trump administration

Glenn Thrush‏Verified account @GlennThrush @PressSec resigned after vehemently objecting to appointment at 10 a.m. Friday of Anthony Scaramucci as WH Communications director, per SAO I'll miss him at the podium. I hope he reaps what he sowed.

The Hill: New HHS appointee is Trump’s latest roadblock for women Huber: Back to abstinence only just when we've made progress, but who cares about that evidence stuff when you have faith: I am reminded of GW Bush's asinine move pushing abstinence in Uganda where their incredible strides...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/13/donald-trump-lawyer-marc-kasowitz-emails-apology

Linky. She also joined in Coke's "we don't contribute to obesity, really" campaign. Linky.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/07/06/rick-perry-offered-a-little-economics-lesson-it-didnt-go-so-well/ Oh look Rick Perry continues to be an ignorant idiot. How utterly unexpected. I'm glad Trump scraped the bottom of the barrel to staff his agencies with terrible people.

This is a continuation of this thread. He is not campaigning because he will run (too lazy to run twice). He just likes to hear the cheering crowds of supporters. Approval rating will be such that his party will not run him. It is rare, but will happen. They may even run Pence to look like...

This is going to be interesting. http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/10/politics/sessions-senate-testimony/index.html (and I've been waiting for the opportunity to use that thread title!) :)

James Comey will be publicly testifying in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee tomorrow at 10am Eastern. It will be televised live on the major networks, cable news, and online. A written statement to the committee from Comey has already been posted online. It is recollections of...

What a moron: http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2017/5/22/1664841/-Watch-the-Commerce-Secretary-rave-about-protester-free-Saudi-Arabia-where-protesters-are-beheaded?detail=facebook There was, Wilbur. You missed him. Now he's had his head cut off so you can have a more peaceful trip.

I'm of the opinion that Sean Spicer is not long for the West Wing. In fact I'd bet he may not last through another month. Not that it is his fault. Putting a good face on the Trump administration is an impossible job. But what will probably do him in is Melissa McCarthy. Not that she wants...

White House announces firing of Comey. Details to follow.

The Trump administration has abruptly fired the first woman and second African-American to serve as Chief Usher, essentially the White House facilities manager...

Apparently another administration casualty: http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/30/politics/gorka-leaving-white-house/ "Too much controversy." I don't know that much about the man other than his alleged ties to a pro-Nazi group in Hungary, but I've listened to a couple of interviews on NPR and I can...

This is a follow on, not a continuation of the "President Trump" thread. Please keep the focus on issues related to the Trump Presidency (vs pre election issues). Items discussed in other threads should not to be raised here. Recovered pages can be found here...

http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/30/media/reince-priebus-libel-laws/ In other words he wants to prevent the media from reporting things he doesn't like. Good luck with that you fascist piece of ****.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/21/julie-radford-chief-of-staff-ivanka-trump-237454 "Ivanka Trump is quietly staffing up, and she’s filling out her team in the West Wing with former officials from President George W. Bush’s administration. In addition to her close adviser Dina Powell...

Isn't the USA a wonderful country? Even a completely ignorant person can be elected to the Presidency with no experience and no knowledge and learn on the job! So I thought I would start this thread by listing just a few of the things that Trump has learned in just the past 100 days: 1...

9Ug6fO9Auhc 9V4vWUUtOas What was the stupidest part? Hitler didn't use chemical weapons? Correction, he used them at "Holocaust Centers"? I would give him a break because it was a flub, but it was a flub in pursuit of insanely overwrought propaganda - Assad is worse than Hitler. Count his...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39508351 (my bold) Really? So what's behind this? Is Bannon on his way out?

Hello all! I have not seen this posted yet, so I thought I would do so now. When then Senator Jeff Sessions was interviewed in the Senate by his fellow senators a few weeks to discuss his appointment as Attorney General, Jeff Sessions actually swore under oath that he did not have any contact...

You all know the routine. Old thread too long, split was arbitrary, etc. etc. Old thread is here. A guide to Trump's Russian connections: http://www.vox.com/world/2017/2/17/14622504/trump-russia-business-ties-fact-check

http://nypost.com/2017/02/18/christie-tells-his-staff-he-is-taking-white-house-job/?ref=yfp Trump's been having some problems, so the obvious answer is to add another bully to the staff.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/top-trump-aide-wears-medal-of-hungarian-nazi-collaborators/ How many more lurk in the murky waters?

http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/-what-stephen-miller-said-should-worry-everyone-875968067895 Truly terrifying when an official spokesman openly states that WH authority is "unchallengeable" "will not be questioned", and starts talking about the military...

I did't know this. But (from a 1991 account of the Reagan years): http://www.salon.com/2017/02/08/trumps-conflicts-are-unprecedented-but-not-unique-a-short-history-of-republican-corruption-tk/ http://www.amazon.com/Sleepwalking-Through-History-America-Reagan/dp/0393324346 Maybe Trump will...

Of his own appointees, that is. Firing of Obama leftovers isn't news. I'm figuring Priebus, who has the unenviable task of trying to keep him on track and manage Bannon and Conway.

Tragic. Weeping now. There are no words.

The PresPressSec is holding a press conference right now, and he's doing something never done before: He has big screens set up in the press room, and in addition to people in the room he's calling on distant sites via Skype. So far, he seems to be calling on talking heads at Fox affiliates...

The DNI and the Joint Chiefs have been reduced to the role of errand boy while Steve Bannon is in as a fixture of the Usurper's National Security Council. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38787241...

The previous thread was getting slow, unresponsive and generating duplicates, so I have made a shiny new thread for you. As usual, the split point is arbitrary and participants are free to copy & paste from the previous thread. I never said anything about "recent" , that was The Don. All I...