Showing posts with label White House. Show all posts
Showing posts with label White House. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 12, 2026
He Realised He Doesn't Have to Abide by the US System' | Maggie Haberman on Trump & Executive Power
Friday, August 07, 2026
Trump Fury as US Court Halts His $400m Dollar Ballroom Project | BBC News
August 7, 2026 | Donald Trump has reacted furiously on social media, after his administration was ordered to stop construction of his personal project, a $400m ballroom at the White House.
A federal appeals court has dealt the latest setback to the controversial project, testing Trump's presidential authority.
He has vowed to appeal to the Supreme Court. "Whether or not a massive ballroom should be constructed is for Congress to decide and is not a matter for Executive self-help," the panel's majority said.
The order upholds a preliminary injunction won by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which sued after the administration tore down the East Wing last year to begin the project without congressional approval.
The three-judge panel, in a 2-1 decision, said: "Each President is a temporary tenant, not the owner, of the White House and its Executive Residence." "The President has no - and claims no - constitutionally assigned authority over that property, which is designed and maintained for the use of all Presidents, current and future, and for the American people," the judges said.
Trump railed against the "horrendous" and "politically motivated" decision on social media, highlighting the dissenting judge's opinion that the order is "a blatant abuse of discretion".
He said the military and Secret Service viewed the ruling as a national security threat.
Jane Hill presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Sarah Smith in Washington.
A federal appeals court has dealt the latest setback to the controversial project, testing Trump's presidential authority.
He has vowed to appeal to the Supreme Court. "Whether or not a massive ballroom should be constructed is for Congress to decide and is not a matter for Executive self-help," the panel's majority said.
The order upholds a preliminary injunction won by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which sued after the administration tore down the East Wing last year to begin the project without congressional approval.
The three-judge panel, in a 2-1 decision, said: "Each President is a temporary tenant, not the owner, of the White House and its Executive Residence." "The President has no - and claims no - constitutionally assigned authority over that property, which is designed and maintained for the use of all Presidents, current and future, and for the American people," the judges said.
Trump railed against the "horrendous" and "politically motivated" decision on social media, highlighting the dissenting judge's opinion that the order is "a blatant abuse of discretion".
He said the military and Secret Service viewed the ruling as a national security threat.
Jane Hill presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Sarah Smith in Washington.
Saturday, May 09, 2026
Why Bizarre Melania Moves Have White House Alarmed | Inside Trump's Head
May 9, 2026 | Michael Wolff and Joanna Coles unpack a strange new chapter in the Trump orbit as Melania Trump publishes a cliché-ridden Mother’s Day op-ed, sparking questions about whether the first lady is quietly building a business identity separate from Donald Trump himself.
From Melania’s “strategic absences” and growing concerns within White House to Wolff’s update on his legal battle with the first lady, the discussion moves through media capitulation, Trump’s escalating attacks on ABC and the press, and a startling Virginia court decision that could reshape the 2026 midterms by giving Republicans a major structural advantage.
The episode also explores Britain’s political upheaval under the rise of Nigel Farage, mounting fears that Trump can manipulate the electoral system despite worsening political headwinds, and the eerie details surrounding Epstein’s death and purported suicide note, which Wolff says sounded disturbingly Trumpian.
From Melania’s “strategic absences” and growing concerns within White House to Wolff’s update on his legal battle with the first lady, the discussion moves through media capitulation, Trump’s escalating attacks on ABC and the press, and a startling Virginia court decision that could reshape the 2026 midterms by giving Republicans a major structural advantage.
The episode also explores Britain’s political upheaval under the rise of Nigel Farage, mounting fears that Trump can manipulate the electoral system despite worsening political headwinds, and the eerie details surrounding Epstein’s death and purported suicide note, which Wolff says sounded disturbingly Trumpian.
Saturday, April 25, 2026
Pastors Lay Hands on Trump During Oval Office Prayer
More nonsense! — Mark
Paula White Speaking in Tongues in 2020…
This woman is the Senior Advisor to the White House Faith Office and is considered as a long-time spiritual advisor to Donald Trump. This, of course, explains a lot! If this isn’t CRAZY, I don’t know what is! One cannot help concluding that America has lost its way. — © Mark Alexander
Wednesday, April 08, 2026
Max Blumenthal on the Israeli Network in the White House
Saturday, March 21, 2026
Corruption in the White House - Trump Officials Are Getting Richer
I have come to the conclusion that just about everyone at the top is bloody corrupt. The Epstein files show us that this is true. Today, virtuous behaviour is very thin on the ground.
