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Trump Has Made Pick to Head Interior Dept., Despite Pushback

Acting department chief David Bernhardt has faced criticism from environmental groups

(Newser) - President Trump said Monday that he's nominating David Bernhardt, a former lobbyist for oil and gas companies and other industries, to head the Interior Department despite objections from environmental groups that Bernhardt already was making regulatory decisions on the country's natural resources to benefit industries. Trump tweeted his...

Iraq to Trump: Leave Us Out of 'Your Own Issues'

Barham Salih says president didn't ask permission to 'watch Iran' from his country

(Newser) - Iraq's president on Monday criticized President Trump for saying he wants to keep US troops in Iraq "to watch Iran," saying the US leader didn't ask Iraq's permission to do so. "We find these comments strange," said Barham Salih, speaking at a forum...

Source Leaks Trump's Private Daily Schedules to Media

Axios reports that 60% of his time is unstructured 'executive time'

(Newser) - President Trump is fond of "executive time" in the White House—unstructured stretches in which he makes phone calls, has informal chats, watches cable news, etc.—and a new report makes clear just how fond he is. Axios reports that over the last three months, 60% of Trump'...

Pentagon Sends More Troops to the Border

Roughly 3,750 service members will be heading south

(Newser) - The Pentagon says it's sending about 3,750 more US troops to the southwest border to help out Customs and Border Protection, CNN reports. The mission is slated to last 90 days and will include mobile surveillance as well as the placement of 150 miles of wire between ports...

Trump: Football 'Dangerous,' Wouldn't Egg Barron to Play

But president says he wouldn't stand in way if soccer-loving son wanted to play

(Newser) - Football is "really tough" and "a dangerous sport," and for President Trump, it's a "very tough question" when it comes to 12-year-old son Barron playing it. Asked in a CBS News interview airing just ahead of the Super Bowl if he'd allow his son...

Trump Was Denied a Loan While Running for Prez

This time, Deutsche Bank was nervous about it

(Newser) - While running for president, Donald Trump reached out for a loan and got an unexpected answer—and that answer was "no," the New York Times reports. Trump made the request of Deutsche Bank in early 2016 while lending his campaign tens of millions and spending money to improve...

Foxconn: Trump Changed Our Mind
Foxconn: Trump
Changed Our Mind
Feb 1, 2019 1:50 PM CST

Foxconn: Trump Changed Our Mind

The Taiwanese company will build a smaller plant in Wisconsin

(Newser) - Foxconn Technology Group said Friday that after its chairman spoke directly with President Donald Trump the Taiwanese company will proceed with plans to construct a plant in Wisconsin that will make liquid crystal display screens that can be used for small electronic devices, the AP reports. The news capped a...

Trump Responds to Senate Rebuke on Troop Withdrawals

He defends plan to get US military out of Syria and Afghanistan

(Newser) - On Thursday, senators sent a clear message to President Trump: They think his plan to pull US troops out of Syria and Afghanistan is dangerously hasty. On Friday, Trump pushed back with a pair of tweets, reports Politico . "I inherited a total mess in Syria and Afghanistan, the '...

Trump: I'm Losing 'Massive Amounts of Money' in This Job

He says wall talks are 'a waste of time'

(Newser) - President Trump sat down with reporters from one of his least favorite papers Wednesday and declared that border wall talks are a "waste of time." New York Times correspondents Peter Baker and Maggie Haberman say they interviewed Trump in the Oval Office after he invited publisher AG Sulzberger...

Report: Democratic Theory on Don Jr. Calls Proved Wrong

He didn't get a call from his father before Trump Tower meeting

(Newser) - A Democratic theory on Donald Trump Jr.'s infamous Trump Tower meeting with a group of Russians has been proved wrong, sources tell CNN . The insiders say records provided to the Senate Intelligence Committee show mysterious calls from Trump Jr. to "blocked" private numbers before and after the...

