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The US director of national intelligence, Dan Coats, has become the latest high-profile figure to leave the Trump administration.
President Donald Trump tweeted Mr Coats would step down in mid-August and that he would nominate the Texan congressman John Ratcliffe to replace him.
President Donald Trump tweeted Mr Coats would step down in mid-August and that he would nominate the Texan congressman John Ratcliffe to replace him.
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(CNN) It is a strange fact of unfolding American history that the country's first black President should be followed in office by a President who has openly said racist things.
Neither President, it is painfully clear, can solve the problem of gun violence or racism in the United States, but it is in the aftermath of mass shootings like those in Ohio and Texas that the difference between America's last President and its current one is most jarringly clear.
And while many Democrats want to lay blame for a racist's rampage at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, at President Donald Trump's feet -- since police said they found an anti-immigrant document espousing white nationalist and racist views, which they believe was written by the suspect there -- it is also true that racist shootings came before Trump, a point Trump was quick to point out Tuesday.
Former President Barack Obama broke his self-imposed political silence for an obliquely worded but directly aimed statement calling out his successor, issuing a four paragraph statement condemning racism and leaders who foster it.
"We should soundly reject language coming out of the mouths of any of our leaders that feeds a climate of fear and hatred or normalizes racist sentiments," he wrote in the statement, a rare break from his pledge to give Trump room to lead the country.
Obama did not name Trump, but there was zero mystery about who he was criticizing when he said Americans should reject leaders who "demonize those who don't look like us, or suggest that other people, including immigrants, threaten our way of life, or refer to other people as sub-human, or imply that America belongs to just one certain type of people."
He went on: "Such language isn't new -- it's been at the root of most human tragedy throughout history, here in America and around the world. It is at the root of slavery and Jim Crow, the Holocaust, the genocide in Rwanda and ethnic cleansing in the Balkans. It has no place in our politics and our public life. And it's time for the overwhelming majority of Americans of goodwill, of every race and faith and political party, to say as much -- clearly and unequivocally.
Trump, without mentioning the statement, responded Wednesday morning with a tweet quoting a Fox News personality.
" 'Did George Bush ever condemn President Obama after Sandy Hook. President Obama had 32 mass shootings during his reign. Not many people said Obama is out of Control. Mass shootings were happening before the President even thought about running for Pres.' @kilmeade @foxandfriends," Trump wrote.
In fact, it was the day after Trump rode that escalator in June of 2015 and launched his divisive political career, a racist gunman shot up a church in South Carolina. Days later, Obama sang Amazing Grace during a eulogy for the pastor of that church and talked about the importance of forgiveness and acceptance.
In that eulogy, Obama talked about the need to address the more subtle racism in society not with talk, but with small actions like treating everyone with dignity and respect.
Now, faced with another mass shooting on his own watch, Trump, who has been called an enabler of racists by many Americans, promised the death penalty for murderers and looked for things other than guns to blame.
Trump will visit both Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas, this week, but local officials said they are skeptical about his motives and what he'll accomplish.
"Look, I have no sense of what's in President Trump's mind at all, right?" said Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley, a Democrat, when asked if Trump could bring the community together. "I can only hope that as President of the United States that he's coming here because he wants to add value to our community and he recognizes that that's what our community needs. That's all I can hope."
Whaley had previously said that if people were unhappy about Trump's visit, they should protest it. The mayor also said she was not reassured by the President's comments Monday since he said very little about guns and how to control them.
El Paso Mayor Dee Margo, a Republican, said he would meet with Trump but in an official and not a political capacity. He warned Trump not to trot out previously debunked allegations that the President has made about El Paso's crime rate.
"I will continue to challenge any harmful and inaccurate statements made about El Paso," Margo said. "We will not allow anyone to portray El Paso in a way that is not consistent with our history and values."
Notably, Obama was unable to enact new gun control legislation or even a new system of background checks. Trump, given the opportunity to list such legislation as a priority Monday, did not. He has previously promised to veto a bipartisan background check bill that passed through the House if it reaches his desk, although he has asked Congress to work on new legislative proposals.
