A Fake Time Magazine Cover Featuring Trump Hangs In His Golf Clubs, And Other Trump News From Today
Tuesday. June 27. Day 158.
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Trump Made A Fake Time Magazine Cover To Hang In His Golf Clubs: At least four of Trump's golf clubs feature a fake framed Time magazine cover with a picture of Trump on their walls, the Washington Post reports. The fake cover is dated March 1, 2009 and includes the obviously made-up headlines "Donald Trump: The 'Apprentice' is a television smash!" and "TRUMP IS HITTING ON ALL FRONTS… EVEN TV!" but otherwise looks remarkably like a real Time magazine cover.
White House Calls Senate Republicans To White House As Health Care Vote Is Delayed: Trump invited Republican senators to a 4 PM meeting at the White House, apparently to discuss the Republicans' health care bill. Meanwhile, Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell reportedly told senators at a closed-door meeting that he will delay a vote on the bill until after the July 4 recess.
White House Warns Bashar Al-Assad Against Chemical Attack: In a highly unusual statement, the White House announced that the Syrian president appears to be preparing another chemical attack like the one perpetuated against citizens in April. "If… Mr. Assad conducts another mass murder attack using chemical weapons, he and his military will pay a heavy price," says the statement.
FBI Questioned Former Trump Campaign Adviser Carter Page: In five meetings in March, FBI agents questioned Page about his connections to Russia. The interviews mark the most extensive known questioning of a Trump associate in the Russia investigation. Page reportedly denied any wrongdoing in the interviews.
Trump Lawyer Paid Own Family Members Out Of Christian Nonprofit: The Guardian reports that Jay Sekulow, now an attorney for Trump, used tens of millions of dollars in donations to his Christian nonprofit to pay himself, his wife, his sons, his brother, his sister-in-law, his niece and his nephew in 2009.
US Image Suffers Under Trump: A survey carried out in 37 countries reveals that 74% of the world has no confidence in Trump. Only in Russia and Israel did Trump receive higher confidence ratings than President Obama.
Trump's Tweets
Trump returned to one of his favorite pastimes today: attempting to discredit mainstream news sources. (Here's what he's talking about with regard to CNN.)