That’s why it’s maddening to watch as commentators, well-meaning and otherwise, use the pandemic to shame protesters. “Their rules appear ideologically driven, as people can only gather for purposes deemed important by the elite central planners,” Brian Blase, a Trump administration health policy adviser, told a reporter at Politico. Make no mistake: Systemic racism and police brutality are public health crises. And just like we socially distanced to save lives—we are now protesting to save lives....

But even I couldn’t help noticing that some of the television running during the playoffs and the World Series was about as bad as television can be. I channel-surfed only when my husband went to the kitchen for snack foods or when Alfonso Soriano was at bat and we knew nothing was going to happen. But soon I didn’t even bother. I watched insurance-company advertisements and really idiotic beer commercials because to look elsewhere was to look into the dark yawning maw of what entertainment executives (an oxymoron, emphasis on that last part) think of as “what Americans want....

Trump has expressed his desire to sign off an agreement, while Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin continues talks with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). A major point of contention has been the cost of a deal, with Democrats having pushed for more than Republicans have been willing to sanction. While Trump has been open to further spend, McConnell has stood firmly against this—insisting a “highly targeted” approach should be taken. Given this, he may face pressure from Trump to shift this stance—with the president expected to “weigh in” with the Senate majority leader....

Morrison said that he had a “brief” and “polite” conversation that is now at the center of a Justice Department inquiry into the investigation of alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election. Morrison has been dragged into the Trump impeachment inquiry after The New York Times revealed Trump asked for Australia’s help with the investigation aimed at discrediting the Russia probe. Morrison told Sky News: “The president contacted me and asked for there to be a point of contact between the Australian government and the U....

The commander-in-chief told Fox & Friends on Monday morning that Pelosi’s claim that he was fiddling while people died was a “horrible” thing to say. He also called her statement a “disgrace to her country,” and suggested the federal government might “take over” San Francisco and “clean it up.” “It’s a sad thing, she’s a sick puppy in my opinion, she really is,” President Trump said. “She’s got a lot of problems, and that’s a horrible thing to say....

Team Trump accused The Washington Post of reporting that the image was doctored “without evidence” in a tweet Wednesday, shortly after President Trump shared the meme of himself as fictional boxing champion Rocky on the platform. The Post tweeted on Wednesday that it was “unclear why” the commander-in-chief had published the “doctored photo,” and reported that the image appeared to come from the film Rocky III’s “promotional materials.” Responding to the Washington Post article reporting that Trump had “doctored” a photo of his head on to actor Sylvester Stallone’s body, Team Trump jumped in on jokes about the image, tweeting: “Washington Post claims - without evidence - that @realDonaldTrump shared a ‘doctored’ photo....

The lawsuit comes several weeks after the campaign sent the station a cease-and-desist letter demanding that the advertisement be withdrawn from the station’s broadcast schedule. Called “Exponential Threat,” the ad was produced by Priorities USA and features an animated graph depicting the rising number of novel coronavirus infections as a series of Trump’s statements play in rapid succession. The Trump campaign’s suit alleges that the station, WJFW-NBC, defamed the president by broadcasting the ad because it “was produced through the use of digital technology by taking audio clips from Trump Campaign events and piecing those clips together to manufacture a blatantly false statement that was never said by President Trump....

Trump spoke at a CPAC event in February and will return to deliver remarks in Dallas, Texas next month as speculation continues to swirl about his intentions for the 2024 presidential election. The theme of July’s event is “America UnCanceled”—a reference to so-called cancel culture—and experts who spoke to Newsweek on Thursday suggested Trump would use the speech to assert his continuing hold over the Republican Party. Thomas Gift, founding director of University College London’s Centre on U....

Trump instead defended some of his allies on Friday, claiming that the House panel had purposely edited short clips of testimony from those such as Representative Jim Jordan, daughter Ivanka Trump and former adviser Jared Kushner in order to “destroy” them. “The committee is taking the testimony of witnesses, who defended me for eight hours, chopping it up and truncating sound bites to make it sound like what they said was absolutely terrible,” Trump told the crowd at Friday’s Faith & Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority Policy Conference in Nashville....

Gabriel Sterling, the voting implementation manager with the Georgia secretary of state’s office, referenced death threats and other such intimidation—suggesting Trump was “inspiring people to commit potential acts of violence.” “It has to stop,” Sterling said, having urged the president and Senator to condemn these words and actions. “This is elections, this is backbone of democracy. And all of you who have not said a damn word are complicit in this....

