October 8th, 2017 - October 9th, 2017. 328-329 days since the Nov 8, 2016, election of some rich asshole, no.45, and 260-261 days since the Jan 20th inauguration.
Trump has an elaborate routine he uses to hide his double chin during photographs: new book
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President Donald Trump notoriously hates having his double chin shown during photographs, and a new book claims that he goes out of his way to avoid showing his chin in pictures.
The Washington Examiner notes that a new book — called Ultimate Insiders, White House Photographers and How They Shape History — details how Trump prevents photographers from snapping pictures of him in ways that expose the flabby area around his neck.
Specifically, author Kenneth Walsh writes that Trump choreographs “his appearances as much as possible to minimize photos of him from the front at a low angle or from the sides, because he thought his double chin became too obvious.”
Such pictures, however, often leave Trump looking “too pugnacious” and not friendly and outgoing. Because of this, the book reports that former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer signed off on taking photos of Trump interacting with his grandchildren to lighten up his image.
At the end of the day, however, Walsh writes that Trump is very wary of “what the called the ‘fake’ mainstream news media, including the photojournalists” who try to take photos of his very real double chin.
‘I gotta think about this’: Lions fan angry — but can’t name any freedoms NFL protesters are disrespecting
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A Detroit Lions fan said protesting players were disrespecting the freedoms he’d fought for — but he was hard-pressed to name what those were.
About two-dozen conservatives took part in a counter-protest Sunday outside Ford Field, where the Lions played the Carolina Panthers, reported The Detroit News.
Protest organizer Brian Pannebacker, a Harrison Township autoworker and anti-union activist, said the demonstration was intended to show support for President Donald Trump on the issue.
“I’m a veteran and my son is in the Army,” Pannebacker said. “It bothers me when I see people disrespecting the flag during our national anthem. Trump spoke out about this issue and I said if they continued to protest on the sidelines, on national TV, I’d organize a protest.”
Trump admitted he sent Vice President Mike Pence to the Indianapolis Colts-San Francisco 49ers game with the order to walk out if players kneeled to protest racial inequality and police brutality, and he did.
“I left today’s Colts game because @POTUS and I will not dignify any event that disrespects our soldiers, our Flag, or our National Anthem,” Pence tweeted shortly after walking out of the game in protest.
One Detroit fan told WZZM-TV that he agreed with Pannebacker and the other pro-Trump protesters.
“Take a knee is just straight up disrespectful to the United States,” said the fan, who said his name was Ryan but declined to give his last name. “There are a lot of people who fought pretty hard for this country and the freedoms that we have, and to do that on national television is pretty terrible. I would say that taking a knee goes against what we fought for.”
The reporter asked Ryan what he had fought for that players opposed, but he came up empty.
“We fought for our country and for our freedoms — but I guess, I got to think about this one,” he said.
A friend then pointed out to Ryan that he’d contradicted himself, according to the TV station.
Eight demonstrators from the the Metro Detroit Political Action Network protested Pannebacker’s counter-protest, wearing shirts that said “Black Lives Matter” and “F*ck Nazis.”
No Lions players kneeled before this week’s game, but eight did so Sept 24, after Trump started calling out NFL protesters, and two did last week.
Lions owner Martha Firestone Ford locked arms with players two weeks ago in solidarity, and she offered to donate to organizations fighting injustice and inequality if protesting players stood as a team during the National Anthem.
Lions running back Ameer Abdullah told The Detroit News that players viewed Ford’s offer as a constructive solution to their protest, but Pannebacker wasn’t impressed by the team owner standing with players.
“It’s not acceptable,” Pannebacker said. “I think she’s an enabler, she’s enabling her team to disrespect the flag.”
President Donald Trump is actively assaulting women
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Donald Trump weighed in on the scandal engulfing movie mogul and Democratic funder Harvey Weinstein, accused by multiple women of sexual harassment (Weinstein has been fired from his company). “I’ve know Harvey Weinstein a long time. I’m not at all surprised to see it,” Trump said.
Trump was subsequently asked by CNN’s Elizabeth’s Landers how Weinstein’s conduct differed from the conduct Trump bragged about on the “Access Hollywood” tape, where he said “when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything.” Trump responded that the tape was just “locker-room talk.”
Rubbish. It wasn’t just “locker-room talk.” At least 15 women have publicly accused Trump of sexual harassment and assault, and People Magazine Natasha Stoynoff has six independent witnesses to back up her allegation that Trump “pushed her against a wall, shoved his tongue in her mouth, and told her they were going to have an affair.”
Trump is actively assaulting women in other ways. The Trump administration’s Education Department has moved to make it harder for women at universities to prove sexual harassment. Trump’s Health and Human Services Department has made it harder for women to get contraceptives. Trump has nominated 32 men and just one woman to become U.S. Attorneys. Trump’s 2018 budget calls for a 93 percent cut in funding for federal programs that aid survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence.
Trump and Weinstein are both sexual harassers and predators. But Trump is also president of the United States. That makes him even more dangerous to women.
Even Republican states feel left in the lurch by the Trump administration’s management of health care
Noam N. Levey
Tribune Washington Bureau
Posted with permission from Tribune Content Agency
WASHINGTON — As it works to roll back the Affordable Care Act, the Trump administration is letting state health initiatives languish, frustrating a growing number of state leaders, including several from solidly Republican states.
