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West Wing Report (Edited by Paul Brandus)

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Journalist/Author/Historian - reporting from the White House press room since 2008. Bio below. Subscribe to my newsletter on Disinformation - also below

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1Apr 9, '21A story about Prince Philip, who died today at 99. The weekend of the Kennedy assassination, he flew to Washington for the funeral. At the White House on Sunday, Nov. 24, 1963, Jac14.4×018k4.7k502
2Aug 9, '22View post on X12.6×018k3.4k192
3Sep 11, '18.@RealDonaldTrump is an Orwellian manufacturer of "Fake News." On - of all days - Sept. 11, he posted this photo showing his staff honoring the tragic anniversary. But: 1) It was r11.6×010k5.7k51
4Oct 10, '20"If your vote didn't matter, they wouldn't try so hard to take it from you." -Samuel Jackson11.3×015k4.2k25
5Jun 30, '22The Supreme Court has nine justices, as you probably know, because of the Judiciary Act of 1869, which said there should be one justice for each of the nine U.S. circuit courts. Th10.1×011k4.1k136
6Nov 24, '20Outgoing First Lady Melania Trump - who once said she resented the burden of having to decorate the White House for Christmas - will skip the unveiling of this year's holiday décor10.0×010k1.8k49
7Apr 18, '18A First Lady has the power to make people think. In 1989 Barbara Bush visited a Washington hospice where abandoned infants with the AIDS virus were being cared for. Some folks were9.7×014k3k11
9Sep 28, '22Hurricane: "If you can, get out of the storm's path. Worst case scenario, tell Ron DeSantis you're Venezuelan....maybe he'll fly you to Martha's Vineyard." -Stephen Colbert to Flor8.6×013k2k23
11Jun 8, '25Bellingcat CEO Eliot Higgins:8.0×531k6.5k2.4k1.7k
13Aug 27, '17As Coast Guard saves lives in TX, good time to remember that @realDonaldTrump earlier this year proposed to slash its budget 14%7.2×06.1k4.2k0
14Feb 1, '19Senator @ChuckGrassley (R-Iowa) says millions of Americans are lower-income because they “are just spending every darn penny they have whether it’s on booze or women or movies.”6.5×02.2k1.7k33
15Mar 31, '17Former chairman of RNC Steele told WWR at lunch that Trump will not finish his term; advises clients to bolster ties w/VP Pence5.8×03.6k3k0
16Mar 30, '20It sure was devious of CNN's Jim @Acosta to ask the President a question - quoting the President's very own words verbatim - and asking him politely to comment. Talk about treacher5.5×08.3k1.3k23
17Jan 25, '21Obama: Harriet Tubman will go on the $20 bill Trump: No, she won't Biden today: Oh yes, she will5.3×08.3k1.1k30
18Oct 31, '18In deep red Kansas, 17 people showed up at a Topeka Holiday Inn to see Steve Bannon (free continental breakfast in the AM)4.9×03.5k1.3k21
19Jan 2, '21More Helens needed4.7×08.2k69011
20Mar 17, '21“Racism isn’t getting worse. It’s getting filmed.” —Will Smith on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, August 3, 20164.7×07.5k1.1k19
21Mar 8, '21“Racism isn’t getting worse. It’s getting filmed.” —Will Smith on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, August 3, 2016 (as the #DerekChauvinTrial begins)4.1×06.4k92122
22Sep 25, '22Exit polls show that the first avowed fascist since Mussolini will be the next prime minister of Italy; the apparent victory of Giorgia Meloni, 45, is sending shockwaves across Eur4.0×03.1k995201
23Nov 16, '171. Elephants are nearing extinction in much of the world (yes, really) 2. Trump admin. is nevertheless planning to lift restrictions on importing "African elephant trophies" (i.e. 4.0×02.7k2.3k1
24Sep 6, '17.@RealDonaldTrump claims U.S. is the most taxed country. Actually, it's 28th. Making policy is hard when policymakers don’t know the facts3.9×02.9k2.3k0
25Oct 29, '16FBI Dir. Comey sent a second letter today - to FBI employees. He seems to have some doubts about what he did (via WashPost)3.7×01.8k2k0