I was raised on the notion—the naïve notion as it has turned out—that one went into politics ‘to give something back’ AFTER one had become successful. Being in politics was viewed as a service to the nation. That sounds so quaint these days. These days, people go into politics TO BECOME RICH, by fair means or foul!
As for politics in America, we all know it is rotten and corrupt at its core. Particularly in Trump’s administration/regime. — © Mark Alexander
Friday, February 13, 2026
Thom Hartmann: Do We Have a Russian Agent in the White House?
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
Trump Welcomes Saudi Arabian Dictator with Open Arms
Trump Lauds Saudi Prince in Lavish Visit, Brushing Off Journalist’s Killing
THE NEW YORK TIMES: President Trump rejected a U.S. intelligence report finding that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had ordered the murder of a journalist.
A screenshot taken from this article. | President Trump and Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince and prime minister of Saudi Arabia, in the Oval Office on Tuesday. Credit...Kenny Holston/The New York Times
President Trump welcomed Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s autocratic leader, to the White House on Tuesday, hailing him as a protector of human rights and a frequent phone friend. And in a remarkable Oval Office outburst, Mr. Trump defended him against a U.S. intelligence report that he had ordered the murder of a journalist.
It was a chummy scene that underscored the president’s desire to maintain strong relations with Saudi Arabia during a tumultuous period in the Middle East. Mr. Trump’s defense of his guest obscured the crown prince’s role in cracking down on domestic dissent and in the killing and dismemberment of a Washington Post columnist, Jamal Khashoggi, in 2018.
“We’ve been really good friends for a long period of time,” Mr. Trump told reporters, cabinet officials and members of the Saudi delegation who had gathered there. “We’ve always been on the same side of every issue.”
The 42-minute appearance contained plenty of talk about business deals and diplomatic partnerships, as well as a presidential fit over pointed questions from reporters that was striking even for Mr. Trump, who is no stranger to televised dramatics. As he berated a reporter for asking about Mr. Khashoggi’s murder and about people who have accused the Saudi government of supporting the hijackers behind the Sept. 11 attacks, Mr. Trump brushed off the killing, appearing even more agitated about the question than his guest of honor. » | Katie Rogers | Reporting from Washington | Published: Tuesday, November 18, 3035. Updated: Wednesday, November 19, 2025
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President Trump welcomed Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s autocratic leader, to the White House on Tuesday, hailing him as a protector of human rights and a frequent phone friend. And in a remarkable Oval Office outburst, Mr. Trump defended him against a U.S. intelligence report that he had ordered the murder of a journalist.
It was a chummy scene that underscored the president’s desire to maintain strong relations with Saudi Arabia during a tumultuous period in the Middle East. Mr. Trump’s defense of his guest obscured the crown prince’s role in cracking down on domestic dissent and in the killing and dismemberment of a Washington Post columnist, Jamal Khashoggi, in 2018.
“We’ve been really good friends for a long period of time,” Mr. Trump told reporters, cabinet officials and members of the Saudi delegation who had gathered there. “We’ve always been on the same side of every issue.”
The 42-minute appearance contained plenty of talk about business deals and diplomatic partnerships, as well as a presidential fit over pointed questions from reporters that was striking even for Mr. Trump, who is no stranger to televised dramatics. As he berated a reporter for asking about Mr. Khashoggi’s murder and about people who have accused the Saudi government of supporting the hijackers behind the Sept. 11 attacks, Mr. Trump brushed off the killing, appearing even more agitated about the question than his guest of honor. » | Katie Rogers | Reporting from Washington | Published: Tuesday, November 18, 3035. Updated: Wednesday, November 19, 2025
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Thursday, November 06, 2025
NEW LINCOLN PROJECT AD: Demolishing Democracy
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Who's Really Paying for Trump's White House Ballroom?
Naff is as naff does! — © Mark Alexander
Sunday, October 26, 2025
Saturday, October 25, 2025
Trump Demolishes 123-year-old White House East Wing for a Ballroom without Permission or Permits
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Truth To Power: The Truth about Trump's "Epstein Wing" Ballroom
Oct 25, 2025 | Donald Trump’s turning the White House into his own private event venue — knocking down part of the historic East Wing to build a $250 million ballroom nobody asked for. It’s the perfect metaphor for everything he’s done to America’s democracy: tacky, self-glorifying, and corrupt.
