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A Black war hero's family denounced President Donald Trump's reported move to rename the USS Doris Miller . On Thursday, CNN revealed that the Navy is taking steps to rename the USS Doris Miller, an aircraft carrier that's still being built, and has already stopped referring to it by the name meant to honor the Pearl Harbor hero. Doris Miller is known for his response to the Japanese attack on…
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has struggled to attract viewers to his controversial road trip reality show after months of delays. According to a Thursday report by MeidasTouch, "almost nobody is watching" Duffy's six-episode reality show, "Great American Road Trip," which features his wife and nine children traveling with him through several states. The show has been criticized for its…
White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles has reportedly made clear her new criteria for picking a new press secretary . On Thursday, CNN senior White House correspondent Kristen Holmes reported that Wiles has laid out what she's seeking in the person she hires to replace outgoing Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt , who will leave at the end of August. "One of the things that I was told by a number of…
A biographer of President Donald Trump unveiled a copy of Natalie Harp's full letters that alarmed insiders. In a Thursday episode of Inside Trump's Head , Michael Wolff shared that he obtained a full copy of Harp's letters to Trump after their trip to a Scottish golf course in May 2023. Excerpts of Harp's letters had been shared by Vanity Fair and The New York Times, but The Daily Beast, which…
President Donald Trump's team didn't expect him to agree to an interview with his former fixer turned foe Michael Cohen , a White House reporter shared. During a Thursday appearance on CNN, Maggie Haberman , a White House correspondent for The New York Times, revealed that Cohen had a reputation in Trump's circle of being unforgivable, which is why insiders were caught off guard when the president…
MS NOW's Jen Psaki kicked off "The Briefing" on Thursday with pointed mockery at first lady Melania Trump's first public appearance in a month — and the reason why it had to be organized. "There are a lot of times in the Trump era that we have to remind ourselves ... that what's happening is not in any way normal," said Psaki. And one of those many things, she said, is "for the first lady of the…
While President Donald Trump gilds horse statues and swaps out brick paver steps at the White House, dumpsters overflow and wildfires threaten remote parks across America, insiders told The Atlantic that the rot is only beginning. The National Park Service now runs a three-tier funding scheme, according to documents and five current and former officials cited by The Atlantic's Michael Scherer.…
Allies of President Donald Trump are trying to "derail" conservative commentator Scott Jennings ' chances of winning the press secretary job. According to a Thursday article by the New York Post, Trump's "fiercest allies" are trying to ruin Jennings because of his longstanding ties to his mentor, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY). Trump is still trying to fill the post that White House Press Secretary…
Lifelong conservative and former Ronald Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan had a glum assessment of her party — and America at large — when it comes to President Donald Trump's corruption. Writing for the Wall Street Journal, she said that the ways Trump has used his own office to perfect the "art of the self-deal" should be obvious and horrifying to everyone. "I see two general areas, personal…
Former Trump fixer Michael Cohen released a preview of his interview with President Donald Trump, and commentators slammed his fawning tone. On Thursday, the New York radio station where Cohen works as a host published a few minutes of his interview with Trump, while withholding the full interview until later in the week. Throughout the interview, Cohen called Trump "sir" and "boss," complimented…