26Aug 28, '17Presidents Bush and Obama have tweeted fundraising appeals on behalf of flood victims. @RealDonaldTrump sent one on behalf of himself3.7×02.5k2.3k0
27Jun 14, '20View post on X3.5×04.8k97135
28Sep 24, '22You may recall that Sir Elton John turned Trump down cold when asked to perform at Trump's inaugural - but eagerly accepted President Biden's invitation to perform tonight; he seem3.2×05k4917
29Nov 9, '20Fox News just cut away from @PressSec McEnany, saying they can’t keep airing lies which can’t be supported by facts3.1×04.3k64912
30Apr 17, '18A First Lady has the power to make people think. In 1989 Barbara Bush visited a Washington hospice where abandoned infants with the AIDS virus were being cared for. Some folks were3.0×03.5k1.1k8
31Jul 26, '20Approx. 1,067 Americans perished today from coronavirus. President golfed w/NFL hall of fame QB Brett Farve; later hosted a ritzy fundraiser at his NJ golf resort2.9×02k1.2k15
32Dec 24, '171. @RealDonaldTrump trashes Nigerian immigrants. 2. Fact Check: Nigerian immigrants are better educated than white Americans, according to data from Trump's own Census Bureau 3. Ni2.9×02k1.9k0
33Dec 16, '18SNL made fun of: Nixon Ford Carter Reagan Bush HW Clinton Bush W Obama and now Trump. But only Trump suggests it's illegal. Every president swears to "preserve, protect and defend"2.9×03.6k1.1k7
34Jun 19, '20“Racism isn’t getting worse. It’s getting filmed.” — Will Smith on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, August 3, 20162.8×04.1k80117
35Dec 18, '17Surprise: Rust Belt unemployment on the rise #Indiana: 3.9% (was 3.0% in June) #Michigan: 4.5% (3.7% in June) #Ohio: 5.1% (was 4.9% in May) #Wisconsin: 3.4% (was 3.1% in June) only2.7×01.4k1.6k0
36Dec 12, '18The list narrows2.7×03.3k1k10
37Jun 1, '20“Racism isn’t getting worse. It’s getting filmed.” — Will Smith on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, August 3, 20162.7×03.9k7935
38Nov 18, '18Finnish President @niinisto says this is not true - he and Trump never discussed this in Paris last week; i.e., @RealDonaldTrump is lying2.7×02.5k1.1k5
39Sep 4, '21"If men could get pregnant, abortions would be available at Jiffy Lube." -- Betty White2.6×03.8k7479
40Nov 6, '20Biden spokesperson: The United States government is capable of escorting trespassers from the White House2.6×02.7k76311
41Dec 3, '17Last month, @realDonaldTrump declined to invite American winners of Nobel prizes to the White House; today (as previously announced) he declined to meet this year's Kennedy Center 2.4×01.8k1.2k0
42Jul 29, '17.@realDonaldTrump 1. Lost popular vote by millions 2. Yet says Senate needs a simple majority vote 3. Yet said in 2013 that was wrong2.4×02.9k9610
43May 29, '17From a speech John F. Kennedy - born 100 years ago today - was scheduled to deliver in Dallas2.4×02.2k1.3k0
44Jun 6, '24The famed wartime photographer Robert Capa took this harrowing image of young Americans trying make it ashore. And to think that there are some among us today who thought that wear2.4×160k3.9k90249
45Nov 22, '18Pool asked Trump this morning what he is most thankful for. Even though he had just finished speaking with U.S. troops, he said that he is most thankful for...himself2.4×01.6k1k24
47Apr 25, '18Attention Ladies: Stephen Miller didn't have a date for tonight's State Dinner. If 32-year old bald men who dabble in xenophobia, conspiracy theories and social regressiveness is y2.3×02.1k6912
48Sep 28, '19Just a reminder to those who want the #whistleblower outed: It is a felony, punishable by up to three years in prison. We can thank President Reagan for signing the IIPA - the Inte2.3×02.4k1k12
49Aug 23, '17Evolution of @realDonaldTrump's wall 1. Mexico will pay 2. U.S. taxpayers will pay 3. I'll shutdown the govt. if U.S. taxpayers don't pay2.3×01.8k1.3k0
