POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Trump Jr. to Trib: Dad Will ‘Separate’ from Business Interests if Elected BY TOM FONTAINE | Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2016, 7:39 p.m. Donald Trump Jr. dismissed a new report Wednesday that his family’s international business interests could present conflicts and ethical quandaries should his father be elected president. “My father is going to be a…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH “$100,000 For Inauguration Night at Trump’s D.C. Hotel: That’s a tremendous amount, but apparently that’s what it will cost to stay at the Trump International Hotel, Washington, D.C., for the night in the Presidential Suite. That said, the hotel’s perch on Pennsylvania Ave is as front-row as you can get for…
BY MARTIN KICH This is how the official Trump campaign site marked Labor Day: Trump did, however, tweet about his meeting with union leaders at an American Legion Post in Youngstown–after he bragged about some very selectively highlighted poll numbers: Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump Heading to Youngstown, Ohio now-some great polls. #AmericaFirst Donald J.…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Writing for Yahoo News, Jon Ward describes efforts to track the outsourcing of products sold by Donald Trump’s various companies: “Trump, like most celebrities who monetize their fame, does not always manage the day-to-day operations of the companies that make goods with his name on them, instead making licensing deals and…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH On Bloomberg’s With All Due Respect, hosted by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, they aired a video highlighting Donald Trump’s most frequently used words and phrases. Called The Trump ABCs, the video is available at: http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/videos/2016-08-18/the-trump-abcs.
BY JOHN K. WILSON Today, Ann Coulter published her latest book, sure to be another best-seller: In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome. I know, the very stupid subtitle makes no sense, in Latin or English, because Coulter hates immigrants and thinks America is being destroyed by too much “pluribus.” Maybe her publisher thought “Unum…
BY MARTIN KICH This week the National Review published an article by David French (yes, the alternative candidate very briefly proposed by the #Never Trump folks) titled “Men Are Getting Weaker Because We Are Not Raising Men.” These are the opening paragraphs of that article: “Young American males are losing touch with a critical element…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH This is from an article in the series The Trump Files being published online by Mother Jones: “Donald Trump’s favorite movie is Citizen Kane, the 1941 film about a publishing tycoon mogul who surrounds himself with material luxury but struggles to find happiness. ‘I loved Orson Welles,’ Trump told Bloomberg‘s Timothy O’Brien. ‘He was…