The White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, has taken to slapping journalists who write unflattering stories with an epithet he sees as the epitome of low-road, New York Post-style gossip: “Page Six reporter.” Whether the New England-born spokesman realizes it or not, the expression is perhaps less an insult than a reminder of an era when now President Donald Trump mastered the New York tabloid terrain – and his own narrative – shaping his image with a combination of on-the-record bluster and off-the-record gossip.
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In Trumpa s first speech to Congress, will decorum hold?
This Dec. 8, 2008, file photo shows the House Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington. A presidential speech to Congress is one of those all-American moments that ooze ritual and decorum.
Sheriff Gives SHOCKING Report On Illegal Alien PREDATOR Arrests! [VIDEO]
Liberals have willfully blinded themselves and have attempted to do the same to others when it comes to the detrimental effects of illegal immigration. All in the name of being more “politically correct” than their conservative counterparts.
Comey in middle of political fray over Trump and Russians
As a high-ranking Justice Department official in the George W. Bush administration, he clashed with the White House over a secret surveillance program. Years later as head of the FBI, he incurred the ire of Hillary Clinton supporters for public statements on an investigation into her emails.
In new era, Jewish Republican group is loyal to Trump
“He has to call hundreds of people,” said billionaire Sheldon Adelson, seated alongside fellow casino magnate and the Republican National Committee new chief fundraiser, Steve Wynn. “I just have to discuss it with my wife.”
Trump tower opens in Vancouver but the welcome isn’t warm
This Jan. 20, 2017 photo shows the still-under-construction Trump International Hotel and Tower in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The 69-story tower has drawn praise for its sleek, twisting design.
Pence: Administration backs Israel abroad, business at home
Vice President Mike Pence is assuring the Republican Jewish Coalition that he and President Donald Trump will work tirelessly on foreign and domestic issues important to the group, such as enacting business-friendly policies at home and supporting Israel abroad. “If the world knows nothing else, the world will know this: America stands with Israel,” Pence told the group Friday night.
At town halls, GOP caught between Trump, angry voters
In this Feb. 21, 2017 file photo, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., speaks at the Anderson County Chamber of Commerce luncheon at the American Legion Post 34, in Lawrenceburg, Ky. President Donald Trump has been in the White House only a little more than a month and already he’s making things awfully uncomfortable for some of his fellow Republicans.
Le Krewe d’Etat presents a menagerie of political satire
Le Krewe d’Etat rechristened President Donald Trump as the “800-pound orangutan” on Napoleon Avenue on Friday, Feb. 24, 2017. While the political developments of the past year came as a shock to some Americans, Le Krewe d’Etat clearly welcomed the upheaval – at least as an opportunity to skewer both the famous and the infamous in this year’s “Zoo D’Etat.”
AP Exclusive: Analysts downplay threat from 7 nations in ban
In this June 5, 2015 file photo, a view of the Homeland Security Department headquarters in Washington. Analysts at the Homeland Security Department’s intelligence arm found insufficient evidence that citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries included in President Donald Trump’s travel ban pose a terror threat to the U.S. less FILE – In this June 5, 2015 file photo, a view of the Homeland Security Department headquarters in Washington.
White House says chief of staff not wrong to talk to FBI
President Donald Trump gestures as he speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference , Friday, Feb. 24, 2017, in Oxon Hill, Md. President Donald Trump gestures as he speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference , Friday, Feb. 24, 2017, in Oxon Hill, Md.
Democrats inviting immigrants to Trump’s speech to Congress
In this Feb. 10, 2016 file photo, Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington during a House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee hearing on The Flint Water Crisis. Dr. Hanna-Attisha came to the U.S. with her parents, who were fleeing the regime of Saddam Hussein, has been invited by Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Mich.
After a brutal election loss in November, Democrats will choose a new leader on Saturday to begin the daunting task of rebuilding the party and heading the political opposition to Republican President Donald Trump. The 447 members of the Democratic National Committee, the administrative and fundraising arm of the party, will gather in Atlanta to pick a new chairman in one of the most crowded and competitive party leadership elections in decades.
DHS report disputes threat from banned nations
Analysts at the Homeland Security Department’s intelligence arm found insufficient evidence that citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries included in President Donald Trump’s travel ban pose a terror threat to the United States. A draft document obtained by The Associated Press concludes that citizenship is an “unlikely indicator” of terrorism threats to the United States and that few people from the countries Trump listed in his travel ban have carried out attacks or been involved in terrorism-related activities in the U.S. since Syria’s civil war started in 2011.
