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storytext Uber’s CEO drove home a simple message to employees this week: We must work with President Trump. At the company’s weekly all hands meeting, CEO Travis Kalanick addressed concerns about his working relationship with Trump by claiming it’s necessary in order to fulfill Uber’s mission of improving global transportation. “We’ll partner with anyone in…
On the morning after Donald Trump’s inauguration, acting National Park Service director Michael T. Reynolds received an extraordinary summons: The new president wanted to talk to him. In a Saturday phone call, Trump personally ordered Reynolds to produce additional photographs of the previous day’s crowds on the Mall, according to three individuals who have knowledge…
“Report: 3 million votes in presidential election cast by illegal aliens.” — Bloggers on Monday, November 14th, 2016 in an article on InfoWars Fact-check: Did 3 million undocumented immigrants vote in this year’s election? By Allison Graves on Friday, November 18th, 2016 at 10:58 a.m. Two of the world’s biggest internet companies, Google and Facebook,…
The writers who’ve penned 007’s exploits since 1999 fear the 45th President might have ruined their cash cow. The screenwriting duo of Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, the team that’s written, co-written, or rewritten the last six James Bond films, have an interview in the Telegraph this week about their new miniseries, an adaptation of…
President Trump met with leaders of Congress from both parties on Monday at the White House. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times WASHINGTON — President Trump used his first official meeting with congressional leaders on Monday to falsely claim that millions of unauthorized immigrants had robbed him of a popular vote majority, a return to…
Joe Trippi pioneered the use of social media as a fundraising tool. As campaign manager for Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean in 2004, he started a trend that has reinvented that way politicians run for office. But he believes that many politicians are still missing out on the power of the internet once they’re elected….
Chris Krewson / Billy Penn 23 signs and scenes from Philly’s lunchtime anti-Trump rally “Trust the protest,” Standing Rock support and someone dressed up as Kellyanne Conway By Chris Krewson and Chris Montgomery By Chris Krewson and Chris Montgomery January 26, 2017 at 1:31 pm share Philadelphians began protesting as early as 24 hours before…
googleon: all President Trump spoke to Republicans attending the GOP retreat in Philadelphia, hitting on familiar themes from his campaign, including helping American workers, ending illegal immigration and rebuilding the country’s military. Thousands of people protested in the streets surrounding the Center City hotel as Trump spoke. 2:18 p.m.: President Trump claimed in…
MEXICO CITY — The president of Mexico said on Thursday that he was canceling his scheduled meeting with President Donald J. Trump in Washington next week, rejecting the visit after the new American leader ordered a border wall between the two nations. The move by Mexico’s president, Enrique Peña Nieto, brings to a head the…
Welcome back to the show. 0:02 Hey, how was your weekend? 0:03 Me, I didn’t do much– just went for a walk with a few friends. 0:07 [CHEERING] 0:08 Woo! 0:10 The president spent his Saturday in Langley 0:13 with his portable pep squad, attempting 0:15 to mend both his rift with the CIA and…