4.8 MILLION MORE AMERICANS WORKING, UNEMPLOYMENT RATE FALLS MORE THAN 2% by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 2, 2020) — President Trump will be giving a press conference on the newly-released June employment numbers and the state of the economy at 9:30 a.m. Thursday. According to mainstream reports, 3 million new jobs were expected to be added […]
“YET THE TWEET IS STILL CENSORED” by Sharon Rondeau (May 29, 2020) — In a Friday evening edition of the daily White House newsletter, “1600 Daily,” the administration reported that in response to an anonymous “complaint” about Trump’s early-morning tweet which Twitter, in fact, obscured with a warning that it violated the company’s policy against […]
“NO ONE WOULD FOLLOW UP” by Sharon Rondeau (May 8, 2020) — In Part 1 of this title, a subsection of the larger story of former Army Capt. Gary Mason, Mason related how separate face-to-face encounters in 2014 with then-President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden failed to change the Army’s trajectory of discharging […]
“PROTECTING AMERICA’S SENIORS” by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 30, 2020) — A Thursday White House event beginning at approximately 3:40 p.m. EDT featured President Trump’s recapping of progress made to date in combating the coronavirus by obtaining medical supplies such as ventilators. He repeated the administration’s report that no one who has needed a ventilator has […]
ON CHINA: “WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO GET THE ANSWERS” by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 27, 2020) — Monday’s coronavirus press conference, which was earlier reported “removed” from the White House schedule and then restored, began with President Trump in the Rose Garden announcing that cases of the illness “are declining” in many metropolitan areas and […]
“MY FOCUS IS SAVING LIVES” by Sharon Rondeau (Mar. 30, 2020) — President Trump began Monday’s White House coronavirus briefing by reiterating that the Task Force determined that the guidelines set forth initially for 15 days to stop the spread of the virus will be extended through April 30. He also mentioned that the FDA […]
MORE INTENSE SOCIAL-DISTANCING by Sharon Rondeau (Mar. 16, 2020) — New guidance issued at a Monday-afternoon White House presser advises Americans not to congregate in groups larger than ten, as opposed to no more than 50 people recommended by the CDC as of Sunday. “Social-distancing” has become a new term in the American lexicon since […]
“AN EXCELLENT TRAINING GROUND” by Andrew Emerton, ©2019 (Dec. 19, 2019) — For many, the White House – and the presidency that it contains – is one of the most symbolic seats of power in the world. From its current bombastic occupant Donald Trump to previous world-famous leaders such as John F. Kennedy, Franklin D. […]
“PARTISAN IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS” by Sharon Rondeau (Nov. 26, 2019) — Monday’s daily White House newsletter, titled “West Wing Reads,” features a column written by Jeff Crouere of Ringside Politics, who is a regular columnist at The Post & Email and other outlets. The newsletter, which is published Monday through Friday, cited Crouere’s recently-published column titled, […]
“PREJUDICIAL TO THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE” by Sharon Rondeau (Nov. 11, 2019) — On Monday morning, P&E reader and New York State citizen Robert Laity sent a letter of complaint to the American Bar Association (ABA) concerning one of the attorneys representing the Ukraine “whistleblower” whose allegations spurred the current “impeachment inquiry” against President Trump. […]
“SOMEBODY FROM THE ‘DEEP STATE’” by Sharon Rondeau (Nov. 10, 2019) — On this morning’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham said it will be “impossible” for the Senate to consider a bill of impeachment against President Trump if the House of Representatives does not call upon the Ukraine “whistleblower” to testify […]
TOPIC STILL A MYSTERY by Sharon Rondeau (Oct. 26, 2019) — At approximately 10:00 p.m. EDT Saturday, President Trump tweeted, “Something very big has just happened!” without elaborating. He issued no additional tweets as of 11:07 p.m. Over the course of Saturday, with the White House’s Twitter account retweeting, commented on the government’s case against […]
“LET’S LOOK INTO OBAMA THE WAY THEY LOOKED AT ME” by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 26, 2019) — In remarks broadcast on Fox News at 4:30 p.m. EDT Friday, in remarks concerning a “safe third country” agreement with Guatemala for asylum applicants, President Trump criticized “the Democrats” for opposing his agenda and continuing to “investigate,” referring […]
BUT WHERE IS THE COVERAGE? by Sharon Rondeau (Mar. 15, 2019) — On Tuesday, a lawsuit was filed in the Sherman Division of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas against two law firms, five attorneys individually, a public-relations firm, Turner Broadcasting System, The New York Times Company, and Vox Media as […]
NEW TIME: 4:00 P.M. EST by Sharon Rondeau (Jan. 19, 2019) — At approximately 2:08 PM EST on Saturday, President Donald Trump tweeted that he will be addressing the nation “live” at 4:00 PM, a one-hour delay from his announcement made on Friday. On Friday evening, Trump tweeted that he would be speaking about the […]
“BELLIGERENT AND HOSTILE” by Jeff Crouere, ©2018 (Nov. 9, 2018) — The President’s first post-mid-term election news conference was a rowdy spectacle at the White House. It was an 87-minute marathon with almost universally hostile questions from liberal reporters and combative answers from the President. The entire episode exposed the horrible relationship that exists between […]
“WE ARE SO HONORED TO HAVE YOU” – PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP by Sharon Rondeau (Oct. 13, 2018) — At 2:42 p.m.. EDT, Fox News aired video of the much-anticipated meeting between President Trump and Pastor Andrew Brunson, who was released from a two-year imprisonment in Turkey just 24 hours ago. “We do not pay […]
“HE SUFFERED GREATLY” by Sharon Rondeau (Oct. 12, 2018) — Pastor Andrew Brunson, who was freed by his Turkish jailers after a hearing on Friday following intense negotiations with the Trump administration and Turkish government, is to meet with President Trump at the White House Saturday. Two years ago Brunson was accused of participating in […]
“A COMPLETE AND TOTAL DISGRACE” by Sharon Rondeau (Oct. 3, 2018) — During a Wednesday presser before 1:30 p.m. EDT, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders described Senate Democrats’ approach toward Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings and subsequent sexual-assault allegations as “a complete and total disgrace” and a departure from routine protocol. In doing so, […]
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN “PERMANENT” AND TEMPORARY? by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 23, 2018) — The official White House Twitter feed features a number of videos from events over the past several days, including scenes captured from the posthumous award Wednesday of the Congressional Medical of Honor to Air Force TSgt. John A. Chapman. It […]