Last week, Oklahoma's health secretary sent a blistering letter to senior administration officials, taking them to task for not approving a plan by state officials to protect their consumers from large premium increases.
"The lack of timely waiver approval will prevent thousands of Oklahomans from realizing the benefits of significantly lower insurance premiums," Terry Cline wrote to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Tom Price, then the secretary of health and human services.
Health officials in other states say the federal health agency for months provided little help as they tried to plan for the expiration of federal funding for the popular Children's Health Insurance Program, known as CHIP. Money for the program, which covers nearly 9 million children, has begun to lapse because Congress did not meet a Sept. 30 deadline to renew the program, something lawmakers still hope to accomplish this year.
As the deadline neared, the Trump administration was working to support Republican attempts in the Senate to repeal the current health care law.
"It was very hard to get answers to our questions," said Cathy Caldwell, who oversees the CHIP program in Alabama and, like many state officials, is trying to figure out when they must begin dropping children from CHIP coverage.
The federal health care agency did not respond to a request for explanations of its actions or response to the criticism.
Meanwhile, across the country — in Republican and Democratic states alike — there are questions about how the administration is running complex government health programs that serve tens of millions of people.
"There's a problem here," said Virginia Health and Human Resources Secretary William Hazel. "It may be deliberate sabotage at the very top. ... But basic capacity seems to be an issue as well," he said, noting vacancies and competing demands at the federal agency. Hazel, who is in a Democratic administration, was appointed by a Republican governor.
Minnesota's human services secretary, Emily Piper, who oversees that state's health care programs, said it has been hard to discern whether politics are driving all the problems, but the effect is the same.
"Basic services that we expect the federal government to provide are suffering," she said.
Many health care programs that Americans rely on — such as CHIP, Medicaid and, in some cases, state insurance marketplaces created by the Affordable Care Act — are run by state governments, but funded and overseen by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
That division of power has led to disputes between state and federal leaders.
The Trump administration has fueled additional tensions with its enthusiastic advocacy for Republican congressional efforts not only to repeal the current health care law, but also to significantly cut other federal health programs. Senior staff at the Department of Health and Human Services has been working all year to support the repeal campaign.
The Trump administration has further angered many states with actions that are driving up insurance premiums and destabilizing markets, according to insurers, state regulators and consumer advocates.
For example, President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to stop making federal payments to health insurers that offset the cost of covering out-of-pocket medical expenses for people with low incomes.
Insurers across the country have cited uncertainty over these payments as a leading cause for big 2018 premium increases.
Over the summer, the administration also announced plans to scale back advertising and other efforts designed to get people signed up for insurance coverage in 2018, saying much of that work had proved ineffective in the past.
An aggressive enrollment campaign is widely considered important to getting younger, healthier Americans into the insurance market and controlling premiums.
In the face of the Trump administration's retreat, many states have intensified their own efforts to stabilize insurance markets and help consumers.
California, which operates its own insurance marketplace, has committed $100 million to a marketing and outreach campaign and developed a new system to shield some consumers from big rate increases.
Peter Lee, who heads Covered California, said the Trump administration has generally not interfered in the state's marketplace.
But other states that have looked to the administration for assistance have been disappointed.
Oklahoma proposed a plan this year to control insurance premiums for its residents, who were facing increases of 30 percent or more next year.
After months of discussions in which state officials said the Trump administration assured them approval would come, the administration took no action, letting a deadline pass and ensuring that health insurers would pass along major premium increases to customers next year.
"It was very frustrating," said Julie Cox-Kain, Oklahoma's deputy health and human services secretary.
States looking for guidance over the summer about how to prepare for the expiration of federal funding for CHIP were similarly let down, officials said.
Several said they felt that their warnings about the need for action well before the Sept. 30 deadline were being ignored by federal officials.
"It's been a budgeting nightmare," said Caldwell, the Alabama CHIP official. "And it is very stressful for families."
Most states have enough money in reserve to continue CHIP coverage for weeks if not months, but all need several months of lead time to plan for freezing enrollment or cutting coverage should that become necessary.
In the past, administrations have helped states prepare for that possibility with written guidance about how to prepare.
But for months, the Trump administration refused to provide states with anything in writing, Caldwell said.
More recently, as the CHIP deadline passed and state pleas intensified, federal officials began offering more assistance, several state officials said. Caldwell said she finally got critical information about how much federal funding was still available to Alabama.
Minnesota, which has little money in reserve for its CHIP program, last week received additional federal money to help tide it over until Congress reauthorizes the CHIP money.
But Piper, the Minnesota human services secretary, said she's still not convinced that the Trump administration is pushing Congress to quickly renew the program.
"I have never received any assurances that this is a priority for them," she said.
Last week, Oklahoma's health secretary sent a blistering letter to senior administration officials, taking them to task for not approving a plan by state officials to protect their consumers from large premium increases.
"The lack of timely waiver approval will prevent thousands of Oklahomans from realizing the benefits of significantly lower insurance premiums," Terry Cline wrote to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Tom Price, then the secretary of health and human services.
Health officials in other states say the federal health agency for months provided little help as they tried to plan for the expiration of federal funding for the popular Children's Health Insurance Program, known as CHIP. Money for the program, which covers nearly 9 million children, has begun to lapse because Congress did not meet a Sept. 30 deadline to renew the program, something lawmakers still hope to accomplish this year.
