Four years ago, Donald J. Trump won the presidency after making a series of concrete promises to his supporters. “I would repeal and replace the big lie, Obamacare,” he said during his kickoff speech. “I would build a great wall,
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Federal agencies fall short of Trump forest protection goals
Nearly two years ago, President Donald Trump stood amid the smoky ruins of Paradise, California, where he blamed the deadliest wildfire in the state’s history on poor forest management. “You’ve got to take care of the floors, you know? The
Trump pushes baseless conspiracy about Covid-19 doctors
President Donald Trump pushed a baseless conspiracy theory at one of his rallies in Michigan, claiming that "our doctors get more money if somebody dies from Covid." CNN’s Jim Acosta reports. #JimAcosta #CNN #News
Can Democrats Retake the Senate?
For Democrats determined to solve America’s biggest problems, dislodging Donald Trump is only part of the challenge on Election Day. To advance legislation targeting climate change, pandemic relief, voting rights, higher taxes on corporations and the rich, and to begin
‘A slap in the face’: Keilar slams Trump Jr. for false claim
CNN’s Brianna Keilar fact checks Donald Trump Jr. after he falsely claimed on Fox News that coronavirus deaths in the US are "almost nothing." #CNN #News
Trump-Biden presidential election race nears end, but America’s divide continues
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden (left) and President Donald Trump. | AP / Getty Images No matter who wins, the underlying divide between the American people that brought us to this point will remain. The factors that are driving us
Trump Still Wants to Be President, But He Never Wanted the Job
Campaigning requires compassion. The same goes for governance. Neither Donald Trump nor anyone in his orbit have yet come to this realization, surviving instead on their stale brand of Fox News testosterone. Sure, that message still can draw a lot
Girl Scouts facing backlash over Amy Coney Barrett tweet — and its deletion
President Donald Trump and Amy Coney Barrett stand on the Blue Room Balcony after Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas administered the Constitutional Oath to her on the South Lawn of the White House last week. | AP The tweet, posted
Trump’s EPA rewrote the rules on air, water energy. Now voters face a choice on climate change issues
President Donald Trump speaks on the environment at the Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse and Museum in Jupiter, Fla., Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020. | AP Election Day will be a decision between deregulation or re-regulation. A look at Trump’s rollbacks and their
Jay Cutler endorses Trump reelection bid
Former Bears quarterback Jay Cutler endorsed President Donald Trump. | Nam Y. Huh/AP Cutler offered his support of the president in an Instagram post on Wednesday. Jay Cutler is the latest professional sports figure to endorse President Donald Trump’s reelection
Here’s Trump’s wildest election prediction
President Donald Trump loves to play pundit and make lots of predictions about his own political future. His wildest 2020 prediction, though, is that Republicans will take back the House of Representatives. In his latest episode of The Point, CNN’s
The Latest: President declares emergency in Mississippi
The Latest on Zeta (all times CDT): 10:45 p.m. WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has declared an emergency exists in Mississippi and ordered federal assistance be expedited to aid state, local and tribal efforts to recover from Hurricane Zeta. The
Keilar calls out Trump’s ‘tone- deaf’ plea to suburban women
President Donald Trump offered his latest appeal to suburban women, promising to get their husbands "back to work" if he’s reelected. CNN’s Brianna Keilar calls out Trump’s history of sexist and outdated comments. #CNN #News
Miles Taylor, former Homeland Security chief of staff, says he wrote 2018 ‘Anonymous’ op-ed
President Donald Trump talks to the media at Trump International Hotel Las Vegas on Wednesday. | AP Taylor, an outspoken Trump critic, tweeted Wednesday that he wrote the 2018 op-ed in The New York Times and a subsequent book. Anonymous’
Hear new audio from Kushner on Trump’s Covid-19 response
President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner spoke to Bob Woodward about Trump’s approach with the Republican party and in dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. #CNN #News
We simply cannot take four more years of this
Donald Trump holds a campaign rally at Lancaster Airport on Oct. 26. | TNS America has paid dearly for taking a chance on Trump. The last election in 2016 feels simultaneously like it was yesterday and 100 years ago. Weren’t
After New York Times story on Chicago loan schemes, Trump blames city ‘politicians,’ says he is ‘smart guy’
(from left) Eric Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Donald Trump and Ivanka Trump walk past the Trump Hotel & Tower in Chicago. | Rich Hein/Sun-Times Trump is on the defensive after the New York Times story about how he avoided loan
How Trump Maneuvered His Way Out of Trouble in Chicago
The financial crisis was in full swing when Donald J. Trump traveled to Chicago in late September 2008 to mark the near-completion of his 92-floor skyscraper. The fortunes of big companies, small businesses and millions of Americans — including the
Judge: US can’t replace Trump in accuser’s defamation suit
President Donald Trump’s request that the United States replace him as the defendant in a defamation lawsuit, which alleges he raped a woman in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s, was denied Tuesday by a federal judge. The decision
In Trump’s America, only Trump can be trusted
Supporters of President Donald Trump wait in the rain for his arrival at a rally on Tuesday in Lansing, Michigan. | Getty Trump’s efforts to undermining the credibility of anyone who disagrees with him is nothing new. President Donald Trump
Trump’s Second-Term Agenda? Slogans Over Details
DELAWARE, Ohio — Donald J. Trump entered the political arena five years ago with a ride down his golden escalator and a clear if concise platform for his presidential campaign. “I would repeal and replace the big lie, Obamacare,” he
Trump TV? This may be the President’s next act
With just days to go until the 2020 presidential election, President Donald Trump is an underdog to win a second term. This raises an interesting question: What will Trump do next? In his latest video, CNN’s Chris Cillizza explains how
Judge: US can’t replace Trump in columnist’s slander suit
A federal judge on Tuesday denied President Donald Trump’s request that the United States replace him as the defendant in a defamation lawsuit alleging he raped a woman in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s. The decision by U.S.
The Rust Belt boom that wasn’t: Heartland job growth lagged under Trump
2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump tours Whirlpool Corporation washing machine factory in Clyde, Ohio 2/2 By Howard Schneider (Reuters) – The voters of Monroe County, Michigan, may have expected an economic windfall when they flipped from
President Trump repeatedly mocks Sen. Kamala Harris
President Donald Trump has repeatedly mocked Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris during his rallies and has used her gender against her. CNN’s Anderson Cooper sat with Rep. Shelia Jackson Lee to discuss. #CNN #News
Black Americans won’t fall for Trump’s big con
President Donald Trump leads a rally in Lititz, Pennsylvania, on Oct. 26, 2020. | AP Photos Comparing Trump to presidents who actually made things better is to fall into his trap. Trump hasn’t done things for African Americans, he has
How Trump Took the Middle Class to the Cleaners
Donald Trump is gifted at marketing stodgy, old-line Republican policies as though they’re bold, transgressive, and new. Think of it as policy laundering. And nowhere has this deception been executed to more damaging effect than in Trump’s handling of the
Vietnam PM urges Trump to take objective view in trade dispute
© Reuters. U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc at the Government office, ahead of the second U.S.-North Korea summit, in Hanoi HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnam’s prime minister said on Monday the country’s exchange
Brian Stelter: Trump isn’t fighting the media, he’s resisting reality
CNN’s Brian Stelter breaks down President Donald Trump’s attempts to play down the Covid-19 pandemic as cases surge across the country and nearly 225,000 Americans have died from the virus. #CNN #News
Bears vs. Rams: What to Watch 4
Rams defensive tackle Aaron Donald (99) celebrates a sack against the Bears last season at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Donald had three sacks in the Rams’ 17-7 victory — one was nullified by a penalty. The other two came against