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New York Times Colunist and podcaster Ezra Klein asked two people familiar with the Trump White House and past administrations to describe how the late-night diving and social media-obsessed President Donald Trump spends his days. “He wakes up late,” said Atlantic staff writer Michael Scherer. “[Former President Barack] Obama would start work very early in the Oval Office and work until dinnertime, and then he’d go back to the residence. Trump comes down later in the morning. I think on an average day he’s in front of live cameras, if he’s at the White House … one to three hours in a day. … And I think the rest of the time is much more freeform. I don’t think the drive towards efficiency and structure is something that interests him.” “He plays a lot of golf on the weekends,” said Atlantic writer Ashley Parker . “He goes to his private clubs — Mar-a-Lago in the winter, [or his New Jersey private golf club] Bedminster sometimes when it’s nicer — where he holds court. … But it’s muc...
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'Dark MAGA': White House dims lights after Trump's trouncing

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Let it be said that President Donald Trump’s people know how to put on a show New York Times reporter Chris Cameron noted that The White House “turned down the lights for President Trump’s news conference on Friday after the Supreme Court decision that struck down his sweeping tariffs, ” as if in response to the president’s smoldering mood. Cameron cited White House spokesman Steven Cheung saying in a social media post that “President Trump will not be stopped.” His post highlighted the shadowy lighting, which Cheung described as the tonal shift “Dark MAGA.” The tactic might be a throwback to former President Joe Biden attempt to invoke an atmosphere of seriousness and warning, as he did when he sought to paint “a dark portrait of a democracy on the brink .” Speaking outside Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Cameron recalled Biden’s stage and the hall being darkly lit, with Biden flanked by “Marine guards silhouetted in shadow against the building.” “The dim stage lights were ...
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Pope declines invite to America’s 250th despite Vance's 'in-person' invite

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Pope Leo XIV has officially dissed Catholic JD Vance’s formal invitation to the upcoming July 4th 250th festivities in the United States. Instead, the Pope, formerly of Chicago, will be celebrating that day “on the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa — a migrant gateway in the Mediterranean,” reports Christopher Hale, who chronicles the Vatican’s doings with his “Letters from Leo” reports. “… [B]ack in May 2025, JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to take part in the anniversary celebrations. Many assumed Trump and Vance would welcome the first American pope with open arms during this historic jubilee. But Pope Leo never accepted the offer,” reports Hale, adding that the rejection came days after the Vatican also rejected an invitation to President Donald Trump’s “ Board of Peace .” Worse, the Vatican quietly confirmed the pope has no plans to visit the United States at all in 2026. “Instead, on the very day of America’s 250th, [the pope] will kneel on a rocky outcrop closer to Tun...
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Right wing podcaster laments Trump’s 'dementia' after bungled Thursday speech

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The Daily Beast reports high-grossing MAGA podcaster Shawn Ryan appeared shaken at President Donald Trump’s meandering stumbles and senior citizen behavior at Thursday’s meeting of his "Board of Peace," unofficial gathering of countries. Trump presided over the meeting attended by many nations with questionable human rights history, including Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan and Israel. Trump also sent invitations to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, both of whom have arrest warrants from the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes. But what unnerved Ryan was the painfully aged appearance and behavior Trump revealed during his introduction speech. “I’m proud to officially name the undispuut ...” Trump said before muttering unintelligibly for a couple of seconds, according to the Beast. “When did this come out? Mr. Speaker,” he later proclaimed before getting back on track. Beast reports Trump also “bragged about his...
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'I've been waiting forever': Trump just let loose on the Supreme Court

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President Donald Trump expressed frustration with the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday, telling steel workers that he has had to wait "many months" for a decision on the tariffs case, even though tariffs are still being collected. The court hear oral arguments on November 5 — three and a half months ago — and a decision could come as soon as Friday. It is not unusual for the justices to take many months to decide a case. The court, reports stated, appeared skeptical of Trump's authority to impose sweeping tariffs via executive orders without Congress. "And to think I have to be, in the United States Supreme Court for many, many months, waiting for a decision on tariffs — without tariffs, this country would be in such trouble right now," Trump said at the Coosa Steel Corporation in Rome, Georgia, in a speech at a GOP-ticketed event . "Without tariffs, this country would be like your company was two years ago," he told workers. "What a differen...
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Former admin official says 'terrified' Trump is endangering himself

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Former DHS Chief of Staff Miles Taylor says President Donald Trump is endangering himself by conducting an illegal search of ballots in Fulton County Georgia. Weeks ago, Trump sent members of the FBI to raid Fulton County of its 2020 ballots in an effort to prove that he actually won the election in Georgia over former president Joe Biden. But Taylor — who worked in Trump’s first administration and wrote the executive order that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is now using to conduct the raid — said there is no federal rule protecting Trump from the consequences if a Georgia jury proclaims him guilty of an illegal search. “People forget when they hear about this story that [Trump] was indicted on 13 felony counts in Fulton County for trying to meddle in that election. Five years later, he's back at it. They claimed it was [because of] foreign interference. They said it was regulatory irregularities in an affidavit. And then Trump said the truth in that intervi...
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News24 | amaBhungane | Invalid R263m tanker tender rolls on as Joburg’s taps run dry

The City of Johannesburg’s tanker contracts are in jeopardy after the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg declared them “invalid”. from News24 News24/TopStories/rss https://ift.tt/pwIN6oh via sinceretalk
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