Tag: President Trump

Why So Many People Are Suddenly Talking About Toad, ‘Mario Kart,’ And President Trump

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  1. Newswire: Nintendo is suing a Japanese company over its real-life Mario Kart
  2. For Our Consideration: With Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, the best Mario Kart ever gets even better
  3. ‘Mario Kart’ Hot Wheels Toys Coming Summer 2019
  4. ‘Breath Of The Wild’s’ Motorcycle Races To ‘Mario Kart 8 Deluxe’

Politics at the Emmys: Toning It Down on Trump

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  1. Best Jokes From the 2018 Emmys Monologue: ‘Roseanne was Canceled by Herself, Picked Up by White Nationalists’
  2. Trump & Climate Change Make Cameos In Largely Apolitical Creative Arts Emmys
  3. Emmys 2018: Michael Che and Colin Jost’s Best Jokes
  4. Tucker Carlson Blasts Emmys; Calls It A “Remarkable Triumph Of Identity Politics Over Art & Entertainment”

What the Google Post-Election Video Says, and Doesn’t Say

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  1. Donald Trump Tweets Complaint About Alleged Google Search Bias: “They Have It RIGGED”
  2. Late-night hosts regroup as Seth Meyers, Samantha Bee and others offer post-election empathy and encouragement
  3. President Obama’s Post-Election Speech: Watch Live Stream Here (Video)
  4. Cable-News Finds Pre-Election Programs Work Well Post-Election, Too

Listen: Nixon Historian Tim Naftali on Thwarting A President’s Worst Impulses

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  1. PopPolitics: Hollywood Wonders What Happens Next with a President Trump (Listen)
  2. PopPolitics: PBS President Paula Kerger on Why Rural Stations Will Be Hit Hardest by Threatened Public TV Cuts (Listen)
  3. Colbert: You Can’t Mitigate Trump’s Worst Inclinations ‘Because All of Trump’s Inclinations Are Tied for Worst’ (Video)
  4. PopPolitics: Lesli Linka Glatter on How ‘Homeland’ Reflects the Debate Over the Deep State (Listen)

Trump Calls Scathing New York Times Op-Ed ‘Gutless’

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  1. New York Post Blasts ‘Idiot’ Trump Jr in Scathing Editorial: ‘Dumb. Dumb. Dumb’
  2. Trump Blasts New York Times, CNN, MSNBC and Don Lemon: ‘Dumbest Man on Television’
  3. Donald Trump Breaks Protocol Again In New Attack On “Failing” New York Times
  4. LA Times’ Scathing Editorial Calls Trump ‘Full of Blind Self-Regard,’ ‘Untethered to Reality’

‘We’re in Crazytown’ and Other Shockers From Bob Woodward’s New Book About Trump White House

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  1. Bob Woodward’s New Book Scorches Earth Under Donald Trump, With John F. Kelly Proclaiming, “We’re In Crazytown”
  2. Bob Woodward To Chronicle The Trump White House In ‘Fear’
  3. White House Correspondents Dinner: Bob Woodward Tells Trump, ‘The Media Is Not Fake News’
  4. White House Officials Call Trump’s Refusal to Heed Advice ‘Defiance Disorder’ in New Book

Trump Slams NBC News Over Weinstein Story, Suggests a ‘Look’ at Broadcast Licenses

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  1. Ronan Farrow’s Weinstein Investigation Was Not ‘Fit to Broadcast,’ NBC News Chairman Andrew Lack Says
  2. Ajit Pai, in First Remarks After Trump Tweets, Says FCC Can’t Revoke Broadcast Licenses Based on News Content
  3. Donald Trump Tweets Threat To Strip Network Broadcast Licenses In Attack On NBC
  4. FCC Chairman Pressed to Respond to Trump’s Threat to Revoke Licenses Over News Coverage

Fox News’ John Roberts on Covering Trump, Grappling With Critics and Pulling Back on Social Media

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  1. Fox News’ Shepard Smith Decries “Lie After Lie After Lie” From Team Trump
  2. Fox News’ John Roberts Defends CNN and NBC News From Trump’s ‘Unfair’ Attacks
  3. Fox News’ John Roberts Takes Heat for Not Defending CNN Counterpart From Trump Attack
  4. ESPN’s John Skipper Says Jemele Hill Violated Social-Media Policy With Trump Tweets

California Man Charged With Violent Threats Against Boston Globe Over Trump Coverage

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  1. LA Man Arrested, Charged With Threatening to Kill Boston Globe Employees Over Anti-Trump Editorials
  2. Los Angeles Man Charged With Threatening Boston Globe Employees Whom He Called “Enemy Of The People”
  3. Donald Trump Attacks Newspapers Running Editorials Defending Free Press; Senate Punches Back
  4. T.J. Miller Charged With Calling In Fake Bomb Threat

U.S.-Mexico Trade Agreement Draws Concern from Music Industry, Ire from Public Interest Groups

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  1. Internet Firms Describe Themselves as ‘New Faces’ of Content Industry in Trade Letter
  2. Music industry revenues up in first half of 2017, but….
  3. Recording Academy To Form Task Force On “Unconscious Biases” Impeding Women In Music
  4. Korean Film Council Makes Public Apology For Blacklisting Filmmakers And Industry Groups

