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President Donald Trump — whose airline, Trump Shuttle, was famously a lemon — once lectured Richard Branson on the airline business. In a 2004 letter, Trump wrote to the Virgin founder — then hosting an “Apprentice”-style reality show, “The Rebel Billionaire” — saying he should ditch his nascent TV career and “concentrate on your airline, …
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President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign on Tuesday reacted to the news that Twitter had fact-checked the president’s tweet warning about mail-in ballot fraud. “We always knew that Silicon Valley would pull out all the stops to obstruct and interfere with President Trump getting his message through to voters,” wrote Trump 2020 Campaign Manager Brad Parscale. …
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The Twitter official responsible for the platform’s fact-checking policy has tweeted that members of the Trump administration are “Nazis,” among other false and inflammatory statements on the platform. Yoel Roth, whose official job title is “Head of Site Integrity,” explained the platform’s new policy in a May 11 blog post on “misleading information” on coronavirus. …
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Qualcomm’s leaders have pitched the company as a ‘stabilizing force’ between the US and its most powerful foreign adversary. The United States and China are locked in a battle for technological superiority. President Trump has blacklisted tech giant Huawei over concerns the company will leverage its control of 5G networks to spy on behalf of the …
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President Trump on Wednesday reached his worst approval rating in over two years on Rasmussen’s daily index, with just 42 percent of respondents approving of his performance while 57 percent disapproved. The fifteen point net disapproval reflects the bleakest picture for the president since December, 2017. Rasmussen, whose results tend to skew positively for the …
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Comedian and perennial Trump antagonist Kathy Griffin is advocating for the physical assault of the president, tweeting that she wants someone to stab the commander in chief with a “syringe with nothing but air inside” — a potentially lethal act if it creates an embolism. Physically threatening the president of the United States is a …
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North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper on Monday declined to say whether he will allow the Republican National Convention to move forward in August at full capacity after President Trump threatened to move it out of the state barring an immediate answer from the Democratic governor. “State health officials are working with the RNC and will …
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Alabama Senate candidate Jeff Sessions said that President Trump “is not all unjustified” in his frustration over the former attorney general’s 2017 recusal from the Trump-Russia investigation, but insisted his “conscience is clear” with respect to the decision. Sessions, the first high-profile Trump endorsee in 2016, recused himself from supervising the Trump-Russia investigation in March …
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Twitter is working on implementing “changes” to “existing product features and policies” following calls to censor President Trump’s repeated airing of a conspiracy theory involving the death of a former aide to MSNBC anchor Joe Scarborough, a company spokesperson told National Review. “We are deeply sorry about the pain these statements, and the attention they …
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has assumed many roles for Democrats in the Trump era, from top campaign strategist and party spokeswoman, to impeachment chief and emblem of women’s power. To that list, add another: leading agitator of the commander in chief. Pelosi last week assailed President Trump with a series of biting take downs, characterizing …
President Donald Trump — whose airline, Trump Shuttle, was famously a lemon — once lectured Richard Branson on the airline business. In a 2004 letter, Trump wrote to the Virgin founder — then hosting an “Apprentice”-style reality show, “The Rebel Billionaire” — saying he should ditch his nascent TV career and “concentrate on your airline, …