50Jan 11, '21One of the more delicious details about the arrest of Trump goon Larry Brock - seen here in the Senate chamber - is that his ex-wife turned him in. "It is such a good picture of hi2.2×02.8k60331
51Jun 15, '17White House staff can't even get its story straight on a brief trip to hospital2.2×01.6k1.2k0
52Oct 9, '19.@realDonaldTrump is lying to you and counting on you to not know any better: 1) The poll he is referring to says 25% of REPUBLICANS want him gone. One in four - and it appears to 2.1×02.3k90317
53Aug 22, '18Aerosmith has sent a "cease and desist" letter to the White House demanding that President Trump stop using the band’s songs at rallies. Which begs this question: What music would 2.1×01.9k4667
54Jul 18, '20.@realDonaldTrump has called John Lewis a “do nothing guy.” Here: Lewis gets his head smashed in on “Bloody Sunday” - March 7, 1965 - during a civil rights march in Selma. In an er2.1×02.4k86127
55Dec 18, '22President in Delaware today. Likely a sad day - the 50th anniversary of the car crash that killed his wife Neilia and 13-month-old daughter Naomi. They were shopping for a Christma2.1×139k1.5k21514
56Aug 2, '17Re: .@RealDonaldTrump boast about stocks. S&P 500 1/20-7/31: Trump: +8.8% Kennedy: +11.3% Bush (HW): +20.7% Obama: +22.6%2.1×01.9k1.1k0
57Apr 5, '19President tells us he will again skip White House correspondents dinner later this month and hold a campaign rally instead. Calls the dinner boring (it often is, actually). This ye2.1×02.2k3898
59Jun 15, '20.@realDonaldTrump Your wife (the third one) tweeted Happy Birthday - to the U.S. Army. But not to you. Everything OK at home?2.0×02.9k5337
60Jun 1, '17Disney has joined Tesla and Uber in resigning from President's business council; numerous CEOs advised against pullout from climate pact2.0×01.9k1k0
61Aug 17, '20President tells Fox News this morning that he had a "very hard" weekend because of the death, Saturday, of his younger brother and "best friend" Robert. Here's the President gettin1.9×01.9k72711
62Feb 10, '19Lots to unpack with this old photo and caption, written by Trump1.9×01.7k80220
64Dec 14, '20.@PressSec McEnany left a Fox interview and walked back into West Wing - with an aide who held her umbrella over her head for her. Wouldn't answer @Acosta Q as to whether Trump wou1.9×02.8k2203
65Apr 9, '25U.S. is shut out: China, Japan and South Korea are now discussing a three-way free-trade deal, excluding America from its economic benefits. These three countries account for about1.9×125k4.2k1.2k153
66Dec 15, '17Somehow the White House forgot to mention that yesterday, as Americans remembered the fifth anniversary of the Sandy Hook elementary school massacre, the President partied w/top NR1.9×01.2k1.1k0
67Dec 19, '17More Orwellian nonsense from @PressSec Sanders. Here are the facts: Dow in first 11 months: -Obama: +29.9% -Trump: +25.0% S&P 500 in first 11 months: - Obama: +36.9% - Trump: +1.8×01.5k1k0
68Nov 7, '20Champ and Major, soon to be First Dogs1.8×02.5k37718
69Dec 24, '18U.S. Stocks, Obama vs. @realDonaldTrump Obama (Inaugural 2009 to Dec. 24, 2010): +47.7% Trump (Inaugural 2017 to Dec. 24, 2018): +3.9% (S&P 500 data, not including dividends)1.7×01.7k81520
70Dec 22, '18"A shutdown falls on the president's lack of leadership. I mean problems start from the top and they have to get solved from the top. A shutdown means the president is weak." - Don1.7×01.6k8137
71Apr 23, '19If you are in the NYC area: Robert Graham, a United States Marine who fought on Guadalcanal and Bougainville - winning the Bronze Star and Silver Star - has died at the age of 97. 1.7×01.6k7682
72Nov 8, '17Trump, who avoided military service, trashed Dem. Northam as bad for veterans. Northam was an Army medic for eight years1.6×01.9k6280
73May 10, '19Make all your products in America, President says this morning, and there won't be any tariffs1.5×01.5k7413
74Jan 20, '21Biden, swearing in his appointees, says that if "I hear you treated another colleague with disrespect - talk down to someone -I promise I will fire you on the spot. On the spot. Ev1.5×02.1k37724