National security adviser breaks with Trump on Islam
President Donald Trump ‘s newly appointed national security adviser has told his staff that Muslims who commit terrorist acts are perverting their religion, rejecting a key ideological view of other senior Trump advisers and signaling a potentially more moderate approach to the Islamic world. The adviser, Lt.
Trump denounces FBI over leaks
President Donald Trump on Friday assailed the FBI as a dangerously porous agency, charging that leaks of classified information from within its ranks were putting the country at risk – and calling for an immediate hunt for the leakers. Trump’s complaints were his latest attacks on his own government’s law enforcement and intelligence agencies, which he has characterized as misguided, irresponsible and politically motivated.
Maher slams Trump’s CPAC speech: ‘This guy sees more…
In Friday night’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher brought up the fact that President Donald Trump seconded President Barack Obama’s executive order allowing children to use whatever bathrooms match their gender identity. “Trump believes that men shouldn’t be able to pee in the same room as women peeing unless you’re paying for it,” Maher joked, recalling the Russian dossier with scandalous rumors .
No President attacked press more than Obama: Morgan defends Trump
New Delhi , Feb. 25 : British journalist Piers Morgan, who has never shied away from showing support for U.S. President Donald Trump, has once again batted for the latter. Morgan on Friday tweeted in agreement with the White House barring a few media organisations from attending a meeting, held by White House press secretary Sean Spicer.
One principle that unites the Trump-era Republican party: hating its foes
Donald Trump has just finished a speech at the country’s biggest annual gathering of conservatives, and outside in the hallway a group of young men are debating where they agree and disagree with the president. There’s disagreement about his use of executive orders; his trade policies; his handling of the travel ban; his habit of using the presidential bully pulpit to pressure private businesses; his views on foreign military adventurism; and aspects of his style.
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Analysts at the Homeland Security Department’s intelligence arm found insufficient evidence that citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries included in President Donald Trump’s travel ban pose a terror threat to the United States. A draft document obtained by The Associated Press concludes that citizenship is an “unlikely indicator” of terrorism threats to the United States and that few people from the countries Trump listed in his travel ban have carried out attacks or been involved in terrorism-related activities in the U.S. since Syria’s civil war started in 2011.
White House defends contacts with FBI over Russia reports
The White House on Friday defended chief of staff Reince Priebus against accusations he breached a government firewall when he asked FBI Director James Comey to publicly dispute media reports that Trump campaign advisers had been frequently in touch with Russian intelligence agents. President Donald Trump’s spokesman, Sean Spicer, argued Priebus had little choice but to seek Comey’s assistance in rebutting what Spicer said were inaccurate reports about contacts during last year’s presidential campaign.
Trump Has a Grating Style but Significant Substanceby Michael…
His administration has accomplished quite a lot so far, and evidence is scant that he’s crafting an authoritarian government. ubstance and style – it’s easy to get them confused, or mistake one for the other.
Kansas man accused in bomb plot feared social collapse
This Oct. 14, 2016 file booking photo provided by the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office in Wichita, Kan., shows Patrick Stein, the alleged leader of a militia group accused of plotting to bomb a apartment complex in western Kansas where Somali refugees lived. At a detention hearing Friday, Feb. 24, 2017, Klein’s attorney said his client believed then President Barack Obama would declare martial law and not recognize the validity of the election if Donald Trump won – forcing militias to step in.
Trump tells CPAC he’s the conservative they’ve been waiting for
Editor’s note: Ed Morrissey is senior editor at HotAir.com, a columnist for The Week and The Fiscal Times, and author of “Going Red: The Two Million Voters Who Will Elect the Next President — and How Conservatives Can Win Them.” The views expressed are his own.
Former Kentucky governor to give response to Trump’s congressional address
Former Kentucky Gov. Steven Beshear will make the case for Obamacare during the Democratic response to President Donald Trump’s first joint address to Congress on Tuesday. Beshear is expected to address the need for Trump to create more jobs and improve education, but much of his speech will challenge the Republican push to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.
The myth of the passive president: Rich Lowry
President Donald Trump gives the impression of having done everything in his first month in the White House — except think about Congress. A couple of months ago, there were congressional Republicans reluctantly on the Trump train who would have welcomed such neglect.
It’s official: Pentagon now calling terror group ‘ISIS’
The Pentagon has officially declared the name of the terror group the United States and its allies have been fighting for years is, in fact, ISIS. “We have officially switched to ISIS,” Capt.
In some a democracies,a reporters face danger
On Friday, February 17, President Donald Trump called the media “the enemy of the American people.” Are such words just typical for a frustrated chief executive having a bad week, or do these critiques have consequences? Defense Secretary James Mattis, the most popular person in the Trump Administration, disagreed with the statement that the press is the enemy of the American people.
