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Conway said “nobody” at White House talks about Clinton. These 75 Trump tweets say otherwise.

The following article by German Lopez was posted on the Vox.com website January 11, 2018:

Kellyanne Conway’s remarks are debunked by her own boss.

Speaking to Chris Cuomo on CNN on Wednesday, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway made a bold claim about the Trump administration’s collective thoughts on Hillary Clinton: “We don’t care about her. Nobody here talks about her.”

Unless Conway was leaving out President Donald Trump, this is blatantly false. As @RVAwonk mentioned on Twitter, Trump has tweeted about Clinton dozens of times since he won the election. In my own search for Trump tweets since Inauguration Day (January 20, 2017), I came up with 75 tweets. That’s at least 75 times that Trump has mentioned Clinton on Twitter since he entered the White House. Continue reading “Conway said “nobody” at White House talks about Clinton. These 75 Trump tweets say otherwise.”

Kushner Sought $500 Million Bailout From Top Qatari Investor: Report

The following article by Eric Levitz was posted on the New York Magazine site July 10, 2017:

Jared Kushner, left, White House senior adviser, listens to President Trump during a meeting with cybersecurity experts at the White House on Jan. 31. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)

Jared Kushner has no experience in public service or policymaking. His only qualification for his senior White House position (beyond having been born and betrothed to the right people) is the business savvy that allowed him to avoid squandering his family’s enormous fortune (for the moment, anyway).

In 2007, Kushner’s killer instinct told him that the real-estate market had nowhere to go but up. And so the 26-year-old mogul decided to plow $500 million of his family’s money — and $1.3 billion in borrowed capital — into purchasing 666 Fifth Avenue for twice the price it had previously sold for. Even if we’d somehow avoided a global financial crisis, this would have been a bad bet: Before the crash, when the building was almost fully occupied, it generated only about two-thirds of the revenue the Kushners needed to keep up with their debt payments. Continue reading “Kushner Sought $500 Million Bailout From Top Qatari Investor: Report”

As Trump lashes out, Republicans grow unea

The following article by Robert Costa was posted on the Washington Post website June 5, 2017:

President Trump, after days of lashing out angrily at the London mayor and federal courts in the wake of the London Bridge terrorist attack, faces a convergence of challenges this week that threatens to exacerbate the fury that has gripped him — and that could further hobble a Republican agenda that has slowed to a crawl on Capitol Hill.

Instead of hunkering down and delicately navigating the legal and political thicket — as some White House aides have suggested — Trump spent much of Monday launching volleys on Twitter, unable to resist continuing, in effect, as his own lawyer, spokesman, cheerleader and media watchdog. Continue reading “As Trump lashes out, Republicans grow unea”

What Trump is really saying in his tweets: I’m weak

The following commentary written by Eugene Robinson was posted on the Washington Post website January 9, 2017:

President-elect Donald Trump talks to reporters at Mar-a-Lago on Dec. 28 in Palm Beach, Fla. (Evan Vucci/AP)

Seriously? Is President-elect Donald Trump so thin-skinned that even criticism from Meryl Streep triggers a nasty, over-the-top response? What kind of crybaby have Americans elected as their leader?

“One of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood,” Trump absurdly called the most acclaimed actress of our time, demonstrating that he is no more prepared to become critic in chief than commander in chief.

Are there more important things to think and write about than Trump’s latest Twitter tantrum? Yes and no. Trump threatens to snatch health insurance coverage from millions, enact huge tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy, reverse progress against climate change, destabilize the Western alliance, pick fights with China while cuddling up to Russia — the big-issues list is long and frightening. But I believe it would be foolish not to examine the personality and the psychological makeup of the man who will soon be in the White House. Continue reading “What Trump is really saying in his tweets: I’m weak”

‘Star Wars’ actor Mark Hamill gives Trump tweet the Joker treatment

The following article by Jesse Johnson was posted on the Japan Times website January 8, 2017:

The joke appears to be on Donald Trump.

Actor Mark Hamill, known not only for his role as Luke Skywalker in the “Star Wars” films, but also as the video game and cartoon voice of the Joker, tweeted an audio clip Sunday of the U.S. president-elect’s New Years tweet reimagined in the voice of Batman’s arch nemesis.

“Happy New Year to all, including to my many enemies and those who have fought me and lost so badly they just don’t know what to do. Love!” Trump wrote in a tweet on Dec. 31.

In a tweet saying “The Trumpster quote #1 #ANewJeersToast,” the audio clip by Hamill, a vocal critic of Trump, applies the Joker’s signature maniacal laugh and ends with the Clown Prince of Crime’s guttural cackling.

The idea to mime Trump in the Joker’s voice was apparently given to Hamill by comedy writer Matt Oswalt, brother of comedian Patton Oswalt, in a tweet earlier Sunday.

“BILLION DOLLAR IDEA: an App that you can feed every Trump tweet into that plays it back in @HamillHimself Joker voice. You’re welcome,” Matt Oswalt tweeted.

Matt Oswalt had tweeted minutes after Trump’s New Year’s Eve post that the president-elect’s words sounded “like something the Joker would say right before releasing a swarm of killer bees into Gotham,” the fictional turf of Batman and his enemies.

As of Sunday afternoon, Hamill’s Joker tweet had been retweeted more than 11,000 times.

After seeing the Hamill’s audio clip Sunday, Oswalt was ecstatic.

“Today I won the internet — great job, @HamillHimself,” he wrote on Twitter.