Trump also pointed to video games and the internet for creating a violent atmosphere and to mental illness for motivating killers. He did not mention the effect his own divisive words -- warning of an "invasion" of immigrants or vilifying lawmakers of color who oppose him -- have further charged the political climate
For all his faults, the message of Obama's presidency, even if he failed at it, was to try to bring the country together. Trump has tried to do the opposite.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/06/politics/obama-trump-racism-guns/index.html
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Ashley Parker, Philip Rucker, Jenna Johnson and Felicia Sonmez
August 8, 2019 1:48 PM EDT
On a day when President Donald Trump vowed to tone down his rhetoric and help the country heal following two mass slayings, he did the opposite – lacing his visits Wednesday to El Paso and Dayton, Ohio, with a flurry of attacks on local leaders and memorializing his trips with grinning thumbs-up photos.
A traditional role for presidents has been to offer comfort and solace to all Americans at times of national tragedy, but the day provided a fresh testament to Trump’s limitations in striking notes of unity and empathy.
When Trump swooped into the grieving border city of El Paso to offer condolences after the massacre of Latinos, allegedly by a white supremacist, some of the city’s elected leaders and thousands of its residents declared the president unwelcome.
In his only public remarks during the trip, Trump lashed out at Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley, both Democrats, over their characterization of his visit with hospital patients in Dayton.
“We had an amazing day,” Trump said in El Paso as he concluded his visit. “As you know, we left Ohio. The love, the respect for the office of the presidency.”
Trump also praised El Paso police officers and other first responders and shook their hands, telling one female officer, “I saw you on television the other day and you were fantastic.”
None of the eight patients still being treated at University Medical Center in El Paso agreed to meet with Trump when he visited the hospital, UMC spokesman Ryan Mielke said. Two victims who already had been discharged returned to the hospital to meet with the president.
“This is a very sensitive time in their lives,” Mielke said. “Some of them said they didn’t want to meet with the president. Some of them didn’t want any visitors.”
Before Trump’s visit Wednesday, however, some of the hospitalized victims accepted visits from a number of city and county elected officials, as well as Reps. Veronica Escobar, D-Texas, and Jesús “Chuy” García, D-Ill.
El Paso and Dayton were not merely the latest in the multiplying series of American mass shootings. The carnage in El Paso is being investigated as an act of domestic terrorism, with parallels between a racist manifesto posted minutes before the shooting and the president’s own anti-immigration rhetoric.
This has thrust Trump into the centre of a roiling political and societal debate, with some Democratic leaders saying the president has emboldened white supremacy and is a threat to the nation.
Former vice president Joe Biden, who is running to unseat Trump in 2020, said in a speech Wednesday, “We have a president with a toxic tongue who has publicly and unapologetically embraced a political strategy of hate, racism and division.”
Both in Dayton and El Paso, Trump kept almost entirely out of public view, a marked break with tradition, as presidents visiting grieving communities typically offer public condolences.
Trump avoided the Oregon district where the shooting in Dayton took place, and just a short drive from Miami Valley Hospital, which he did visit. Whaley said he would not have been welcome in the Oregon district, where scores of demonstrators congregated holding anti-Trump signs and chanting, “Do something!” a call for stricter gun laws.
Brown and Whaley described the visit by the president and first lady Melania Trump in favorable terms.
“They were hurting. He was comforting. He did the right things. Melania did the right things,” Brown told reporters. “And it’s his job in part to comfort people. I’m glad he did it in those hospital rooms.”
Whaley added: “I think the victims and the first responders were grateful that the president of the United States came to Dayton.”
Brown and Whaley, however, were also sharply critical of Trump’s divisive rhetoric and Republican resistance to gun-control legislation.
Whaley later responded to Trump’s comments about her and Brown by calling him “a bully and a coward.” She said on CNN, “It’s fine that he wants to bully me and Senator Brown. We’re OK. We can take it.”
The traveling press corps was not allowed to observe Trump’s visit with three victims who remained hospitalized. It fell to White House aide Dan Scavino to proclaim in a tweet that Trump “was treated like a Rock Star inside the hospital.”
Trump and the first lady also met with police officers, fire officials, trauma surgeons and nurses at the facility, which treated 23 victims of the shooting. The hospital invited victims who had already been released to come back and meet with the president and first lady.
