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The Day Trump Became Un-President Trump exploits tragedy for propaganda •39The Atlantic by Jonathan Lemire / Jan 30, 2025 at 4:54 PM//keep unread//hide Feedly AI found 1 Company (American Airlines) See Insights Card “We’re so back,” one reporter whispered to another. All of the chairs in the White House briefing room were filled, and reporters and photographers were crammed into every available nook and cranny. I was standing in the back, squeezed in between a window and a none-too-pleased Secret Service agent. The sight was reminiscent of the COVID briefings of 2020: President Donald Trump gripping the sides of the lectern in the White House briefing room, pursing his lips as he looked out at the journalists yelling and jockeying for his attention. And just like in 2020, Trump used a national calamity to try to score political points and denigrate his foes. Fourteen hours after a midair collision between an American Airlines jet and a military helicopter outside Washington last ni...

What Trump’s Nominees Revealed Senate confirmation hearings for Trump nominees •The Atlantic by Isabel Fattal / Jan 30, 2025 at 4:54 PM//keep unread//hide Feedly AI found 1 Company (American Airlines) See Insights Card This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. Americans keeping close track of political news may have been toggling their screens today between Senate confirmation hearings: the second day of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s for secretary of Health and Human Services, and the first for Tulsi Gabbard’s for director of national intelligence and Kash Patel’s for FBI director. But each of those three hearings deserves the public’s full attention: Donald Trump’s nominees offered new glimpses into their approaches to policy, truth, and loyalty to the president. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Day Two Ahead of Kennedy’s first day of hearings...

Donald Trump Is Just Watching This Crisis Unfold Trump comments on Washington crash •The Atlantic by David A. Graham / Jan 30, 2025 at 10:00 AM//keep unread//hide Feedly AI found 1 Company (Fox) See Insights Card You might be forgiven for forgetting—ever so briefly—that Donald Trump is president of the United States. Sometimes it seems like he does, too. In the middle of the night, as news about the plane crash at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport was breaking, Trump posted on Truth Social: The airplane was on a perfect and routine line of approach to the airport. The helicopter was going straight at the airplane for an extended period of time. It is a CLEAR NIGHT, the lights on the plane were blazing, why didn’t the helicopter go up or down, or turn. Why didn’t the control tower tell the helicopter what to do instead of asking if they saw the plane. This is a bad situation that looks like it should have been prevented. NOT GOOD!!! He raises some valid points—ones that many...

The Border Got Quieter, So Trump Had to Act Trump initiates mass deportation policies •100+The Atlantic by Juliette Kayyem / Jan 26, 2025 at 4:36 AM//keep unread//hide Is this article about Law? Yes No For President Donald Trump, inheriting a relatively quiet and orderly southern border with Mexico is a political inconvenience. During his campaign, he painted an apocalyptic picture of migrants swarming the frontier, and he returned to the White House organized and ready for border wars, even as U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported fewer and fewer illegal crossings. Shortly after taking the presidential oath Monday, Trump declared a national-security emergency for the border, ordered the military to make plans to “secure” it, and signed a constitutionally questionable executive order restricting birthright citizenship. Much more telling and immediately consequential, though, was the new administration’s decision to shut down the border agency’s app, CBP One, which had allowed...

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/01/donald-trump-and-the-return-of-ransom-note-politics/ Donald Trump and the Return of Ransom-Note Politics Everything with Trump is a negotiation—a hostage negotiation. Tim Murphy Tim Murphy National Correspondent Bio | Follow Photo illustration featuring the state flag of California; the grizzly bear that usually is shown walking across the flag has been tied up as if hostage. Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. The foundational myth of Donald Trump is that everything is a deal. “Deals are my art form,” he wrote in—of course—The Art of the Deal. “Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals. Preferably big deals. That’s how I get my kicks.” This image has been enormously profitable to Trump personally, forming the basis for his real-estate empire, television persona, and career in politics. It ha...