Speaking to Fox News host Sean Hannity at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Trump defended Biden’s age from critics that say he’s too old to be president. “He’s going to be 79 years old, that is not old, I know many people in their late 80s that are just as good as they were years ago,” he said. “78-79 is not old … I don’t think it’s even appropriate for me to comment on that....
The latest CNN/SSRS poll found 47% of people had an unfavorable opinion of Melania Trump between January 9 and 14th—the worst rating during her term as first lady. It is also the worst rating for any first lady at the end of her term in polling history. It comes as the outgoing president defended his wife during a farewell speech at Joint Andrews Base in Maryland. Trump spoke to crowds after leaving the White House on Marine One and before he boarded Air Force One to travel to Florida....
The former president wrote in a statement released Monday: “Susan Wright will be a terrific Congresswoman (TX-06) for the Great State of Texas. She is the wife of the late Congressman Ron Wright, who has always been supportive of our America First Policies. Susan will be strong on the Border, Crime, Pro-Life, our brave Military and Vets, and will ALWAYS protect your Second Amendment. Early voting is NOW underway—and the Special Election takes place on Saturday, May 1st....
He began his morning by tweeting a quote by noted conspiracy theorist and conservative radio host, Wayne Allyn Root, in which he was called the “best President for Israel in the history of the world,” and which claimed that “the Jewish people in Israel love him like he’s the King of Israel. They love him like he is the second coming of God… But American Jews don’t know him or like him....
Hannity said the president had signed up to the platform during a segment that featured former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders alongside right-wing commentator and radio host Dan Bongino—an investor in the app. “I saw that the president had joined it. At least there is a place, it’s like Twitter, it’s called Parler, I have an account there… good for you because the president joined, because they are censoring him and Dan Scavino and everybody else,” Hannity said....
Lara Trump, a senior 2020 campaign adviser for the 45th president’s unsuccessful re-election effort, is seriously considering mounting a campaign to replace retiring North Carolina GOP Senator Richard Burr. Several anonymous sources and close associates have for weeks suggested she is planning to run in her home state, but the 38-year-old has only hinted to supporters and urged them to “stay tuned.” On Friday, during a surprise remark to attendees of a Big Dog Ranch Rescue fundraiser for pets, the former president appeared to amplify those rumors....
Trump tweeted that he will hold an afternoon press conference in the Rose Garden following his social media summit at the White House. The announcement, he said, will be focused on the census and citizenship. Last week, the president told reporters that the administration was “looking into” issuing an executive order that would mandate the question be added to the census. The remark came after Trump appeared frustrated with the lack of progress in the courts....
The fourth day of House proceedings on the events which led up to the January 6 attack at the Capitol will begin on Tuesday, June 21, at 1 p.m Eastern Time; with the fifth taking place on Thursday, June 23, at 1 p.m. ET. Tuesday’s hearings are expected to focus on how Trump and his inner circle had attempted to pressure election officials in Georgia and other states to falsely declare he had beaten Joe Biden in 2020....
The son of former President Donald Trump joined several other prominent Republicans, including Colorado Representative Lauren Boebert and conservative commentator Candace Owens, on the lineup for the four-day event. AmericaFest is hosted by right-wing organization Turning Point USA and was founded by conservative activist Charlie Kirk. The former president’s son elicited cheers from the crowd when he took the stage. Early in his speech, he said he was long labeled a “conspiracy theorist” because he believed that Twitter was “manipulating the algorithm....
In a tweet on Friday, Trump compared the supposed lack of ire over Biden’s family vacation in the Caribbean to the backlash that Republican Senator Ted Cruz received after fleeing Texas for Cancun, Mexico, amid a deadly winter storm and widespread blackouts in his home state in February 2021. “Where is the outrage about Joe Biden going on a nice tropical vacation while the country suffers through a ‘polar vortex bomb cyclone?...
As supporters waited for the president to arrive at Tuesday’s event outside the Capitol Region International Airport, a guitarist performed the national anthem before the campaign video was played on two big screens. People quickly took to social media to mock the short film, with many comparing it to Orwell’s 1984 while others described it as “brainwashing” and “propaganda.” The video included several clips of Trump, beginning with an imposing close up of his face, overlaid with loud music....
Steve Schmidt, a senior adviser to the late Senator John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign, told The Guardian that Trump’s backing of Palin was “tedious.” Palin was McCain’s running mate that year and she’s now seeking election to Alaska’s single seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, where Trump has endorsed her. “It’s a rather tedious affair at this point,” Schmidt told The Guardian in an article published on Saturday....
“I suspect @JoeBiden could do well tonight,” Trump wrote in his tweet posted on October 11, 2012. “Don’t be fooled by his gaffes. He is a seasoned and feisty debater.” The tweet came just before Biden faced off in the vice presidential debate against Mitt Romney’s running mate, then-Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan. Trump’s tweet gained traction across social media on Tuesday, as he and Biden are set to face off in the first presidential debate of the election cycle....
The FiveThirtyEight approval rating tracker shows that the president’s popularity rose almost two percentage points from a low of 40.1 percent at the end of July to 41.9 percent as of Wednesday evening. Trump’s disapproval rating has also fallen over the past month, despite criticism of his handling of the coronavirus pandemic and the economy’s rebound from related shutdown measures. At the end of July, the president’s disapproval rating stood at a little more than 55 percent, but has since dropped to 53....
“On this very cold but beautiful Christmas Day, look at our Nation NOW on the Southern Border compared to only a short time ago during the Trump Administration,” Trump wrote on his social media platform. He continued: “We had the most SECURE Border in our history, versus the “horror show” that is happening now, with record setting numbers of people, many of them hardened Criminals (including Killers, Human Traffickers and Drug Dealers), POURING INTO OUR COUNRTY at a rate the likes of which we have never seen before....
As social media platforms continue to place misinformation labels on Trump’s posts, his Facebook feed is thriving. One status update this week attracting more than a million interactions and others frequently topping lists of the most-popular posts on the site. Despite Biden’s victory, Trump has refused to concede. Instead, he directed his lawyers to file legal cases in an attempt to challenge the outcome of the vote and repeatedly asserted—without evidence—that the results were manipulated or fraudulent....
The president—who will exit the White House on Wednesday following the inauguration of Joe Biden—was effectively exiled from mainstream social media platforms this month after a mob of his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6. Unlike Twitter, which removed Trump’s account from view amid a suspension, Facebook kept his profiles visible but ruled they would no longer be able to post status updates. Both platforms said allowing Trump to post risked inciting further violence....
The latest survey from the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) and SSRS found that 37 percent of white Catholics had a favorable view of Trump at the end of May. When the same poll was conducted in March, the president had a 60 percent favorability rating among the demographic—putting him 23 points higher than his position today. Over the whole of last year, Trump’s favorability ranking among white Catholics was 49 percent, or 12 points higher than his ranking last month....
A member of the club’s staff tested positive, according to the Associated Press (AP), which led management to introduce a partial shut down of Mar-a-Lago’s operations. This includes quarantining some workers, a source told the AP on condition of anonymity. The club will also limit access to certain facilities, including its dining room. There has been no indication yet about how Trump or his family may have been affected....
Dominic Cummings made the claim while giving testimony to British lawmakers on a joint committee reviewing the U.K.’s coronavirus response on Wednesday. Cummings, who left Downing Street in November 2020 after a bitter split with Johnson, said the U.K. had been lagging in its efforts to get essential equipment and that the British Department of Health’s PPE procurement process was “completely hopeless.” “There wasn’t any system set up to deal with proper emergency procurement,” said Cummings, according to the Press Association....