As the deadline neared, the Trump administration was working to support Republican attempts in the Senate to repeal the current health care law.
"It was very hard to get answers to our questions," said Cathy Caldwell, who oversees the CHIP program in Alabama and, like many state officials, is trying to figure out when they must begin dropping children from CHIP coverage.
The federal health care agency did not respond to a request for explanations of its actions or response to the criticism.
Meanwhile, across the country — in Republican and Democratic states alike — there are questions about how the administration is running complex government health programs that serve tens of millions of people.
"There's a problem here," said Virginia Health and Human Resources Secretary William Hazel. "It may be deliberate sabotage at the very top. ... But basic capacity seems to be an issue as well," he said, noting vacancies and competing demands at the federal agency. Hazel, who is in a Democratic administration, was appointed by a Republican governor.
Minnesota's human services secretary, Emily Piper, who oversees that state's health care programs, said it has been hard to discern whether politics are driving all the problems, but the effect is the same.
"Basic services that we expect the federal government to provide are suffering," she said.
Many health care programs that Americans rely on — such as CHIP, Medicaid and, in some cases, state insurance marketplaces created by the Affordable Care Act — are run by state governments, but funded and overseen by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
That division of power has led to disputes between state and federal leaders.
The Trump administration has fueled additional tensions with its enthusiastic advocacy for Republican congressional efforts not only to repeal the current health care law, but also to significantly cut other federal health programs. Senior staff at the Department of Health and Human Services has been working all year to support the repeal campaign.
The Trump administration has further angered many states with actions that are driving up insurance premiums and destabilizing markets, according to insurers, state regulators and consumer advocates.
For example, President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to stop making federal payments to health insurers that offset the cost of covering out-of-pocket medical expenses for people with low incomes.
Insurers across the country have cited uncertainty over these payments as a leading cause for big 2018 premium increases.
Over the summer, the administration also announced plans to scale back advertising and other efforts designed to get people signed up for insurance coverage in 2018, saying much of that work had proved ineffective in the past.
An aggressive enrollment campaign is widely considered important to getting younger, healthier Americans into the insurance market and controlling premiums.
In the face of the Trump administration's retreat, many states have intensified their own efforts to stabilize insurance markets and help consumers.
California, which operates its own insurance marketplace, has committed $100 million to a marketing and outreach campaign and developed a new system to shield some consumers from big rate increases.
Peter Lee, who heads Covered California, said the Trump administration has generally not interfered in the state's marketplace.
But other states that have looked to the administration for assistance have been disappointed.
Oklahoma proposed a plan this year to control insurance premiums for its residents, who were facing increases of 30 percent or more next year.
After months of discussions in which state officials said the Trump administration assured them approval would come, the administration took no action, letting a deadline pass and ensuring that health insurers would pass along major premium increases to customers next year.
"It was very frustrating," said Julie Cox-Kain, Oklahoma's deputy health and human services secretary.
States looking for guidance over the summer about how to prepare for the expiration of federal funding for CHIP were similarly let down, officials said.
Several said they felt that their warnings about the need for action well before the Sept. 30 deadline were being ignored by federal officials.
"It's been a budgeting nightmare," said Caldwell, the Alabama CHIP official. "And it is very stressful for families."
Most states have enough money in reserve to continue CHIP coverage for weeks if not months, but all need several months of lead time to plan for freezing enrollment or cutting coverage should that become necessary.
In the past, administrations have helped states prepare for that possibility with written guidance about how to prepare.
But for months, the Trump administration refused to provide states with anything in writing, Caldwell said.
More recently, as the CHIP deadline passed and state pleas intensified, federal officials began offering more assistance, several state officials said. Caldwell said she finally got critical information about how much federal funding was still available to Alabama.
Minnesota, which has little money in reserve for its CHIP program, last week received additional federal money to help tide it over until Congress reauthorizes the CHIP money.
But Piper, the Minnesota human services secretary, said she's still not convinced that the Trump administration is pushing Congress to quickly renew the program.
"I have never received any assurances that this is a priority for them," she said.
Bob Corker’s office: We never begged Trump for endorsement — he begged the senator not to retire
Sen. Bob Corker, R-TN, and Pres. Donald Trump (Composite image)
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President Donald Trump lashed out at Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) on Sunday morning, saying that the 65-year-old senator made the decision to retire at the end of his term because he was afraid to run without Trump’s endorsement.
According to a Sunday report in the Washington Post, that isn’t true at all. Rather, Trump called Corker’s office to urge the senator not to retire, said Corker’s staff.
“Senator Bob Corker ‘begged’ me to endorse him for re-election in Tennessee. I said ‘NO’ and he dropped out (said he could not win without my endorsement),” Trump tweeted. “He also wanted to be Secretary of State, I said ‘NO THANKS.’ He is also largely responsible for the horrendous Iran Deal! Hence, I would fully expect Corker to be a negative voice and stand in the way of our great agenda. Didn’t have the guts to run!”
Corker — who has been public in his disdain for the president’s leadership in recent weeks — responded by implying that the president has become senile and needs constant supervision.
“It’s a shame the White House has become an adult day care center,” Corker tweeted, the type of facilities typically used for late-life dementia and Alzheimer’s patients. “Someone obviously missed their shift this morning.”
