Trump Brags About Redoing White House in Bizarre Speech to CopsPresident Donald Trump made a speech to first responders in the Rose Garden Thursday—and spent his time talking about “reskinning” the White House. After rambling about the upcoming midterm elections and briefly thanking the first responders gathered there for lunch, the president quickly pivoted to describing his pet White House construction projects.…The New Republic2d agoWhole story →GovernmentSecurity
Republican’s Wife Tries to Win Voters With Cheap Gift CardThe wife of Michigan GOP Senate candidate Mike Rogers is at gas stations in Detroit handing out $10 gas gift cards while begging people to vote for her husband. This is an illegal, desperate, and ironic move given that the spiking gas prices were directly caused by President Trump’s Iran war, which Rogers has supported wholeheartedly . The Michigan…The New Republic2d agoWhole story →SecurityPlanet
Kimberly Guilfoyle Lost Her Mind After Trump Publicly Humilated HerKimberly Guilfoyle is reportedly “spiraling” after her fall from grace , and nearly retracted her resignation. The ex–U.S. ambassador to Greece (and Donald Trump Jr.’s ex-fiancée) was publicly asked to resign during White House press secretary Katie Zacharia’s first-ever media briefing Tuesday, following reports that President Donald Trump was preparing…The New Republic2d agoWhole story →Culture
Trump’s War on Trees Is a War on the RepublicGreat men plant trees in whose shade they will never sit, according to a familiar aphorism. Lesser men, by comparison, cut down those trees for a few hours’ warmth. Rarely has a saying come to life so vividly as it did over the last few days in the nation’s capital. President Donald Trump wants to renovate a local golf course on public land in his own…The New Republic2d agoWhole story →JusticePlanet
Trump State Department in Chaos as Advisers Lose It at Each OtherTensions inside the Trump administration are heating up, and the president’s appointees are at each other’s throats. Deputy Secretary of State Chirstopher Landau and State Department special envoy Paolo Zampolli have been trading insults and allegations for nearly a year, according to messages obtained by Politico . Zampolli, a former modeling agent who…The New Republic2d agoWhole story →Security
Trump Calls Off Livestream of Firing Squad Execution After BacklashPresident Trump is backing down from plans to livestream the execution of Fort Hood mass shooter Nidal Malik Hasan. “I think streaming the execution for all to see might have been a strong deterrent for the World to witness how America deals with Terrorists and SCUM like Hasan but, many very good and well meaning people would rather not watch him die,…The New Republic2d agoWhole story →Security
Trump’s New Press Secretary Tries to Backtrack on Her China AnswerKatie Zacharia’s latest approach to handling the scandal around her boosted legal credentials involves pretending the whole thing never happened. The new White House press secretary told The New York Times Wednesday that she had misinterpreted a reporter’s question earlier this week about where she passed the bar exam. At the time, Zacharia answered :…The New Republic2d agoWhole story →EducationSecurity
Trump’s Sick Plan for Ilhan Omar ExposedPresident Donald Trump wants to build a case to strip Representative Ilhan Omar of her citizenship and deport her. The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that the federal government is investigating how Omar got her citizenship after she arrived in the U.S. from Somalia as a child, focusing on how her late father filled out her forms. Her Washington,…The New Republic2d agoWhole story →SecurityJustice
Transcript: Trump Boast About Rallies Wrecked by Humiliating GOP LeaksThe following is a lightly edited transcript of the October 15 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here . Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic , produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent. Earlier this week, Donald Trump made two very audacious claims. First, he said Republicans will do very…The New Republic3d agoWhole story →Culture