“It was an authentic visit,” hospital president Mike Uhl said, praising Trump as “attentive, present and extremely accommodating.”
Trump offered his own affirmation on Twitter: “It was a warm & wonderful visit. Tremendous enthusiasm & even Love.”
White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said journalists were kept out of the hospital visit because staffers did not want it to devolve into “a photo op” and overwhelm the victims with media.
The White House, however, distributed its own photos of Trump smiling for pictures with first responders, along with a slickly produced video, helping make the president the centre of attention.
Trump’s reception in El Paso was less hospitable, and not only because so many local leaders have said they believe his rhetoric inspired Saturday’s slayings at a shopping centre near the U.S.-Mexico border. Although he won the state of Texas in the 2016 election, Trump captured just 25.7 percent of the vote in El Paso County, the worst performance recorded here by a major-party presidential candidate in at least two decades.
Demonstrators hold signs during an El Paso Strong Community Action event in El Paso, Texas, U.S., on Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019. Luke E. Montavon/Bloomberg
An ever-growing makeshift memorial has sprouted near the shooting scene that features piles of colourful flowers, a row of white crosses, a line of prayer candles as well as messages to the president. “Mr. T, Respect our sorrow and grief. Do not ‘invade’ our city,” reads one note, a reference to Trump’s repeated warnings of a migrant “invasion” at the border.
Just before Trump arrived in El Paso – where he and the first lady met with first victims and their families at University Medical Center and with law enforcement personnel at an emergency operations centre – several hundred people gathered in opposition to his visit.
Congregating under the hot midday sun in a baseball field for an “El Paso Strong” event, some held homemade signs. “Go home! You are NOT welcome here!” read one. “This was Trump-inspired terrorism,” read another. “Trump repent,” read a third.
At one point, the crowd chanted, “Send him back!” – a nod to the incendiary “Send her back!” chant about the Somali-born Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., at one of Trump’s campaign rallies last month.
“We feel like right now we should be in mourning, and we feel like we should be collecting our thoughts, we should be doing vigils and we should be gathering together as a community. We believe it is an insult that the president is coming here,” said one of the organizers, Jaime Candelaria, a 37-year-old singer and songwriter.
Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-Texas, said onstage, “In this moment, someone is visiting . . . I felt it was important that we come together and not focus on the visitor, but focus on El Paso.” She added, “We will not stop resisting the hate! Resisting the bigotry! Resisting the racism!”
In the crowd at the El Paso Strong event was Shawn Nixon, 20, a Walmart employee who was restocking the school supplies area when the gunman opened fire Saturday morning. At the sound of the shots, Nixon said he fell to the ground, pulling with him a young child who had been shopping with his mother.
“All I’m just asking for Donald Trump, for the president, to do is to say ‘sorry,’ ” Nixon said. “He created this crime. He created it because of his words. Every time that he’s on TV, that’s what he’s doing.”
During his flight home from El Paso, Trump attacked Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, the twin brother of presidential candidate Julián Castro, tweeting that he “makes a fool of himself every time he opens his mouth.” The congressman has come under scrutiny for publicizing a list of San Antonio donors who have contributed to Trump and accusing them for “fueling a campaign of hate.”
On Saturday in El Paso, authorities said, a man opened fire inside a Walmart, killing 22 people and injuring 26 others. At 1:05 a.m. Sunday, a gunman killed nine people and injured 27 others outside a bar in Dayton, police said.
All week, Trump has zigzagged between two competing instincts: Unite and divide.
In the immediate aftermath of the shootings, Trump remained cloistered at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, issuing only short statements on Twitter. Back at the White House on Monday, the president delivered a scripted speech in which he preached harmony.
“Now is the time to set destructive partisanship aside – so destructive – and find the courage to answer hatred with unity, devotion and love,” Trump said, reading from Teleprompters.
The president did not heed his own advice, however. Late Tuesday night, he took to Twitter to attack Beto O’Rourke, the former El Paso congressman running for president who has said Trump bears some responsibility for the shooting there because of his demonization of Latino immigrants.
Trump tweeted: “Beto (phony name to indicate Hispanic heritage) O’Rourke, who is embarrassed by my last visit to the Great State of Texas, where I trounced him, and is now even more embarrassed by polling at 1% in the Democrat Primary, should respect the victims & law enforcement – & be quiet!”