“When Corker later called Trump to tell him that he had decided to retire — a decision Corker made on his 65th birthday — the president was disappointed,” said the Post, citing an unnamed Republican Congressional official.
“So disappointed, in fact, that early last week, the president called Corker to ask him to reconsider his decision, according to Corker’s chief of staff, Todd Womack,” wrote the Post‘s Karoun Demirjian, “and reaffirmed that he would have endorsed Corker had he decided to run again. It was not the first time that Trump had extended such an offer of support, Womack said — directly contradicting every accusation the president tweeted out Sunday morning.”
A mockery was made of the national anthem all right.
But it wasn’t by the San Francisco 49ers who knelt during it.
Vice President Mike Pence turned the anthem into a prop Sunday, co-opting it for a stunt that served no other purpose than to sow division and further enrage the administration’s conservative base. That it likely deflected attention from yet more neo-Nazi protests in Charlottesville was all the better.
Please, though, tell me again how it’s the players who are so disrespectful.
Pence was so incensed by the sight of several 49ers kneeling during the anthem that he left immediately afterward. Not so incensed that he wasn’t right there with a carefully crafted statement to let the world know of his outrage, however.
“President Trump and I will not dignify any event that disrespects our soldiers, our flag or our national anthem,” Pence’s statement said.
And in case anyone missed how righteously indignant he was, he quickly updated the background photo on his Twitter profile to one of him standing for Sunday’s anthem, hand over his heart, next to someone in a military uniform.
Spare me.
This isn’t about patriotism or love of country or any other garbage excuse. This was a carefully orchestrated PR move — one staged at no small expense to taxpayers, mind you, given his Las Vegas-Indianapolis-Los Angeles itinerary.
Pence knew exactly what he was walking into in Indianapolis. 49ers safety Eric Reid, the first player to join Colin Kaepernick in kneeling during the anthem last year, has made it clear his protest will continue this season.
The 49ers have also been the most staunch defenders of both their players’ activism and reasons for it. They donated $1 million last year to Bay Area organizations that promote social justice, and have left no doubt in the wake of President Donald Trump’s rant two weeks ago that they consider the protests appropriate.
“For more than a year, members of our team have protested the oppression and social injustices still present in our society. While some may not have taken a knee or raised a fist, we have all shared the desire to influence positive change,” the 49ers said in a statement issued last weekend on behalf of the players, coaches, ownership and staff.
“As the majority of us have done throughout our careers, we use our platform as members of a NFL team, and our right to freedom of expression, to speak up for those whose voice is not heard.”
If there was any team Pence was guaranteed of seeing protest, it would be the 49ers. Yet he went to the game, anyway.
Perhaps that’s why the media pool was left to wait in vans outside the stadium. NBC’s Vaughn Hillyard said on Twitter that the pool was told Pence “may depart the game early. Did not indicate how early.”
Yeah. You never know how long it's going to take to pull off a stunt.
Trump highlights 'smart' Vegas shooter, smears 'not very capable' San Juan Mayor
Donald Trump made controversial remarks about the Las Vegas shooter as well as the mayor of San Juan following the hurricane in Puerto Rico.
Over the last week, #Donald Trump has faced several hurdles [VIDEO]in his administration dealing with the hurricane in #Puerto Rico and the worst mass shooting in America history taking place in Las Vegas. Commenting on these issues was the president during a controversial interview on a Christian television network.
Trump on his rough week
In recent weeks, Donald Trump has been forced to deal with [VIDEO] a growing number of incidents troubling the country and his administration. It started last month in Puerto Rico when Hurricane Maria ripped through the island, causing damage that experts believe will take decades to recover from.
Trump came under fire for his slow response, with those who oppose the president criticizing him for spending more time on his feud with the National Football League as oipposed to helping those in need on the island. When Trump did speak out, he was highly critical of the Mayor of #San Juan, while making sure to highlight, on more than one occasion, Puerto Rico's debt to the United States and Wall Street. In addition, last Sunday marked the deadly mass shooting in United States history when a gunman unloaded hundreds of rounds into a crowd attending a country music festival on the Las Vegas strip. These issues and more were discussed during a recent interview, as reported by Raw Story on October 8.
(Trump's comments on the Vegas shooter start at 2:35, and remarks about San Juan Mayor began at 7:30.)
Sitting down with former Arkansas Gov.
Mike Huckabee for an interview on the Trinity Broadcasting Network, Donald Trump elaborated on the above issues, but gave responses that have raised eyebrows. When asked what he thought of San Juan Mayer Carmen Yulin Cruz, who was found on camera helping save victims trapped in waist-deep water, Trump wasn't impressed. "We have the Mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, who didn’t attend meetings, who didn’t work with FEMA, who really did not do a very good job," Trump said, before claiming Cruz "did a very poor job" and was "not a capable person."
Trump praises Las Vegas gunman as 'probably smart' -- but bashes San Juan mayor as 'not very capable' https://t.co/KHjHlspcKbpic.twitter.com/qOAmts9TpM— Raw Story (@RawStory) October 8, 2017
In regards to his remarks about the Las Vegas shooting, Donald Trump credited the quick reaction from law enforcement, but went on to praise the Las Vegas shooter 64-year-old Stephen Paddock, for his apparent brilliance in being able to carry out such a horrific crime.
"This was a sick person, but probably smart," the president explained, before adding, "he had cameras." The commander in chief elaborated further, noting that the police "got there so quickly" and that they "have to be given credit."
