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Strategic. Planned. Effective. That’s my headline in response to President Donald TrumpDonald TrumpDems ask for hearings on Russian attempts to attack election infrastructure Face the Nation host: Media ruined its own reputation without Trump Trump press conference reveals long game. Media still scrambling MORE‘s unexpected press conference held on Thursday at the White House. The…
NEW YORK — Immigration officials arrested 41 undocumented people last week in the New York City area, 38 of whom had criminal convictions, including residents from the North Shore of Staten Island, Bushwick and Elmhurst, according to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and advocates. The raids were part of “routine, daily targeted operations to arrest criminal aliens and…
Photo: Facebook Mar-a-Lago members really got the full benefits of their $14,000 annual dues (after a $200,000 initiation fee) this weekend when esteemed President Donald Trump chose to conduct state business at a dinner table in the most public area of his country club. It was a great sacrifice by Trump, who was forced to…
Esteemed president Donald J. Trump met for the first time with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday. At the meeting, Trump, video shows, tried to pull his trademark unsettling handshake on Trudeau, but ultimately failed in the “endeavour.” Here’s hoping their negotiations go better. Trump has deployed his strange handshake—which involves him yanking the…
The White House correspondents’ dinner is a fixture of the Washington scene, a spring event at which the cream of political journalism shares bonhomie, fine food and comedy roasting with the politicians it reports on – including the president. Under Donald Trump, however, the dinner is facing uncertainty. Trump, who has repeatedly attacked “the very…
NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” plans on turning its “Weekend Update” into a weekly series, according to a new report. The spinoff would likely air for 30 minutes in prime time late Thursdays, Politico said Tuesday. Variety reported Sunday that total “SNL” viewership is up 22 percent over a comparable period during the 2015–2016 season.The sketch…
Dominican newspaper El Nacional on Friday printed a photo of Alec Baldwin doing his impression of President Trump on “Saturday Night Live” in an article about Trump and Israel. ADVERTISEMENT The photo was used side-by-side with a photo of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.It was not immediately clear whether the image of Baldwin was accidental…
ANKARA Hundreds of thousands of Iranians rallied on Friday to swear allegiance to their clerical leaders and reject U.S. President Donald Trump’s warning that he had put the Islamic Republic “on notice”, state TV reported. On the anniversary of Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution that toppled the U.S.-backed Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, marchers including hundreds…
President Trump’s escalating attacks on the federal judiciary drew denunciation Wednesday from his Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, who told a senator that the criticism was “disheartening” and “demoralizing” to independent federal courts. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) said Gorsuch made the comments during their private meeting Wednesday, and the account was confirmed by Ron Bonjean,…
Image via Getty. On Sunday, reporters Maggie Haberman and Glenn Thrush published an article in the New York Times providing an inside look at Trump’s White House that will make you laugh until you cry until your brain is oozing out of your butt. The article is packed with descriptions of Trump aimlessly pacing through…