Philip Melanchthon Wegmann

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1Apr 14, '25The CFP National Championship Trophy falls apart as VP JD Vance tries to hold it aloft at the White House.175×11M12k1.4k1.1k
2Aug 15, '24News: Harris to propose “federal ban on corporate price-gouging” on groceries and “impose stiff penalties in the food industry,” campaign announces.88×5.5M4.5k680430
3Jul 24, '24Republican operative texts me this McCormick ad and says, “What voters down ballot will be seeing in every Senate race from NV to PA until November”:81.4×5.1M15k6.4k3.6k
4Aug 6, '24This clip of Minnesota First Lady Gwen Walz is making the rounds. Her reflection on the 2020 riots: “I could smell the burning tires…I kept the windows open as long as I could beca52.4×3.3M7k2.7k1.2k
5Dec 25, '22Scoop: Gov. @KristiNoem now owns her own flamethrower, a Christmas gift from her staff.22.9×1.4M7.2k67082
6Aug 8, '24Per @SecretaryPete’s financial disclosure, Chasten took home $6,755 in “gambling winnings” from MGM National Harbor and Grand Traverse Resort & Casinos in 2023.19.6×1.2M7k115276
7Mar 20, '23Jason Sudeikis, and the cast of Ted Lasso, visit the White House to discuss importance of mental health. "I truly believe we should all do our best to help take care of each other.19.3×1.2M13k864118
8Nov 1, '24Senior Harris campaign official says their internal data shows the VP winning battleground voters “who have made up their minds in the last week.” "And we're winning them by a doub17.8×1.1M11k1.3k594
9Dec 7, '24Blake Masters, who is reportedly a leading candidate to lead ATF under Trump, 3D prints firearms in his garage and once told me he could make a ghost gun “in probably a half hour.”17.6×1.1M8.3k441348
10Jul 4, '20What changed? Sanders said Mt. Rushmore made him proud to be an American in 2016, and CNN seemed to agree. Now people want to blast the presidents off the mountain.15.5×029k11k751
11Feb 9, '25News: In Saturday night email obtained by RealClearPolitics, acting CFPB Director Russ Vought directs Consumer Financial Protection Bureau staff to issue no new rules, suspend effe12.2×767k3.6k909293
12Jan 12, '23Hunter DID HAVE ACCESS to the garage where President Biden stored his Corvette--and presumably classified docs. Biden told @JayLeno in 2016 that Hunter "decided as a Christmas gift11.1×696k3.5k1.2k21
13Feb 10, '25Ric Grenell gets the Kennedy Center10.8×682k4.3k65856
14Feb 28, '25Trump appears to have kicked Zelensky out of the White House. His motorcade is pulling up to West Wing now.10.2×642k2.8k397100
15Jul 18, '24The RNC program lists Diane Hendricks, who is speaking here, as “an everyday American.” The businesswoman is a Republican mega-donor worth $20 billion and easily one of the richest9.5×599k3k1.1k113
16Oct 25, '24Sen. @JDVance on News Nation: "Whether you vote for for Donald Trump or for Kamala Harris, don't cast aside family members and lifelong friends--it's not worth it."9.3×585k6.1k698123
17Mar 7, '20BREAKING: "The American Conservative Union has learned that one of our CPAC attendees has unfortunately tested positive today for coronavirus."8.5×017k3.8k158
18Oct 17, '20Holy Smokes: “One of the people on an explosive email thread allegedly involving Hunter Biden has corroborated the veracity of the messages, which appear to outline a payout for fo8.2×015k7.1k106
19Jun 23, '25CATO: “65% of People Taken by ICE Had No Convictions, 93% No Violent Convictions”7.5×472k6.4k2.9k666
20Oct 17, '20Trump Campaign: “Joe Biden, a candidate for President of the United States, appears to be compromised by the Chinese.”7.5×017k4.7k28
21Sep 9, '21Legal challenges to Biden's new OSHA rule are almost certainly inevitable. The president didn't answer my shouted question: "How is this Constitutional, sir?"6.9×019k3.2k50
22Jan 12, '23NEW: Hunter Biden Accessed Garage Where Dad Kept His Corvette (And Likely Classified Material)6.8×431k4.3k1.7k34