Next up
As Donald Trump continues to make remarks that leave many dumbfounded, he doesn't appear willing to change his tune anytime soon. Over the weekend, the president has once again lashed out on social media, picking out targets that range from the news media, to Hollywood celebrities, and even a member of his own Republican Party in the form of an attack on Sen. Bob Corker. With the pressure mounting, only time will tell how Trump handles his presidency moving forward.
WHOA!: Frank Sinatra told Donald Trump to ‘go f*ck himself’ in 1990
Maria Perez
Posted with permission from Newsweek
Add Ol’ Blue Eyes to the list of people who are anti-Trump.
When Donald Trump ruffled the famous Frank Sinatra’s feathers, he had his manager tell him to go f*** himself, The Daily News reports.
Eliot Weisman, the former manager of the American singer from 1975 to 1998, recounts the time the singer was going to perform at the opening of Trump’s Taj Mahal in Atlantic City in 1990 in his new book, The Way It Was, set to be released on October 24.
The former manager said they had a deal currently in place with the casino’s new operator, Mark Grossinger Etess, who died in a helicopter crash before they could finalize negotiations. Trump then stepped in to help Sinatra and Weisman finish the arrangement Etess had previously started.
Before his meeting with the now 45th President of the United States, Weisman said singer Paul Anka warned him at Etess’s funeral he was going to learn during the meeting the meaning of Trump’s then new book, The Art of The Deal.
According to Weisman, Trump started off the new negotiations saying Sinatra was too expensive for the cost of the 12 dates the singer was supposed to perform, saying he was “a little rich” for the price. Weisman said Trump also decided he was going to drop former Rat Pack member Sammy Davis Jr, who was dying of cancer at the time, and pop duo Stevie and Eydie, who were the other acts involved in the original deal.
When Trump asked who Stevie and Eydie were, Weisman became furious and alleges he tried to choke Trump with his own tie. Luckily for The Donald, Weisman’s son, who was also at the meeting, was able to stop Weisman before he could do any damage.
Weisman recalled the meeting and told Sinatra by phone everything that happened. The singer was not amused and Sinatra gave Weisman two choices: to tell Trump he should go f*** himself on Sinatra’s behalf, or to give Trump’s phone number to the American pop singer so he could personally call Trump himself to tell him to go f*** himself.
Upon returning to Trump’s office after the phone call, Weismann told gladly told Trump, “Sinatra says go f*** yourself!”
Weisman said the deal never happened with Trump. Sinatra ended up playing a few gigs at the Sands in Las Vegas instead.
It seemed as if the former businessman missed out. Despite the dispute that went down, Trump still seems to be quite the Sinatra fan. His first dance during the Inaugural Ball was to the 1969 classic Sinatra hit, "My Way."
When Donald Trump ruffled the famous Frank Sinatra’s feathers, he had his manager tell him to go f*** himself, The Daily News reports.
Eliot Weisman, the former manager of the American singer from 1975 to 1998, recounts the time the singer was going to perform at the opening of Trump’s Taj Mahal in Atlantic City in 1990 in his new book, The Way It Was, set to be released on October 24.
The former manager said they had a deal currently in place with the casino’s new operator, Mark Grossinger Etess, who died in a helicopter crash before they could finalize negotiations. Trump then stepped in to help Sinatra and Weisman finish the arrangement Etess had previously started.
Before his meeting with the now 45th President of the United States, Weisman said singer Paul Anka warned him at Etess’s funeral he was going to learn during the meeting the meaning of Trump’s then new book, The Art of The Deal.
According to Weisman, Trump started off the new negotiations saying Sinatra was too expensive for the cost of the 12 dates the singer was supposed to perform, saying he was “a little rich” for the price. Weisman said Trump also decided he was going to drop former Rat Pack member Sammy Davis Jr, who was dying of cancer at the time, and pop duo Stevie and Eydie, who were the other acts involved in the original deal.
When Trump asked who Stevie and Eydie were, Weisman became furious and alleges he tried to choke Trump with his own tie. Luckily for The Donald, Weisman’s son, who was also at the meeting, was able to stop Weisman before he could do any damage.
Weisman recalled the meeting and told Sinatra by phone everything that happened. The singer was not amused and Sinatra gave Weisman two choices: to tell Trump he should go f*** himself on Sinatra’s behalf, or to give Trump’s phone number to the American pop singer so he could personally call Trump himself to tell him to go f*** himself.
Upon returning to Trump’s office after the phone call, Weismann told gladly told Trump, “Sinatra says go f*** yourself!”
Weisman said the deal never happened with Trump. Sinatra ended up playing a few gigs at the Sands in Las Vegas instead.
It seemed as if the former businessman missed out. Despite the dispute that went down, Trump still seems to be quite the Sinatra fan. His first dance during the Inaugural Ball was to the 1969 classic Sinatra hit, "My Way."
Donald Trump Revels In Recounting The ‘Very Good Towels’ He Threw To Hurricane Victims
“I was having fun. They were having fun,” Trump said.
President Donald Trump congratulated himself on his trip to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico last week by celebrating the “incredible” cheering of the “crowd of a lot of people” who watched him throw rolls of paper towels.
In a fawning interview with former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) that aired Saturday on the Trinity Broadcasting Network, a Christian news outlet, Trump recounted the trip as if it were a sporting event. Huckabee — whose daughter is White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders — had asked him elaborate on “the effusive praise” from officials.