Then, as he departed the White House on Wednesday morning en route to Ohio, Trump told reporters he would refrain from attacking his adversaries during the trip.
Demonstrators line the street near Miami Valley Hospital in anticipation of a visit from President Donald Trump on August 07, 2019 in Dayton, Ohio. Scott Olson/Getty Images
“I would like to stay out of the political fray,” the president said. Asked about his rhetoric, he said he thinks it “brings people together” and added, “I think we have toned it down.”
That detente lasted only a few minutes. Answering a reporter’s question about Biden, Trump pounced. “Joe is a pretty incompetent guy,” the president said. “Joe Biden has truly lost his fastball, that I can tell you.”
By the time the president had left Dayton, he was back on Twitter and sniping at Democrats, a tirade triggered by his consumption of cable television news aboard Air Force One.
“Watching Sleepy Joe Biden making a speech. Sooo Boring! The LameStream Media will die in the ratings and clicks with this guy,” the president wrote.
Then he lashed out at Brown and Whaley, falsely accusing them of “totally misrepresenting” the reception he received at Miami Valley Hospital. He alleged that their news conference immediately after the president’s visit “was a fraud.”
But neither Brown nor Whaley said Trump received a poor reception at the hospital.
When Whaley first saw Trump’s tweets criticizing her and Brown, she paused for a moment to read them on a cellphone and said, “I don’t – I mean, I’m really confused. We said he was treated, like, very well. So, I don’t know why they’re talking about ‘misrepresenting.’ ”
“Oh, well, you know,” the mayor added with a shrug. “He lives in his world of Twitter.”
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(CNN) Some of President Donald Trump's own aides conceded Thursday that his visits to two cities in mourning did not go as planned, as a new video revealed he bragged about crowd sizes while visiting patients at an El Paso hospital.
"That was some, that was some crowd," Trump said, according to cell phone video from one attendee. "And we had twice the number outside. And then you had this crazy Beto. Beto had like 400 people in a parking lot, they said his crowd was wonderful."
White House officials blocked reporters and their cameras from entering the two hospitals during his visits to Ohio and Texas this week, a move they said was out of respect for the patients' privacy. But according to one person familiar with the President's reaction, the President lashed out at his staff for keeping the cameras away from him, complaining that he wasn't receiving enough credit. Aides had feared a moment like the one that is now going viral — where the President appears to focus on himself in front of those still recovering from a tragedy.
Trump associates the city of El Paso with his first political rally of 2019, where he made his case for a border wall and feuded with Beto O'Rourke, who would soon announce he was running for president and held a counterprotest in a park nearby. Trump's campaign still owes the city of El Paso more than $500,000 in police and public safety fees from that visit.
While at least two top staffers publicly defended the President's trip — with one longtime aide claiming he was treated like "a rock star" at the Dayton, Ohio, hospital — multiple staffers agreed behind the scenes that it wasn't successful from the administration's viewpoint. They conceded Trump spent too much time lashing out at local officials, who Trump criticized after they praised his interactions with patients but criticized his stance on guns.
Trump was also unhappy with the visit. He fumed about the coverage on the long flight back to Washington, one person said, though he remained positive in public.
"We had an amazing day," Trump said in the corridor of an emergency coordination center in El Paso. "As you know, we left Ohio. And the love and the respect for the office of the presidency, it was -- I wish you could have been in there to see it. I wish you could have been in there."
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...y-in-el-paso-sparks-controversy-idUSKCN1UZ2HQ
FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to Customs and Border Protection officers in the wake of last weekend's mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, U.S., August 7, 2019. REUTERS/Leah Millis
The image was taken on Wednesday at the University Medical Center of El Paso during Trump’s visit to the West Texas border city to meet with first responders, medical personnel and surviving victims from Saturday’s gun violence at a Walmart store.
The president and his wife had traveled earlier in the day to Dayton, Ohio, for a similar hospital condolence call in the wake of a deadly shooting rampage that rocked that city just 13 hours after the bloodshed in El Paso.
The two shootings together claimed 32 lives, including that of the gunman who committed the Dayton massacre.