23Aug 5, '20About that new Trump ad alleging that Biden is “Alone. Hiding. Diminished.” The clip at the four second mark is edited to make it look like he is sitting on the floor of his baseme6.4×011k5k246
24Nov 10, '24Chris Kofinis, former chief of staff to Sen. Joe Manchin III, to WaPo:6.4×401k7.4k1.6k664
25Jan 7, '21CONFIRMED: Short tells me he is not allowed back on White House grounds: "He's blaming me for advice to VP."5.3×08.6k3.9k221
26Oct 15, '24A caller during Charlamagne tha God's town-hall worries that Trump will put "anyone who doesn't look white into camps." Harris replies, "you've hit on a really important point and 5.1×321k3.6k855104
27Sep 4, '20NEW: Trump to go to war with "critical race theory," demands federal agencies identify and then strip funding for training programs that discuss "white privilege."5.0×012k2.6k59
28Mar 1, '25The Oval Office blowup was not sudden. It simmered from the start, which is evident from the transcript. -- Zelensky immediately brought up a US security guarantee; Trump opposes t4.8×303k7.7k1.6k913
29Apr 18, '20Trump says that if @JoeBiden wins, "China will own the United States."4.8×09.8k2.4k9
30Aug 26, '24On press call with @JDVance, Alicia Lopez tells RCP she and other Gold Star families have told Trump, "we do ask that we are actually there and present when you fire these people" 4.7×296k6.3k1.1k105
31Aug 16, '21Pretty forceful rebuke of Biden here:4.7×011k2.5k228
32Feb 9, '25News: In letter to FED Chairman obtained by RealClearPolitics, Trump’s acting CFPB director @RussVought requests for Q3 of FY25 a grand total of… $0.4.5×286k3.1k747192
33Feb 15, '22Biden ends his speech with this warning, "if we do not stand for freedom where it is at risk today, we will surely pay a steeper price tomorrow."4.5×013k1.8k31
34Sep 27, '24Scoop: The Project 2025 director did not resign as previously reported. He was fired and then demanded $3.1 million from the Heritage Foundation3.8×238k1.9k1k132
35Aug 16, '21No public events on Biden’s schedule tomorrow.3.7×08.9k1.5k15
36Aug 6, '24Harris and Walz have a crowd of 14,000 at Temple University’s Liacouras Center, per campaign. Trump by comparison had 4,000.3.6×226k3.1k37249
37Feb 28, '20Asked about overpopulation, @JoeBiden gives an answer about women's rights including this point: "If someone in this room got up and took off all their clothes and walked out the d3.3×06.7k1k152
38May 25, '22Gov. Abbot’s response to Beto O’Rourke’s interruption:3.2×07.8k1.5k17
39Jan 25, '22Official White House transcript:3.2×07.2k1.9k99
40Sep 1, '22Stephen Colbert loses ratings battle to Gutfeld3.1×08.3k1.1k15
41Jan 21, '25Scoop: Sec. @MarcoRubio just sent a department-wide cable, condemning an old foreign policy consensus that put “ideology over common sense” and warning that "sweeping change" is co2.9×185k4.3k75974
42Mar 5, '25Trump makes DJ Daniel, a 13 year old boy diagnosed with brain cancer and who dreams of being a police officer, an honorary member of the Secret Service.2.9×180k2.7k26830
43Mar 17, '21Biden tells Stephanopoulos he once told Putin "I said, I looked in your eyes and I don't think you have a soul. He looked back at me and said, 'we understand each other.'"2.8×03.9k73158
44Mar 23, '22Sen. Blackburn: "Can you provide a definition for the word 'woman'?" Judge Jackson: "I can't."2.7×06.9k1.2k42
45Nov 15, '19This fellow is blowing a ram’s horn outside White House and praying for a presidential pardon of Roger Stone.2.7×02.9k777115
47May 7, '20Tara Reade has hired high-powered Manhattan attorney Douglas Wigdor. He is a Trump supporter.2.6×03.1k1.7k58
48Aug 18, '21No press briefing tomorrow, per White House schedule.2.4×04.4k1.2k10
49Feb 15, '21Trump returns from golf.2.3×06k1k43
