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Trump's Monumental Betrayal

Real-estate-developer-in-chief Donald Trump’s executive order just told the Department of the Interior to review at least 22 national monuments created by Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton. That’s not only a brazen attack on the 111-year-old Antiquities Act under which those monuments were designated but also a barefaced betrayal of the American people.

Do I really need to list all the reasons why attacking our national monuments is a terrible idea? Maybe some people don’t realize how many national parks, such as the Grand Canyon, were originally protected as national monuments. Or that of the 640 million acres of public land managed by the federal government in the 50 states, only about 12 million are protected as national monuments. Or that protecting public lands from drilling, mining, and other exploitation improves local economies through tourism and outdoor recreation, while also preserving precious natural and cultural legacies? Or that many of these lands are already stressed by climate change (a fact not lost on the more than 200,000 people who turned out for last weekend’s Peoples Climate March)?

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Yes, That's Katy Perry Hiding Under All That Red Fabric At The Met Gala

Katy Perry, co-chair of the 2017 Met Gala, was one of the first to arrive on the red carpet Sunday night. But you might have missed her if you weren’t looking closely enough. 

The “Chained to the Rhythm” singer wore a layered red Maison Margiela Artisanal gown complete with a tulle head covering and a headpiece that appears to spell out the word “Witness.” Which, as fans on social media pointed out, may have been worn tease an upcoming song release. 

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Chris Christie Accuses Democrats Of Trying To 'Poison Our Kids' By Legalizing Marijuana

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a vocal critic of marijuana legalization, accused Democrats of attempting to “poison our kids” in pursuit of tax dollars from recreational cannabis sales.

Speaking at a conference on substance abuse hosted by the New Jersey Hospital Association on Monday, the Republican governor criticized an effort by state lawmakers to regulate and tax recreational cannabis similarly to alcohol, as states like Colorado and Washington have done. Despite growing support across the nation for legalization, Christie remains firmly opposed to the idea, claiming pot is a gateway drug to substances like heroin. (Research does not support that claim.)

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Trump Earns Majority Of Americans' Disapproval In Record Time

President Donald Trump’s job approval ratings are low in any context, but they look even worse through a historical lens.

Gallup’s latest poll, issued Friday, shows 38 percent of American adults approve of the job Trump is doing as president, and 56 percent disapprove.

That’s comparable to some of the ratings his predecessors saw. But what’s different is the timing. It took far more than a year before presidents from Ronald Reagan through Barack Obama earned the disapproval of a majority of the public, according to Gallup. It took Trump just over a week.

Trump, barely two months into his presidency, is well within the “honeymoon period” that other presidents have enjoyed. Despite a wave of high-profile controversies and setbacks, including the failure of the Obamacare repeal bill, his White House has yet to face a recession, a major international incident or any sort of crisis beyond the self-inflicted.

Several challenges that plagued Trump when he was president-elect may have swayed public opinion of him once he got into office. He faced sexual-assault allegations and conflict-of-interest questions over his ties to the Trump foundation. Multiple women accused him of sexual assault. Now, several investigations are looking into possible links between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 election.

At this point in George W. Bush’s presidency, his approval rating was around 53 percent in Gallup’s average. It didn’t sink to 40 percent until after Bush’s response to Hurricane Katrina.

Obama had a 61 percent approval rating on day 68 of his presidency. The first time he reached 40 percent was on day 950 of his presidency, in August of 2011. At no point did Obama receive a rating of below 40 percent.

President Bill Clinton entered his third month in office with a 52 percent approval rating. By the time he slipped to 39 percent, he’d faced a sexual harassment lawsuit, signed controversial trade bills and seen his party cede Congress to the Republicans.

President George H.W. Bush hit a low point in his presidency ― lower than Trump so far ― at 29 percent in August 1992. But he very quickly recovered up to 56 percent approval in his last month as president in 1993.

As Gallup Editor-in-Chief Frank Newport notes, while historical comparisons do Trump no favors, there’s also historical precedent for a possible recovery. “An encouraging sign for Trump, perhaps, is that all presidents whose ratings fell below 36 [percent] ― with the exception of Nixon ― saw their ratings improve thereafter,” Newport writes. “Clinton provides a particularly relevant example. His approval rating dropped to 37 [percent] in June 1993 but recovered to 56 [percent] by September of that year.”

Gallup is just one data point. Still, HuffPost Pollster, which aggregates all publicly available polls, also puts Trump’s current disapproval rating at 54.7 percent.

Gallup tracks daily the percentage of Americans who approve or disapprove of the job Donald Trump is doing as president. Daily results are based on telephone interviews with approximately 1,500 national adults; Margin of error is ±3 percentage points.

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Hundreds of Angry Protesters Slam Nunes In California

Some 300 hooting, jeering protesters hit the streets to angrily confront House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) on a visit back to his district in California’s central valley.

“Get out of bed with Trump” and “We need a guard dog, not a lap dog” read signs and chanted protesters Friday. Some played the Russian national anthem.

It was Nunes’ first trip back to his district since his committee’s investigation into Russian interference into the presidential election — and any links to Donald Trump’s aides — has stalled amid acrimony over Nunes’ handling of the probe and his secretive moves to protect the president.

Nunes spoke on water policy Friday in Fresno at an annual meeting of agricultural lenders. He was quickly ushered in and out of the building through a rear entryway, successfully dodging most of the protesters, noted the Fresno Bee. “Come out and play, Nunes, you coward,” shouted one man with a megaphone, reported The Associated Press. 

Rarely has the seven-term congressman met with such opposition until this year.

Nunes, who served on Trump’s transition team, is “not working for the people. He’s working for the president and that’s not his job,” one protester told KFSN-TV. He’s supposed to be “here for us. I feel his complicity in what’s going down.” Others in the crowd called for an independent investigation into the Russia issue.

He was also blasted by the crowd for his work attempting to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, for the Trump administration’s moves to slash the Environmental Protection Agency, and for Nunes’ refusal to hold town hall meetings in his district.

But the current hot-button topic was Nunes’ investigation of the Russian issue, and several signs demanded that Nunes recuse himself from the probe or resign.

In an odd, midnight trip earlier this month to the White House grounds Nunes viewed some secret intelligence — that he then presented to the White House, which is part of his committee’s investigation. The New York Times reported that Nunes was given access to the intelligence — which hasn’t been detailed — by White House staffers.

Nunes insisted the information — which he didn’t share with his own committee — may have revealed that some incidental surveillance occurred of Donald Trump during the presidential campaign while federal intelligence agencies were investigating others. He brought it up in an apparent support of Trump’s tweet that he was wiretapped during his campaign by Barack Obama’s orders, though there is no indication from Nunes’ information that Trump was a target or that his calls were wiretapped. FBI Director James Comey has testified that no such wiretapping occurred.

The committee’s ranking Democrat, Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), says he has now seen the same information that Nunes viewed, and called for it to be shared with the intelligence committee of both the House and Senate. “The White House has yet to explain why senior White House staff apparently shared these materials with but one member of either committee — only for their contents to be briefed back to the White House,” Schiff said in a statement.

There is currently no investigation by Nunes’ committee into Russian interference into the election, and the baton has been taken up instead by the Senate Intelligence Committee, which began holding hearings on Thursday.

Nunes insisted in Fresno that his committee’s investigation isn’t dead yet. “We haven’t stopped, that’s what I’m saying,” Nunes told KFSN. “We have had investigators working every single day on this issue.”

He told the local CBS station that “there’s nobody better than me right now” to be heading an investigation into the Russia issue.

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