Donald Trump has long had it out for Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein (to say nothing of his boss Jeff Sessions), and a new report from The New York Times is hardly likely to alleviate the president’s considerable acrimony toward the Justice Department’s number two—even as speculation swirled about the motives…
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders might be a mush-mouthed, inhumane, professional obfuscater, but even by those abysmally low standards, Wednesday’s press briefing was a master class in total detachment from reality.
President Donald Trump would like you to believe that Tuesday night’s primary elections—in which Democrats flexed their muscles ahead of what many are predicting will be a “blue wave” in November—was actually terrific for his administration and the Republicans.
Former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman continued her scorched earth book/vengeance tour on Monday with a stunning audio clip that appears to highlight just how ignorant President Donald Trump is about what actually goes on in his own White House.
Some people love surprises. I am not one of them. Neither, it seems, is Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats.
Not 10 days ago did I relay to you the story of Andrew Giuliani, the son of Rudy Giuliani, being told off by his dad for having a good old snog with his wife at the theater. And now, the very next week, Axios reports that the big boy has lost his access to the West Wing.
If there ever was a day where Donald Trump and his closest aides wouldn’t be hooting and hollering about leaks, you’d think it would happen on a holiday weekend. You would be wrong.
Donald Trump suggested actively confiscating some people’s guns with no due process and made a host of other random pronouncements during a wild, freewheeling meeting with members of Congress on Wednesday in which the president’s eagerness to appear “tough” in the wake of the Parkland shooting—as well as his complete…
CNN reported late Thursday evening that national security adviser H.R. McMaster might be on his way out of the White House, with multiple officials suggesting that the Pentagon has weighed moving McMaster back to a position in the military.
Reporters at Politico had a simple request for 18 different federal agencies: how many claims of sexual harassment had employees filed since 2012, and how much public money was spent to settle them?
If you’re a member of Washington’s self-flagellating Beltway media establishment, you might find yourself faced with a seasonally-appropriate conundrum: You’re invited to the White House’s annual Christmas party for members of the media and don’t know if it’s right to attend.
When Senator Bob Corker unabashedly described the White House as an adult day care center on Sunday, very few people seemed shocked by the comparison—and why would they be? Corker certainly wasn’t the first person to suggest President Trump possesses the political deftness of a toddler. And, according to an account in…
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In addition to using separate personal emails while working at the White House, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump reportedly shared a third account to communicate with other Trump administration staffers.
Do you want to win a free, all expenses paid for, honeymoon trip to Europe? Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin certainly tried to make that happen for himself. According to a report from ABC News, Mnuchin attempted to hitch a ride on a government plane when he travelled to Europe this summer on a honeymoon with his…
The fact that President Donald Trump will inevitably, and without fail, embarrass and shame those who have chosen to hitch their wagons to his demented horse is no surprise.
I’ll be totally honest with you: I like the sound of White House adviser and Nazi-adjacent man Sebastian Gorka’s voice. It’s the sort of lightly accented baritone that would be perfectly at home in a luxury car commercial voiceover, or reading a book on tape about the Victorian-era British navy. But, much as I enjoy…
To hear a new article in the Washington Post tell it, newly-appointed White House Chief of Staff John Kelly might as well be a robot, reorganizing the chaotic West Wing with the brute force of cold, implacable logic. Or, perhaps he’s a Buddhist monk, with no attachments or desires—just a zen-like sense of his discrete…
After weeks of very awkward, very public feuding between President Donald Trump and his Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the two appear to achieved some form of detente this week, with newly appointed White House Chief of Staff John Kelly acting as peacemaker.
Media Twitter is a place rife with ritualistic, throat-clearing arguments about The Press’ Role in Democracy. Recently, sharing whether the coming White House press briefing is on or off-camera has become a daily practice of some of its most high-profile inhabitants.