Arguing that the media “made up” their coverage of the trip, he described in great detail the “deafening” sound of the cheering crowd when he threw paper towels at residents receiving aid at a church.
“They had these beautiful, soft towels. Very good towels,” Trump said. “And I came in, and there was a crowd of a lot of people. And they were screaming, and they were loving everything. I was having fun. They were having fun. They said, ‘Throw ‘em to me! Throw ‘em to me, Mr. President!’
“So next day, they said, ‘Oh, it was so disrespectful to the people,’” Trump continued, referring to the press. “It was just a made-up thing. And also, when I walked in, the cheering was incredible.”
“You were a rock star!” Huckabee interjected. “I saw the video of it!”
“The cheering was, it was deafening,” Trump continued. “They turned down the sound so that you just heard the announcers: ‘Donald Trump.’”
During his visit Tuesday to survey the damage caused by Hurricane Maria, Trump was widely condemned for not showing empathy for the ongoing suffering in Puerto Rico and making the trip a spectacle.
In addition to tossing the paper towels, he joked to the island’s officials that the cost of the storm has “thrown our budget a little out of whack,” downplayed Maria as not “a real catastrophe” like Hurricane Katrina (the 2005 storm in which many more lives were lost), and told a family of hurricane victims to “have a good time.”
Trump in the Saturday interview continued to obsess over receiving praise for the federal response to the storm.
“They were praising us. The congresswoman, who is terrific, Jenniffer González-Colón ... she has been incredible in her praise of the job we’ve done.”
While meeting with Colón and other officials on the ground Tuesday, Trump repeatedly asked them to publicly praise the federal response to the storm.
“She was saying such nice things about all of the people who have worked so hard,” he said at the time. “Jenniffer, do you think you can say a little bit about what you said about us?”
Among those present at the meeting but not offering praise: the mayor of San Juan, Carmen Yulín Cruz, a vocal critic of the federal response to the storm whom Trump has regularly attacked.
In the interview, Trump stepped up his insults, telling Huckabee that it was Cruz “who did a very poor job.”
“She’s not a capable person, and my people were telling me that to start off with,” he said. “But we did a great job.”
After again discrediting the coverage of his trip, Trump lauded himself for the word he most frequently uses to deride the news media.
“The media is, really, the word — I think one of the greatest of all terms I’ve come up with — is ‘fake,’” he told Huckabee. “I guess other people have used it, perhaps, over the years, but I’ve never noticed it.”
Trump praises Las Vegas gunman as ‘probably smart’ — but bashes San Juan mayor as ‘not very capable’
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President Donald Trump gave a lengthy interview to Mike Huckabee, where he slammed San Juan’s mayor and praised the Las Vegas gunman’s intelligence.
The president spoke to Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor and father of Trump’s press secretary, on his self-titled TBN show Saturday about his response to Puerto Rico.
Trump bashed Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz, whom he attacked last weekend on Twitter but brushed off during his visit to the battered island, as “not a capable person.”
“We have the Mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, who didn’t attend meetings, who didn’t work with FEMA, who really did not do a very good job — in fact, did a very poor job,” Trump said. “And she was the lone voice that we saw — and of course that’s the only voice the media wanted to talk to, and she’s running for governor, big surprise.”
On the other hand, the president praised the response by Las Vegas police to the mass shooting that left 58 people dead and hundreds more wounded — and he was apparently impressed by the gunman, as well.
This was a sick person, but probably smart,” Trump said. “And he had cameras, but (police) got there so quickly, and they really did — and they have to be given credit.”
‘White House has become an adult day care center’: Donald Trump and Republican Sen. Bob Corker in massive Twitter feud
Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) talks to reporters as he arrives for the weekly Republican caucus policy luncheons at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on March 10, 2015. Photo by Jonathan Ernst for Reuters.
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U.S. President Donald Trump aimed his Twitter account at sometime ally Senator Bob Corker on Sunday with a series of derisive posts blaming the Republican for the Iran nuclear deal and saying Corker wanted the secretary of state job.Corker, who announced his retirement from the Senate last month, responded to Trump with a sarcastic Twitter post of his own.
The senator from Tennessee had been considered by Trump for the secretary of state position in the months after Trump’s Nov. 8 election win. Corker, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has been more critical of Trump in recent months, including over the handling of a white supremacist demonstration in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August.
“Senator Bob Corker “begged” me to endorse him for re-election in Tennessee. I said “NO” and he dropped out (said he could not win without my endorsement),” Trump wrote. “He also wanted to be Secretary of State, I said “NO THANKS.” He is also largely responsible for the horrendous Iran Deal!
“Hence, I would fully expect Corker to be a negative voice and stand in the way of our great agenda. Didn’t have the guts to run!”
Corker, whose retirement is a blow to the Republican Party struggling to balance divisions between mainstream and more populist wings, said in his tweet on Sunday: “It’s a shame the White House has become an adult day care center. Someone obviously missed their shift this morning.”
Trump has long criticized the 2015 international nuclear pact, a signature foreign policy achievement of former President Barack Obama in which Iran agreed to reduce its nuclear program in exchange for easing of sanctions.
Last week, asked about reported tensions between Trump and the person he eventually chose to be secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, Corker’s response was seen as a jab at Trump.