Trump’s latest vanity project isn’t just about bad taste — it’s about autocracy as performance art. From his “Arc de Trump” to hosting the G20 at his own resort, this is politics as theatre, where public office becomes private profit, truth becomes optional, and democracy becomes a stage set.
Meanwhile, in Britain, Nigel Farage is auditioning for the same role. Will the UK follow the same path? Or will voters see the Trump Show for what it really is: a demolition of democracy, one chandelier at a time?
Donald Trump is FAKE. Everything about him is fake. He's got fake blond hair, fake 'tanned, orange skin, false teeth, and just about everything he utters is less than truthful. How Americans were stupid enough to re-elect this imposter, I can neither imagine nor comprehend. What I do comprehend, though, is this: They have done themselves, and the rest of us, a great disservice. We all have to suffer through the consequences of their folly and poor judgment. — © Mark Alexander
Trump’s latest vanity project isn’t just about bad taste — it’s about autocracy as performance art. From his “Arc de Trump” to hosting the G20 at his own resort, this is politics as theatre, where public office becomes private profit, truth becomes optional, and democracy becomes a stage set.
Meanwhile, in Britain, Nigel Farage is auditioning for the same role. Will the UK follow the same path? Or will voters see the Trump Show for what it really is: a demolition of democracy, one chandelier at a time?
Donald Trump is FAKE. Everything about him is fake. He's got fake blond hair, fake 'tanned, orange skin, false teeth, and just about everything he utters is less than truthful. How Americans were stupid enough to re-elect this imposter, I can neither imagine nor comprehend. What I do comprehend, though, is this: They have done themselves, and the rest of us, a great disservice. We all have to suffer through the consequences of their folly and poor judgment. — © Mark Alexander
Friday, October 24, 2025
Extreme Makeover: Authoritarian Edition
A Pile of Rubble: After 123 Years, the East Wing Is Gone
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Critics are outraged over President Trump’s demolition of the East Wing to make way for his $300 million ballroom. Others say it was time for change.
The East Wing, the entrance to the White House for millions of Americans on official tours, the site of offices for every first lady for nearly a half century and the home of calligraphers who prepared thousands of invitations for White House state dinners, disappeared into a pile of rubble on Thursday. It had stood for 123 years.
Built in 1902 during the Theodore Roosevelt administration as an entryway for guests arriving in carriages, and rebuilt in the 1940s during Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presidency, the East Wing met its end under orders from President Trump. He dismissed it this week as “a very small building” that was in the way of his planned 90,000-square-foot, $300 million ballroom.
A New York Times analysis of satellite imagery showed that the demolition included the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden and the East Colonnade, which connected the East Wing to the White House and included the president’s theater.
The East Wing’s destruction prompted outrage from preservationists and Democrats, and mourning from those who once worked there. » | Elisabeth Bumiller | Reporting from Washington | Thursday, October 23, 2025
More criminal activity! Sheer vandalism. The destruction of the American story. Replacing dignified history with naffness and bling. This could raise laughs in a Reality TV show, but in real life it’s heartbreaking. — © Mark Alexander
The East Wing, the entrance to the White House for millions of Americans on official tours, the site of offices for every first lady for nearly a half century and the home of calligraphers who prepared thousands of invitations for White House state dinners, disappeared into a pile of rubble on Thursday. It had stood for 123 years.
Built in 1902 during the Theodore Roosevelt administration as an entryway for guests arriving in carriages, and rebuilt in the 1940s during Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presidency, the East Wing met its end under orders from President Trump. He dismissed it this week as “a very small building” that was in the way of his planned 90,000-square-foot, $300 million ballroom.
A New York Times analysis of satellite imagery showed that the demolition included the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden and the East Colonnade, which connected the East Wing to the White House and included the president’s theater.
The East Wing’s destruction prompted outrage from preservationists and Democrats, and mourning from those who once worked there. » | Elisabeth Bumiller | Reporting from Washington | Thursday, October 23, 2025
More criminal activity! Sheer vandalism. The destruction of the American story. Replacing dignified history with naffness and bling. This could raise laughs in a Reality TV show, but in real life it’s heartbreaking. — © Mark Alexander
Thursday, October 23, 2025
White House East Wing to Be Fully Torn Down for Trump Ballroom
This is VANDALISM! — © Mark Alexander
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Trump’s $250 Million White House Ballroom: Power, Ego, and Outrage - But Where’s Congress?