Trump Lashes Out at ‘Rigged’ Google for ‘Controlling’ Its Search Results

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  1. ‘Rigged 2016’ isn’t the election documentary you think it is
  2. Google & Microsoft To Demote Piracy Sites In UK Search Results
  3. Google Hit With Record $5B Fine From EU Over Android Operating System
  4. Trump Slams ‘Rigged’ Google for ‘Suppressing Voices of Conservatives’

Inspector General: Trump Queried FCC’s Ajit Pai on ‘Legal Framework’ of AT&T-Time Warner Merger

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  1. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai Under Investigation by FCC’s Inspector General
  2. AT&T $600K Deal With Michael Cohen Specified He Would Advise on Time Warner Merger (Report)
  3. Steve Mnuchin Broke No Law Using Private Jets But Inspector General Dubious Of Explanation For Need
  4. AT&T-Time Warner Analysis: Judge Puts Legal Framework on Forces of Disruption in Media

Trump Orders Flags to Fly at Half Staff Again After Criticism Over Response to McCain’s Death

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  1. White House Caves, Lowers Flag to Half Staff in Honor of John McCain (Video)
  2. Trump Reverses Course, Orders Flags Lowered to Half-Staff to Honor Slain Journalists
  3. White House Flags Return to Full Staff Well Before John McCain’s Memorial Services
  4. Trump Balks at Half-Staff Flag Tradition for McCain, Observers Outraged

John McCain Warns of ‘Tribal Rivalries,’ Praises U.S. as ‘Nation of Ideals’ in Final Letter

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  1. John McCain’s Farewell Statement Stresses National Unity & Personal Patriotism
  2. HBO’s ‘John McCain: For Whom the Bell Tolls’ is as candid as the maverick himself
  3. John McCain Finally Gets “Respect” From Donald Trump; White House Flag Back At Half-Staff
  4. Hollywood Reacts to Surprise Defeat of Obamacare Skinny Repeal, Praises ‘Hero’ McCain

White House Flags Return to Full Staff Well Before John McCain’s Memorial Services

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  1. John McCain Dies: Maverick Senator, GOP Presidential Nominee & Vietnam Hero Was 81
  2. John McCain’s Family Gets Donald Trump’s Sympathy; No Salute For Deceased Senator
  3. Senator John McCain Memorial Service Set For Washington Nat’l Cathedral
  4. Bill Clinton Defends John McCain After White House Aide ‘Dying Anyway’ Joke (Video)

American Media CEO David Pecker Granted Immunity in Michael Cohen Case (Report)

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  1. National Enquirer Boss David Pecker Granted Immunity in Michael Cohen Case (Report)
  2. Michael Cohen Reaches Plea, Surrenders to FBI (Report)
  3. What Michael Cohen’s Plea Deal Means for Stormy Daniels and American Media
  4. National Enquirer Chief David Pecker Told Investigators Trump Knew About Payoff

Trump on Michael Cohen Plea: Flipping ‘Almost Ought to be Illegal’

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  1. Trump Dings Michael Cohen After Guilty Plea
  2. Donald Trump’s Former Fixer Michael Cohen Surrenders To FBI In Plea Deal – UPDATE
  3. What Michael Cohen’s Plea Deal Means for Stormy Daniels and American Media
  4. Michael Cohen Reaches Plea, Surrenders to FBI (Report)

Omarosa Book Publisher Says Trump Campaign’s ‘Hollow’ Legal Threat Is an Attempt to Stifle Criticism

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  1. ‘Fire and Fury’ Publisher: Trump’s Legal Threat Is Effort to ‘Silence Legitimate Criticism’
  2. Trump Campaign Makes Legal Claim Against Omarosa Manigault Newman
  3. Trump Campaign Taps Hulk Hogan, Melania Trump Lawyer in Omarosa Arbitration
  4. Mark Halperin’s 2016 Campaign Book Canceled by Publisher

Hundreds of Newspapers Run Pro-Free Press Editorials in Face of Trump’s ‘Fake News’ Attacks

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  1. NY Times Joins 200-Plus Newspapers to Combat Image of Journalists as ‘Enemy of the People’
  2. Trump Doubles Down on ‘Morning Joe’ Attacks: ‘Bad Show,’ ‘Fake News’
  3. 70 Newspapers to Denounce Trump’s ‘Dirty War’ Against Free Press With Op-Eds
  4. SAG-AFTRA Voices Support for ‘Free and Unencumbered Press’ Following Trump Attacks

Republicans Try to Tie Jon Tester to Pearl Jam Poster Featuring Trump’s Dead Body

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  1. 30 More Republicans Denounce Donald Trump as ‘Unqualified to Be President’
  2. This Pearl Jam concert film is, weirdly, also a doc about the Chicago Cubs
  3. Trump’s Rotting Cartoon Corpse Appears in Pearl Jam Poster for Montana Concert (Photo)
  4. Animation Show of Shows Featuring ‘Piper,’ ‘Pearl’ Coming to Southern California Theaters

Michael Moore Calls Trump ‘Tyrant’ and ‘Racist’ in ‘Fahrenheit 11/9’ Poster (Photo)

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  1. ‘Fahrenheit 11/9’ Trailer: Michael Moore Doc Targets Mid-Term Elections
  2. ‘Fahrenheit 11/9’ Trailer: Michael Moore Links Donald Trump’s Presidency to the Destruction of America
  3. Battle Brewing Between Michael Moore, Harvey & Bob Weinstein Over Donald Trump-Themed ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ Sequel
  4. ‘Fahrenheit 11/9’ Trailer: Michael Moore Targets Trump Ahead of 2018 Midterms (Video)