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The president appears to be prioritising his promised wall along the US-Mexico border which will receive an immediate $1.5bn (£1.2bn) cash injection END scald=5315461 The budget will be formally released on Thursday and is titled America First: A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again Getty Community projects like Meals on Wheels and housing…
President Donald Trump, a thousand sausages held together with duct tape, sure loves to tweet. He does it to share news, to both threaten and congratulate people, and to fill the pre-dawn hours before his handlers help him change out of his bathrobe. While a master of the destabilizing 140-character missive, Trump has not yet…
The White House on Tuesday night released some details of President Trump’s income and paid taxes from 2005, as MSNBC prepared to release the information in an evening broadcast. Trump reported $150 million in income and $38 million paid in taxes, according to a statement from the White House. MSNBC host Rachel Maddow had teased…
By Erin M. Kearns, Allison Betus and Anthony Lemieux By Erin M. Kearns, Allison Betus and Anthony Lemieux March 13 at 6:00 AM President Trump addresses a joint session of Congress on Feb. 28 as Vice President Pence and House Speaker Paul D. Ryan applaud. (Pool photo by Jim Lo Scalzo via AP) At his…
Stephen Bannon, President Donald Trump’s chief strategist and the driving force behind the administration’s controversial ban on travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries, has a favorite metaphor he uses to describe the largest refugee crisis in human history. “It’s been almost a Camp of the Saints-type invasion into Central and then Western and Northern Europe,” he…
Art by Angelica Alzona Every birthday I get an overseas call from my grandma, always early in the morning due to time zones. This was the first year that call was tinged with concern that I would be attacked by a fellow citizen. She lived in America for decades, but suddenly, in 2017, she’s concerned…
Win McNamee/Getty Images On International Women’s Day, President “Grab ’Em by the Pussy” took to Twitter to express his support for women. “I have tremendous respect for women and the many roles they serve that are vital to the fabric of our society and our economy,” he tweeted Wednesday morning. “On International Women’s Day, join…
Welcome to Barf Bag, a daily politics roundup to help you sort through the chaotic Trumpian news cycle. That! Photo! Here’s all the shit we couldn’t cover today: Some things Sean Spicer did at today’s White House press briefing: He fed the theory that there is a so-called deep state “burrowed into government”; he said,…
CreditPHOTOGRAPH BY SPENCER PLATT / GETTY Barrier Status: ‘none’ Great. Just great. Nine years. That’s how long I’ve spent meticulously crafting an online persona that’s funny, trendy, tech-savvy, slightly self-deprecating, and nerdy in a conventionally acceptable way. Now it’s all falling apart. Trump hasn’t even been President for two months, and look at what’s happened….
The rapport between Barack Obama and Donald Trump is unraveling, with the president convinced that Mr. Obama is undermining his nascent administration and the former president furious over Trump tweets accusing him of illegal wiretapping, people close to the two men said. The budding feud between two men who share the unique bond of membership…