“I think Secretary Tillerson, Secretary [of Defense James] Mattis, and Chief of Staff [John] Kelly are those people that help separate our country from chaos,” Corker said, referring to Defense Secretary James Mattis and White House chief of staff John Kelly.
Corker also said Tillerson was “in an incredibly frustrating place” where he “ends up not being supported in the way that I hope a secretary of state would be supported,” according to media reports.
Sunday was not the first time Trump has tweeted about Corker and his apparent waffling about whether or not he should seek another Senate term.
In August, Trump said Corker was “constantly asking me whether or not he should run again in ’18.”
That was after the senator’s remarks on Trump’s response to the Charlottesville demonstration. Corker said, “The president has not yet been able to demonstrate the stability, nor some of the competence, that he needs to demonstrate in order to be successful.”
(Reporting by Doina Chiacu, Lindsay Dunsmuir and Sarah N. Lynch; editing by Grant McCool)
‘Profiteering murderous terrorist’: Twitter pounds NRA’s Wayne LaPierre for lying his ass off about gun laws
Wayne LaPierre NRA speaks to CBS News (screen grab)
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National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre was pilloried by viewers on Sunday after he appeared on CBS to dissuade Congress from pursuing gun safety laws following the massacre of 58 people in Las Vegas.
During an appearance on Face the Nation, host John Dickerson went easy on LaPierre, allowing him to blame video games, gun control and mental health for the Vegas shooting.
Twitter users reacted by swiftly condemning both of them.
it really is time to #SilenceTheNRA @FaceTheNation Tell #LaPierre he is full of it. Stop instilling FEAAR. The World is not evil
LaPierre of @NRA earning his blood money on @MeetThePress. Only 3% of Americans account for 50% of guns owned. That's who we should go after
Listening to asshole @waynelapierrejr on @FaceTheNation just started my day off badly. Actually blamed Obama’s ATF for Vegas. #ASSHOLE
#Facethenation IF background check loopholes R closed NRA & GOP wouldn't pass checks! &they loose profits THAT'S WHY they're against it.
Shame on you @jdickerson for allowing LaPierre to sidestep yr questions. Esp his comment re: "good guys with guns showing up to stop gunman." Yr response shld have been, "To be fair, those good guys were trained police, NOT civilians." He used yr platform 2 spread his propaganda
#NRA sucks. What’s the problem Pierre? You have s really big mouth! he is on aa open mike. And is making a fool of himself@FaceTheNation
Americans are sick of panels n Congress, on @FaceTheNation& @MeetThePress "discussing" overriding Nazi rule of the @NRA & @waynelapierrejr
Jesus, Wayne, did Diane Feinstein laugh at your dick or what? I get you only deflect but you look a little desperate here.#FacetheNation
I just turned off @FaceTheNation for the first time because Dickerson is letting Wayne LaPierre disrespect his questions so blatantly.
Trump tweet confirms Pence NFL walkout stunt was premeditated
Vice President Mike Pence laughs as U.S. President Donald Trump holds a baseball bat as they attend a Made in America product showcase event at the White House in Washington, U.S., July 17, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
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President Donald Trump confirmed that he ordered Vice President Mike Pence to leave Sunday’s game between the Indianapolis Colts and San Francisco 49ers if any players protested during the National Anthem.
Some of them did, so the vice president walked out.
While everyone is entitled to their own opinions, I don't think it's too much to ask NFL players to respect the Flag and our National Anthem
Social media users weren’t fooled, and called out Pence for attending the game at taxpayer expense for what appeared to be a political stunt.
The president confirmed their suspicions a short time later in his own tweet.
I asked @VP Pence to leave stadium if any players kneeled, disrespecting our country. I am proud of him and @SecondLady Karen.
Pence flew back to Indiana after visiting Las Vegas on Saturday, and he will fly back to California to attend four fundraisers this week.
Internet pummels Pence’s ‘preplanned stunt’ to leave NFL game after anthem protest
Mike Pence speaks to ABC News (screen grab)
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Vice President Mike Pence left Sunday’s game between the Indianapolis Colts and San Francisco 49ers after some of the players knelt in silent protest during the National Anthem.
Other Twitter users quickly pounded on the vice president as a hypocrite and accused him of manufacturing a publicity stunt.
Mike Pence's worst is nightmare is going to see Hamilton and having every performer take a knee.
Follow
— Michael Blackman (@MBlackman37) October 8, 2017
LM 
Grow up. twitter.com/VP/status/9170…
BUSTED: Pence made press wait in van so he could leave game early for taxpayer-funded stunt, NBC reports
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Vice President Mike Pence left the Indianapolis Colts NFL game early on Sunday after players kneeled during the national anthem as a protest against systemic racism — but many people suspect the White House of orchestrating the stunt at the expense of taxpayers.
In a tweet on Sunday, NBC’s Peter Alexander reported that Pence’s press pool was ordered to wait outside the game because the vice president had planned to leave early.
“The vice president was just in Las Vegas speaking about the desire for unity in this country,” Alexander noted. “Then he flew last night in Indianapolis with the sole purpose of going to this football game… where his team would be playing the San Francisco 49ers, the team where Colin Kaepernick obviously began this entire situation by taking a knee last season during the national anthem.”Speaking on MSNBC, Alexander explained why many people were dubious about Pence’s departure from the game, beginning with the fact that Trump admittedthat it was his idea in a tweet praising Pence.