50Jan 20, '22The president told me yesterday that the 2022 midterms "easily could be illegitimate." He added also "I’m not going to say it’s going to be legit."2.2×05.1k1.2k86
51Aug 18, '21Biden walked out of the East Room just now. He never mentioned Afghanistan. He didn't take a single question.2.1×05.4k1k11
52Jul 21, '20Tucker Carlson accuses the New York Times of putting his family at risk by publishing his home address in an upcoming story. Why? @TuckerCarlson says because “they hate my politics2.1×03.9k1.2k34
53May 14, '21Doocey: "Does the President still think that these red state governors, who were a little bit ahead of the federal government, lifting the mask mandates, had Neanderthal thinking?"2.1×06.1k77414
54Sep 3, '20Biden says at Kenosha town hall that he can't lay out all his plans in more detail because if he goes on any longer "they'll shoot me."2.0×04.1k1k32
55Aug 22, '25Mike Davis, a Trump confidant very much in the know, reacts to the Bolton raid: "My prediction? Democrats, RINOS and reporters, who think this raid on John Bolton is about his book2.0×126k3.2k58763
56Aug 13, '21The White House announces that Biden will remain at Camp David through Wednesday. There are no public events scheduled.1.8×02.4k82523
57Aug 28, '20Protestor flips double birds at elderly couple leaving the White House. (Photo: @TPCarney)1.8×02.4k79860
60Aug 26, '21I asked President Biden about the @Politico scoop that US officials provided a list of Americans and Afghans to the Taliban for evacuation. He told me a list could exist but he doe1.7×03.8k95925
61Jan 13, '22Biden's Tough 48 Hours: He slips to 33% approval in Quinnipiac, Sinema slams the door on a filibuster carve out while he is on the Hill, and then the Supreme Court blocks his vacci1.7×04.9k51425
62Jun 1, '20I was there last night when fires were burning in NW. Your tweet is not factual.1.7×04.6k77911
63Aug 21, '21The Senate Majority Leader is dancing while the chaos in Kabul continues, and a congressional aide texts me wondering, “would it kill anybody in Washington to at least pretend to g1.6×02.9k1.2k55
64Jan 25, '21When White House tries to end the press conference, the president holds them off to make sure Fox gets a question. "I know he always asks me tough questions, and he always has an e1.6×04.7k45650
65May 16, '22The @PressSec is asked by Peter Doocy how increasing taxes reduces inflation. She talks about the need for an equitable tax code and collective bargaining and climate change but do1.6×03.9k6785
66Dec 2, '22Among those seated at the head table with President Biden tonight: Tim Cook, CEO of @Apple. A world away, meanwhile, the CCP more easily mops up and silences Chinese protestors tha1.5×03.3k1.1k12
67Dec 22, '20.@KristiNoem has a flamethrower.1.5×03.9k32434
68Jan 6, '20“You’re in no position to lecture the public,” says ricky gervais bc “you’ve spent less time in school than greta thunberg”1.5×04.9k40310
69Dec 27, '21It would’ve been unthinkable to say this during the campaign.1.5×04.1k59526
70Nov 16, '21Appears Biden misspoke. Making the point that bridges are important to emergency services, Biden says in NH he "had a house burn down with my wife in it." He adds, "she got out saf1.5×03k72732
71Jun 1, '20Protestors were warned 3 times over loud speaker by park service and police to clear the area, per source with direct knowledge.1.5×03.2k95731
72Jul 28, '20Ag Barr, who has not lost his temper, shows mild frustration at not being able to give answers: "I mean, this is a hearing. I thought I was the one who was supposed to be heard."1.4×04k6298
73Apr 29, '22For how long does Biden, who pulled the US out of Afghanistan because he said it was a costly and un-winnable quagmire, expect Americans to support a war that they don’t know how l1.4×03.4k64877
74Apr 18, '22Admin Official: "Today’s court decision means CDC’s public transportation masking order is not in effect at this time. Therefore, TSA will not enforce its Security Directives and E1.4×03.7k54633
