| | | | | A person in a Trump shirt poses at the Patriot Prayer Rally in downtown Portland, Oregon, Saturday. Credit: Diego Diaz/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images | | | Trump Admits Trump Tower Meeting Was About Dirt: "This was a meeting to get information on an opponent"
InfoWars Booted Off by Apple, Spotify, and Facebook: Alex Jones' site is getting deplatformed
Trump's LeBron Air Ball: Trump came for LeBron James and missed | | | What Washington is Talking About:
Congress is in recess, and President Trump is out at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey. It's Trump's 139th day spent at one of his golf properties.
What America is Talking About:
NASA announced the nine astronauts who will become the first to launch from American soil into space since 2011. They'll be on commercial spacecraft by Boeing and SpaceX. Demi Lovato posted a message on Instagram Sunday -- her first since an apparent drug overdose -- thanking fans for their thoughts and prayers and saying, "I now need time to heal and focus on my sobriety and road to recovery." And Beyoncé's Vogue cover, featuring the cover line "Everyone's Voice Counts," is out. | | Credit: Vogue
Poll of the Day:
Gallup aggregated responses from Americans from 2016 to 2018 about what class they self identify as being part of and found 43% consider themselves "middle class," 30% "working class," and 16% "upper-middle class." | | Credit: Gallup
Trump Admits Trump Tower Meeting Was About Dirt:
Trump admitted the June 2016 meeting between a Russian lawyer, Donald Trump Jr., and others at Trump Tower was meant to get information about Hillary Clinton. Trump tweeted Sunday about the meeting, contradicting an earlier statement from Trump Jr. claiming it was mostly about Russian adoption policy. Our Jeremy Diamond broke down why Trump's tweet matters, including the fact that receiving an in-kind donation from a foreigner is against federal law. Here's the tweet: | | Credit: @realDonaldTrump/Twitter
InfoWars Booted Off Apple, Spotify, and Facebook:
Apple removed five InfoWars podcasts in their entirety this weekend, citing its guidelines on hate speech. That was followed today by Facebook, which took down four pages associated with InfoWars or its founder Alex Jones, and Spotify also removed "The Alex Jones Show" podcast from its service. Facebook wrote in a lengthly blog post that the pages repeatedly posted content that broke their community standards over the course of several days recently, and said the takedown was unrelated to InfoWars sharing of false news. Facebook's move was leading the InfoWars site this morning with this banner: | | Credit: InfoWars
Member of Trump's Now-Disbanded Voter Fraud Commission Said They Found No Evidence of Widespread Voter Fraud:
Matthew Dunlap, the Democratic secretary of state of Maine who was a member of the commission, wrote a letter to Vice President Pence about what he read in commission documents. Dunlap wrote that the docs "do not contain evidence of widespread voter fraud" and said he believes the purpose of the commission was to "provide an official imprimatur of legitimacy on President Trump's assertions that millions of illegal votes were cast during the 2016 election and to pave the way for policy changes designed to undermine the right to vote."
Trump's LeBron Air Ball:
It was nearly midnight ET Friday when Trump tweeted about our Don Lemon's interview with LeBron James, insulting their intelligence. James didn't tweet until the next morning, RTing a tweet from his I Promise school in Akron like nothing happened. Trump's own wife didn't take his side, with Melania's spox Stephanie Grisham telling Kate that FLOTUS sees James' work helping kids and is open to a visit to I Promise. And Michael Jordan, who Trump also brought into this, backed LBJ. "I support LeBron James. He's doing an amazing job for his community," Jordan said in a statement.
Randy Moss' Hall of Fame Tie:
Randy Moss paid tribute to black victims of police brutality with his tie Saturday to be inducted to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. The tie had the names of 15 people, including Trayvon Martin, Brendon Glenn, Philando Castile, and Terence Crutcher, which were at the bottom and aren't visible in the screenshot below. Moss told the NFL Network he wanted to use his platform to "let these families know that they're not alone." "We all know what's going on," he said. "You see the names on my tie." | | Credit: @SINow/Twitter
Newseum Pulls "Fake News" Shirt:
The Newseum no longer sells a baseball tee that says "You Are Very Fake News" in a suspiciously CNN-esque font. The museum pulled the shirt Saturday and apologized in a statement. "A free press is an essential part of our democracy and journalists are not the enemy of the people," the museum said. | | Credit: Newseum
Jon McNaughton Doesn't Care About the Haters:
I love this quote from the MAGA artist's interview with Business Insider's Joe Perticone: "I remember somebody came into my art gallery once and said, 'This is not art. Any times you mix politics and religion, definitely not art.' And I said to him, 'That's exactly what art is.'"
Street Art Sighting:
Manuel Oliver, the father of Joaquin Oliver, who was killed in the Parkland, Florida, shooting, painted a tribute to his son Saturday with a mural that read "We Demand To Blow Out Our Candles" outside the NRA's headquarters in Fairfax, Virginia. It was part of a larger "March On NRA" demonstration held by multiple gun reform groups. | | Credit: Courtesy Change the Ref
If you spot political street art, tweet me @hunterschwarz, tag me on Instagram @hunterschwarz, or email me at coverlinehunter@cnn.com with your sighting so I can feature it in COVER/LINE.
P.S.:
Last time crowds this big gathered in England to mark an American's visit there, it was protesters demonstrating against Trump last month. But this weekend, more than 50,000 fans were in Brighton, England, to watch Britney Spears' Pride performance, per local media reports. Spears wrote on Instagram that the night made her love the UK "even more 🌈🌈🌈," and there was street art to mark the occasion, by an artist using the name The Postman. | | | | | | |
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