NEW: Over the past couple weeks, Trump has begun telling supporters he's already spent $3.2 billion on the wall–twice the amount Congress has authorized. He said it twice last night at a rally in Montana. https://t.co/CH1wBO0Gxx
— David Nakamura (@DavidNakamura) September 7, 2018
Nike was thinking that it's a good business decision for a company to be on the right side of history. https://t.co/aqBUgrNm7L
— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) September 7, 2018
Nike’s online sales jumped 31% after the company unveiled its Kaepernick campaign https://t.co/cPwnQYuc5L pic.twitter.com/8dNxxOdq7C
— MarketWatch (@MarketWatch) September 7, 2018
Trump was wrong to attack Nike and wrong to note that they are his tenant (just more proof that he has conflicts of interest). Shouldn’t Republicans be upset when he attacks specific businesses? I didn’t think they would approve of that.
Asked about the Nike-Kaepernick controversy, on which he has been conspicuously quiet, Trump says plainly: "Nike is a tenant of mine. They pay a lot of rent."
Just FYI, in case you have a brand in need of POTUS tweet insurance https://t.co/JONvyP6m87
— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) September 4, 2018
Just like the NFL, whose ratings have gone WAY DOWN, Nike is getting absolutely killed with anger and boycotts. I wonder if they had any idea that it would be this way? As far as the NFL is concerned, I just find it hard to watch, and always will, until they stand for the FLAG!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 5, 2018
Trump says Nike "is getting absolutely killed" over Colin Kaepernick ad, renews attack on NFL players https://t.co/88BqR6aWVg
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 5, 2018
Nike’s use of Colin Kaepernick is the single most polarizing use of an athlete endorser in at least two decades. Witness: 650 comments off this tweet. Never had a statement of fact get this type of attention. https://t.co/UbwuVsr9Yx
— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) September 14, 2018
Nike spent an estimated $5 million on advertising the Kaepernick “Just Do It,” the overall return is approaching $300 million, according to @ApexMGAnalytics pic.twitter.com/VBr86JtXwb
— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) September 14, 2018
update 9/24
A couple weeks ago, @realDonaldTrump asked, "What was Nike thinking?" https://t.co/UXqQrSYQBd
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) September 23, 2018
78 percent of Nike’s political contributions are to the GOP. https://t.co/mNXQMWYV9x
— Eugene Scott (@Eugene_Scott) September 23, 2018
.@QuinnipiacPoll: 84% of 18-34 yr olds say NFL players have a right to protest; 65% of 18-34 yr olds approve of the protest https://t.co/Zshcho5CTx
— Eugene Scott (@Eugene_Scott) September 16, 2018
I really like this first one. The op-ed says nothing about Trump’s racism such as his reaction to Charlottesville or the hundreds of children still separated from their parents.
You cannot publish a 965-word op-ed excoriating Donald Trump’s “worst inclinations” while omitting any and all references to his racism, bigotry, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism and white nationalism. https://t.co/y7PwGXWBiN
Comic: @Lubchansky / @TheNib pic.twitter.com/YizQrjWBZE
— The Intercept (@theintercept) September 7, 2018
Writing the anonymous @nytimes op-ed is unquestionably a fireable offense. But unless the author is a uniformed service-member, it sure as heck ain’t a crime—to say nothing of “national security.”
Whle he’s at it, what other constitutionally protected speech should DOJ look at?? https://t.co/aLM2gDy7iM
— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) September 7, 2018
Of course the most vociferous denier of authorship of the op-ed, the most over-the-top denigrator of the anonymous author's motives and character, is probably the true author.#PersecutionAndTheArtOfWriting
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) September 7, 2018
Opinion: You can bet reporters will track the author of the “resistance” op-ed down https://t.co/clm8weDxER
— POLITICO (@politico) September 7, 2018
“No one took the memo separating children from their parents away from Trump’s desk.” – @chrislhayes
— Pedro da Costa (@pdacosta) September 7, 2018
Two DOJ officials tell The Daily Beast they’ve been passively resisting Trump since he took office.
