7/4/20147 President Trump stood by as North Korea conducted it's tenth missile test of the year. The total surpasses the entire number of tests conducted under Obama's two terms. Yesterday's launch was of an ICBM, which many analyst predict had the range to reach Alaska.  A listing of the previous nine launches can be found here : - North Korea missile ...

 7/2/2017 One of the Justice Department’s top corporate crime experts has resigned from the Justice Department, stating she cannot enforce ethics laws against companies while her own bosses in the Trump administration have been engaging in conduct that she would never tolerate in outside corporations. Hui Chen, a former Pfizer and Microsoft lawyer who also was a federal prosecutor, had been the ...

7/1/2017 Forty four states have refused to fully cooperate with the Trump administration's request to provide voter registration information.  The reasons primarily revolve around voter confidentiality issues, and state laws prohibiting the sharing of such information.  At least one state makes some of the information available, but charges a fee to provide the information.  Dismayed by the reaction, Trump questioned ...

6/29/2017 President Trump resorted to his old tricks and insults earlier today.  Apparently annoyed by criticism he received on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”, Trump lashed out on Twitter about the hosts.  Trump was quickly criticized for his tweets, but refused to remove them or address their intent.  Senator Lindsay Graham was one of many Republicans critical of Trump’s tweets, and his ...

6/28/2017 Donald Trump complains about fake news on almost a daily basis.  Yesterday it was disclosed that he, or somebody in his organization, went to the trouble of creating a fake Time Magazine cover to display at his properties.  The Washington Post reported that the fake covers had been displayed at a minimum of five Trump properties, including Mar-A-Lago.  Other ...

6/28/2017 – On The Lighter Side – Satire This week, staff at The Trump Chronicle had a chance to catch up with Energy Secretary Rick Perry.  It wasn’t easy, but we finally found him wandering around the halls of the White House, apparently waiting for the President to call him in for whatever photo op might that present itself.  The ...

6/28/2017 “He would endorse communism if Trump decided to implement the policies of ‘The Communist Manifesto,’” Ann Coulter wrote about Sean Hannity.  “Sean Hannity, bless his heart, has the zeal of the late Trump convert,” Coulter wrote in a blog post. Hannity, one of Fox News’ most popular nighttime personalities since Bill O’Reilly was fired for sexual harrasment, has been a vigorous ...

6/28/2017 Secretary of State Rex Tillerson may be reaching the end of his rope with the Trump administration.  Politico reported Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s frustrations with the White House have been building for months. Last Friday, they exploded. From Politico Unhappy that Johnny DeStefano, the head of the presidential personnel office, has continued to torpedo proposed nominees to senior State ...

6/28/2017 Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, filed as a foreign agent today. The filing revealed that Manafort’s firm, DMP International, received $17.1 million between 2012 and 2014 from the Party of Regions, the pro-Russian former ruling party in Ukraine. Manafort resigned from Trump’s campaign when it was reported he had received undisclosed cash payments for his work in ...

6/27/2017 In a recently released Pew Center survey, respondents around the world had less confidence that Trump would do the right thing when it came to politics than other world leaders.  The survey asked respondents how confident they were that four world leaders would do the right thing when it came to world affairs. Angela Merkel of Germany rated the ...