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In the past, U.S. President Donald Trump wasn't shy about voicing his total disdain for Camp David — making it clear that he found the presidential retreat in Frederick County, Maryland extremely boring. But Trump headed to Camp David over the weekend, and former GOP strategist Rick Wilson laid out some possible motivations in a "Fast Politics" video with liberal Molly Jong-Fast. Wilson told Jong-Fast, "Everyone is surprised that Donald Trump is at Camp David because the exact quote, before, was, 'I get f–– bored there in 30 minutes.' Trump does not like Camp David…. I think he's been there, in this administration, never. And I think he went once or twice in the previous (administration). So, this is either the second or third time that I can recall." The Never Trump conservative added, "What's curious about the whole thing, Molly…. There is a degree to which I am very curious." Wilson laid out some possible reasons why Trump ventured...

The Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act, passed in 2015, is a federal law that requires the President to submit any nuclear agreement with Iran to Congress, prevents the President from lifting statutory sanctions during a review period, and establishes ongoing congressional oversight. Several Republicans and Democrats have called on Trump to follow the law on the Iran MOU, but Trump plans to skip it after alienating voices he’d need to defend it. Trump’s personal thirst for revenge at home is hurting him on Iran. Congressmen he attacked in pursuit of personal retribution, and who lost their primaries as a result, have no Effs left to give and can now criticize him openly. Republican Senators Thom Tillis of North Carolina, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, and John Cornyn of Texas represent precisely this threat, and they came out swinging at the MOU. Senator Cassidy called the deal "the worst foreign policy blunder in decades.” Cassidy noted that, “Iran's nuclear ambitions were...

Zeteo writers Asawin Suebsaeng and Prem Thakker say Trump is so desperate to finally be rid of the war he unilaterally began in February that he is wandering around the White House, bawling in panic that Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu is scheming to drag him back in. “He’s swearing a lot about it,” one close Trump adviser told Zeteo. Another Trump administration official said: “[R]ight now, he’s definitely madder at the Israelis than the Iranians.” The sources who’ve spoken to Trump over the past several days say Israel’s “continued attacks in Lebanon and Israeli leaders’ efforts to pressure the Americans into abandoning the memorandum of understanding with Iran have, in fact, further driven Trump in the opposite direction,” according to Zeteo, adding that “the president keeps venting to advisers how angry he is at Netanyahu and other political and media figures – in the U.S. and in Israel – for transparently trying to drag him back into war, or for suggesting that Trump is surre...

Excerpts from Regime Change , a book by New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, reveal President Donald Trump’s private residence is filled with damp carpets and junk food trash, reports Jezebel writer Wren Woodson. Donald and Melania Trump famously maintain separate bedrooms, but Trump’s quarters are exactly the mold-threatened mess-pile some critics might expect from a man who stays up all night snacking and posting demented rants on the social media. “As if the mold hazard weren’t enough, staffers also had to babysit the president’s late-night snacking habits,” wrote Woodson. Trump is a compulsive all-night social media crawler , as indicated by his outlandish, hours-long chain posts and his perpetual narcolepsy during meetings and press engagements — despite the fact that he himself often plans and sets the meetings before falling unconscious in them. The president’s late night binging is so regular that he even fell asleep after blocking traffic at the NB...

President Donald Trump was lauding his newly renovated but controversial luxury plane gifted him by the Qatari royal family on Friday. The president presented the plane as the new Air Force One, despite allegations of corruption surrounding the gift, and the fact that Trump treats the plane as a personal gift and has no plan to leave it in the possession of the president who replaces him. But he added that he intends to paint all of the planes in the fleet air force to look just like the new Qatari donation, making this just one more attempt by Trump to mark everything around him with his personal stamp or influence. However, John Heilemann, Chief Political Columnist for the media company Puck says there is a reason Trump is desperate to mark every taxpayer-funded thing around him as his personal [property. “He's obviously … into the notion of trying to build monuments to himself in various ways and to leave marks that he thinks will not be will not be able to go away, like to ki...

Bulwark writer Joe Perticone says President Donald Trump’s Senate supporters are regretting their off-kilter president and his drastic policy missteps, and they increasingly "want the clown show they’re performing in to end." “Just take a look at Trump’s disruptions of Senate business over the last few weeks,” wrote Perticone . “Trump supported reauthorization of FISA 702. He later demanded that FISA reauthorization be paired with the SAVE Act, an unrelated voter-suppression bill that has no chance of clearing the Senate. Trump tapped Bill Pulte to serve as interim Director of National Intelligence. Trump then nominated U.S. attorney Jay Clayton to be the permanent DNI in response to pushback he received on Pulte, including the prospect of FISA not being reauthorized.” Perticone added, “Trump directed Clayton not to testify before the Intelligence Committee and announced he was delaying his nomination to try to force the Senate to vote on the SAVE Act. Trump also signed the ...