The commander-in-chief said in a statement he still disagrees with the result, again reiterating his claims of widespread fraud despite having consistently failed to provide evidence of this on a scale that could overturn Joe Biden’s victory. A raft of legal actions have been launched by Trump and his allies, but these have failed to change the outcome. “Even though I totally disagree with the outcome of the election, and the facts bear me out, nevertheless there will be an orderly transition on January 20th,” Trump said in a statement shared by Dan Scavino, White House deputy chief of staff for communications....

Donald Trump Jr., dressed in hunter’s camouflage and with an elaborate bow and arrow, teamed with his girlfriend, Kimberly Guilfoyle, who sported a witch’s outfit. They’re a witch hunt, naturally. Elizabeth Warren, meanwhile, shared a video of her dog Bailey dressed up like a penny. Andrew Yang posted a throwback look from a previous Halloween that was reminiscent of certain punk aesthetic. Though he didn’t share any pictures of his costume for this year, he did ask his followers, “Can you guess what we will be this year?...

There’s growing speculation over who might replace McCain after she said earlier this month that she would leave the show to remain in Washington, D.C., where she moved before the birth of her daughter, Liberty. The daughter of the late GOP Arizona senator John McCain, she was the most conservative voice on the program, which she joined in 2017. She would often get into heated debates with her more liberal colleagues, Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin and Sara Haines....

KTOO, a local news network based out of the Alaskan capital, Juneau, said rumors were swirling that Trump Jr. was in town. In February, the $150,000 “dream hunt” was raffled off with the winner joining Trump Jr. and his son on a yacht traveling along the Tongass National Forest coastline in southeastern Alaska. The description of the prize said that Trump Jr. “needs no introduction” as someone “whose passion for the outdoors makes him the number one ambassador for our way of life....

Conway is a conservative attorney and the husband of Kellyanne Conway, who has been a key member of Trump’s team and continues to work in the White House as a counsellor to the president. In recent times, he has become a very vocal critic of the elder Trump despite that the president is his wife’s employer. In Friday’s rumble on Twitter, which began during the testimony of former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, the lawyer appeared to throw the first blow by replying to a Trump Jr....

Donald Trump Jr. made his comments during a scheduled “Reigniting the Spirit of the American Dream” speech at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida. His criticisms of “RINOs,” or “Republicans in name only,” came as part of a swipe at Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming, who joined nine other House Republicans last month in voting to impeach the former president. “The one thing I’ll say for Liz Cheney is, I’m sure she has a lot of bipartisan support, because if there’s one thing that she and Joe Biden definitely want to do, it’s bomb the Middle East,” Donald Trump Jr....

Barrymore’s character Casey Becker is memorably killed after receiving a phone call from an unknown caller, who goes from flirtatious to sadistic, at the start of the 1996 slasher. But in a reimagined version of the scene, recently shared by comedian Samantha Bee, the caller terrorizing Barrymore’s character is none other than the president. “Hard to believe it’s been over twenty years since the movie Scream came out and even longer since Trump took office,” Bee, the host of Full Frontal with Samantha Bee on TBS, wrote alongside the clip on Twitter late Tuesday night....

At the rally, in Florence—Trump’s first rally of 2022—the Republican leader briefly performed an impression of the president. During a wide ranging speech, Trump listed issues including the southern border and inflation. He also returned to unfounded claims that the 2020 presidential election suffered from mass voter fraud and other irregularities, and he took aim at infectious diseases expert Dr. Anthony Fauci. At one point, the ex-president told rallygoers: “We all knew that Joe Biden would be not so good but few could have imagined that he would be such a disaster for this country, what they’ve done....

Newsmax’s John Bachman was responding to Trump’s game at his Bedminster golf course on Thursday, which was played prior to the controversial Saudi Arabia-backed LIV tour beginning there the next day. While interviewing Dick Morris, political consultant and author of the book The Return: Trump’s 2024 Comeback, Bachman hyped up Trump playing as proof of his credentials compared to his successor in the White House. “You look at Joe Biden struggling so hard, you see Donald Trump on the first tee yesterday tee off and just hit a stripe right down the middle,” Bachman said....

“Look, we did something that was historic, we saved tens of millions of lives worldwide when we, together, all of us, we got a vaccine done,” Trump said. “This was going to ravage the country far beyond what it is right now, take credit for it… it’s great, what we’ve done is historic. Don’t let them take it away.” “You’re playing right into their hands” when you doubt the vaccine, Trump added....