Trump avoided the press during both hospital visits, which were closed to media coverage, but the White House later released a brief video montage of the visits.
The first lady also tweeted several photos from the visit, including one that shows her standing in front of a University Medical Center of El Paso backdrop cradling a 2-month-old infant whose parents, Andre and Jordon Anchondo, were both slain in the Walmart attack, reportedly as they shielded him from gunfire.
Standing beside the first lady is the smiling president giving a thumbs-up sign. They are flanked by the baby's aunt and an uncle, Tito Anchondo, who is also smiling and has his arm stretched around Trump's shoulders as the four pose together here
The optics of the picture struck many on social media as demonstrating a lack of empathy or respect for the gravity of the occasion by the president.
"A baby who was taken from home and forced to serve as a prop here at a photo-op for the very monster whose hate killed her/his parents," Democratic strategist Greg Pinelo wrote on Twitter in response to the photo.
But Tito Anchondo, who described himself and his slain brother as Trump supporters, told the Washington Post in an interview published on Friday that he felt consoled by the president’s visit and denied that Trump was there “pushing any kind of political agenda.”
Anchondo said he chose to take his orphaned nephew, baby Paul, to the hospital to meet the president, and said others were politicizing his family’s tragedy. The infant suffered two broken fingers in the shooting, but had since been discharged by doctors.
FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to Customs and Border Protection officers in the wake of last weekend's mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, U.S., August 7, 2019. REUTERS/Leah Millis
The image was taken on Wednesday at the University Medical Center of El Paso during Trump’s visit to the West Texas border city to meet with first responders, medical personnel and surviving victims from Saturday’s gun violence at a Walmart store.
The president and his wife had traveled earlier in the day to Dayton, Ohio, for a similar hospital condolence call in the wake of a deadly shooting rampage that rocked that city just 13 hours after the bloodshed in El Paso.
The two shootings together claimed 32 lives, including that of the gunman who committed the Dayton massacre.
Trump avoided the press during both hospital visits, which were closed to media coverage, but the White House later released a brief video montage of the visits.
The first lady also tweeted several photos from the visit, including one that shows her standing in front of a University Medical Center of El Paso backdrop cradling a 2-month-old infant whose parents, Andre and Jordon Anchondo, were both slain in the Walmart attack, reportedly as they shielded him from gunfire.
Standing beside the first lady is the smiling president giving a thumbs-up sign. They are flanked by the baby's aunt and an uncle, Tito Anchondo, who is also smiling and has his arm stretched around Trump's shoulders as the four pose together here
The optics of the picture struck many on social media as demonstrating a lack of empathy or respect for the gravity of the occasion by the president.
"A baby who was taken from home and forced to serve as a prop here at a photo-op for the very monster whose hate killed her/his parents," Democratic strategist Greg Pinelo wrote on Twitter in response to the photo.
But Tito Anchondo, who described himself and his slain brother as Trump supporters, told the Washington Post in an interview published on Friday that he felt consoled by the president’s visit and denied that Trump was there “pushing any kind of political agenda.”
Anchondo said he chose to take his orphaned nephew, baby Paul, to the hospital to meet the president, and said others were politicizing his family’s tragedy. The infant suffered two broken fingers in the shooting, but had since been discharged by doctors.
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据报道，Trump曾经撕下一份印有Trudeau的杂志封面，用银色sharpie写了个note，白宫通过正规渠道将note寄给加拿大使馆，大使以为是恶搞，double check了白宫才当真。。。
https://www.axios.com/donald-trump-...ers-b036862c-7aaf-4fb8-b8d3-3724e15fd2c5.html
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有人发起请愿，把纽约第五大道上的一段改名为“奥巴马总统道”。。。
https://petitions.moveon.org/sign/rename-fifth-avenue-in
这样一来，Trump Tower的邮政地址就变成：
https://petitions.moveon.org/sign/rename-fifth-avenue-in
这样一来，Trump Tower的邮政地址就变成：
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Trump tells Americans: ‘You have no choice but to vote for me’
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/wor...u-have-no-choice-but-to-vote-for-me-1.3988148
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/wor...u-have-no-choice-but-to-vote-for-me-1.3988148
