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Obama Breaks Twitter Record: His Charlottesville response has more than 3.3 million likes
Bushes Weigh In: W. and H.W. release statement | | | What the White House is Talking About:
President Trump goes back to Bedminster, New Jersey, this afternoon, continuing his working vacation.
What the White House Press Corps is Talking About:
IT'S ONLY WEDNESDAY.
Hope Hicks Gets a Promotion:
One of Trump's most-trusted advisers, Hope Hicks, is now the President's interim communications director. She's been with Trump for more than two years, and she remains one of his primary messaging gurus. Hicks, who is 28, is likely to be the youngest White House comms director in modern history. I'd also like to mention that the top three posts in the communications team are now held by women: Hicks, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and deputy press secretary Lindsay Walters. The White House statement announcing Hicks' new post says that a permanent communications director will be announced, "at the appropriate time."
Pretty Sure You Heard the Press Conference:
But just in case you didn't, the President had some very, very controversial thoughts about the weekend protests in Charlottesville, Virginia. The fallout from those remarks has been harsh and swift from many people, on all sides, but Trump and Co. appear to be doubling down on his statements. | | Meanwhile, In Baltimore:
Four Confederate monuments in Baltimore were taken down in stealth overnight operations. The city council on Monday had voted to remove them. Early Wednesday, cranes rolled in and did the job.
Camp David, Back in Rotation:
Sarah Huckabee Sanders today told the press corps that Trump and Vice President Mike Pence will convene a meeting with the national security team at the woodsy Maryland enclave. They'll discuss the South Asia strategy, said Sanders. Trump was last at Camp David in June, when he visited with Barron Trump and Melania Trump for a weekend. | | Javanka, Where Are You?:
After that press conference, a lot of people, myself included, wondered what Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner were thinking. I mean, they are devout Jews, and were literally observing the Sabbath when the riots in Charlottesville took place on Saturday -- and then here's Trump yesterday, saying there were some "very good people" on both sides of the violence, when many of the protesters were neo-Nazis and white supremacists. On Sunday, Ivanka tweeted twice, but her first tweet said this, basically a direct contrast to her dad's remarks: | | Trump basically said it was OK for them to be in society, because they at least had a permit to march. I feel like he should maybe watch Vice's (excellent and terrifying) video documentary of the events of Friday night at the University of Virginia. IT IS A MUST-WATCH.
I've reached out to Ivanka and Jared's spokesman for comment on Trump's remarks, and I was referred by a White House official to review Ivanka's Sunday tweets. Again, as I first reported here yesterday, Ivanka and Jared are on day two of their mini-vacation at an undisclosed Vermont location, and as of this morning were scheduled to return to Bedminster tomorrow.
Pete Souza, From Trolling to Telling:
I'll be the first to say that former Barack Obama official photographer Pete Souza was the ultimate Trump troll, posting images of the former president that were in direct contrast to the thoughts and headlines of the Trump administration. But in the past day or so, I feel like Souza's Instagram images, drawn from his time with Obama, have shifted from teasing to poignancy. Dunno. What do you think? Here's the one from this morning: | | Credit: @petesouza/Instagram
Also, This Was the New York Daily News Cover:
I did a double-take. | | Credit: nydailynews.com
When Paris Hilton's in Your Corner:
Well, there is at least one positive voice for Trump: Paris Hilton. The reality star-heiress-DJ-socialite tells the September issue of Marie Claire magazine that she's known Trump since she was "a little girl," she's now 36. She says that she likes him, and that while she didn't vote for him, because she didn't vote, she wasn't fazed by his "Access Hollywood" remarks because "I'm always around guys, I listen to them speak." She also calls the women who accused Trump of sexual harassment attention-seekers. So, there's that. | | What Washington is Talking About:
The Lincoln Memorial was vandalized with red spray paint.
What America is Talking About:
President Trump's return to his "many sides" argument about Charlottesville.
