March on Washington, a rally that drew over 200,000 demonstrators in protest of President Donald Trump. Crowds went berserk for the big-screen actress as she waxed poetic in R-rated language on women’s rights and the perceived threat the new administration poses to those liberties.

How do we stop all the fake news?

I have tried to dial back my knee-jerk tendency to zip off letters to the editor. However, I have to release some of the pressure caused by this whirlwind of opinions President Donald Trump is generating in my head.

Is the DNC Chair Race Becoming A Disgrace?

The pro-Perez folks keep dredging up Ellison’s history with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, even though Ellison long ago severed ties with Farrakhan: In a lengthy letter to the Conservative movement’s rabbinical arm, U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison said he regretted past positions that have unsettled Jews as he seeks the chairmanship of the Democratic Party Ellison, beginning his three-page letter to the Rabbinical Assembly with a quote from Pirkei Avot, Jewish ethical teachings – “The one who learns, learns from everyone” – expressed regrets, as he has several times since launching his bid to lead the DNC, for his association years ago with the anti-Semitic Nation of Islam.

Indiana residents hope Pence keeps their interests in mind

When Fort Wayne needed expensive airport improvements, its mayor contacted an influential Indiana native – then-Vice President Dan Quayle – to help secure federal funding. Now that former Indiana Gov. Mike Pence is the new vice president, residents are hopeful his home state could again reap some benefits.

Hundreds of thousands of women march against Trump

Wearing pink, pointy-eared “pussyhats” to mock the new president, hundreds of thousands of women took to the streets in the nation’s capital and cities around the world Saturday to send Donald Trump an emphatic message that they won’t let his agenda go unchallenged over the next four years.

President Trump’s First Hours In Office

Within hours of taking the oath of office, new President Donald Trump signed his first executive order in the Oval Office while the press looked on. Making good on his promise to get started on “Day 1,” President Trump and his administration got right to work on Friday, taking steps to dismantle the Affordable Care Act and announcing the reversal of their predecessors’ plans to reduce mortgage insurance premiums on federally insured home loans.

Hundreds of Thousands Of Women Protest Against Trump

Wearing pink, pointy-eared “pussyhats” to mock the new president, hundreds of thousands of women took to the streets in the nation’s capital and cities around the world Saturday to send Donald Trump an emphatic message that they won’t let his agenda go unchallenged over the next four years. “We march today for the moral core of this nation, against which our new president is waging a war,” actress America Ferrera told the Washington crowd.

Donald Trump Thanks Press For Great Reviews Of ‘American Carnage’ Inaugural Speech

A fantastic day and evening in Washington D.C.Thank you to @FoxNews and so many other news outlets for the GREAT reviews of the speech! But even Fox News on Saturday wrote, “The mainstream media has been vocal in proclaiming President Donald Trump’s inaugural address as “dark” and “radical.” Chuck Todd said, “There was a point there, Lester, where it felt as if he almost was insulting every living President that was sitting next to him – in very personal ways.

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