Melania’s YUGE Event This Sunday GUARANTEED to COMPETE With Left-Wing OSCARS
The Oscars are the crown jewel of awards season, which this year has been filled with liberal preachiness. Celebrities attending these awards shows have been taking every opportunity to blast Donald Trump, and so it was only natural that Trump wouldn’t be watching the Oscars on Sunday night.
‘He’s a liar, you do admit that’: The View hosts confront Trump-boosting Breitbart editor
On Friday, The View hosts hammered Joel Pollak, editor-at-large for the far-right website Breitbart News, with co-host Joy Behar at one point pressing him to admit that Donald Trump consistently and unapologetically lies. Throughout the wide-ranging interview, Pollak threw out the moniker “fake news” to dispute the premise of the hosts’ questions, including when Behar-using former Breitbart chairman and current chief White House strategist Steven Bannon’s own words-reminded the editor that the site is frequently described as a “platform for the alt-right.”
Trump speech to conservatives evokes campaign
President Donald Trump’s speech Friday to a leading conservative group was like a series of greatest hits from his campaign rallies. He reminisced about his victory in the Republican primaries.
Officials: Trump adviser asked FBI to dispute Russia reports
WASHINGTON >> White House chief of staff Reince Priebus asked top FBI officials to dispute media reports that Donald Trump’s campaign advisers were frequently in touch with Russian intelligence agents during the election, according to three White House officials who confirmed the unusual contact with law enforcement involved in a pending investigation. The officials said that Priebus’ Feb. 15 request to FBI Director James Comey and Deputy Director Andrew McCabe came as the White House sought to discredit a New York Times report about calls between Russian intelligence officials and people involved with Trump’s presidential run.
Official: Trump adviser asked FBI to dispute Russia reports
White House chief of staff Reince Priebus asked a top FBI official to dispute media reports that President Donald Trump’s campaign advisers were frequently in touch with Russian intelligence agents during the election, a White House official said. The official said that Priebus’ request came as the White House sought to discredit a New York Times report about the contacts last week.
America’s sacred fire must not be doused
“Well, I preach the Church without Christ,” says a vivid Flannery O’Connor character named Hazel Motes. “I’m member and preacher to that church where the blind don’t see and the lame don’t walk and what’s dead stays that way.”
CPAC once considered Trump a joke
Six years ago, as the “money, money, money, money” chorus of his reality TV show’s theme song blasted, Donald Trump stepped out before the nation’s largest gathering of conservative activists for the first time. The crowd was less than adoring, occasionally laughing at and booing the longtime former Democrat.
Donald Trump: Tyrant, terrorist and traitor
Donald J. Trump ignores the Constitution, threatens those who disagree with him, taunts nervous allies and misuses the power of the Presidency to slam doors that used to be open as a welcome to immigrants, packs his administration with racists, homophobes and bigots and openly loots the treasury of the United States with blatant conflicts of interest and open violation of the laws of our land. His First Lady, a Slovenian-born nude model with a serious questions about her claimed citizenship, bragged to the nation about college degrees she never earned and plagiarized a speech from a former First Lady without apologized.
White House adviser asked top FBI official to dispute Russia reports
White House chief of staff Reince Priebus asked a top FBI official to dispute media reports that President Donald Trump’s campaign advisers were frequently in touch with Russian intelligence agents during the election, a White House official said. The official said that Priebus’ request came as the White House sought to discredit a New York Times report about the contacts last week.
In video: Caitlyn Jenner attacks Donald Trump over transgender toilets
Caitlyn Jenner has attacked US president Donald Trump over his administration’s reversal of guidelines on transgender access to public school toilets. The former Olympic gold-medal winning decathlete, then known as Bruce Jenner, who came out as a transgender woman in 2015, addressed Mr Trump in a video posted on Twitter, saying: “From one Republican to another, this is a disaster.”
Trump puts moderate GOP governors in awkward spot
These should be heady times for Republicans as the nation’s governors prepare for their winter meeting in Washington, D.C. They criticize President Donald Trump gently, picking their spots to appease the Democratic and independent voters they need to remain in office. At the same time, they don’t want to alienate Trump supporters.
Australians doubt Trump’s commitment to its traditional ally
Some Australians foresee trouble in their country’s traditionally strong alliance with the United States because of what they see as “unpresidential” behavior from President Donald Trump, while others think outspoken businessman-turned-Australian-leader Malcolm Turnbull is a good match for him. Australians have long had an affinity with the United States and absorb American popular culture like blotting paper.