Poll of the Day:
The percentage of Americans who believe Trump is a "strong and decisive leader" has fallen below 50% for the first time, to 47%, according to Gallup. Opinion that he displays other positive attributes has also dropped. | | Credit: Gallup
H.W. and W. Weigh In:
In a statement from the Presidents Bush this morning:
"America must always reject racial bigotry, anti-Semitism, and hatred in all forms. As we pray for Charlottesville, we are reminded of the fundamental truths recorded by that city's most prominent citizen in the Declaration of Independence: we are all created equal and endowed by our Creator with unalienable rights. We know these truths to be everlasting because we have seen the decency and greatness of our country."
AP: Avoid the Term 'Alt-Right':
Associated Press Vice President of Standards John Daniszewski wrote in a blog post Tuesday the term "alt-right" "should be avoided because it is meant as a euphemism to disguise racist aims. So use it only when quoting someone or when describing what the movement says about itself." Can I use it just one more time, though, in quotes? It works well for my next headline.
Control + 'Alt-Right' + Delete:
White nationalist sites and social media accounts across the internet have vanished as companies including Google, GoDaddy and Facebook have banned them. Still up, however, are some state affiliate social media accounts for the group Vanguard America, and Daily Stormer appears to be up again, using a .ru URL.
Obama Holds the Record for Most-Liked Tweet Ever:
His response to Charlottesville has more than 3.3 million likes, eclipsing Ariana Grande's tweet following the May attack at her concert in Manchester to become the most-liked tweet ever. His response was a quote from Nelson Mandela's 1994 autobiography "Long Walk to Freedom," split across three tweets, the first of which included an image taken by photographer Pete Souza. The initial tweet is the one that broke the record. Combined, the three tweets have more than 5.7 million likes. | | Credit: @BarackObama/Twitter
Mormon Church: 'White Supremacist Attitudes are Morally Wrong and Sinful':
The Church first released a statement on Charlottesville on Sunday, but yesterday, it came back with further comment, noting that "there are some among the various pro-white and white supremacy communities who assert that the Church is neutral toward or in support of their views." That, the Church wrote, is false. | | Credit: Mormon Newsroom
The immediate reaction on Mormon Twitter was to point this out to @apurposefulwife, a Mormon woman with more than 32,000 followers who describes herself as a former feminist who now supports #WhiteCulture and #TradLife. She's become a sort of internet super villain to some Mormons. She called Tuesday a "dark day" and said the Church "turned it's back on its white members." | | Credit: @wifewithapurpose/Twitter
The Artist Behind the Original Cartoon Trump Tweeted and Deleted:
Trump's now-deleted retweet of the "Trump train" running into a person with a CNN logo as a head was a photoshopped political cartoon originally drawn by Indianapolis Star cartoonist Gary Varvel. He told the Washington Post his cartoon, published before the inauguration, was meant to show Democrats "resisting" Trump but not being harmed by doing so. "No cartoon donkeys were killed in the making of this cartoon." | | Credit: Indianapolis Star
Trump Supporters Denounce a Nazi in 'Social Experiment' Video:
There have been a lot of viral images popping up since Charlottesville that are not from Charlottesville, including the below pic of a man in a MAGA hat and Nazi armband. It's actually from an ill-conceived and poorly executed video posted in March by Joey Salads, who does a "social experiment" to see how Trump supporters respond to a Nazi. They shout "not OK" and he gets shamed and shooed away. | | Credit: Joey Salads/YouTube
Macklemore Done with the High-and-Tight:
The rapper was asked on Twitter if he would "denounce his own haircut," since the high-and-tight has become associated with white nationalists. He tweeted, "Got rid of it over a year ago." Here he is with a buzzcut in March at the iHeartRadio Music Awards: | | Credit: Charley Gallay/Getty Images for iHeartMedia
Drake is Finally Off the Charts:
The record for the most consecutive weeks on the American charts is held by a Canadian. For the first time since 2009, Drake has no songs on the Billboard Hot 100. That's a record 431 weeks, from his first hit, "Best I Ever Had," which made its Hot 100 debut at No. 92 on May 23, 2009, to last week, when "Passionfruit" was at No. 81 and "Signs" was at No. 100. G.O.A.T.!! | | | | | | |
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