77Jun 25, '18If the Republic survives, books will be written for years on one of most tragic mysteries of our time: Why millions of Americans looked the other way as a president who swore to "p1.4×01.4k64811
78Oct 9, '18Odd that Haley would announce her resignation as UN Ambassador the day after a Washington watchdog group called for an investigation into alleged ethical violations; neither Haley 1.4×01.6k5765
79Sep 2, '22MAGA Trump Republicans: Our feelings are hurt that some people call us fascists1.4×01.3k57723
80Dec 27, '18Pitch black...and sunglasses (Pool)1.4×01.2k2879
83Oct 17, '19Admiral McRaven's op-ed is the single best thing one could ever hope to read about the situation America finds itself in1.3×01.2k41057
84Nov 25, '19Sarah Sanders tells NYT she doesn’t like being called a liar. She lied to WWR a few times and to the American people countless other times, so here’s some advice: If you don’t want1.2×01.7k3025
85Mar 1, '19It is factual. objective and accurate to note that this turned out to be a huge lie. @realDonaldTrump's tweet is fake news1.2×01.5k45910
87Apr 2, '18.@realDonaldTrump hasn't held a news conference in 14 months1.2×01.2k5533
88Sep 6, '20Twisted Logic: In light of @MichaelCohen212’s new book, which trashes Trump, Trump defenders say Cohen can’t be believed because he’s just a liar. Yes: His lies were to protect Tru1.2×01.6k3695
89Jan 26, '19.@anncoulter The late President Bush flew 58 combat missions during World War II and was shot down on one of them by the Japanese. Perhaps you could share what you have done for yo1.2×01.5k3611
90Feb 15, '18.@realDonaldTrump, whose West Wing colleagues were warned nearly a year ago about alleged wife beater Porter and did nothing - even weighed promoting him - today blames neighbors a1.2×01.2k5330
91Jul 5, '19Usually the White House press office sends out a transcript of presidential remarks - but no such transcript appears to exist (unless WWR missed it) from last night's speech - wher1.1×01.5k3841
92Jul 7, '18Thanks to @JennaBushHager for posting this - 24 hours after her grandfather was mocked by Pres. Trump1.1×01.5k3853
93May 17, '18Witch Hunt Update: -19 different witches have been charged with 100+ criminal counts -4 witches pleaded guilty before charges were made public -13 witches are Russian nationals -4 1.1×01.2k5004
94Feb 16, '19When Jacqueline Kennedy, just hours a widow, went to bed after burying her husband - it was Nov. 25, 1963 - the note on her pillow read “Good night my darling Jacks — the bravest a1.1×01.3k43111
95Sep 8, '18Top this selfie1.1×01.4k3104
96Nov 6, '18In Indiana: Trump told the crowd to take a look at the "thousands and thousands of people" who were outside and couldn't get in, and said they were lucky. Pool did not see any peop1.0×01.2k3624
97Oct 1, '19Arguably the greatest living American - Jimmy Carter - turns 95 today. Naval officer, farmer, governor, Nobel Peace prize-winning humanitarian, Sunday school teacher, home builder 1.0×01.2k3666
98Dec 10, '17Mistakes by journalists aside, @realDonaldTrump has no business being sanctimonious about "Fake" news, given his long, pervasive record of round-the-clock dishonesty, making stuff 1.0×01.3k3680
99Dec 16, '22Bio: 5-time author, speaker 7 presidential libraries. Dow Jones / MarketWatch columnist. Worked in Moscow for 5 years, New York 11. Also London & L.A. Network TV, Capitol Hill,1.0×66k14084
100Jul 5, '19Much has been said of @realDonaldTrump’s many historical blunders in last night’s speech. Underscores the fact that: 1) we have a President - and speechwriters - who don’t read boo0.9×01.3k2884
101Mar 31, '18Behind @realDonaldTrump’s tweets, there is jealousy and rage over the fact that Bezos is: -far wealthier ($112 billion vs. $3 billion) -yet 17 years younger -and the Post is doing 0.9×01.2k3173

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