75Aug 18, '20Biden thanks Cuomo. The AP recently estimated that New York nursing home is closer to 11,000 not New York’s reported 6,600.1.4×02.8k94418
76Aug 20, '20The press isn't the enemy, Obama says. It's the way we hold officials accountable, says the president whose DoJ spied on both the Associated Press and Fox News.1.4×02.6k1.1k38
77Jan 22, '20Just Now: Donald Trump to become first president to speak live and in person at March for Life this Friday.1.4×03.2k58110
78Sep 4, '20A thread of current and former White House staff denying the Atlantic story:1.3×02.4k869140
79May 3, '22"How interesting that two weeks ago they refused to define a 'woman,'" Sen. @MarshaBlackburn tells me, "and now today the only thing they want to talk about is protecting a 'woman'1.3×03.3k6427
80Apr 27, '22Given that Biden is looking at canceling some student loan debts, I asked if he is also looking at retroactive relief for parents/students who saved and sacrificed so that they wou1.3×03.2k56121
81Sep 17, '20On Constitution Day, Trump will be at the National Archives to discuss "indoctrination of America’s youth through the 1619 Project, Critical Race Theory, and other misleading, radi1.3×03.1k65924
82Sep 21, '21Australian reporters were surprised by Biden’s aggressive press team, and one “very startled” Aussie journo just asked pooler @ketgorjestani “whether WH wranglers were always so st1.2×03.2k6048
83Jan 19, '22Well, now that makes two presidents who have yelled at me—Trump and Biden.1.2×03.5k14722
84Jan 19, '22Youngkin names Angela Sailor to be Virginia’s Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Sailor previously said critical race theory was "the complete rejection of the best ideas1.2×03.3k33027
85Feb 17, '21Biden: I get up in the morning, I look at Jill, and I say where the hell are we?1.2×03.2k35712
86Apr 18, '20Trump: "The World Health Organization--we're just finding more and more problems."1.1×03.1k5582
87Jul 11, '22Ok this is dope. Biden and Harris are getting a briefing tomorrow from NASA to preview images from the Webb Space Telescope which are “the highest-resolution images of the infrared1.1×03.1k42821
88May 3, '20Trump: I used to say 65,000, now I say 80-90,000.1.1×02.2k42911
89Mar 16, '20Wow. Second half of the Trump quote: "We will be backing you, but try getting it yourselves. Point of sales, much better, much more direct if you can get it yourself.”1.1×02.3k67031
90Jan 27, '21In the last five days, @BernieSanders has sold $1.8 million worth of merch featuring this item. His campaign just announced it’ll go to Vermont charities like Meals on Wheels, so t1.1×03.2k32218
91Apr 7, '21The commerce secretary says of Trump's steel and aluminum tariffs: "the 232 tariffs on steel and aluminum have in fact helped save American jobs in the steel and aluminum industrie1.1×02.4k64841
92Oct 4, '20The “little surprise” Trump teased? A ride outside of Walter Reed:1.0×02.2k54116
93Apr 20, '20Trump announces the US will buy 75 million barrels of oil for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.1.0×02.9k3418
94Feb 26, '20Those boos that @BernieSanders received? Sen. Nina Turner says some audience members “were paid” to be here.1.0×02.3k3259
95Mar 11, '21“Wouldn’t it be fantastic if the legendary Herschel Walker ran for the United States Senate in Georgia?” Trump says in a statement. “He would be unstoppable, just like he was when 0.9×02.6k4082
96Nov 16, '22Accomplishments Trump didn't mention tonight: --Brett Kavanaugh --Amy Coney Barrett --Neil Gorsuch --Overturning Roe v. Wade0.9×02.5k25119
97Oct 26, '22Fetterman Campaign spokesman "for a guy who's just been in the hospital months ago, he took it to Dr. Oz pretty fucking hard tonight."0.7×01.9k17919

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