Intel Chiefs' Disagreements Were Misquotes, Trump Says

He says they're all on same page after a few days of public friction

(Newser) - Two days after his intelligence bosses contradicted him in public testimony, President Trump said they told him they’d been misquoted. CNN asked the president Thursday if he'd discussed with CIA Director Gina Haspel and national intelligence chief Dan Coats their testimony before a Senate panel. In that testimony,...

Senate Rebukes Trump on Troop Withdrawals

McConnell wins bipartisan support for measure warning about al-Qaeda and ISIS

(Newser) - The Senate rebuked President Trump on Thursday over his reasoning for withdrawing troops from Syria and Afghanistan. The reprimand brought by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell won bipartisan support, 68-23, the Washington Post reports. Trump had tweeted news of the withdrawal from Syria in December, saying that ISIS had been defeated...

As Deadline Nears, Trump May Meet With China's Xi

Trade war escalates in a month if 2 sides can't strike a deal

(Newser) - It's nearly crunch time for US and Chinese negotiators hoping to avoid a big escalation in the trade war, and it now appears that President Trump and Xi Jinping will meet face-to-face just before a crucial deadline. The Wall Street Journal reports that China has floated the idea of...

Trump: From Now On, Let&#39;s Call It a &#39;Wall&#39;
Trump Resurrects
the Word 'Wall'
Jan 31, 2019 8:40 AM CST

Trump Resurrects the Word 'Wall'

President also says Republicans 'wasting their time' in border security talks with Democrats

(Newser) - Forget "barrier," "steel slats," "bollard wall," or "fence." President Trump wants everyone to revert to a more basic term: "Lets just call them WALLS from now on and stop playing political games!" he tweeted on Thursday, reports USA Today . "...

Undocumented Trump Worker Will Be at His SOTU

Victorina Morales will attend as special guest of NJ Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman

(Newser) - Victorina Morales figured she'd be fired after speaking to the New York Times last month about working as an undocumented immigrant for one of President Trump's golf resorts. Morales now tells the Times she's not sure she ever was let go; she simply stopped going to work...

Sanders Says God Wanted Trump to Be President

'That's why he's there'

(Newser) - President Trump is in the White House because that's where God wants him, according to Sarah Sanders. The White House press secretary told the Christian Broadcasting Network in an interview aired Wednesday that she believes the Trump presidency is part of God's plan. "I think God calls...

Trump Publicly Breaks With His Top Intelligence Officials

He tweets his thoughts on ISIS, Iran, North Korea

(Newser) - President Trump disagrees with his top security officials, and he made that publicly known on Wednesday. His morning tweets to that end followed the testimony given before Congress on Tuesday by Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and CIA Director Gina Haspel as part of what the AP reports is...

Trump Says He Hardly Knew Tell-All Author. Or Did He?
Trump Calls Author
of Tell-All a 'Gofer'
the rundown
Jan 29, 2019 11:51 AM CST

Trump Calls Author of Tell-All a 'Gofer'

Cliff Sims says Trump liked him, wanted him in the room

(Newser) - Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House is a boring book. So says President Trump, who tweeted his displeasure with former White House aide Cliff Sims and his 384-page tell-all on Tuesday, the day of the book's release. "A low level staffer that...

Here's New Proposed Date for Trump's State of the Union

Pelosi invites him to give address Feb. 5, he accepts

(Newser) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has issued a new invitation to President Donald Trump to give his State of the Union speech on Feb. 5, the AP reports. Pelosi said in her formal letter that she and Trump spoke Monday and agreed on the new date. She wrote: "In our...

Trump&#39;s Bible Tweet Sparks a Conversation
Trump Tackles a
New Topic on Twitter
the rundown
Jan 28, 2019 1:07 PM CST

Trump Tackles a New Topic on Twitter

He backs Bible literacy classes, something he hasn't discussed before

(Newser) - A tweet from President Trump was the subject of discussion and scrutiny on Monday, and this time, the topic wasn't one of his habitual ones. He wrote , "Numerous states introducing Bible Literacy classes, giving students the option of studying the Bible. Starting to make a turn back? Great!...

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