Table Of Content
Many on social media pointed out that top athletes might have reservations about eating 1,000 hamburgers, as Trump initially announced. He has promised to use an expansive view of presidential power to undo state laws and policies on many fronts, including areas such as law enforcement and education where states, not the federal government, have traditionally been in charge. President Joe Biden poked fun at himself but took sharp aim at his election rival Donald Trump Saturday at the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner, as protesters outside demonstrated against the conflict in Gaza. Gershkovich's parents and Tice’s mother were among the approximately 2,600 guests at the dinner, an estimate provided by NBC News political correspondent Steve Kornacki in a video that played at the event. He spoke about the importance of a free press and the stakes in this year's presidential election. "I'm sincerely not asking you to take sides. I'm asking you to rise up to the seriousness of the moment," he pleaded.
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent
The voting delegations would be those voted into the House after this year's congressional elections. This year's election is also going to be different from 2020 in a very big way. Because of the pandemic, mail-in voting was used widely and that contributed heavily to increased turnout. It's also because of the continued shift with college-educated white voters toward Democrats. In 2020, Trump won college-educated white men by 3 points in 2020, according to exit polls, but the latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll showed Biden winning the group by more than 20 points.
Biden swipes at Trump at White House correspondents' dinner
Trump had rarely used it, and had put on the market and rented it out at different times.[1] In June 2019, he quietly sold the property, off-market, for $13.5 million. Biden also joked about Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert being booted from a "Beetlejuice" musical in September. "We're here as a reminder that folks think what's going on in Congress is political theater. That’s not true. If Congress were theater, they would've thrown out Lauren Boebert a long time ago," he said.
Dozens of Gaza protesters arrested at Yale University
Dozens of student protesters have been arrested at Columbia, Yale and New York University in recent days. The high court is deliberating whether a near-total abortion ban in Idaho goes against a federal law. US President Joe Biden delivered his annual speech at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner as the country readies for this year's election. His first term was launched with little preparation and no detailed transition plan. This time, he’s likely to appoint a more thoroughly Trumpified White House staff and Cabinet, with fewer moderates applying the brakes.
“Saturday Night Live” cast member Colin Jost was the dinner’s featured entertainer. Celebrities who went to Saturday's event included Scarlett Johansson, who is married to Jost; Rachel Brosnahan and Quavo. High-profile politicians and administration officials, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sen. John Fetterman, D-Penn, attended as well. The president called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to release Gershkovich immediately, adding that the White House was also doing everything it could to bring home freelance journalist Austin Tice and businessman Paul Whelan. WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Saturday used his White House correspondents' dinner speech to swipe at former President Donald Trump, taking shots at the presumptive GOP nominee while highlighting the stakes of the election. Trump owned a five-bedroom mansion on North Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, California from 2007 to 2019.
Trump has promised to scrap President Biden’s programs to promote renewable energy, including subsidies for electric vehicles and charging stations. His advisors have proposed limiting California’s power to set fuel emission standards for automobiles. In his campaign to win a second term, the former president frequently excoriates the state as a terrifying dystopia — the inevitable product, he claims, of Democratic policies. Our game coverage from football, basketball and baseball, plus breaking updates and our best reads. Our top headlines each morning, seven days a week, as well as each weekday afternoon. "Every time the media lies, journalists in Gaza die," the crowd echoed the leader's bullhorn chants.
Several young men were spotted eating multiple burgers at the standup tables dotting the East Room. An impressive – and highly unusual – White House smorgasbord greeted the players. "I think we're going to serve McDonald's, Wendy's, and Burger King with some pizza," Trump told reporters outside the White House. “We have some very large people that like eating, so I think we’re going to have a little fun,” he said. Ms McDougal ultimately sued American Media Inc to retain her lifetime rights to the story, and Mr Pecker settled. The tabloid mogul testified that Mr Trump and his White House aides – then-White House communications director Hope Hicks, and then White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders – later called him to discuss the contract.
More than 100 police officers were injured during clashes with the mob of Trump supporters who disrupted the joint session of Congress for certifying Biden’s victory over Trump. Navarro said in court before his sentencing Thursday that the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack had led him to believe that it accepted his invocation of executive privilege. There has only been one Electoral Vote tie in U.S. history — it happened in the election of 1800.
TOP STORIES
But though this provides a clear, if a bit insignificant, portrait of the ease at which Trump is capable of lying, others have accused Trump of disrespecting the athletes by serving them cheap fast food. Some have also argued that the right thing to do would have been to bring in his kitchen staff at the Trump International Hotel, which is just three blocks from the White House. “We have pizzas, we have 300 hamburgers, many, many French fries, all of our favourite foods. The government shutdown has meant hundreds of thousands of public sector workers, including White House staff, have been on mandatory leave or working without pay for 24 days. Mr Pecker allegedly purchased exclusive lifetime rights to Ms McDougal’s affair claims for $150,000 in 2016 with no intention of publishing the story.