“So, Pence went to the game, as soon as he saw someone take a knee, he left,” he continued. “And as we understand right now, he’s already on a plane in route to Los Angeles for a political fundraiser.”
Alexander also pointed out that Pence may have offended many Americans by using taxpayer money for a “political stunt.”
“The president and the vice president had come up with a way that they believe is the best way to communicate this stand,” the NBC reporter remarked. “But it’s obviously a divisive issue, with many people insisting these players deserve their right to free expression.”
“Among the questions right now to be answered is, was this a political stunt as many people suggest?” Alexander added. “And the bottom line is, is the vice president as a government official allowed to use taxpayer money to fly into a place like Indiana for what many people view as a political stunt.”
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‘You should be ashamed’: Conservative gets hammered for saying NFL protesters disrespect veterans
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Conservative pundit Ben Ferguson got his ears boxed on Sunday in a discussion about professional athletes kneeling during the national anthem when he tried to call the protesters unpatriotic and said they’re disrespecting the military.
On Sunday, Vice President Mike Pence theatrically walked out of an Indianapolis Colts game because he was so deeply offended when he saw the protesters take a knee that he couldn’t stay.
However, tweets between Pence and President Donald Trump show that this was a premeditated publicity stunt.
“Just reading the text of these back and forth tweets, it’s almost laughable,” said CNN anchor Fredericka Whitfield. “It’s almost embarrassing, but it’s happening in real time.”
The segment got heated when Ferguson said that the demonstrators — who are protesting police brutality toward black Americans — are unpatriotic and are disrespecting the military, which supposedly prompted Pence’s walkout.
n staging his walkout, Ferguson said, Vice President Mike Pence was honoring “an obligation to the president of the United states of America to leave a situation where people were basically giving the middle finger to the men and women who fought and protect this country.”“As long as the NFL is consistently coming out there disrespecting this country, I expect the vice president of the United States of America to not attend an event where people are disrespecting the United States of America, those that gave the ultimate sacrifice.
“That is false and you should be ashamed,” said Democratic strategist Symone Sanders.
“It’s not false,” Ferguson said. “It’s my opinion.”
“Nobody has done that,” said Sanders.
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‘We will forever vote for you’: Huckabee vows permanent allegiance to Trump in Christian TV interview
Donald Trump speaks to Mike Huckabee (TBN/screen grab)
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Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee vowed to “forever” vote for Donald Trump after the president praised his daughter, Sarah Sanders, who he described “the most talented” White House press secretary ever.
During an interview that was broadcast on the Christian Trinity Broadcast Network on Saturday, Huckabee began by asking how his daughter was performing at her job.
“Your daughter is a great person, she’s a great human being,” Trump told the proud father. “And she stepped in and it’s not easy. You know, you have a lot of haters out there asking questions. And when I look at those people they are just hating.”
“She has done it with brilliance and with coolness and we’re very, very happy with the job she’s doing,” he added. “She’s a very exceptional person.”
Huckabee seemed to be pleased with that answer.
Watch the video below from TBN.“Just know that we will forever vote for you having just said that,” Huckabee revealed.
‘Bob has big plans’: GOP Sen. Corker’s feud with Trump fuels speculation of impeachment
Sen. Bob Corker and President Donald Trump
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Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) fired back at President Donald Trump on Sunday morning, and their Twitter feud fueled speculation the outgoing senator may call for impeachment.
The Tennessee Republican announced last month that he would not seek re-election next year, and the former Trump defender has criticized the president’s temperament and fitness for office.
Trump attacked the 65-year-old Corker on Twitter, claiming the senator had begged for his endorsement and decided to drop out after the president refused.
Corker responded an hour later by insulting the president’s maturity.
“It’s a shame the White House has become an adult day care center,” Corker tweeted. “Someone obviously missed their shift this morning.”
Corker, who had been considered a candidate to serve as Trump’s secretary of state, strongly questioned the president’s stability and competence after his moral equivocation on the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville.
That criticism, and his decision to leave the Senate when his second term ends, prompted speculation that he might lead the Republican charge to impeach Trump.
Hill Rumor Mill: Bob Corker will be the first Republican Senator to call for Trump's impeachment. #ImpeachTrump
Corker’s insult Sunday morning only added to that speculation.
@SenBobCorker YOU are a profile in courage! Where's the rest of the GOP? SOS GOP LEADERSHIP NEEDED. DON'T let Corker stand alone. Speak up!
OMG! Even Senator Bob Corker knows what an unhinged person Trump can be. Haha! A WH adult day care center. Impeach him please.
Impeach this POS please Senator Corker. Your party is currently filled with cowards. Get with McCain and make it happen
@SenBobCorker Lead the GOP in the call for the impeachment of this indelible stain on your party.
We the people demand it#Corker #Impeach
Go Senator Corker! Impeach or 25th amendment the warmongering, racist Peetus.
Senator Corker will you encourage your colleagues to vote to impeach then? #TalkIsCheap #NoAction #DoTheRightThing
Even if Corker’s not planning to lead a drive for impeachment, many questioned the wisdom of attacking his own party’s lawmakers in a closely divided Senate.
An adult day care center whose chief resident can't count to 51... twitter.com/senbobcorker/s…
And, I'm not saying I'm a big fan of Corker. But, how is Trump getting in a war with him remotely helpful?
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