Trump’s chief of staff: ‘I fully expect’ others in White House to get virus
White House chief of staff Mark Meadows did not wear a mask while he spoke to reporters.
By Oliver Willis - October 02, 2020White House chief of staff Mark Meadows did not wear a mask while he spoke to reporters.
By Oliver Willis - October 02, 2020Trump blew a gasket and trashed crime statistics from his own administration as ‘fake news.’
By Dan Desai Martin - February 15, 2019A judge appointed by Trump ruled against him and temporarily reinstated the White House press pass of CNN reporter Jim Acosta.
By Oliver Willis - November 16, 2018A major news network is finally going to court over Trump’s war on the First Amendment — and the White House isn’t happy about it.
By Emily Crockett - November 13, 2018The White House severely escalated its war on the free press Wednesday.
By Caroline Orr - November 07, 2018Things are getting truly scary for the press in the Trump era.
By Tommy Christopher - August 01, 2018Sanders is not even trying to hide the Trump administration’s contempt for a free press anymore.
By Tommy Christopher - July 15, 2018Someone has to hold Trump and Sanders accountable for their lies.
By Tommy Christopher - May 17, 2018CNN’s Jim Acosta shot down Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ laughable claims about Trump’s support for the press.
By Tommy Christopher - April 25, 2018It’s called the ‘Stations of the Cross’ caravan, and it poses zero danger to the U.S.
By Eric Boehlert - April 03, 2018CNN reporter Jim Acosta dared to ask Trump a question, and now the Trump team wants him suspended.
By Tommy Christopher - April 02, 2018When CNN’s Jim Acosta tried to ask Trump about his anti-FBI smear campaign, he was forcefully shut down by presidential aides.
By Oliver Willis - January 31, 2018When CNN’s Jim Acosta tried to ask Trump about his anti-FBI smear campaign, he was forcefully shut down by presidential aides.
By Oliver Willis - January 30, 2018Trump’s reckless war against the media, and the reporters who dare to stand up to him, is having very dangerous consequences.
By Tommy Christopher - January 23, 2018Trump had CNN’s Jim Acosta ejected from the Oval Office for asking him about racism which Acosta considers a point of pride.
By Matthew Chapman - January 17, 2018Trump clearly didn’t appreciate being asked why he only wants immigrants from white countries.
By Oliver Willis - January 16, 2018On the eve of Martin Luther King Day, the Washington Post revealed that Donald Trump told lawmakers trying to broker protected status for immigrants that Haiti and countries in Africa are “shitholes,” and that the United States should seek to bring in people from countries like Norway instead. The comment forced the political world, once […]
By Matthew Chapman - January 11, 2018For the Trump administration, no news is good news, because almost any news is “fake news.” And the stubborn, panicked fear of journalists doing their jobs is pushing this White House to extremely undemocratic ends. During a contentious press briefing Monday, Sarah Huckabee Sanders grew visibly and vocally aggravated with CNN’s Jim Acosta, when he […]
By Alison R. Parker - December 12, 2017This week, Donald Trump has behaved — if possible — even more reprehensibly than usual. He has offended everyone from Native Americans to African-Americans to Hispanics to Muslims. The ugliness has been so insane that some reporters are simply stunned — like CNN’s Jim Acosta, who noted to Wolf Blitzer how thoroughly Trump has angered […]
By Matthew Chapman - November 29, 2017Crossing a dangerous new line in his endless war on the media, Donald Trump on Thursday morning demanded that members of Congress investigate journalists who produce reports that Trump doesn’t like. He seemed especially upset by reporting on the Russia interference scandal. At Thursday’s White House briefing, press secretary Sarah Sanders reiterated the attack theme: […]
By Eric Boehlert - October 05, 2017Donald Trump declared the media the enemy months ago. It was a dangerous, dictatorial assertion that drew wide criticism from across the political spectrum. His threats to a free press have only intensified since, and the White House press team has followed suit. Month ago, the White House banned from a press briefing major news […]
By Katie Paris - June 20, 2017CNN reporter Jim Acosta had harsh words for the Trump administration’s decision to hold yet another off-camera press briefing. It has been a week since the White House press operation, led by press secretary Sean Spicer, has spoken on air about the multiple controversies, scandals, and legislative issues swirling around the Trump presidency. The White […]
By Oliver Willis - June 19, 2017Despite Donald Trump’s oft-repeated campaign promise that he would repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, possibly on “day one” of his presidency, the law is still on the books, and the efforts to dismantle it have gone nowhere. To give Trump something substantive to point to as an accomplishment — so to speak — […]
By Alison R. Parker - May 03, 2017At what the corporate media generously described as a “press conference,” President-elect Donald Trump — who spent only 34-and-a-half minutes answering a handful of questions — again displayed the remarkable hostility he uses to intimidate the press when he shut down CNN reporter Jim Acosta’s attempt to get a question in: ACOSTA: Since you’re attacking us? […]
By Tommy Christopher - January 11, 2017