“He said, ‘Did you see the interview last night with Anderson Cooper and Karen McDougal? I thought you had, and we had, an agreement with Karen McDougal that she can’t give any interviews or be on any television shows,” Mr Pecker recalled Mr Trump saying at the time. But after CNN aired an interview with Ms McDougal in March 2018, more than one year after Mr Trump entered office, an outraged president Trump allegedly called Mr Pecker to complain. He also thanked him for handling Ms McDougal’s “situation,” and said the story “would be very embarrassing … to him, his family and the campaign,” according to Mr Pecker. According to Mr Pecker’s testimony in a Manhattan courtroom on Thursday, after taking office, Mr Trump his position in the White House to manage blowback from the scheme.
Trump was also known to serve fast food at the White House on occasion, including in 2019 when he famously invited Clemson University's football team to eat at a fast-food buffet in the State Dining Room to celebrate its national championship win. When serving as president, Mr Trump was famously photographed with a lavish spread of fast food from the joint for the Clemson Tigers football team during a government shutdown in 2019. The Clemson Tigers were invited to meet President Trump after defeating the Alabama Crimson Tide in the national championship game. The team was expected around 6 p.m., but because of the partial government shutdown most of the White House food staff had been furloughed.
A White House statement said President Trump "wanted to host a fun event" for the team despite the federal government shutdown, which is now in its fourth week. Although the big fast food chains usually try to take advantage of viral moments like this on social media, the Twitter accounts for Wendy’s, McDonald’s, Domino’s, and Burger King have stayed notably quiet about last night’s White House fast food feast. The President reportedly paid for the food himself because many of the White House staff are furloughed due to the partial government shutdown, Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley told CNN in a statement. The Clemson University football team was invited to the White House Monday to celebrate their College Football National Championship win in a scene that was also a feast for social media users. Canadian air traffic controllers have been sending their US counterparts pizzas, as they’ve been forced to work for free throughout the shutdown.
To better understand the landscape for the presidential election with a little more than six months to go, here is our initial Electoral Vote map of the cycle. A long list of VIP guests, including journalists and celebrities from Chris Pine to Molly Ringwald, arrived in black-tie attire as more than 100 protesters confronted attendees in front of the Washington Hilton hotel chanting "shame on you" and other slogans. Later, protesters called for the fall of Western media, chanting, "Brick by brick, wall by wall, Western media will fall." The former president's love of fast food — especially McDonald's — has been well-documented. Donald Trump bragged about his knowledge of a McDonald’s menu at one of the fast food chain’s outlets in East Palestine, Ohio.
Trump once again fetes football champ with fast food - POLITICO
Trump once again fetes football champ with fast food.
Posted: Mon, 04 Mar 2019 08:00:00 GMT [source]
It is speculated that Trump loves McDonald’s because of his fear of poisoning – anonymous fast food is safer than reliance on a chef – but I think in this case the guy just loves McDonald’s. Donald Trump reportedly called in a massive McDonalds order to court on Monday, with TMZ capturing staffers in dark suits carrying six large brown bags from the fast food chain into the New York courthouse where Trump is on trial. He also dined on some of the iconic chain’s food when he was recovering from COVID-19, ordering his favorite meal—a Big Mac, Filet-o-Fish, fries and a vanilla shake. Prior to Monday’s big lunch, Trump was reportedly berated in court with accusations that he lied for decades about the value of his properties. The civil suit could cost Trump as much as $250 million after a judge ruled he was liable for fraud.
Democrats feel the gubernatorial race in the state could help them, as Republicans nominated a highly controversial candidate, who could turn off swing voters. But the toss up states are expected to be close, within just a few points, in either candidate's direction. In addition to personnel, ads are the largest expenditure of a presidential campaign. Deeply reported insights into legislation, politics and policy from Sacramento, Washington and beyond. After the dinner concluded, two protesters holding a sign saying "Stop Israel's genocide" entered the hotel's red carpet area as guests were departing.
But Trump campaign aide Sam Nunberg later told Politico that he made up the story to humiliate Mr Christie. Attendees at former president Donald Trump’s VIP party at the Conservative Political Action Committee dined on cheeseburgers and Diet Cokes as a way to emulate the former president’s love of fast food. Any champion football player disappointed with Monday’s dinner at the White House can blame Democrats, according to a presidential spokesman.
No comments:
Post a Comment