Oct 21, 2025 | Donald Trump is tearing down part of the White House to build a $250 million ballroom, a move that’s sparking outrage, disbelief, and serious questions about presidential power.
Why is Congress silent while a historic part of America’s most iconic building is being destroyed?
Why is Congress silent while a historic part of America’s most iconic building is being destroyed?
Thursday, August 28, 2025
Donald Trump’s Big Gay Government
THE NEW YORK TIMES: On the town with the A-Gays of Washington, who have never been happier to be out, proud and Republican.
It was the last Wednesday in July, and many of Washington’s top players were hanging out at the Ned, a private club around the corner from the White House.
The Secretary of the Navy, John Phelan, was waiting for an elevator in the lobby when he bumped into Dr. Mehmet Oz, the surgeon turned daytime TV star now in charge of Medicare and Medicaid. Howard Lutnick, the secretary of commerce, was bouncing around the Library bar upstairs. Scott Bessent, the secretary of the Treasury, was wandering around up there too.
Sitting in a brown leather armchair in the center of this social whirl was a high-ranking official at the Department of Energy named Charles Moran. His abstruse-sounding title is associate administrator for external affairs for the National Nuclear Security Administration. What this means is that he works in the part of the Energy Department that develops, tests and keeps safe America’s nuclear weapons stockpile.
But that’s not why administration officials kept approaching his armchair to schmooze, or why some of the cabinet secretaries at the Ned that night seemed to be so chummy with him.
Mr. Moran, 44, is the pasha of a new power tribe in the capital: the gay men of the Trump administration.
These are the A-Gays. They’re (mostly) out, they’re proud (to work for President Trump) and they have big jobs inside (or alongside) this administration. They wield influence all over town, from the Pentagon to the State Department to the White House to the Kennedy Center.
“We’re like Visa,” Mr. Moran said. “Everywhere you want to be.”
He sipped a dirty vodka martini and surveyed the room. Two Republican men waved at him from across the club. “Both gay,” he explained. This was also true of the middle-aged Trump appointee who ambled over a moment later to catch up. But apparently not so of the young-looking White House aide who approached a few minutes after that. “Straight as an arrow,” Mr. Moran said as the aide walked away. » | Shawn McCreesh | Shawn McCreesh is a White House correspondent. He reported from Washington. | Published: Tuesday, August 26, 2025. Updated Wednesday, August 27, 2025
It was the last Wednesday in July, and many of Washington’s top players were hanging out at the Ned, a private club around the corner from the White House.
The Secretary of the Navy, John Phelan, was waiting for an elevator in the lobby when he bumped into Dr. Mehmet Oz, the surgeon turned daytime TV star now in charge of Medicare and Medicaid. Howard Lutnick, the secretary of commerce, was bouncing around the Library bar upstairs. Scott Bessent, the secretary of the Treasury, was wandering around up there too.
Sitting in a brown leather armchair in the center of this social whirl was a high-ranking official at the Department of Energy named Charles Moran. His abstruse-sounding title is associate administrator for external affairs for the National Nuclear Security Administration. What this means is that he works in the part of the Energy Department that develops, tests and keeps safe America’s nuclear weapons stockpile.
But that’s not why administration officials kept approaching his armchair to schmooze, or why some of the cabinet secretaries at the Ned that night seemed to be so chummy with him.
Mr. Moran, 44, is the pasha of a new power tribe in the capital: the gay men of the Trump administration.
These are the A-Gays. They’re (mostly) out, they’re proud (to work for President Trump) and they have big jobs inside (or alongside) this administration. They wield influence all over town, from the Pentagon to the State Department to the White House to the Kennedy Center.
“We’re like Visa,” Mr. Moran said. “Everywhere you want to be.”
He sipped a dirty vodka martini and surveyed the room. Two Republican men waved at him from across the club. “Both gay,” he explained. This was also true of the middle-aged Trump appointee who ambled over a moment later to catch up. But apparently not so of the young-looking White House aide who approached a few minutes after that. “Straight as an arrow,” Mr. Moran said as the aide walked away. » | Shawn McCreesh | Shawn McCreesh is a White House correspondent. He reported from Washington. | Published: Tuesday, August 26, 2025. Updated Wednesday, August 27, 2025
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