"We see ourselves as rebels," one official said, adding that the op-ed marked a perfect time to celebrate. "We even went around fist-bumping each other." https://t.co/0TirTXy2uD
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) September 7, 2018
Talking to source inside admin about Times op-ed. His take:
“Having been a part of some successful attempts to thwart Trump’s worst impulses, I would say that the successes are small, tactical, and temporary.”
— Kate Brannen (@K8brannen) September 5, 2018
What if the 10% includes war with North Korea or Venezuela? My view of anonymous is more charitable: https://t.co/qQPnOmmMUj https://t.co/a8sk25YzNN
— Max Boot (@MaxBoot) September 7, 2018
It says something about the character of the Trump Administration that Trump officials don't simply deny, in a dignified way, authorship of the Anonymous op-ed. Instead, to pander to Trump, they denigrate the author's character and impugn his motives. Sad.
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) September 7, 2018
Writing this op-ed was not a crime. Using law enforcement resources to hunt down the writer is an abuse of power. https://t.co/jiofzVOqQa
— ACLU (@ACLU) September 7, 2018
Tucker Carlson: We have a "pretty good idea" who wrote anonymous NY Times op-ed https://t.co/fT4DyzIta0 pic.twitter.com/AxGMbVUsOy
— The Hill (@thehill) September 7, 2018
Amid all the denials about who penned anonymous NYT op-ed, @KarenTravers tells @StartHereABC administration officials "haven't addressed the substance of what's in the op-ed, and that's really notable." https://t.co/6u8MeBkaaR
🔊: https://t.co/2NO9AnXPqa pic.twitter.com/8seBQOA1Gu
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) September 7, 2018
Of course. It's like a septic tank full of rabid rats. https://t.co/e6J0FTEpdX
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) September 7, 2018
You do not use the Justice Department to find and prosecute your own staff unless they've committed a crime. But thank you for a reminder of what was once the "law and order" party, who thought Barack Obama was an out-of-control dictator, has sunk to defending. https://t.co/TvqFAHcXvv
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) September 7, 2018
But identifying and bringing to justice the people who worked with Russia to undermine our democracy is a “witch hunt” https://t.co/Cd9IsgkawR
— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) September 7, 2018
WH has narrowed down search for anonymous op-ed writer to a few suspects, I’m told. Trump is “obsessed” with finding the person but Kelly has advised him to let it pass. Trump is also said to be mad at Shine over handling of Woodward book. “We should get Hope back here,” he said.
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) September 7, 2018
Trump is way out of line by claiming the op-ed threatened national security and urging the Justice Department to investigate.
That would be an abuse of power, because there is no evidence that the author of the op-ed violated the law, as I discussed in @POLITICOMag: https://t.co/Aoawf78ZpM https://t.co/13OBDrsBsn
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) September 7, 2018
Statement from @nytimes: pic.twitter.com/mqKoSUeGKx
— Michael M. Grynbaum (@grynbaum) September 7, 2018
Unbelievable split-screen moment: TRUMP just told reporters he wants the Justice Department to investigate who wrote the anti-Trump op-ed in the NY Times. Meanwhile, OBAMA just condemned those who "pressure the attorney general or the FBI" to punish their political opponents.
— Marshall Cohen (@MarshallCohen) September 7, 2018
President Trump says he wants Attorney General Jeff Sessions to investigate and uncover the identity of the senior administration official who penned an anonymous op-ed in The New York Times this week https://t.co/I4q5f1ol0H pic.twitter.com/dXDEhUsDk4
— CNN (@CNN) September 7, 2018
Let’s compare the op-ed author to the Unabomber.
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) September 7, 2018
Great tweets by Daniel Dale who does an outstanding job of analyzing Trump’s statements.
Trump claims Democrats will destroy Social Security, as usual providing no evidence or any additional sentences of any kind. He says of Republicans: "We're going to keep it. We're not going to touch it."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 7, 2018
The proposed Republican budget had cuts.
"U.S. Steel is opening up eight plants," Trump lies again. It's announced major investments in two plants since he announced his tariffs.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 7, 2018
He’s told the steel lie a lot.
