11/30/2017 This week President Trump proposed the creation of a “fake news trophy.”  On Monday he tweeted: We should have a contest as to which of the Networks, plus CNN and not including Fox, is the most dishonest, corrupt and/or distorted in its political coverage of your favorite President (me). They are all bad. Winner to receive the FAKE NEWS ...

11/29/2017 Barry Meyers is a renegade.  He is one of a very few Trump administration leaders who have the courage to declare that it is extremely likely human activity has caused global warming. In his Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday morning, Barry Myers, President Trump’s choice to run the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said he agrees humans are the primary driver ...

11/27/2017 Today, at a presentation intended to honor Native Americans who served during WWII, President Trump took the opportunity to insult Senator Elizabeth Warren by referring to her as “Pocahontas”. The veterans being honored were Navajo “Code Talkers”, who became valuable during WWII because their native language could not be deciphered by the Japanese. It wasn’t the first time Trump ...

11/16/2017 Jared Kushner is in hot water.  He seems to be a bit forgetful when it comes to documents. In addition to refusing to supply all the required documents for his security clearance, Jared Kushner has now been remiss in submitting all documents relating to Russia connections as requested by a Senate committee investigating Russian ties to the 2016 election.  Inquiries ...

11/14/2017 On September 20, 2016, during the height of last year’s presidential election, the WikiLeaks Twitter account sent a private direct message to Donald Trump Jr.   “A PAC run anti-Trump site putintrump.org is about to launch,” WikiLeaks wrote. “The PAC is a recycled pro-Iraq war PAC. We have guessed the password. It is ‘putintrump.’ See ‘About’ for who is behind ...

11/11/2017 “Every time he sees me he says I didn’t do that, and I really believe that when he tells me that, he means it,” Trump told reporters.  And thus Donald Trump has decided to trust the word of Vladimir Putin, over multiple US Intelligence agencies who are convinced Putin ordered interference in last year’s elections. Trump made the comment ...

11/7/2017 President Donald Trump announced in June that the US would withdraw from the Paris climate accord.  “We’re getting out,” he said. “And we will start to renegotiate and we’ll see if there’s a better deal. If we can, great. If we can’t, that’s fine.” At the time, the US was not alone.  Syria and Nicaragua also opted out.  Syria was ...

11/6/2017 Donald Trump signed a bill earlier this year that rolled back a regulation making it harder for people with mental illness to buy firearms.  Yet he blamed the mass shooting at a Texas church on “a mental health problem”. “One of his first actions as president trashed a new regulation that would have prevented potentially irresponsible and mentally incompetent people ...

11/01/2017 In April, Donald Trump told The Wall Street Journal that he planned to use the powers of his office to jeopardize health-care access for millions of low-income people, while undermining America’s insurance markets — because he believed that voters would blame the ensuing chaos on the Democratic Party, leaving Chuck Schumer desperate to negotiate with the White House over Obamacare repeal. ...

11/2/2017 In a recent interview with Vanity Fair magazine, Sam Nunberg, a former campaign aide to Donald Trump said “Jared is the worst political adviser in the White House in modern history”.   “I’m only saying publicly what everyone says behind the scenes at Fox News, in conservative media, and the Senate and Congress” Nunberg added.  “Trump is at 33 percent in Gallup. You ...