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Apr 19, 2017, 10:47 PM
Dog Whistles at the White House
A new Gallup poll out this week shows President Donald Trump’s approval ratings remain at historic low levels. Only 45 percent of Americans think he keeps his promises, a startling 17-point drop since February, the Washington Post reported. Trump has had more zigzags than an...
Apr 18, 2017, 11:16 AM
1040 Reasons Trump Can’t Be Trusted
Late Friday, when they apparently thought few would notice, the Trump administration announced it is ending Barack Obama’s practice of making White House visitor logs and staff financial disclosure statements public. The rationale — “grave national security risks and privacy concerns” — lacks credibility coming...
Apr 12, 2017, 6:49 AM
Time For Another Exodus
The temperamental and volatile special assistant to the president for fake news, Sean Spicer, once again stuck both feet in his acid-tongued mouth and came away looking stupid. On Tuesday, the first day of Passover, he gave Adolph Hitler a pass on the terrible scale...
Apr 7, 2017, 5:50 PM
Swamping the Drain
In the wake of his humiliating defeat in attempting to repeal and replace Obamacare, Donald Trump struck out at those he held most responsible, the unyielding far right of his own party, the Freedom Caucus. They held the decisive votes and withheld them because they...
Apr 6, 2017, 11:16 PM
Takes 3 to Play Let’s Make a Deal?
Donald Trump wants to bring to bear his enormous deal making talents to make peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians. But he’s facing two virtually insurmountable obstacles, Israeli and Palestinian leaders. The top UN Mideast envoy, Nickolay Mladenov, told the Jerusalem Post last year...
Apr 3, 2017, 11:38 PM
Sissi White House Visit ‘Study In Contrasts’
It was as stark a study in contrasts as anyone has seen in many years. The foreign dictator who was shunned by the previous American president as a repressive autocrat who overthrew a democratically elected government was enthusiastically welcomed to the White House today by...
Apr 3, 2017, 6:45 AM
De Ja Vu at the White House
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer and Trump surrogates are now peddling the line that the media is paying too much attention to process and not enough to substance in the Russia and Wiretap scandals. If that sounds familiar, maybe the name Ron Ziegler will...
Mar 26, 2017, 11:42 AM
President Pinocchio
It’s been a very bad week for Donald Trump. Throughout his presidential campaign Trump declared he would repeal and replace Obamacare on Day One. Boasting of his deal making skills he said it would be a slam dunk. But this week, he discovered, to his...
Mar 9, 2017, 5:47 PM
Trump Preparing To Break Social Security Pledge
Way back in 2016 during his presidential campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly vowed, “I’m not going to cut Social Security like every other Republican and I’m not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid.” That was then. This is now, and his Office of Management and Budget...
Mar 7, 2017, 6:07 AM
Trump Foreign Aid Cuts Impact Israel
The Trump administration’s plan to make “fairly dramatic” cuts in the State Department budget and foreign aid spending could create problems for Israel whether its own assistance package is touched or not. Israel is scheduled to get $3.8 billion this year under an agreement negotiated...
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Douglas M. Bloomfield is a syndicated columnist, Washington lobbyist and consultant. He spent nine years as the legislative director and chief lobbyist for AIPAC.