Trump says he's created "more than 400,000 manufacturing jobs," "soon to be 600,00," since his election. It's 378,000 manufacturing jobs since November 2016.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 7, 2018
Trump repeats his false claim that "President Obama said you won't have manufacturing jobs anymore." That statement has been widely misreported; Obama actually boasted of how many manufacturing jobs he'd created while also saying certain ones were gone for good: pic.twitter.com/UnB7BUkZYg
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 7, 2018
Trump with a ridiculous lie about Obama, saying Japan refused to deal with him on trade. Japan negotiated the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement with Obama. pic.twitter.com/nWQLhyWLrF
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 7, 2018
Just some of the lies described on Twitter by Daniel Dale who does a great job.
Trump falsely claims that people had been trying to get a Veterans Choice program passed for 45 years, and "I got 'em both passed." Choice was passed under Obama in 2014. Trump's law makes changes to the existing program.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 7, 2018
Trump lies again that he has eliminated the estate tax. His tax law merely raised the threshold at which it has to be paid.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 7, 2018
Trump falsely claims the New York Times apologized post-election for its "bad coverage" of him. Its letter to subscribers was not an apology, it was a sales pitch. https://t.co/R6Sl8ZUR5L
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 7, 2018
Trump scolds Tester for voting against Gorsuch, whom he says was "first in his class at Harvard." A Harvard spokesperson tells me Gorsuch wasn't even in the top 50 in his class. He graduated cum laude; dozens of people in his year were magna cum laude.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 7, 2018
Trump repeated his usual inaccurate description of the pre-Trump NATO situation, saying he told other leaders: "YOU'RE DELINQUENT. I'm in real estate. We say YOU'RE DELINQUENT." Nobody was "delinquent"; many of the countries simply weren't meeting a non-binding spending target.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 7, 2018
For the ninth time, Trump claims that NATO Sec-Gen Jens Stoltenberg told the media that NATO members spent $44 billion more last year. Stoltenberg said it was $41 billion.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 7, 2018
Trump repeats his usual NATO lie: "For years, NATO spending was going like this," making a downward motion. It rose in 2015 and in 2016, before he took office.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 7, 2018
Trump says Jon Tester's opponent Matt Rosendale is "now leading in the polls." That is not true, at least in the couple of public polls. https://t.co/iu2ra13t5R pic.twitter.com/GdLHaz1yp8
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 7, 2018
In "most states," Trump says, he is more popular now than he was on election day. That is not true.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 7, 2018
it’s endless
Florida Man Answers Door Naked After Setting Fire to Home Trying to Bake Cookies https://t.co/cCnO3amGxH
— Florida Man (@_FloridaMan) September 6, 2018
Happy Labor Day to America’s enterprising small business owners. https://t.co/vePBlKZBZh
— Florida Man (@_FloridaMan) September 3, 2018
“Deputies say a witness came forward to alert them, and they were able to set up a sting at a local Cracker Barrel before any money changed hands." https://t.co/RFsx1TXO1m
— Florida Man (@_FloridaMan) September 1, 2018
I am not criticizing all or even most officers but I read lots of stories like this
And again: THIS is what precipitates athletes to kneel during the National Anthem. A call for America to be true to its ideals. This sort of thing does not happen to whites. https://t.co/2uZKBNje4R
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) September 6, 2018
A young black man on his way home from church with his white grandmother was handcuffed by police in Wisconsin because two passersby thought he was robbing her. https://t.co/lW4pQelDqq
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) September 6, 2018
like this one
I keep thinking about this child. When I was little, I occasionally stuffed candy or other small things in my pocket when I was at the store. Kids make bad decisions. They’re kids. I can’t imagine being tased. Interrogated. Then blamed for redlining and racism in my community. https://t.co/s7rfhnzQaM
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) September 6, 2018
What would the future of Roe vs. Wade look like with Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court? To understand what could happen, it’s crucial to look at the reality of abortion across the country today https://t.co/f7awzVSTmu
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) September 5, 2018
90% percent of all U.S. counties lack an abortion clinic. Six states have just one. These realities mostly affect low-income women who can’t easily take time off from work to travel to far-flung clinics https://t.co/f7awzVSTmu pic.twitter.com/p5egLYBP2j
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) September 5, 2018
Sad!