What the photos illustrate about the Trump White House is “how unselfconscious the choices for members of the administration have been when it comes to issues of race.” washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/…
@josh_wingrove Transpo Sec. Elaine Chao offers a smidgen of racial diversity as Trump and WH aides (on stage and seated to Trump's left) announce phase one deal with China. #diversity#thread
Wow. @RepGraceMeng grew visibly angry and teared up in telling Roy he is free to talk about "any other country you want, but you don't have to do it by putting a bull's eye on back of Asian Americans in this country. ...We will not let you take our voice away from us."
Four years ago during the transition, WaPo’s WH team had a “hot-seat” rotation in which one reporter was on duty to monitor Trump’s tweets. Back then, I dropped my 3-y/o at a public preschool across town every morning—just as he began tweeting. (1)
The first two days, as my phone began buzzing during the commute, I would check his tweets at each red light, grimace, then ignore any emails from the office about who could blog it until a colleague would volunteer to grab it. The third day, I knew I couldn’t keep that up. (2)
As we pulled up to the school, double-parking in front, I saw Trump beginning a tweet barrage against Chuck Schumer. I ran around the car, unbuckled my daughter, who was still having attachment issues about me leaving her every day, and began pushing her toward the entrance (3)
Trump speaking to supporters in Washington: "We will never give up. We will never concede."
Trump going after GOP members who won't endorse effort to block certification of Biden's victory: "The weak Republicans. They're pathetic Republicans. ... And you've got a lot of them." Says he'll name names and threatens to "primary them."
Trump, during an historic pandemic that has killed nearly 360,000 Americans, calls the media "the biggest problem we have in this country."
NSA O'Brien just said Trump is a "voracious consumer of intelligence and the information we provide him. ... I think he's got a very innate sense of geography." Trump told India's PM Modi that "it's not like you have China on your border," per @PhilipRucker@CarolLeonnig
O'Brien said he told Trump: "I don't view the national security adviser's role as being some sort of tutor in international affairs. .. I view my job as making sure get all the best options that are available for you to implement the policy you want."
Obama cites NYT report about Trump's bank account in China: "Can imagine if I had a secret Chinese bank account when I was running for reelection? You think Fox News might have been a little concerned about that? They would have called me, 'Beijing Barry.'"
All the audible car honking at Obama's drive-in rally in Philly adds quite a unique atmosphere...
Obama: "I get this president wants full credit for the economy he inherited and zero blame for the pandemic he ignored. But you know what? The job doesn’t work that way. Tweeting at the television doesn’t fix things."